Hello Everyone!
I am new to this message board, and I was so relieved to find people to understand what I'm going through. I am 29 years old, and have been getting migraines since puberty. I am a diabetic, and the only common variable I have found is that I get them when I get hunger pains. If I get hungry, I get a miagraine. I take blood pressure medicine (Lopresser) as a preventative measure, and Relpax with the onset, but often times its just not enough! Sure, it helps the vomiting, but the pain of a migraine is so intese that I just lay in the dark, crying because it feels like a red hot rod is being driven through my eye and temple area!! No one around me understands, because to them I'm just a wimp who can't take a headache! I also have PCOS, and when I don't get a regular period, I seem to get them more severe and more often. I am about to start another cycle of fertility drugs, and it scares me to think that they could come from hormones. When I start to get a migraine, I get the occular auras, vision that is like looking at camera flash, or sometimes like looking through broken glass, and I lose perifial vision, I can always tell the onset, because I look at people and thier eyes are gone, or part of thier face is just GONE! I also get the numbness in my hands, and panic! I know everyone is different, but can anyone take anything and continue to function through thier day? I'm afraid I'm going to lose my job, and I'm just at my wits end with these!! It makes me long for my pot smoking teenage years when they went away.....but I can't very well do that when I'm spending $$$ to try to get pregnant!! Any advice is appreciated!!! Thanks, Shannon