Victor M. Martinez wrote:
Margaret Fine wrote:

Just as I was about to scold him I realized that my headache was
receding fast, like a plug had been pulled and the pain was draining
away. Oliver looked me over and then snuggled with me, purring loudly.


Can I borrow Oliver? Maybe he can teach our gang how to do this. Yesterday
I had a bad migraine, I left work around 3pm, got home took my strong med
and then got into bed. When I woke up around 5pm I had 5 cats in bed with
me, but none tried acupuncture!
The pain stuck with me until I fell asleep around 10pm, I just hate these
stupid migraine/cluster headaches!

I'd gladly send him for a visit if I thought he would teach the others!

You have my complete and totally sympathy about the migraines. I used
to suffer badly. Depending on who you spoke to I either had cluster
headaches or migraines. All I knew was that when I had them there was
nothing to do for them but take heavy meds and try to sleep. About 18
months ago when I was in at my Drs. getting a refill of my migraine meds
my Dr. said that she was just talking to a neurologist at Duke
University (My Dr is also a fellow sufferer) and he had mentioned that
the current thinking was a lot of migraines were triggered due to
inhaled allergies. These were allergies that might not trigger the
classic stuffy nose, runny eyes symptoms. She gave me my migraine meds
but she also gave me a prescription for allegra. Amazingly enough
taking the allegra has cut my migraines by about 80% I'm to the point
that I have started to realize when I need to take it (like after we get
an all day rain) so I don't have to be on the allegra all the time. I
think sometimes when I do suffer it is because I didn't start taking the
allegra soon enough.

I passed this information along to two other people I know that were
also suffering and both of them started on allegra and had their
migraines cut way down, too.

I hope you're feeling better today!

Margaret


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Margaret Fine