Bad Hair Day?

[mati]

I have a funny story to share with you. If any of you are like me, you occasionally/often suffer from migraines from hell. They started to get intense when my dr's decided to decrease one med and increase another. Not to mention that I've really cut back on my caffeine intake lately.
Anyway...
My hair was all one length about 3inches below my shoulders and I ALWAYS kept it back in a ponytail. I was sick of it, so I went and told my fairy hairdresser to cut the ponytail off! I was thinking that if I couldn't pull it back, than maybe it would help my headaches. It helped until the decreasing med was decreased once again. I was just so darn sick of my head hurting. Guess what I did. Go ahead, guess! I shaved my head! I love it! I wore a baseball cap every time that I saw my mother until just last week and she completely freaked out. "OMG! Your hair! What have you done? It WAS so pretty, now you look like a little boy!" Keep in mind that I'm 5ft and weigh 90lbs. I just told her to chill, my head was hurting and she could not possibly understand how I felt unless she was inside it. Anyway, it'll grow back. It's not like I cut my arm off!! :P
I was looking in the mirror yesterday (wearing a grey t shirt and khakis, no make up) at my tiny little cowlick and thought to myself, "If I were a guy, I'd so check me out 'cuz I'm cute!"

I hope that you found that amusing. It really has cut back on the migraines and it was all worth it just to shock my mother!

[Bernard]

I have often expressed to Stacy my desire to shave my head. Hair is a hassle IMO. However, I don't think it would be helpful for my business and Stacy won't go for it. :shock:

Do you have two tennis balls and a sock?

[Nancy]

Well -- did shaving you head help the headaches ??

I didn't have a serious headache in my life until I started having those strange "spells" when I was around 44 years old. Ugh -- miserable, killer headaches ..... in one tiny spot - left temple and sometimes slowly moving to be behind left eye then moving to blast out left side of rear head..
When I was diagnosed with epilepsy Nov. 1990 (and as I've said before I had NO idea adults could develop epilepsy !!!) I was told headaches and epilepsy had no relation so I was "claiming" headaches to get attention.
My last neurologist said that migraines frequently arrived with seizures and ordered another eeg to show me certain brain waves/something that indicated migraines.
Now I take an assortment of triptans that help.
The brain surgery helped a lot too --- maybe eventually it will cure the migraines ?

[Bernard]

I was told headaches and epilepsy had no relation so I was "claiming" headaches to get attention.

Don't you just love it when doctors presume that you are full of twinkies? I wonder if that doc has ever been enlightened?

Seizures and headaches

[mati]

Sorry, Nancy, I guess I left out well basically the whole point of the story. But, yes, thank goodness it has cut back on the migraines tremendously!!! Not to mention that it's a great do for the hot weather.

I still do get the occasional migraine/headache, but it's not nearly as severve as it was before I decided to shave my head. Before I even cut the ponytail off, I was having migraines so badly that I stayed in bed with all of the lights out wearing a sleep mask and NO noise and didn't even eat for almost 2 weeks b/c if I did I'd vomit. It was just one long migraine. I thought my head was going to explode. I only got out of bed to go to the bathroom and feed my cats. It was awful. I went to the neurologist and he tried putting me on some kind of prescription migraine med, but as in the past that stuff does nothing for me. I can barely take Aleve, but it does work best for me. (We're all different!) Anyway, when I got the ponytail cut off it helped so much, but after a while I noticed that the pain was coming back. My hair was just long enough to feel really heavy and it's very thick. When I shaved it, I felt like I had just removed a few bricks from my head. I feel so much better. My head still hurts every now and then, but it's nothing that an Aleve can't take care of. I would have never dreamed this 2 months ago.

I'm not saying that everyone out there suffering from migraines should shave their head b/c it's going to make it all better. I don't know that. I'm not in there! Don't blame me when you are having a bad hair day. I'm just saying that it worked for me!