Headaches - What can cause them?

[Shin'Ar]

I have suffered with migraines all of my life. They have really taken much of what should have been joy out of my existence. I have never really been able to commit to anything ahead of time and have missed out on many occasions being laid out flat on my back in agony. Wow, this is the first time I have ever told this to anyone.

One of the most severe brought on by my own stupidity. I knew that I should always keep my head covered in cold weather, but this one evening after a few drinks I took the snowmobile out for a run without any headcovering at all. When I came back and went inside and the heat hit me, the bloodvessels just started reacting like a vice tightening on my head. No amount of pain killers or alchohol could help. I would have gladly taken my life that night to end the pain.

I have found that sometimes one particular food may not trigger them, but in combination with one or two other triggers I will get bad attacks. I have slowly discovered many of the foods that uaually cause them, and since I married my second wife she has introdeuced me to a doctor that has me taking a medication daily that has really turned my life around. One pill a day.

And of course, being unnatural to this world as many of you are, I also suffer from acid reflux disease and take a daily pill for that as well.

I wish that more public education was available regarding headaches. I know that many people in my life have never really understood the disabling pain because they compare my experience to their own normal headaches and think me to be making a big deal of nothing that I shouldn't have been able to suffer through.