Thanks for your response, Lynn. I'm sorry to hear about all your trouble. I did finally contact the neurosurgeon who did my surgery when I was 14. For whatever it's worth, he took a CAT scan of the...
Yes, please, please, please, send me more info....
This past month during one of my episodes (for those of you who aren't familiar, acephalgic migraines are migraines without pain but can be just as debilitating, sometimes more so) I was typically...
While you are thinking of food allergies, don't forget to consider chemical allergies. I use to have headaches non-stop with periodic classical migraines and tremendous fatigue (never formally dx as...
Is Chiari malformation the same as Arnold Chiari syndrome? If so, my sister has that....
It sounds like you probably have a cervical subluxation. That could certainly give you all the symptoms you mentioned. Have you tried chiropractic and ruled this out? There are a lot of people who...
Dear givenup, Anyone who could endure what you have in the last year is anything but weak. Don't listen to that voice that says your a lost cause. Even if you think you've already given up and it's...
I have certainly heard that a lot of headaches and possibly migraines and definately sleep disorders can be attributed to the invisible elctromagnetic impulses floating through the air. Using a head...
I've noticed that a lot of you all are being treated with blood pressure meds. Do any of you on these meds actually have high blood pressure? Is anyone aware of why the doctors are perscribing this...
I can appreciate that you are feeling scared. There is a big unknown hanging over your head. Try to take comfort in the fact that in most cases, neurologists do MRI's to cover themselves "just in...
I've found Trace-lyte from Natures Path Supplements to be very helpful so far. It's an electrolyte supplement you take with water on an empty stomach. Works superior to gatorade. Unless it's a...
Yes, I get migraines with passing out too... see my response to a post about auras currently on the previous page. It can be very scary especially when they first start and you are trying to figure...
It does not surprise me that your neuro doesn't know why. First of all, migraines are very complicated creatures and sometimes there is no one, quick or easy answer. Secondly, my neuro came right out...
the size of a quarter (smaller than both of you, I guess, but never-the-less...) I remember being told to take it easy until it had cured- not to jump out of a plane or go horseback riding or play...