Here I was again …
It’s 3.30 in the morning, and I’m woken again by a migraine that feels like I just got hit on the head with a sledgehammer.
Even the softness of my pillow lends no relief.
I take another handful of pills and with a groggy, zombie-like walk I stumble into the shower …
Turn the water to cold hoping the iciness will distract my brain from the drilling pain going on inside my head …
And like always, I just stood there in the dark with my arm up against the shower wall and my head bowed, staring at the floor …
This had become a normal night for me.
The pain in my head was debilitating and the sleeplessness that followed just made me feel miserable.
Even on days where I wasn’t suffering from a migraine, some form of a headache would almost always creep into my day.
I tried everything under the sun …
I even tried a whole bunch of different medications … pills, nasal spray and injections.
Nothing.
I tried acupuncture and reflexology for weeks on end but it also made no difference …
My neurologist and doctor both suggested therapy or more pain pills, thinking that my triggers were either mood related or hormonal …
But that just wasn’t the case.
There was no out for me, no one who could help and no one who could understand what I was going through.
Then one day, I decided to do what most people do. Resort to finding solutions on the internet.
I found forums and chat rooms and honestly, they were the one place where I felt at home.
There were others experiencing what I was. I wasn’t alone.
It was a relief, almost a stress reliever to just vent on there and be understood and not judged for doing so.
The place became sort of a sanctuary for me but little did I know that I’d find the answer to my solutions there …
This one forum, where strangers shared their experiences, would literally give me my life back.
One day, as I was reading through, one member mentioned a new revolutionary treatment that was working wonders for them …