[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 46, Issue 22

[Ron Childers]

Reis,

The "garden variety" daily headaches usually disappear when I fire up the
forge and start pounding on something with the power hammer. Not so the
killer headaches which were traumatically induced. My doctor told the
neurologist after my auto accident I was crazy as a run-over dawg within a
reasonable degree of medical probability. That diagnosis doesn't sound very
scientific, but power hammers are not widely known for curing headaches...

Ron C

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I know everybody is different, but I have been getting migraines for  
30 years or so now.
For me, I have realized a few things- my first bout, when I was 19 or  
so, were definitely stress triggered, and basically, I learned to get  
a lot mellower. And this helped for years.
My second bout, when I was about in my early 30's, were diet triggered.
Anchovies, which I love, got me every time.
There are a variety of foods with similar enzymes in em- red wine,  
dark beers, aged cheeses, dark chocolate, green peppers and others.
Some I can eat without problem, others hit me hard.

Now, I get one once in a while, usually traceable to diet and being  
rundown at the same time.

I get the classic aura's, followed by severe headache, light  
sensitivity, and so on.

Luckily for me, as I get older, they are less severe- when I was  
young, vomiting was derigerur.
Now, almost never.

But I would suggest thinking about whether any diet triggers were  
mysteriously coincidental- it sure isnt true for everybody, but if it  
is something that simple, its easy to avoid.

Ries




On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Ron Childers wrote:

> Todd,
>
> You have my empathy. Relpac, (I think) has less killer side effects  
> than
> Zomig.

Well, last time around my doctor gave me 2 medicines to try.  They  
were the same basic formulation, with one being stronger than the  
other, the stronger one I belive was Relpac (my memory wants to say  
Relpax, but I'm probably wrong on that).  I was supposed to try half  
of the weaker one, and if I had problem with it to not take Relpac.   
That one made me sick for 3 days.


>
> Description: Imagine driving a rusty screw driver into the skull  
> just in
> front of the right ear, breaking off the tip then digging it out  
> with the
> shank. Blindingly debilitating, nauseating and breath arresting.  
> Mere words
> are inadequate. Does that sound like your case?
>
> Ron C

Well, I think I tend to run not quite as bad as some people do, for  
which I'm grateful.  For most of the last 6 years I've had a  
perscription for Vicodin which I take at the first visual onset, and  
that seems to start kicking in before the pain hits.  I hurt, but it  
is only the level of a bad normal headache and I can finish working  
the day and then go home and lie down.  However, this and the last  
time I didn't have my perscription close by are much, much worse.   
I'm nauseated, hurt all over, things are too bright and start  
shimmering and glowing and throwing off my balance. My head feels  
like it is in a vise that has about half my scalp squeezed off,  
except when it punctuated by the guy who comes by and crushes my  
skull with a 20# sledge...excuse me..except when I sneeze or cough.

If I could pay $5000 every time this started to be able to avoid it,  
I would.

Oh, and just to add some confusion into all of this, about every 15  
or 20 onsets, it turns out to be an occular migrine.  That is where  
you have all the visual onsets (shimmering, loss of vison, some  
nausea), but you wind up getting no pain.  Since I can't wait to take  
a pill to find out, because they are a lot worse if I don't take one  
soon enough, when I do get them, I'm loopy and sick for the next  
several hours.

Still better than the pain though.

Sorry about whining...
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