When I got into my early twenties, I started having these excruciating headaches. The pain was always right above my eyes or right behind them. With the pain came extreme nausea and even vomiting.
The pain always lasted 2 or 3 days or longer. Nothing I took helped. Over the counter pain pills were useless to me even though I kept popping them hoping for a miracle. The only thing that worked for a brief time was Excedrin Migraine, but I took them so often that they started not working at all.
Finally decided to mention it to my doctor because it was getting hard to function with the pain. He said it sounded like migraines and prescribed me Imitrex. Well, it was a dream come true!
Anyway, to make a long story short.....Last year at 29, I was diagnosed with MS. My symptoms were always Optic Neuritis. So it makes me wonder if it is somehow connected to the horrible headaches I get around the eye area?
Both my Neuro and Neuro-Ophthalmologist says no. But it still makes me wonder? No one in my family has a history of migraines or MS. They are pretty much healthy as a horse!
What do you guys think? Anyone have severe headaches with MS? I'm just sick of these headaches! Seems like they are more frequent since starting Tecfidera. Then again, it could be other things causing them to be more frequent.
Between the headaches and fatigue, I pretty much want to stay in bed all weekend. Can anyone relate? I'm so tired of this. (no pun intended)
The pain always lasted 2 or 3 days or longer. Nothing I took helped. Over the counter pain pills were useless to me even though I kept popping them hoping for a miracle. The only thing that worked for a brief time was Excedrin Migraine, but I took them so often that they started not working at all.
Finally decided to mention it to my doctor because it was getting hard to function with the pain. He said it sounded like migraines and prescribed me Imitrex. Well, it was a dream come true!
Anyway, to make a long story short.....Last year at 29, I was diagnosed with MS. My symptoms were always Optic Neuritis. So it makes me wonder if it is somehow connected to the horrible headaches I get around the eye area?
Both my Neuro and Neuro-Ophthalmologist says no. But it still makes me wonder? No one in my family has a history of migraines or MS. They are pretty much healthy as a horse!
What do you guys think? Anyone have severe headaches with MS? I'm just sick of these headaches! Seems like they are more frequent since starting Tecfidera. Then again, it could be other things causing them to be more frequent.
Between the headaches and fatigue, I pretty much want to stay in bed all weekend. Can anyone relate? I'm so tired of this. (no pun intended)
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