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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – had always been headache prone in that – if I missed breakfast, smelled cigarettes or unpleasant smells, played in the hot sun – I got frequent headaches even as a child. My first classic with aura was not until after my first child was born. By the way, I had three children and each pregancy was migraine free. I do not think I had an actual migraine diagnosis until I was an older teenager and had already had years of headaches. Oh yes, I also had numerous surgeries as a child and associate my first headaches and nausea with waking from anesthesia. Probably not related though. I have had headaches of some sort all my life (49 years). Blessings, Marty
Oh, my goodness, Marty, are we sisters? Except for the surgeries, almost everything you said applies to me as well! I was always told (when I was in bed with the pillow over my head) that "children don’t get headaches." Yikes! I had two children and both times (even though I puked up my guts for 5 months) I did not have one headache. And, I am almost 49! SueS
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I remember the most memorable…when I realized that my headaches were not normal. But I had them as a teenager all the time. They didn’t seem to be more to me until I had been off the pill for about six months. I had been on the pill since I was 17, so I guess the hormones just took over…I was 27 when that happened. But truly, the worst first migraine I had was when they gave me progesterone to stop a miscarriage. I tought I was dying for days straight. Sad thing, I can’t remember what not having migraines ever felt like. Michelle – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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I was in my early twenties, came home from work with what I then thought of as another *sick* headache, pain really bad, throwing up etc. I had some fiorinal, took that, stretched out on the bed to sleep it off and came face to face with a huge spider on the wall looking right at me (I knew it was). I grabbed the hammer on the night stand (the house was new and we were still putting it together), swung at the spider, he went down the wall, and I twisted to hit him again, yep, I got him, also ended up in ER the next day with 3 torn cartilages in my ribs! Today has been a really bad day for me, Mr. Migraine moved in yesterday afternoon and I’ve had to hit the meds several times, been mostly sleeping and feeling too sick to eat. I finally woke up about seven tonight and managed to eat a little, this one is a bad round, I hope it’s over, just have to wait and see. Hope you’re just *slow* and not feeling bad Lavon, and hope everyone else is having a good night. Hugs, ~Sage – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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I’m sorry Lavon, you can tell *I"m* slow tonight for sure! I thought you said you were slow and you meant the group, LOL, leave it to me! I reread your post because I was thinking how awful that must have been for those Dr’s to tell you to basically live with the pain since they’d *saved* you. It’s like they didn’t care, shame on them! I’m glad you finally found a DR who cares enough to give you pain meds. Hugs, ~Sage – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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Sad thing, I can’t remember what not having migraines ever felt like.
Hoo boy,. can I relate to that. The first? Dunno, but I do recall sitting in the back seat of my Dad’s car with the family on our way to the beach for our summer vacation. I might’ve been 3 years old. I felt awful … half of my body, mostly head, hurting & pounding like hell … & the nausea enough that I was concentrating so hard to not throw up. My Dad looked back at me in the rear view & said to my Mom, "God, look at her Ruth, she’s turning green. Shall I pull over?" The second the car door was opened, my head was outside & I barfed, projectile style. Once my sister overheard them talking about me …. "I don’t know if we’re gonna raise that one" … scared my sister, who even now gets terribly disturbed if I’m having a killer headache in her presence. She knows I’m not gonna die of it, but still thinks I might. Now that I’m 67, it’s still happening. Geeze, huh?
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Catherine, that reminds me of all the times I got car sick when I was a kid, don’t remember if my head hurt or not, but do remember the paper bags Mom kept in the car for trips. 
Hugs, ~Sage (I wonder what she did with them?) Ewww
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sad thing, I can’t remember what not having migraines ever felt like. Hoo boy,. can I relate to that. The first? Dunno, but I do recall sitting in the back seat of my Dad’s car with the family on our way to the beach for our summer vacation. I might’ve been 3 years old. I felt awful … half of my body, mostly head, hurting & pounding like hell … & the nausea enough that I was concentrating so hard to not throw up. My Dad looked back at me in the rear view & said to my Mom, "God, look at her Ruth, she’s turning green. Shall I pull over?" The second the car door was opened, my head was outside & I barfed, projectile style. Once my sister overheard them talking about me …. "I don’t know if we’re gonna raise that one" … scared my sister, who even now gets terribly disturbed if I’m having a killer headache in her presence. She knows I’m not gonna die of it, but still thinks I might. Now that I’m 67, it’s still happening. Geeze, huh?
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Great question, Lavon. I was in elementary school when I began complaining of pain behind my eyes. I had to sit close to the board or else words looked blurry. My eyes checked out fine, but one eye doc asked my mom if she suffered from migraines. She did and so did her mom, so he said I was showing early signs. Pain became a whole lot worse during puberty, and transformed into CDH during high school. Jasmine – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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I was 11, it was a spring afternoon, and I was in my bedroom. I was feeling sort of ‘off’, as though it was a bit stuffy in my room. I hoped opening a window and having a nap would help. I woke up realizing I might have to vomit. As I looked around my room I got really scared because it was like looking through a thick, decorative, glass brick. I tried to rub my eyes to get rid of the distortions and realized I couldn’t move my right hand properly – sort of clubbed myself in the face. I felt more naseatious, and tried to head for the bathroom, but my right leg wouldn’t move properly either so I fell on the floor. I grabbed something, not sure what it was, and a bunch of stuff fell on me. I at least managed to locate a waste basket and lift my head enough to mostly vomit into it. That’s when I got really scared. I starting thinking this must be a stroke. I wasn’t sure who was home, but I tried to call out. Then I realized I couldn’t speak. It was like having some word right on the tip of your tongue, but you just can’t pull it out of your brain. I knew I wanted someone to come help me, but had no idea how to vocalize it. No one was home anyway. I think I managed to make some kind of noise, and I rolled onto one side trying to get away from the stray vomit and to avoid choking on any more that followed. There was lots of heaving, weird dead sensations from different parts of my body, and all the while I just wished I could see what the heck fell on me. I have no idea how much time passed, but I eventually realized I could move a little more, see a little more, and generally think a bit more clearly. I pulled myself onto my bed, and that’s when the pain began. It wasn’t very painful at all, as far as migraines go, but I really thought it was the end for me. I know I slept for some time, and then I was totally wiped out the next day. When I explained what happened my family looked pretty scared. They told me my aunt had ’spells’ like this and that the doctors said it was migraine. hmm, thanks helping bring all that back up. I’ll let you know how the counselling goes. :)
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I’m sorry Lavon, you can tell *I"m* slow tonight for sure! I thought you said you were slow and you meant the group, LOL, leave it to me! I reread your post because I was thinking how awful that must have been for those Dr’s to tell you to basically live with the pain since they’d *saved* you. It’s like they didn’t care, shame on them! I’m glad you finally found a DR who cares enough to give you pain meds.
Hi, Sage! I did mean the group was *slow.* I just wanted to make sure there was something *real* to talk about instead of another peeing contest. I just got off being "slow" myself. I reread your post because I was thinking how awful that must have been for those
Dr’s to tell you to basically live with the pain since they’d *saved* you. It’s like they didn’t care, shame on them! I’m glad you finally found a DR who cares enough to give you pain meds. Me, too! 
I think Joe Top Neurosurgeon was telling me that wasn’t his job. But so many others said it that nobody thought it was theirs, either. I think it was due to my age. I was 19. Who wants to start a 19 yr-old on pain meds? Actually, all through college, i wasn’t given one pain med. Not one. My roommate and i didn’t even keep aspirin in the apt. Deep peace, Lavon
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Hello twin sister!! Were YOU born in September??
Unfortunately, I was born in May- or maybe that’s just what they’re TELLING me! SueS
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Oh, my goodness, Marty, are we sisters?
Hello twin sister!! Were YOU born in September??
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I didn’t have a clue wht a mgiraine was until my 30’s so I guess I’m lucky. I remember feeling like my head was just going to burst and the pain got so bad that I ended up in the ER only to be given (it’s ok to laugh) fiorcet. It took about another week to get soemone to take me serious and decide it was a migraine not just a stress headache and then the headches just didnt’ seem to go away for years. I didn’t have any pain problems at all until after a surgery, the therory is that the surgery set off my fibro which brought on the migraiens, I don’t know though, a lot of things were happening abuot then in my life. who knows what brought them on. About a year after my first headche I found this group and some of the folks I knew back then are still here. Sad huh? It would have been nive to see them all be gone, would have been nice to have my own migraiens go away too! But nice isn’t a word I use with migraines. Oh well, such is life! Karen
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Round about 1975, lying on the settee with a migraine so bad the pain made me cry (except I didn’t know the word "migraine" then). Sal
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I doin’t remember my first migraine headache, but back when I was in high school the nights before I would get my periods I would get real suckers of headaches. The headaches I was getting were so bad that I would just go into my bedroom with the lights off and try to sleep it off. When I was in high school, didn’t know that those headaches were migraines. I finally got diagnoised with migraines when I moved to San Diego 9 years ago when I was waking up with the same bad headaches that I was having since high school and I went to a Headache specialist and he told me that I was getting migraines. Barbara Booth
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I’m sorry you’re in pain…don’t some of our bad episodes start to sound so similar. Mostly you lie in bed either trying to sleep or going in and out of it. Too sick to eat. Blessings coming your way. I hope you feel better very soon. Michelle
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was in my early twenties, came home from work with what I then thought of as another *sick* headache, pain really bad, throwing up etc. I had some fiorinal, took that, stretched out on the bed to sleep it off and came face to face with a huge spider on the wall looking right at me (I knew it was). I grabbed the hammer on the night stand (the house was new and we were still putting it together), swung at the spider, he went down the wall, and I twisted to hit him again, yep, I got him, also ended up in ER the next day with 3 torn cartilages in my ribs! Today has been a really bad day for me, Mr. Migraine moved in yesterday afternoon and I’ve had to hit the meds several times, been mostly sleeping and feeling too sick to eat. I finally woke up about seven tonight and managed to eat a little, this one is a bad round, I hope it’s over, just have to wait and see. Hope you’re just *slow* and not feeling bad Lavon, and hope everyone else is having a good night. Hugs, ~Sage Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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I remember the bus rides in school…that about killed me. I do also remember growing up in the humid Minnesota summers and my head hurt. I would lie down by the floor fan to try to cool off and make my head better. But nothing was as bad as the migraines when I got older. Michelle
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Catherine, that reminds me of all the times I got car sick when I was a kid, don’t remember if my head hurt or not, but do remember the paper bags Mom kept in the car for trips. Hugs, ~Sage (I wonder what she did with them?) Ewww Sad thing, I can’t remember what not having migraines ever felt like. Hoo boy,. can I relate to that. The first? Dunno, but I do recall sitting in the back seat of my Dad’s car with the family on our way to the beach for our summer vacation. I might’ve been 3 years old. I felt awful … half of my body, mostly head, hurting & pounding like hell … & the nausea enough that I was concentrating so hard to not throw up. My Dad looked back at me in the rear view & said to my Mom, "God, look at her Ruth, she’s turning green. Shall I pull over?" The second the car door was opened, my head was outside & I barfed, projectile style. Once my sister overheard them talking about me …. "I don’t know if we’re gonna raise that one" … scared my sister, who even now gets terribly disturbed if I’m having a killer headache in her presence. She knows I’m not gonna die of it, but still thinks I might. Now that I’m 67, it’s still happening. Geeze, huh?
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Wow, that must have been extremely scary for an 11 year old…just about anyone. It really sounds like a stroke. Are you sure it wasn’t? You must have had episodes like that since? Michelle
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was 11, it was a spring afternoon, and I was in my bedroom. I was feeling sort of ‘off’, as though it was a bit stuffy in my room. I hoped opening a window and having a nap would help. I woke up realizing I might have to vomit. As I looked around my room I got really scared because it was like looking through a thick, decorative, glass brick. I tried to rub my eyes to get rid of the distortions and realized I couldn’t move my right hand properly – sort of clubbed myself in the face. I felt more naseatious, and tried to head for the bathroom, but my right leg wouldn’t move properly either so I fell on the floor. I grabbed something, not sure what it was, and a bunch of stuff fell on me. I at least managed to locate a waste basket and lift my head enough to mostly vomit into it. That’s when I got really scared. I starting thinking this must be a stroke. I wasn’t sure who was home, but I tried to call out. Then I realized I couldn’t speak. It was like having some word right on the tip of your tongue, but you just can’t pull it out of your brain. I knew I wanted someone to come help me, but had no idea how to vocalize it. No one was home anyway. I think I managed to make some kind of noise, and I rolled onto one side trying to get away from the stray vomit and to avoid choking on any more that followed. There was lots of heaving, weird dead sensations from different parts of my body, and all the while I just wished I could see what the heck fell on me. I have no idea how much time passed, but I eventually realized I could move a little more, see a little more, and generally think a bit more clearly. I pulled myself onto my bed, and that’s when the pain began. It wasn’t very painful at all, as far as migraines go, but I really thought it was the end for me. I know I slept for some time, and then I was totally wiped out the next day. When I explained what happened my family looked pretty scared. They told me my aunt had ’spells’ like this and that the doctors said it was migraine. hmm, thanks helping bring all that back up. I’ll let you know how the counselling goes. :)
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Yes the bad episodes do sound similar! Thank you Michelle, the darn thing started back in again last night, right about the time I wanted to go to bed, so I took my meds and waited till they kicked in, then finally went to bed, wondering if I’d start all over again this morning. NOT!!! Yippeee! I’ve been real slow today, but not in pain. Hope you’re doing well! Hugs, ~Sage
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m sorry you’re in pain…don’t some of our bad episodes start to sound so similar. Mostly you lie in bed either trying to sleep or going in and out of it. Too sick to eat. Blessings coming your way. I hope you feel better very soon. Michelle I was in my early twenties, came home from work with what I then thought of as another *sick* headache, pain really bad, throwing up etc. I had some fiorinal, took that, stretched out on the bed to sleep it off and came face to face with a huge spider on the wall looking right at me (I knew it was). I grabbed the hammer on the night stand (the house was new and we were still putting it together), swung at the spider, he went down the wall, and I twisted to hit him again, yep, I got him, also ended up in ER the next day with 3 torn cartilages in my ribs! Today has been a really bad day for me, Mr. Migraine moved in yesterday afternoon and I’ve had to hit the meds several times, been mostly sleeping and feeling too sick to eat. I finally woke up about seven tonight and managed to eat a little, this one is a bad round, I hope it’s over, just have to wait and see. Hope you’re just *slow* and not feeling bad Lavon, and hope everyone else is having a good night. Hugs, ~Sage Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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Middle of October, 1978. I was 17. Several days earlier we had moved from North Africa, back to Canada, about which I was thrilled but a bit nervous (hard to fit in after 7 years away). Didn’t recognize any of the symptoms and had no idea what to expect. Ate a big pork chop dinner thinking that would make me feel better. It ended up all over my Grandma’s basement floor. I was put back to bed and given *shudder* hot buttered rum to "calm my stomach". Can you imagine anything worse in the middle of a migraine? Thanks for the walk down memory lane, my dear Vonster. Warm hugs, Starbug and her Zoo – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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Hi Lavon, My headaches started at puberty. While I do not remember the very first ha, I do remember the first "doozie". I was in highschool, it really scared me because the pain was so intense, I was puking, could not walk right, barely wanted to move because it felt like a vessel was pulsing and might rupture. I buried my head under my pillow and my mom packed my head and neck with ice. I lay as still as I could and cried. The next "doozie" was not until I was away at college – same as that first awful one I recall. I had always been headache prone in that – if I missed breakfast, smelled cigarettes or unpleasant smells, played in the hot sun – I got frequent headaches even as a child. My first classic with aura was not until after my first child was born. By the way, I had three children and each pregancy was migraine free. I do not think I had an actual migraine diagnosis until I was an older teenager and had already had years of headaches. Oh yes, I also had numerous surgeries as a child and associate my first headaches and nausea with waking from anesthesia. Probably not related though. I have had headaches of some sort all my life (49 years). Blessings, Marty
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Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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chris and Lavonne schreef: Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory?
There were many times as a kid that I’d go sick from noisy and stressful situations, like birthday parties. Things I’d look forward to, but that turned out to be disastrous in the end. I very clearly remember going to see ‘Lady and the Vagabond’, becoming sick in the cinema, and going straight to bed afterwards, crying from misery. Terrible headache, nausea, throwing up, feeling completely miserable in general. I’m not sure whether they were migraines then, I always referred to them as just headaches. It didn’t happen very frequently. I must have been 8 to 10 years old then. In my puberty I’d still have those headaches, getting progressively worse. Can’t remember much of my early 20’s (early dementia hitting in I guess). My first pregnancy was headache-free, when my daughter was born, it got worse. Second pregnancy headache-free, then when my son was born, it got *really* bad. When I told my gynacologist that I had bad migraines (could easily make that diagnosis myself as my grandmother, mother and sister all have/had migraines), he just told me ‘that’s what you get from the pill’. End of story for him. That made me so mad, that I never ever went back there. Went to my GP, and he didn’t mind brainstorming with me for a while, and my best option was to get on Depo Provera (my migraines having to do with my hormonal cycle). I was really happy with that, my migraines were manageable, I could take care of my kids, and didn’t take as much painkillers as I used to. After my divorce, I though at a certain point that the stress-levels I was suffering were much less, so I’d try to quit the Depo Provera. Hm, wrong decision, it got really bad again. Now I’m on the contraceptive injection again, but it takes time, *lots* of time, to kick in and reach its full effect. Having a migraine right now, and I’m feeling lousy, the painkillers hardly help at all, I’m feeling down-down-down, blah. Well, that’s my story in short. Hello to you all. Glad to have found this group, been reading along for a while now. Hope my English isn’t too bad, it’s hard to think in another language when the brain isn’t functioning well. Anyone have this weird side-effect, that it’s like you have dyslexia when you’re having a migraine? And sometimes I make these weird sort of ‘Freudian’ mistakes… it’s odd — Basil
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I was around 10 years old. The pain and pounding would send me up to my bedroom to lie down with a pillow over my eyes. When I woke up the headache would be gone.
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I think i had my first when I was in the 6th grade.I got sick and threw up at school and I know i didn’t have the flu. I was around 20 or so when they started getting really bad. One of the worst ones i remember I got on Valentines day and I was working in my family’s florist shop at the time. I stayed out and worked until 10:00 am or so and then I went and spent the rest of the day on the floor of the backroom. I don’t remember how many times i threw up but it was alot. I remember my brother being pissed at me when I told him there was no way i could make any flower deleveries. people who never get migraines don’t realize how lucky they are. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, folks! Little slow lately, so i thought this might be interesting (…could be wrong, ya know.) What is your first headache memory? I realize many had migraine since infancy, so remembering your first migraine may be impossible. But what is the first one you remember? Mine is June of ‘85. I’d had the pain since November of ‘84 and was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. I woke up one morning with double vision, a headache and i couldn’t walk straight forward…kept straying into the left wall. Had the tumor out in April of ‘85. The reason i put June of ‘85 is that the neurosurgeon said i wouldn’t have the pain after the tumor was extracted and i had mended enough. It was two months after and i was still having headpain. His answer? "You had brain surgery…you are alive, you are not paralyzed (i was a music major and paranoid about losing any feeling in my hands,) you aren’t mentally retarded and your mind is intact. What do you expect?" I remember his words exactly because he (and others) told me the exact same thing many times since. It wasn’t until ‘87 that my primary doc put me on my first preventative….Inderal. Had to switch to Corgard the next week cuz i couldn’t sleep on the Inderal, even though i took it first thing in the a.m. Mine isn’t a very good example….i’m was thinking it should be for folks remembering that particular pain event….the day, the first time the pain struck you as not being just your basic stressful-day, two aspirin headache. Deep peace, Lavon
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the problem with dyslexica is one its just a catch all fraze and secondly people even people who should do often don’t attually have any apreationation of what it means. i susgest you take a vistit to the suport staff at the college and get help, if you haven’t been stamented that needs to be done, this is also so the tutors have to offically take into considration spelling grammer etc, also if you don’t have a laptop i’ve found they seem quite keen on giving them out lol! roger and out — usr is wodger 
and ended up working in a textile factory. He had a low opinion of himself also. I saw all of the special gifts he had inside and encouraged him to follow his dream. His passion was heavy machinery. He went to a truckers school (one of the best in the world), he didn’t let anyone tell him that he wasn’t able or maybe he shouldn’t be there, let them put up with all of the spelling mistakes (he wasn’t there for spelling but to learn how to drive a rig) and passed with the highest grades of the class. He’s now driving a rig and transporting heavy machinery. He makes a good salary and by doing all of this, his self esteem is way up there. Life is all a choice. Make the right one. Yes, a lot of dyslexics are delinquents or in jail. That’s the easy way out. It’s not the dyslexia holding them back. There are a lot of very good jobs out there where dyslexics can excel. Look at Bill Gates from Microsoft. He has dyslexia and it didn’t stop him. It didn’t stop my husband, my brother, and it won’t stop my son. Geez, he’s 7 years old and can already drive most of the heavy machinery and trucks very well (a lot better than me). He has the same special gift as his father. An excellent eye hand coordination. He may not become a poet, lawyer or professor in a university but he could become a trucker, teacher, fireman, policeman, construction, pilot and the list goes on.