Migraneurs ARE crazy.
M.D.O.D., MonkeyGirl, and Nurse K have been right all along.
According to a study in the journal Headache, migraine is commonly associated with a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia.
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Get your foil hat on and prepare for the onslaught.
Here's a link to one of the articles on the study.
http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/news-251096-66.html
Bwahahahaha!
I have migraines-- no, don't be afraid, I'm not about to say "I hate you" or call you an evil heartless jerk or anything of the sort... :)
All I have to say is-- well, DUH. Of course we migraineurs are crazy!!
Gosh! That certainly explains the bipolar and maddening depression.
As a person who suffers migraines, and regularly refuses to take medications for them, all I can say is that whenever I have a killer migraine that feels like it won't go away I do start to get depressed. I even get depressed thinking that I might be developing a migraine.
Chronic pain will drive you crazy. So I guess it makes sense on that level.
i have a headache almost everyday, and i have been getting some pretty nasty medication-requiring migraines lately too. do you think that means something??
it means, obviously, that you are going crazy... let's start a club!
Crazy and proud of it. And a redhead too. Double-Doomed. and a Nurse too. Triple-doomed.
Oh and as a "migraineur", I don't bother the ED that is what my Primary care dr. is for.
My vasospastic migraines were triggered by emotion (including positive emotions), orgasm, surprise and even tickling. I took Inderal for
3 months to control those goddamn "smooth muscle" thingies. I'd feel the sensation of something tingling in my chest... then it would rise up to my head, usually causing an explosion of pain. With Inderal, the tingling would rise up... then just fizzle out, no pain but I'd still feel weird. After awhile I learned to control how I let things affect me, and I stopped the Inderal (under my Drs supervision). I always felt if I just had a little help (Inderal) to get me on my way to controlling it, that I'd have success.
Anonymous~
See, I hate to admit it, but getting anxious really is a trigger for my migraines and not feeling well. I'm learning how to control how things affect me (and recognize when I'm being affected), but it's a tricky process. How'd you do it?
cassanndre - I empathize. I know the Inderal helped in that it gave me a reprieve from the fear that anything out there could trigger a migraine and ruin my day. Vasospastic migraines are when the muscles around the vessels of the brain spasm, and Inderal relaxed those muscles. (I'm sure all the Docs and Pharmacists are laughing - I know this is a VERY simplified explanation.) Once I'd been migraine free for awhile I decided I couldn't live my life in migraine city nor did I want to be on drugs that made my BP so low I felt like I was half lit. I just got mad... pissed off and sick of it and decided my will was stronger than my pain (wow that sounds like a commercial). I just made myself stop... think, and kind of suppress the tingle... swallow it down...I used some stretching exercises http://physicaltherapy.about.com/od/flexibilityexercises/ss/NeckStretches.htm deep breathing, a positive attitude and REALLY wanting to get better. Also a trick I learned from something I read on anxiety attack management: as odd as it sounds a picture of a Golden Lab puppy actually redirected my bad feelings for a warm fuzzy "awwww" moment... and thankfully it worked. I may be nuts but at least theres no co-pay. Good luck to you, and remember, your will, and your brain are stronger than you can even imagine.
(P.S. I was "anonymous" at work, damn them.)
Hi,
I have been dealing with chronic intractible migraine from the age of 17, now 27. It has a huge impact on my life, as well as the lives of my family and friends. I have been to many specialists and currently work with two neuorlogists (one at a university hospital and one locally) I am currently working on my masters in education.
I have no psychiatric problems. Chronic pain effects every aspect of my life- it is hard to live with constant pain. One might be unable to do things that we want to do. It also wreaks havoc on social and family life. It's hard to fight through, but most of us do fight through it.
Everything that I have read, researched, and experienced indicates that some psychological problems, such as depression are co-morbid with migraine. Migraine, in and of itself, does not cause psychiatric problems, but some of them may be more prevalent, occuring with migraine. However, migraine does not cause these problems.
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