I’ve suffered from migraine headaches my entire life. As a young person they seemed especially brutal. Besides the effect of the headache the next day would feel like I had been kicked in the head by a mule. If you’ve every suffered from them you most likely know what I mean.

Migraines have different physical effects from person to person. Mine start with what looks like a worm jerking around in the periphery of my left eye. (my perspective) It’ll get larger and cover more of my eye to the point where my vision is impaired. Usually after that I’ll only have periphery vision for a matter of several minutes. My vision would be poor enough I’d just find a place to stay until it passes. Then it all clears up and the headache starts. As a young person the only relief I could get was to put my finger down my throat until I threw up. This wouldn’t stop anything but it did give me some relief. As I’ve gotten older I don’t know if it’s a matter of knowing how to deal with them but they don’t seem to have the same effect.

Early on I was able to figure out what would bring it on. It was one day when I came in from the cold to have some chili that it dawned on me. As soon as the heat from the bowl of chili hit my face I could feel a migraine coming on. Mine basically are triggered in one of two ways. My head is hot and it cools down to quickly or my head it cold and heats up to quickly. This means that my migraines usually happen during either early spring or late fall when the weather is in flux.

Migraine’s do make you keenly aware just how fragile we are.

Sincerely,
Phil