The migraine headache, mother of all headaches rips woman's head apart…
The mother of all headaches, the migraine.
There was a time I had zero empathy for other people who said they had a migraine. I know, don’t kill me, just being honest here.
I thought if you’ve had one headache you’ve had them all. Whoa, was I ever so wrong.
As a kid I used to get headaches and we never figured out why. I would just take Excedrin and make the most of it. Grandma always told me it would go away with aspirin, grin and bear it.
Growing up the headaches seemed to come on without reason and go away just as mysteriously. Little did I know then that this was just the beginning of the migraine headaches to come.
Just pull the trigger and shoot me…
But, when I was 35 years old my whole body seemed to change right before my eyes.
Of course I noticed changes in my body when I had my two children. Those changes were on the outside, where I noticed them.
What I didn’t know was that massive changes were going on inside of my body. My chemistry was changing at an accelerated pace and the symptoms I was seeing was only a small part of those changes.
Subtle changes happen overnight…
It started with weight gain; you know a few pounds here, a few more there. Each year it seemed I’d pack on another 10, 15 pounds.
Then came the adult onset acne. Now that was horrific. I don’t know if you’ve ever had it, but man…painful, ugly as a mud fence!
But, that’s another story, back to the chemistry stuff…then, my hair started getting oily. Oilier than it had ever been, I was having to wash it every other day for Pete’s sake.
Next came the ultimate “granny whiskers”. Oh my gosh…I had hair growing on places on my body that was just wrong.
Every morning before leaving for work, I’d stand at the bathroom counter with a magnifying mirror to pluck out those jet black, stiff hairs growing on my chin, lip and cheeks.
Can you say, embarrassing?
When I thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, then came the monthly cycle getting all whacked out. I guess that should have been my first clue, but even my doctors didn’t pick up on all of the signs.
So, I’m dealing with all of this stuff, all of these pesky, irritating symptoms all while working full time.
Deaden the body and senses…
Dealing with the stress of work, a boss and not feeling good, hmm, wonder why I got headaches. Now I figured out how to cope and work with all of these issues going on with my body. Take aspirin and deal with it, remember…that's what Grandma taught me to do when I was growing up.
The final blow…
Then I got slapped down and hard, physical reality was about to grab me by the throat.
The migraine headaches grabbed hold of my head like a giant standing behind me with his humongous hand on my head. I could feel the pressure crawling up the back of my neck; my shoulders drew up trying to relieve the pain and pressure.
The fingers crawled over the top of my skull with crushing pain until finally they dug into the front of my skull poking at my eyes.
With each headache came different migraine symptoms. Sometimes I couldn’t get out of bed. Light made me cringe, even touching me made me nauseous. .
Sometimes I had little white dots all over in my vision. It was times like these I hoped I wasn’t driving the kids and their friends to their Little League games or school, or sitting in an admin meeting giving my presentation.
Have you ever had a migraine and tried to work on your computer?
I was in accounting at the time, man, I wanted to vomit. It was all I could do to make it through the day, only to manage the drive home and collapse into bed.
I was desperate to feel better; trying to live my life feeling like I wanted to die was awful. Sometimes I felt like it would be better to die and just get it over with.
I tried all of the over the counter remedies, Excedrin Migraine (asprin), Tylenol (acetaminophen), Advil (ibuprofen). Desperate I tried Orudis KT (ketaprofen), even stiff, black coffee by the cupful. Any and all pain relievers, narcotics…you offered it, I took it.
I don’t know how I didn’t overdose to tell the truth! I wanted to feel better, get my old life back; desperately I wanted my life back.
Hope for light at the end of the tunnel…
Then one day a friend and I had lunch together. I was in between headaches and actually had a nice visit. She shared what her aunt was doing and asked me to go check it out with her.
I was so tired I really didn’t want to, but she sort of blackmailed me into going. Do you have a friend who has done that to you, too?
I’m so glad she did, because I met a person there that suffered from migraines, too! Low and behold, they got rid of their migraines within a month. I was like all over it.
I didn’t have the money to buy the products, but at that point I didn’t care. I was willing to do whatever I had to do to get it. I was just like that cartoon cat, the one with it's fur standing on end with the pistol…?
I wanted to be headache free, to enjoy those Little League games again. I was tired of always fearing when a headache would grab me and hold me under its spell, and for how long?
Sure enough after a month of using the Symmetry Ultra Vitality Nutrapack, Advanced Omega, Female Balance, and Bio Infinity my headaches were less. Instead of two, three day migraines, I only had one short one day headache.
Come the second month the headaches were history and I’ve not had another now for over 12 years!
By giving my body the nutrients that it needed to bring itself back into balance, my monthly cycle was easier than it had ever been my whole life! My PMS disappeared never to resurface again! I learned that my doctor was only educated in treating the symptoms, not finding the underlying cause and fixing that!
I’ll tell you, if I had known that nutrition played such a key role in my body’s health and those headaches, I would have paid attention much sooner.
I haven’t even had so much as a tension headache in 10 years and I’ve given my body plenty of opportunity to experience one that’s for sure.
It really is a testament that my body was deplete of nutrients and by giving it what it needed; it repaid me in kind with vibrant, good health and NO migraine headaches any longer.
The road to recovery begins here….
Here To Serve,
Carla J Gardiner
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