Thanks Sue - yep have tried to work it out through food too - thought it was red wine for a while but its not, then citrus and also no and also quite a few other food suspects have been eliminated. I do know its hormonal as usually triggered a few days before my monthlies but with being preggers my hormones are all over the place so I seem to suffer at just about any time in the month. Not sure how you can cure hormonal?
Cure the hormones, or do as you are doing and carry on!
Mine are caused by my sleep disorder, and my habitual tendency to let myself dehydrate. I have one now actually, but not being pregnant I can at least knock it out with drugs. Can't carry on as normal with it though, I lose my co ordination and then my ability to talk properly. I usually just go slower, and do very little.
Suzie, I discover through talking to my wool lady on the market that she has migraines and was told by the hospital that bananas are a common trigger and any food that goes black when left in the air (my mum hadn't heard of this and she's a sufferer so just thought i'd mention it)
as a fellow headache killer sufferer part of my epilepsy and brain scarring you have my utmost sympathy. i must admit i went thru all the painkillers on the market often ending up in hospital for morphine shots. anyway one doctor tried me on beta blockers and it worked for me! i have an almost normal life now well as normal as it gets lol! it might be worth asking your doc for them. sending you big hugs xxx
its a couple of weeks to my birthday and i've been trying to make a list for DH so he can choose some things so its a semi surprise. That got me thinking about the date............................ then I realised its 8 months today since my dad died. and its absolutely floored me. We've already eaten tea but we're having a take in as i'm suddenly hungry and need comfort food right now. stupid huh.
I feel a bit like on the one hand i want to be treated like a princess and spoilt rotten on my b'day, and on the other hand that i just want to let it pass with no reference to it whatsoever.
I was really on an up today too, but have swung very very low tonight.
There are lots of different sorts of migraines, and different symptoms to them, so a solution one person has found will not necessarily work for someone else.
Suzie...maybe just hope you get through until menopause does the hormone cure for you? Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest you could easily cure the hormones there.
Giddy ((((hugs)))) there will be many many days like this. But your Dad would WANT you to celebrate your birthday, it's a very special day, I'm sure the day you were born he celebrated the birth of such a gorgeous daughter xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Giddy ((((hugs)))) there will be many many days like this. But your Dad would WANT you to celebrate your birthday, it's a very special day, I'm sure the day you were born he celebrated the birth of such a gorgeous daughter xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
oh dreamy thats opened the floodgate, but thank you xxxx
i'm just so cross with myself cos i've been ok for a good couple of months now, and i've just tripped up back into a pool of sad again.
i will celebrate, as you're right, i know he would want me to celebrate (incidentally, he waltzed my nan round the back garden the day i was born - oh the days when dads werent involved in the birth eh - i'd pay money to see what vision)
its nearly 3 years since i lost dad, it made my depression hit all time low and i had a breakdown but now i can laugh about things dad did, like one year dad despite his rheumatics got on the slide at the pub with his granddaughter. it makes me smile now and i hope one day you will laugh about things your dad did too. losing a parent is something you dont know what its like until it happens. i have bad days and good days but now i have applied to help at the hospice where dad died. they were so good i want to repay them and now i feel strong enough. celebrate its what your dad would have wanted i am sure he will be looking down and smiling at you.
Giddy its understandable to feel as you do but I'm with Dreamy - your dad would want you to celebrate your birthday and you should use the time to remember all the good times and laughs you had with him. 8 months is such a short time too and the grief will still be raw xxxx
RC I wasn't offended or anything - just thought you knew of some miracle cure I was unaware of lol. I'm sorta thinking the menopause may be a way off for me yet as I'm obviously rather fertile still - only took 2 months to conceive (sorry if TMI). I have tried beta blockers and amytriptiline at the same time for over a year in the past and they did nothing to stop the migraines, just made me sluggish. Just wish I had a solution now - especially as I can feel another coming on and there's nothing I can do to stop it! Thanks for all your input though and will definitely have to see if there's anything that can be done once the bean is here (or the blob as OH affectionately calls it!).
Hugs to all of you , you know how I appreciate all the support you have given me, since Rich died, you allowed me to come on here and cry, and even laugh without feeling guilty.
I hope I can give you back to you, the love care and friendship I have recieved off you all.
Steve and I are thinking about going away on monday and Tuesday, it wont change the heartache, but it might help. We feel like we are going through that god-awful day twice, as it wason the Bank holiday Monday, he died but the date is the Tuesday. Everytime someone mentions BHM it's like a sledgehammer!!!
hennie you go and have a good day out i am sure it will do you good you cant change dates like xmas bdays bank holidays etc but we all get thru them best we can. lots of love to all of you wonderful people
I just love the way baby has been replaced with bean in all our posts, just as if it has always been that way!
