Migraines!

Day 3 of diet and I have still stuck to it! But day 11 with a migraine.  Since I was very young I suffered with migraines and it has caused severe disruption in my day to day life.  About 3 years ago the company I work for said they could not put up with it anymore and that I had to do something about it.  What could I do?  I do not decide to have a migraine!!!  I went to my GP and explained the extent of the problems this was causing me so we started a series of strategies.  I started taking Beta Blockers and it seemed to improve a little bit, but it didn’t help with my depression, in fact, it was making me worse.

So the GP took me off the Beta Blockers and changed the pill for me, meaning that I should not have a period at all.  This was kind of good news for me because my migraines were worse when I had my period and seemed to be triggered by that.  I started taking this new pill and although I still had very little period in the beginning, eventually it went away completely and my migraines were very much gone as well!  I was very happy and relieved, although to get to this it took me about a year and a half of trying.  Now and then I can get headaches, but nothing compared to what I used to. 

This time is different.  I have had this migraine for 11 days now, and it is very exhausting.  I cannot even ascertain if my depression is improving because the migraine is taking all the energy out of me.  I wonder sometimes if this migraine is because I increased the Cipralex to 20mg?  I saw my doctor a couple of days ago and she said it was very difficult to say, since it could be several things:  withdrawal from alcohol, period related (I had some spots of blood, which could be my period), or sinusitis.  I don’t think it is alcohol withdrawal since I only stopped drinking last Friday, and I have had this migraines since the Sunday before that.  It could be period related and it could be sinusitis.  I have started using the sinusitis spray to see if it improves.

Last night it was really bad, and I could not sleep because of the migraines.  I joke to my mom and say if I was a horse, they would have shot me by now!  Sometimes I wish I was a horse......