Personal Post: Life with Migraine
I'm sure you all know someone who has migraines, and if you've never experienced a migraine before, you may think it's "just a headache". It's not. I can assure you that. My battle with consistent migraines began sometime around 2009. I remember the very first time I had one so debilitating I ended up in bed, all day. It was so bad in fact, that I vomited all over my bed and couldn't even clean it up until until hours later when I could get up. The sounds. The lights. The scents. The movements. The heat. The cold. All of which cause a migraine to get worse. I never really knew that migraine can be so debilitating, until I had one. Sometime around 2014, they became even more frequent and more severe. I began my search for reasons why I get to be one of the lucky ones that suffers from these damn things! I had (have) other symptoms that go along with the pounding head, nausea and environmental sensitivities. Symptoms that pointed to Multi...