You quickly go through the list of things you have planned today and cancel the ones you can. You find the prescribed abortive medication and take the recommended dose. The preventative vitamins, minerals and prescribed medications that you take daily didn't work for today. You don't know why. You quickly go through your mind and the last few days to see if there was anything you might have done to possibly trigger a migraine; foods, activities, too much sleep or lack of sleep, loud noise, sitting too long in one place. You did everything right. You were yawning yesterday, a weird symptom that you know means a migraine is coming, so you took a sumatriptan yesterday hoping to prevent today's migraine pain from happening. Not even the best medication on the market, not the sumatriptan or the non-narcotic muscle relaxers are going to work for you today.
You drink broth and juices today because nothing else will stay down. Everything makes you nauseous. You lay in bed with a heating pad on your back and an ice pack on your head and one on your shoulders.
Sometimes the things you will say today won't come out right because your brain nerves are literally impaired by this nerve disorder. You know the answers are in there. You can write them down, but you can't say them. You know that is so weird, but that is what your body is allowing you to do.
You have a work appointment today at 1 pm so everything you do that morning is therapy to be able to get up, shower and be presentable.
If you are lucky, your sumatriptan kicks in to relieve some of the pain in about 3 hours. You are blessed that the pain was so bad it woke you up to take medication. About 4 hours in...possibly 11 am, you feel your brain beginning to wake up. Caffeine is supposed to help relieve headaches and one doctor out of your gazillion specialists you have seen over the years literally prescribed two cups of coffee each day. You take hope to heart and try a cup of coffee. Your brain tingles a bit when the coffee starts to work. It is a weird sensation. Is the headache getting worse or better? You can't tell.
You go back to bed in the dark of the bedroom with the curtains that block out sunlight and hope that in a half hour you can shower and look presentable. You hope your brain will come up with the right words and answers in your work meeting. You hope that by tomorrow the headache will be in it's post-drone stage. .....YOU HOPE.
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May our readers find relief from their pain and suffering. May researchers be one step closer to a solution to this debilitating nerve disorder.
