what causes migraines and how come we haven’t developed a cure for them yet?
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My wife and many of the people in her migraine monitoring group get them from atmospheric pressure changes. A storm rolls in, pressure drops and her migraine kicks in. When she would get really bad ones during business hours, we’d go to a local driving range that was inside a pressurized bubble and she’d get almost instantaneous relief as soon as we walked through the airlock. Unfortunately that place has closed so we’ve been working on the layout for a pressurized room in a former fruit cellar in our basement.
She gets medical botox injections in her scalp and hairline every 3 months which have helped lessen the severity and frequency of the migraines quite a bit but not enough to call it a cure.
She has also tried a self injectable, I believe it was called Ambivig or something like that. It seemed to really help at first as we had a few bad storms pass through with no migraines. After 3 or 4 months the drug didn’t seem as effective and became even less so the more time had passed.
This isn’t an endorsement or criticism of any of the treatments, simply a sharing of what we’ve experienced over the past 30 years. There isn’t a cure so you just have to find your own personal way of managing this. Be it laying down in a dark room, finding a golf dome or trying different medical treatments.
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