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I sometimes get migraines and am barely functioning during those times. I can't even imagine how it would be if you had something like a never ending migraine.

I sometimes get migraines and am barely functioning during those times. I can't even imagine how it would be if you had something like a never ending migraine. It would be pretty much impossible to have a normal life.

ridgeguy 8y ago
This is my wife's lot. Chronic refractory migraines. We're looking into the recently FDA-approved monoclonal antibody (CGRP target) migraine drug. It would change her life if it even cut out 10% of her headaches. To the topic, yes, I've seen how chronic pain changes decision outcome probabilities, most often for the worse. It shortens perspective and priorities to the very near term. Pain is a useful informant. Chronic pain is a disabling phenomenon. I hope you can find relief from your migraines. Have you tried the triptan family (Sumitriptan, Frovatriptan, etc)? These are symptomatic treatments that work well for a significant portion of migraineurs.
xab9 8y ago
My current lap record is tension headaches for 25 days out of a full month. I just crawl home from the office :)
stordoff 8y ago
That's roughly where I am - constant headaches going on for a couple of years at this point, never completely going away. Incidentally, I've found the constant pain is easier to deal with - when they normalise to a constant intensity for a few days, you can tune them out to some degree. When they are fluctuating, even though you get periods of relief and the intensity is lower most of the time, it's harder to ignore when it suddenly feels like someone is driving a nail through the top of your eye. The only thing I've found that truly helps is lying completely flat - as soon as I stand back up, the pain worsens again and I start to feel nauseated.
code_duck 8y ago
I had a serious reaction to food almost every day, sometimes twice a day, for years from celiac. Now I know that what I was often experiencing is called an abdominal migraine, which I didn’t even know existed. Essentially, I would just put my life on hold for hours until I would crawl out of bed, blinking, shaking my head, trying to figure out what happened, and resume my day. Very true that when you spend half the day laying around in bed feeling like you’re dying, every day, it’s difficult to have a normal life.

ridgeguy 8y ago

This is my wife's lot. Chronic refractory migraines. We're looking into the recently FDA-approved monoclonal antibody (CGRP target) migraine drug. It would change her life if it even cut out 10% of her headaches. To the topic, yes, I've seen how chronic pain changes decision outcome probabilities, most often for the worse. It shortens perspective and priorities to the very near term. Pain is a useful informant. Chronic pain is a disabling phenomenon. I hope you can find relief from your migraines. Have you tried the triptan family (Sumitriptan, Frovatriptan, etc)? These are symptomatic treatments that work well for a significant portion of migraineurs.

xab9 8y ago

My current lap record is tension headaches for 25 days out of a full month. I just crawl home from the office :)

stordoff 8y ago

That's roughly where I am - constant headaches going on for a couple of years at this point, never completely going away. Incidentally, I've found the constant pain is easier to deal with - when they normalise to a constant intensity for a few days, you can tune them out to some degree. When they are fluctuating, even though you get periods of relief and the intensity is lower most of the time, it's harder to ignore when it suddenly feels like someone is driving a nail through the top of your eye. The only thing I've found that truly helps is lying completely flat - as soon as I stand back up, the pain worsens again and I start to feel nauseated.

code_duck 8y ago

I had a serious reaction to food almost every day, sometimes twice a day, for years from celiac. Now I know that what I was often experiencing is called an abdominal migraine, which I didn’t even know existed. Essentially, I would just put my life on hold for hours until I would crawl out of bed, blinking, shaking my head, trying to figure out what happened, and resume my day. Very true that when you spend half the day laying around in bed feeling like you’re dying, every day, it’s difficult to have a normal life.