Migraines due to low, or no, natural Progesterone!

I got a terrible migraine!  Lasted 4 days, two days of agony.

Well, that wont be a surprise to anyone.  They warn you on these tubs of Serenity Cream that you should only discontinue HRT gradually, over a 3-month period.

But of course I wanted nothing more to do with H-R-flaming-T, so I just stopped.

As you know, I'm getting 2 migraines a month.  One at around ovulation and the other at menses.  Both are due to my not producing enough (or any) natural progesterone anymore because my ovaries have obviously packed up.  Hence the worsening nature of my migraines.

Its a terrible shame that its taken me soooooo long to realise this, but I think I stopped ovulating around last November??

Yesterday's attack was so horrendous that I wanted to go to hospital but the thought of having stangers man-handle me was just too much too bear in that condition.  

I realised that the pain I was experiencing was so excruciating that it was beyond the scope of normal pain-killing drugs and I probably needed to take Morphine in some form or another?  

Its interesting to read that people who are in the armed forces that get bad migraines are administered morphine but 'civvy street' physicians wont do it.

Although this last migraine lasted 4 days, strangely, it kept coming and going for the first two - which was weird and filled me with vain optimism that things were maybe improving?

Then on the 4th day, all hell broke loose and the pain was even stronger than the strongest I've had to date.  

I ended-up pulling at my hair like a mad person.  I couldn't bear anyone to pull my hair in a normal state but when the migraine is full-on, its like I'm trying to turn 'useless' pain without visible injury, into visible injury and useful pain, if that makes any sense?  

At one point it was so bad that I thought it would actually rip?  I hate to admit this to myself, but these damn migraines are causing me to look older.  (This is all I need with a DH that's obsessed with youth and good looks - and never mind how old HE is!.)

Honestly, the inflammation inside my skull was insane.  My face was so pale it looked bloodless.  I kept feeling sick but ended-up on the toilet each time instead.  

I've had various pains over my life (broken arm, rotten tooth socket, childbirth, shingles, fractured elbow, wisdom tooth extraction with infection) as we all do, and I don't usually give in to pain, as such.  I think its something you can largely ignore and just get on with things.  

But this last migraine just took hold of me to the point where I could think about nothing else, except when it would stop.  I actually sat in a chair for 3 entire hours just weeping with the throbbing and stabbing.

My nose became hideously swollen.  The dog just lay at my feet, not moving.  He might be deaf and virtually blind, but he knew I was in big trouble.  The poor thing, he's so sweet at those times.

I had daymare visions of how these migraines are going to eventually end.  Of course I'm going to die from them.  I'll look ahead one day and the room will go black, I'll fall over, people will come and slap my face and I'll hear them say "I cant find a pulse" then the gates of Hades will open and pull me in.

The flames of eternal damnation will whip round my feet and Satan himself will eventually come over to me and hiss triumphantly "You're here because you couldn't cope with your senile dog, you bitch!".....

Then my thoughts switch to contemplating whether I should administer self-medication in the form of a cordless electric drill to the side of my head - lol!!!

Truthfully, during the worst part of the migraine I thought of going to the shed, charging my cordless drill and pinpointing exactly where I would drill into my own skull!  

This sounds completely unreal of course, now that the pain is gone, but believe me, when your head is being crushed slowly in a vice, you imagine you still have some control over your fate??

The only thing that relieved the pain, which I discovered after 4 hours of hell, was not an icepack against my skull as previously resorted to, but actually immersing my LEFT HAND, passed my wrist, INTO ICED WATER until it turned blue.

That was the only thing that stopped the pounding in my head.

The relief lasts about 15 minutes, then it starts up again.

But with that quarter hour, I was able to wash a few dishes, make some beds, tidy the dog area, do some dusting, open some mail and clean a couple of toilets.  Then back to the ice.  I dragged this procedure out for another 4 hours THEN THE BIG ONE CAME.

The pain just mounted till I heard no sounds and the room went blurred.  It was screaming at me.  I was freezing cold, I could neither taste nor smell anything.  I went to the toilet for a last time and honestly, felt I was genuinely going to die.  When I came out it finally started to subside.  Gradually the stabbing faded to throbs, then mild throbs then low aches, then nothing................

When I went to bed I felt very bruised and faint.  I couldn't fall asleep straight away, I was too sad about the whole episode, so I switched on my Kindle.  I'm reading a book about Natural (Yam Extract) Progesterone Cream and low and behold I got to the very section that tackles migraine.

His advice is: "at the onset of migraine, rub in one full teaspoon of the cream".

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My eyes popped out, I dragged myself up and did just that.  

When I woke up this morning, I was expecting all the usual echo pains of an attack, and that kind of wobbly, go-easy-with-me phase but instead, there was nothing.

As I walked down the stairs, I expected my head to ache from the bruising, but still nothing!

I'm not going to push my luck by running for the bus or anything, but I'm getting back in the proverbial saddle today and getting my life back!

I feel better very quickly, which must be the effect of this Natural Progesterone Cream, because usually it takes 2 or three days to completely recover.  I have three tubs of the stuff in the house and all I can say is, I'm going to apply it 4 times a day to anticipate the next attack.  That's 1 teaspoon in total each day, instead of the usual 1/4 teaspoon every 12 hours, as directed on the tub.

Wish me luck people, because I'm at the very end of my tether here....