I got my shipment from Amazon of magnesium oil on December 23rd I have used it 2x a day ever since. I had not had a headache in 16 days! That streak got blown yesterday from some emotional family stress. BUT I was able to quickly get it under control and it did come back and I tried this new stuff called stop migraine. Its a gel you put on your neck, I had the pain in my left eye brow and it went away with no further medication. Now with me it is never just one. I think that I have combination headaches and they are often tension that lead to migraine. Today first I was hyper I cant explain the feeling but its like I cant think clearly and i feel swirly, does that make any sense? I now recognize this swirly feeling as meaning one is coming. I have been light sensitive for 2 days too. I used the pain stop again and diffused some essential oils. I did take some ibuprofen and its not 100% but mostly gone. I have noticed with the magnesium oil my sleep greatly improved. I fall asleep much easier with little or no sleep meds and am not waking up repeatedly all night. I have a fitness tracker and my deep sleep recorded is the most I have ever gotten since I have had this device. I will for the life of me never ever understand why doctors just throw high powered meds at you and never look to diet, life style, sleep and things like essential oils and magnesium oil. I will see if the relief from this lasts, i sure hope so! It sure is amazing how much I can get done when i dont have to nap all the time and actually feel good!! Now off to PIYO!!
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I think in the world of the migraine brain triggers are so confusing. At least in my experience what can trigger them at one time does not trigger them another. I feel that if you at a time that you are truly prone to them then it does not take much to tip you over the edge to a headache. I used to think Orange juice was a trigger for me. Citrus is a known trigger in some people. Once I drank a glass of orange juice and right away a headache started. Maybe it is one of those just sometimes triggers I am not sure. I stayed off of citrus for years and brought it back into my diet and it doesn't seem to be a trigger, though I am a little afraid I dont drink orange juice much even though I love it. For me 2 very known triggers are MSG and Sodium nitrates in processed meat. I stay away from these at all costs. Another sometimes trigger when I am sensitive is certain LCD lights and fluorescent lights. For me if I am sensitive shopping will for sure trigger one. Last week while still in my what felt like non stop 4 week migraine going to the mall or walmart was a killer. Now today I shopped all day the lights did not bother me at all. This is what I mean about a sometimes trigger. When I am sensitive many things can set them off, when I am not it takes more maybe even a combination of triggers. This is what makes it all so confusing
This week has been much better, one headache and not a bad one. However a busy week so I only will get 3 work outs in! PIYO today which I look so forward to every time. I feel like if you don't make fitness a priority above all else you will not be successful. This week is Christmas week and actually I have less going on than last week. My goal is 5x this week with christmas eve and day off from fitness and back at PIYO Saturday. I want to go see Star Wars with my kids but it will interfere with my classes and this week was so bad that next week needs to be better especially with all the Christmas eating! I think I will got the week after the crowds will have died down a bit I just hope my kids will want to wait a week.
So this part is a bit graphic or at the very least yucky, putting this out there because I bet someone else has had this happen and I know its not a topic discussed. A few years ago I started going through peri menopause I think my migraines have increased since then. 5 years ago I had a uterine ablation due to heavy bleeding for an extended period of time. Since before then my periods have gotten very erratic with the ablation there is not much bleeding but the hormones are there. I am ranting because I think this last horrible long lasting migraine streak is due to peri menopause and huge fluctuations in hormones. I had a period in July and then 3 days before we went to Florida i had another. They last like maybe 2 days and a pantiliner is all that is needed. BUT from that 2 day period in November it has led me to a month long migraine streak with no sleep, vaginal dryness, horrible migraines, and mood swings. This week i think it was Tuesday I had some mucus discharge its really yucky a little bloody reminds me of when I was due to have a baby and lost my mucus plug. (told ya yucky and graphic) But like magic headaches stopped I feel human again i am sleeping. I dont know what this is but it has happend before. I would be curious to see if this happens to anyone else. I think the majority of my migraines are hormone based. I am researching essential oils and seeing if i can use a natural way to balance my hormones. I ordered some magnesium oil as well. I have upped my magnesium intake and take lots of baths in epsom salt but I have read that spraying magnesium oil on affected muscles can help. Stay tuned I hope it helps and for now i am very happy to feel human again! Im going to start by saying this week I have had one yep just one headache free day. Though I have still managed to get in 5 work outs this week. Yesterday was thankfully a planned off day because I had a killer headache that would not leave. I went to a very loud party and I swear it about killed me! Its so hard to fake it in these social situations but I did manage to do it. So back to fitness. I have worked hard at loosing weight 3 years ago and ever since I have maintained for the most part. Last year I gained 10 lbs back but have managed to stay at that weight so its ok. I think the 125 weight may have been to hard to maintain. That being said when I lost all my weight I did exercise but honestly not that much. Then I discovered PIYO this place that I was working out at stopped doing PIYO. SO last December I joined the YMCA. Truly the best decision I have made. Its nice for me because I have met many people and sometimes when I miss classes I get oh I missed you where were you? This is such an inspiration for me to keep going even when I dont feel great. Last March I got a vivo fit 2 fitness tracker. In August I got the heart rate monitor that goes with it. Recently instead of just tracking my workouts I track calorie burned I have a goal of at minimum 1500 calories burned a week trying to always reach 2000 calories burned. I compete with myself and it keeps me inspired. This is my week this week, Sunday 500 (treadmill at home) Monday 210 (RIP class its a weight lifting class) Wednesday 350 (my favorite class PIYO) Thursday 300 (went to the gym and my class was canceled so I ran/walked with my dogs and lifted weights at home) Today 400 (PIYO) a grand total of 1760. That is a whole day of eating I have burned off. I honestly like my body more now than when I was at a lower weight I have muscles, muscles that I have never had in my whole life and I believe I am in the best shape of my life. I am sure i could and would do even more if these headaches did not low me down so much! Today it felt like I was going through mud to get this workout in when I either have a headache coming on or am recovering from one it literally saps all my energy.
A word about my favorite work out PIYO. I think this helps me not get some headaches I discovered this when I have had so many lately but have not gotten in as many workouts that I would like it has been 2 weeks with out PIYO and 3 weeks of the worst headache streak I have ever had. PIYO is a combination if pilates and yoga. I think all the muscles in my shoulders and trap muscles truly come from just PIYO. It stretches and strengthens so many muscles and truly is a full body work out. It is all done with your own body weight and it is HARD but a good hard I love it an really if i could I would do it almost every day. It's not offered as much as I would like at my gym at times I can go. I do have the PIYO dvds but they are not the same as the classes they don't have the good music and are not as much fun. I do believe I need to do weight training too so I try to get that in a couple days a week. I do the best that I can and I wish it had more of an impact on my head and neck pain. Today is the first totally migraine free day i have had in a very long time. I didn't feel perfect most of the day I was extremely tired all morning, I had to have a pepsi around 11 and bam by early afternoon I was wide awake. Now its 11:20 and yep still wide awake....grrrrr. I slept really well last night on my garmen vivo fit I tracked almost 4 hours of deep sleep. This is incredible it is the longest recording of deep sleep I have had since I got my garmen, my body must be in total shock! I had to get a massage Tuesday my lady squeezed me in. My neck as always was a mess. The massage and drinking detox tea I think were what did it for me. Also the return to my fitness routine, I went to my first PIYO class in over 2 weeks, and damn it felt good. I think in small ways it helps my neck. There is quite allot of stretching and I could feel the tension I had earlier in the day just melt away. I do a class called RIP on Mondays that is a weight lifting class, its a great class but I feel PIYO does so much more for me!! No workout tomorrow its a cookie party day I am beginning to feel in the christmas spirit this makes me happy. I truly hope I have broken this cycle and maybe just maybe can feel human for the rest of the month!!!
I woke up today feeling really good I took an ambien last night and slept all night. Before noon i got my christmas tree up, some cleaning done, a great work out (that felt so awesome to sweat again after not so much working our for the past 3 weeks)
Then I started to feel dull, crappy tired my neck started to hurt. This is a new neck pain quite different from the neck migraines I have had in the past this was both sides of my neck and the pain is very hard to explain but quite different from anything I have experienced before. when i do get a migraine in my neck it is generally localized to one side and up the back of the head. This was not that so I hesitated taking anything. Then my stomach started at first I thought maybe it was a virus then I got nervous something was really wrong with my neck, I tried heat all day this usually helps, it made not difference, I tried ice, a marginal difference. I then took 2 tramadol, nothing so I thought this has to be a migraine and took a maxalt. yup that was what did it. It never fails to amaze me how a migraine can take on so many forms and totally ruin a day. I really thought at first that exercise eliminated the neck pain because to think about it all week I have had this pain. I hope today because it built to such an intolerable level that this new neck pain is not something I will have to deal with all the time I hope it was all just building to this and once the true migraine hot it will be over. I am going to now try and wrap some presents and take a long hot bath with the jets on my neck. Generally the only good thing about a neck migraine is these though persistent and long lasting also make me sleep so maybe jsut maybe a good night sleep is in order. Sleep is such an issue for me, it really has been most of my life. when you sleep well and fall asleep fast I imagine you don't give sleep much thought. But if you are like me and sleep almost never comes easy its what you think about a lot! Here is the thing too if you are a migraine person then most likely sleep is even more important since lack of sleep or even too much sleep is a trigger. Last night I started taking valerian root. I am unclear if this works right away or has to build in your system, depends on what I read its different. Last night at 9:30 I took 2 hoping to fall asleep by 10 or 10:30, hahaha funny! at 10 i took a muscle relaxer at 11:30 I took 2 unisom I think I finally fell asleep around 12:30. Now I did stay asleep after that I think but when the alarm goes off at 5:45 its not enough sleep. I feel ok today so that is a good thing. I try so hard to fall asleep with out medicine but almost never do. Tonight I have taken a hot bath at 7 used a sleep essential oil blend on my skin I am going to use our massage chair and listen to relaxation music along with taking 3 valerian root, Last night I took 2 and the bottle says you can take up to 5, I am trying so hard not to take high powered stuff to sleep but sometimes I dont have time for the hour and half of bath, massage chair ect. and even then sometimes that doesnt even matter. I hope this migraine streak is over and I can resume my life! I see such a difference in the muscles I have worked so hard to build. It has been about 3 weeks since I have had my 5 day a week work outs. Well I will get a work out in tomorrow and next week I will shoot for 6 that week! wish me luck!
when I started this blog a couple of years ago I really thought I was on a path to completely stopping my migraines. Now I realize it is a chronic condition that I have been able to manage but deal with it all the time. I am really frustrated with the way things have been going lately and in some respects I feel like I have gone back to stage one. I think this sleep medication the dr gave me was a trigger, I have had ones lately that remind me of the ones I always had years ago. I am hoping this medication can be out of my system soon and we will see. I feel like currently I am in survival mode. I just came back from vacation ( when I had migraines for over half of the vacation) Since I went away over Thanksgiving I came home to Christmas time. But I have had a super busy week with non stop head and neck pain of some sort. My house is trashed and I have very few christmas decorations up. My husband is super busy right now and I dont know if he has noticed the state of affairs of the house and the fact that I am so out of it, but he is so busy lately I doubt he even notices. I am pretty much unpacked from the trip and today though I had to lay down after work feel ok enough to have finally cleaned up the kitchen and am going to try and get the decorations out in the living room before we go to our first christmas event of the season. But I did have to just sit down for a moment to blog as its my journal of sorts and stops the frustration in my head. I hope that the rest of this week is pain free and I can get some things done but as I have said I am in survival mode right now and just have to make it moment by moment. I had a very frustrating drs appointment yesterday, driving 2 hours for a 5 minute appointment that lasted all of 5 minutes. I told him how my headaches have increased and got a ok well we will keep things the same changed me back to ambien for sleep which works ok sometimes but doesnt last all night. He wanted to put me on amitripaline and that I did not do well with. I got some valerian root today maybe that will help me sleep who knows, I'll give it a whirl. Since I last bogged I have gotten in really good shape work out 5 days a week as much as I can this week I cant get maybe 3 workouts in. I eat pretty healthy and take good care of myself, i dont know how much more i can do. I will try to get 6 workouts in next week maybe just maybe i will feel better. So i guess I better get decorating this living room before we have to go to this party. Maybe a glass of wine will help this neck pain sometimes it does sometimes it makes it worse, I will have to see. I will try and keep up on this blog as maybe just maybe it can help some one else.
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