I'm a little older than most, so the science wasn't even close when I was coming up. I started getting them when I was 12. Full Migraine with Aura. I usually got them when I was playing sports, so I associated them with sweat in my eyes and/or fatigue. Went to the doctor several times as I would get them 2 or 3 times per month and non of them had a clue. They all acted like they didn't believe me. Once I got to college and went to the student health center because during my first set of finals, I had consecutive Aura migraines for 3 or 4 days. Full on visual disturbance, numbness of the mouth, bad headache, sensitivity to light and nausea just over and over again. The doctor knew of a study and gave me a waiver for my finals, though I made it to one. When the professor saw me she like hugged me and was like babying me through the final while I ate a whole box of Ritz
. I must have looked horrible. She was rubbing my shoulders, lol. Anyways, so I hit up this doctor for the study and they worked with me for months. They sent me to a neurosurgeon in Dallas that did a few simple tests on me and right away prescribed all kinds of drugs and gave me a schedule and a notebook to make a food log.
So it turned out:
- Sunlight is bad for my eyes. He said he could see that in my eyes during the exam
. I had never worn sunglasses to that point. I never leave home without them now. It made me think back to my days of playing sports. I can remember specific times I was staring into the sun and getting migraines in football and baseball.
- Flourescent Gymnasium lights are at a frequency that mimics the performance of sunlight. This is why I always got most migraines while playing basketball. It got so bad, I quit basketball first. Stadium lights have that same possibility for me.
- Caffeine is a big trigger for me. I can't have it everyday, but I can't have none, so I try to have a little green tea once in a while. I specifically remember getting them after drinking Cokes Ironically caffeine is part of what helps me get through them.
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- Cinnamon is my other big trigger. Another thing that makes me look back like damn. I used to love Apple Pie and Cinnamon Life. During that finals where I couldn't stop the migraines, I was eating............................Cinnamon Life every morning, LOL. When I got home after the semester I continued that habit, and the migraines just kept going for a few days.
- Sleep deprivation gets me too. During those finals, I almost slept none if it wasn't for the hydrocodone they had me taking
before the study. I would still wake up and it was still hurting, but I'd get a couple of good hours.
- I used to love Chinese food. Got to chill on the MSG and keep it in moderation. Literally adjusted to Vietnamese being more of my thing now.
- I would be sore as hell the next day. They explained it was the lack of blood vessels flexing(part of what causes migraines). I could feel it all the way in my chest.
So now, I still get migraines, but I've completely reversed the trend for most people of them getting worse with age. I've never had to touch a prescription migraine drug. I rarely get the aura now, and the severity isn't close to what it was as long as I am paying attention. Excedrin Migraine is enough to get rid of the nausea for the most part and most of the pain. I have completely eliminated cinnamon.
. Always have to explain myself at holidays when people pushing pie on me. I'm always in Sunglasses until its dark. No more caffeinated soda, no coffee, just occasional tea to keep it right. It was a big adjustment for me, but I gladly changed. I was a little sad though, because its why I didn't want to play sports in college. They were getting too frequent and too painful. I knew they were taking a toll. If I just knew, I could have adjusted. I know this is long, but if anyone if suffering, look at your foods, look at your environment. Everyone has different triggers. You can figure it out just by writing down what you eat for a few months.
got ridiculously light sensitive out of nowhere and of course those flourescent lights everywhere.... man that shyt was crazy. I was never prepared for that kind of pain, that intense. I was rough too because for the longest time I couldn't NOT work out. If I took an extended break, my first trip back to the gym or court was almost guaranteed to lay me the fukk out immediately after. Ball was literally life. 
then out the blue the shyt came back and put me in an ER again. I caught a migraine on the road, lost vision, pulled my ass over and just stuck my head in a beanie til I could drive to a friend's place and get him to take me the rest of the way. 
..my nikka in the crib like
