[GhostXobra]

Hi, my name is Chris and im a 21 year old male,

Ok, first i will start off with a little history about my problem:

I began starting having just regular headaches about 13 years ago when i was 8 years old. They originally just started out small and maybe about once a month. Then they started to speed up to 5-6 times a month but only staying like a small little headache. When i was about 11 years old they started to speed up and get stronger and eventually progressed to migraines.Between 11 years old and 18 years old they grew more violent and more frequent. They got to the point to where they would incapacitate me for an entire day. I am now 21 Years old and they have grown VERY violent and i have about 3-4 a week. Mine are not one exact type of migraine as the main page has said. Mine have at least 1-3 symptoms from almost each type.They just began with pain but eventually progressed to what i have now.

My symptoms include:
Throbbing pain, pulsating pain, nausea, vomiting, SEVERE sensitivity to light, Severe sensitivity to sound, paleness of my skin, eye pain, sleep disruption, spikes of sharp pain(like a nail is being hammerred into my head), as well as i have passed out during 2 of my worst migraines

Now , i have noticed a pattern to my migraines that i can usually feel before it goes full blown and atleast prepare for the pain. Normally i will feel a slight pain behind my left eye, which within about 5 minutes will progress to my head on the left side. After about 20 minutes it will go from the left side to my entire head. About 30 minutes after the first sign appears all of the symptoms I included above will start and the pain will worsen. Now 90% of my migraines last only 1 day, the other 10% last newhere from 2 days to my longest 1 week before they stop.

I have had 2 MRI's, one when i was young when they first started getting worse and it showed nothing. As well as one when i was around 18 and it also showed nothing.

All the doctors i have been too have no explanation as to why i am having these and i have also been on every single medication they can think of as well as each medication in all different Mg doses.

I had also made a journal of what i had eaten, drank, and did. And we could find nothing.
There is only 1 thing that i have proven triggers my migraines. The ingredient (aspartame)in diet drinks and sugars . Since i have found out i have stopped using all diet drinks n sugars as well as nething else with (aspartame) in it but i still have 2-3 migraines a week. As well as probably stress because I am currently taking care of my mother and father. My mother has (lupus) and recently diagnosed with (Breast cancer). My father has had alot of problems with his heart including (1 Heart attack) and (2 Strokes). There has also been questions as to if my blood pressure would have nething to do with it because sometimes when i have a migraine or shortly after the migraine is over my heart will start to beat out of control and faster for roughly 10-30 seconds and then just go back to normal in a second. But i also made a journal to check my blood pressure every hour for 1 month(as well as at the start, middle, and end of each migraine) and nothing corralated between it and my migraines.

At this time there is only one way 2 ways i an combat my migraines:
1) Try and wait them out or sleep through them if i can sleep.
2) Use high dose prescribed (vikitin) to knock myself out so i sleep through it.

All medication i have been put on has no effect whatsoever.
I also know that by me taking vikitin can also be a trigger if i use it to often but i make sure that i only use 1 every week to 2 weeks.

Now as for family history:

Mother- has migraines but not as severe as mine and only about once a month.
Father- has headaches but sometimes tiny migraines.
Grandfather-(mothers side)-(Deceased)-had migraines about once every 2 months.
Uncle(Fathers Side)-(Deceased)- had alot of severe migraines- died from brain cancer

I am at my wits end and im starting to think there is going to be no hope to figuring out what is causing my migraines or how to stop them. They have progressively been getting worse and worse to the point to where i have fainted. Me and my family fear that if we dont find out what is wrong soon they will claim my life.

If u can think of nething to help PLZ let me know it will be greatly appreciated..

TY for ur time

-Chris-

[GhostXobra]

I forgot 2 people in my family history, i talked with my mom about this site and she reminded me of 2 more people :

1) Aunt#1(Mothers side)-(Deceased)- had constant migraines-died from brain tumor
2) Aunt#2(Mothers side)-(Deceased)- had constant migraines-died from brain tumor
The thing that scares my mother about my 2 aunts that died is they both died in an instant ... apparently one of them was in watching tv and told her husband she had to go to the bathroom... after she didnt come back about 10 minutes l8r he went to check on her n found her dead in the bathroom... shes worried that something like that might happen to me.

As well as theres another start to my migraines besides the feeling behind my eye .. sometimes i will also feel a little twinge of pain in the center of the left side of my head.

[GhostXobra]

Ugh cant edit posts ... ok final post for this i made a mistake on the 2nd post ..

1) Great Aunt#1(Mothers side)-(Deceased)-had constant migraines-died from brain tumor
2) Great Aunt#2(Mothers Side)-(Deceased)-had constant migraines-died from brain anurism at brain stem
3) Great Aunt#3(Mothers Side)-(Deceased)-had constant migraines-died from brain anurism at brains stem
The story in the 2nd post was about one of the aunts who died from an anurism.

[Randy Crawford]

MMR VACCINE AS ALLEVIATOR OF CHRONIC HEAD PAIN

This might be helpful, depending on whether you have an autoimmune process causing white blood cells (esp. eosinophils) to irregularly degranulate and release their irritating vasoconstrictive and neurotoxic poisons against your own tissues.

Some hold that migraines are basically vasomotor, others that they are neurological, while others contend they are of mixed origin. Here is what works for me, and my mixed pathophysiology: Over the past three years, I have gotten good pain relief from receiving dozens and dozens of MMR-II (mumps-measles-rubella) vaccine shots, closely spaced per required need. For me, with autoimmune contributions to the pathophysiology, when my white blood cells have virus material to target they then attack my healthy innocent bystander tissues less. With eosinophils in particular degranulating fewer of their toxins, there is less direct vasoconstrictive irritation and pain AND less irritation of cephalic nerve cells (e.g. the internal carotid plexus) such that fewer impulses are consequently sent out to secondarily produce painful vasoconstrictions.

Many doctors have been trained to be paranoid about fearing vaccines, but I have had no bad side effects and only good results. As time goes by, more and more M.D.'s are learning the virtues of using attenuated pathogens for down-modulating the immune system. For those who might benefit from vaccine-based immunodistraction: start with one MMR per month, move to two a month, then weekly, then 3 per day, then daily or per required need. If you start to overdose and overload your immune system, the incidence of head colds will be an indication to dial back on the MMR dosage for awhile. Further relief can also be obtained by intermixing doses of Varivax, ProQuad, and/or Zostavax vaccinations.

This type of therapy is NOT for pregnant women, those who are immunocompromised (with AIDS, cancer, chemotherapy, X-ray treatments, immunosuppressive drugs like steroids), suffering from blood diseases or receiving transfusions, or allergic to gelatin, neomycin antibiotic, or having prior reactions to vaccine administrations. But, if you have a healthy to overactive immune system, immunodistraction via attenuated viruses can give your immune system something to do other than make your head hurt. Stories of vaccines causing severe reactions pertain to about 1-10 cases out of a million or less, and since a million other people not receiving vaccines have similar "complication" rates, it is not rational to attribute symptoms to the vaccines. For more information, see 1-800-232-4636 (1-800-CDC-INFO) or www.cdc.gov/nip U.S. Dept. Health & Human Services Centers for Disease Control --END-- [moderator note: contact information has been removed]