#LivingWithMigraine

Heya, loves! I'm baaaack! ☺

I have been off social media for 2 days because I was really sick. Not a lot of people know that I get really awful migraines from time to time and it hinders me sometimes to do my normal routines. But sometimes I wish others would be more understanding and patient with people dealing with chronic migraines.

"It's just a headache"; "all migraines are the same"; "they only last a few minutes/hours"; "aren't there medicines now that cure migraine?" — I often hear comments like these and at times I wanna be annoyed, I choose to understand because they don't know anything about it— yet. And now I think it's best to share and explain what is it to have a migraine.

First, it's not just a headache and the symptoms vary from one person to another.

Here's my way of describing it: with a headache and a migraine of the same intensity, the headache can be ignored because you can sometimes push it to the back of your mind. With a migraine, it paints itself over the front of your senses, and jumps up and down screaming, you can barely get to focus and ignore the pain. With a headache, you can just sleep it off after you take a pain reliever. With migraine, you might be needing the highest dosage of ibuprofen there is and you cannot snooze it off because your mind will NEVER cooperate.

For me it's not just the pain that irks me, it's the migraine aura I get everytime it triggers. I have had migraines that just had nausea and flashing lights for thirty minutes, and more severe migraines lasting several days with loss of balance, nausea, light, sound and scent sensitivity, confusion, pins and needles, numb patches, difficulties in speaking and coordination. I have had all that. (Can you imagine??)

The most difficult part of having chronic migraines too, are getting into normal 9-5 jobs. That was my make or break. I got called out by my bosses several times because of my absences and tardiness because it was hard to get up in bed and go to work and be productive. My migraine disabled me to do my tasks. It's difficult to explain that I have to stay in bed to sleep and rest just so my migraine won't continue for days. I am just so thankful I get to have employers who constantly understand my situation and would go the extra mile to emphatize with me.

I have seen a lot of changes over the years in the understanding of migraine by the general public, people with migraine and healthcare professionals; however I've also seen some amazing gaps in knowledge in all of those groups. I still feel helpless in the face of a bad migraine even now, although I do intensive researches and I am able to understand a lot more of the treatment and prevention options for migraines. I just wish people would be more open to know more and stop judging people with migraine.

I wish to write more about migraines and how I usually cope up, what triggers mine and all that, in my next and future blogs. ✍🏻

Love and light always, 𝙀𝙡𝙡𝙚 ✨💛

------ Do you also have a migraine? Have you been getting serious headaches too? Let's talk! I wanna know your story! Send me a private message. 📲