Living With Migraine
I had a friend who has a disease. This is the way she described her condition. "Every day I wake up not knowing what is not going to work. It might be my arms, or my legs. One time it was my eyes." Living with a migraine is something like that. I never know if today is going to mild, and I'm just exhausted from the fight. Or a typical day, when every step feels like I'm walking uphill. Or a horrible day, which is happening 4 days a month now, when all I want to do is sleep. I cannot understand how I can sleep 18 hours and wake up feeling tired. The pressure in my head hardly stops. When it's bad, it's really bad. I've done physiotherapy, chiropracty, even accupuncture. I've been prescribed 6 different medications in the last year and a half. None of them worked. I visited the hospital once. They gave me pain killers, then extra strength pain killers, then morphine. When not even morphine can touch the source of the pain, you know i...