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Migraines and Me
I was eleven when I got my first migraine. This is my story about
migraines and me.
2018 was actually pretty good for me in regards to migraines. I had a lot of
migraines in the Spring, two in September and two right at the beginning of
December, potentially due to the stress of Christmas, but who really knows what
the causes are these days!
During a recent migraine my eyes started
to lose their vision, I had the aura, which is
the best way because I can immediately
take a tablet and hope for an easy day. On
this occasion it was a very bad migraine.
I went to sleep for around two hours and
when I woke up I had a horrid headache.
My speech was all over the place as I find,
personally, my mind gets confused when I’m
having a migraine and although in my head
I know what I’d like to say, my mouth tends
to disagree and my words come out in the
wrong order. Also, the letters in the words
are in the wrong order, so I probably sound
like a mumbling toddler who doesn’t really
know what they’re saying!
Somehow, I managed to power through
and do some work that afternoon with a
If you suffer from migraines I would love to hear from you [email protected]
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