I'd like to share my experience....I started getting migraines a couple years ago....started out I'd get them a couple days a week, then it started escalating to the point that I'd have a migraine EVERY afternoon...the pain was bad enough but then even that started escalating to seeing the haloes and feeling nauseous.
I kept going to the primary care doctor who just saw me as a stressed out working mom (ie. 'hysterical whining woman') and he put me on migraine medications, which did help, but one was extremely strong and I'd be afraid to drive...so the choice was, be disabled by pain, or be trapped at home.
I worked outside the home then, and it was all I could do to get through the workday and I just wanted to get home and lie down .... there was no family life, I was missing out on time with the kids, I got depressed, I gained weight, in short...it was a nightmare.
I finally took charge of my medical care and went to another physician and I told her I'd like to see either an allergist or an ENT (Ear Nose Throat specialist)...I didn't know exactly what was going on, but I knew what I was dealing with wasn't normal and I didn't feel the solution was to be drugged....I wanted to get to the root cause of the problem, not just cover it up.
So I went to the ENT and she looked up my nose and said 'well you have a deviated septum for one thing..." and she assured me that I wasn't going crazy...I had more tests and an MRI...turns out I had all kinds of things wrong with my sinuses, the deviated septum turned in on the turbinates and this triggered the migraines. I had surgery a year and a half ago, and I've had maybe two headaches since then!
It's really worth being checked out by an ENT specialist!!!
I feel like that surgeon saved my life....and at least now I have a life!
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