Starting in eighth grade when I had one that was so bad the pain made me faint in the middle of a Best Buy and I knocked over a ton of camera tripods on display. Embarrassing…
My doctor prescribed me all kinds of medications for it including Topamax (which people call Dope-amax because it literally makes you stupid and that’s probably why I can’t do simple math to this day) and Fioricet (a barbiturate 😎 lmao) but I went off of medications a few years ago and worked on treating the symptoms myself.
I don’t eat heavily processed foods or seed oils and try to limit sugar because of their inflammatory effects, I get lots of healthy dietary fat and try to remember to drink enough water, I do yin yoga regularly, and I take magnesium glycinate every night before I go to sleep.
I almost never get headaches anymore but when I do they’re more like killer tension headaches. I have a mask similar to this and I microwave it and strap it on my face or around the nape of my neck and it really helps. I also apply White Flower Oil to the area where the pain is originating and dab some under my nose—it’s a life saver (search White Flower Oil and you’ll probably find my rec about its other uses)!
And Yoga with Adriene has AMAZING headache and migraine yoga videos you can follow along with that should also give you some much-needed relief.
