Migraines

I have migraines. Sounds simple, right? Few hours in a dark room, and a couple excedrin and it should be gone, right? No, this is anything but simple. Honestly, it's the most challenging thing I've had to deal with health wise in my life.

This migraine started May 27, 2010. That's almost nine months ago, incase you didn't feel like counting. It's never actually gone away, but simply been subdued into submission for short amounts of time through various means. I spent three days in the hospital for it, have tried literally 20+ medications, had to inject myself  with a very painful drug, and now, I get 30 shots of botox into my head every two to three months. Yes, you read correctly, I am a 19 year old who needs botox injected into my head to simply be able to function on a minimal scale.

This was the first treatment that actually helped me return to my somewhat normal life. It takes two to three weeks for the botox to start working for me, which my doctor believes is not normal. It also only lasted for slightly over nine weeks from the date of the injections. But it works, so again I went in for another round of my botulinium toxin A.

Hardest part about fighting this migraine, is that it's entirely inside my head. Other than the sunglasses, which rarely leave my face, people would never know. Reading books nauseates me at more than a few pages, and my mind is too scattered from pain to really focus on Othello's real downfall. I pull my hair, because the pulling on my scalp feels like a temporary release from the pent up tension inside my head. But none of this screams migraine to them, because I function through it all.

I jokingly use volcanic terms to describe my migraine. Over-pressurization inside my head. If my migraine were a volcano, it would be Vulcanian, because this thing is explosive. Heck, you could probably even use earthquakes at a metaphor the concussions I rack up. Essentially, I am trying to keep my head from exploding and destroying the city of MiKayla.