Tuesday, November 11, 2008

okay...so i'm a few days late on writing this....lol part 1

okay....so i feel weird sharing this with strangers, but i feel like it might could help someone...give someone hope....

It all started last year around this time (probably late Sept or early Oct) when i began to get excruiating headaches. They would just start off and then, BAM there they were. I didnt know why i was having them, just that they were there and that i couldnt do anything when they were. I endured this horrible cycle of headache after headache, with the intensity of them growing and the frequency of them going up to 6 headaches a week. It completely changed my life, i was going to bed at 6pm, not something typical for a college student.
I had began to wonder why i could be having headaches and having them so frequently for that matter. I kept coming back to stress, but i wasnt really stressed out. I was very happy, happier than I had been in a long time (except about being in pain nearly everyday). I prayed and prayed some more to my best friend, God. To be sure He could heal me. He always had before, why should this be any different? I came to realize after a few months of this agony that it wasnt getting any better. That's when i asked my mom (more like begged for mercy) if i could please see a doctor. I was breaking up inside, it was complete torture (an understatement).
Well, i started off at the eye doctor (to satisfy my mom because she thought it might be my eyes that were giving me the headaches). Not to my suprise, my eyes were fine. Nothing was wrong with them. It was then that I decided that i needed to go to an actual doctor, someone who could help me get out of this sinking boat that i was in.
I decided to go to a local obgyn, actually she was my mom's. I went to her because i thought that maybe, possibly it could be my hormones? I'll never forget that doctor's visit....it was the beginning of a very long road.
As soon as i told the doc my symptoms and how frequently they occured she immediately diagnosed me as having migraines....I had heard of them all of my life, but i never thought that i actually would have one, let alone 5 or 6 a week. She gave me different meds to experiment with and i thought that was it.....yeah right.....

I havent actually described these headaches, so here it goes. They are one of the most horrible pains i have ever felt (next to my period cramps which made me black out on ocassions). I couldnt look at light, stand the tv, radio, or any noise for that matter. They controlled my life. All i could do when they came on was to go into my bedroom, shut the door, turn off ALL the lights(even if my alarm clock was plugged in), and just lay there and cry my heart out and plead with God to somehow make a way for me..Please give me some relief........

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