I think I may have positively located the physiological cause behind the mounting intensity of my migraines

This is a really quick post by someone who is still sort of under the influence of a pretty bad migraine.

Things have been happening too quickly for me to really absorb it all yet, but for now I just want to get something important down here.

I last reported about my rollneck giving me inflamed Thyroid glands a few days ago, (during the progesterone phase of my pack of HRT).  Well, it turns out that I bought 5 of those rollnecks in a sale last year...(hold that thought).

Yesterday I woke up with a pretty bad migraine, no surprise, as my packet of HRT is now about to run out.  

I took soluble 500mg Paracetamol and kept lots of windows open, as again, I woke up feeling very hot. 

From that point on, I had to visit the bathroom every hour for the 7 hours that the migraine lasted.  I had some nausea as well, but that passed quite quickly.  

This menacing headache finally subsided after lunch, so I got the chance to reflect on its intensity and duration.  

Needless to say it was much less severe than recent headaches and most importantly, it was not preceded by a bout of (boring) mild depression.  

This is a significant improvement, and I put that down to recent use of Potassium supplements.

The day was not completely lost and I managed to make up for lost time in the last part of the afternoon and felt OK about the whole ordeal by the evening.

Then this morning, I wake up and I can feel that there is a stubborn, tiny, remnant of yesterday's headache, trying to make a comeback.

I managed to ignore it for quite a long time but then the builders who are working next door, arrived with a piling machine lorry 'thing'?  It was huge and it pumped out the most disgusting diesel fumes all day long.  The smell was horrendous!  The trouble with fumes likes that, is that they usually make me really ill, headache-wise, and so I keep out of their way.  Today, there was no hiding.  

The headache then came back with a vengeance.  Sharp stabbing, pick-axe-type sensations over and over again, screaming at me in the end.  The more I wanted to get on with my life, the closer the piler came to the house and the vibrations were making my head feel worse.  I could not concentrate of a single blasted thing and felt like a zombie.   

So I decided I couldn't take anymore - and as I didn't have diarrhoea today - I would get out and interview someone who'd been expecting to hear from me.  I couldn't get changed quickly enough, and inadvertently grabbed the next rollneck in the (sale) pile, knowing full well that it would no doubt play havoc with my glands but by then I was in a devil-may-care mood. 

I got in the car and after about 5 minutes, I noticed the throbbing in my head started to subside?  I was leaning slightly forward in the car at the time, as my spine prefers that position.  I could feel the rollneck constrict the carotid artery because the main section of elastic fibres, ended slightly higher up the neck than the one I wore the other day.  

Then, instead of my eyes becoming really dry and my glands turning a dark colour and swelling up, I realised the rollneck was actually reducing the blood flow through my carotid and my headache began to ebb away.  

I felt a lot better after only about 15 minutes.  I was so relieved I thought I was imagining things.  So I leaned back  in the car seat to test my theory and wadyano, the head throbbed again.  I leant forward and it stopped, or at least lessened to the point that the pain ceased.  This is an incredible discovery for me!

It now seems pretty obvious to me, that my carotid must be somewhat 'distended', after 6 (long) years of agonising migraines.  

Furthermore, what starts out (maybe) as a simple headache, resulting from a predictable hormone imbalance, escalates out of all control due, to the especially widened shape of a main artery leading to my head.  In other words, they're getting worse not because of inflammation, but because of a physiological fault?  

Basically the blood is flowing too fast and too powerfully up my neck, as a result of this distension.  Perhaps, my case could even pose a possibility for surgery?  

Remember people, I do not have high blood pressure!     

The misshapen carotid, in my case, may not be the cause of headache, but it simply HAS to be the real reason behind its demonic  exacerbation?  

This must be why I noticed it always helps if I apply ice to that side of my neck, as well as my head.  

When the headache finally went away - after the builders left and my work was done - I noticed the carotid was aching in isolation.  Is it any wonder?

My cycle is supposed to end tonight, btw.  

Comments and emails most welcome!