Transformed migraine
Transformed migraine
As every sufferer of migraines knows, migraines are an episodic headache. The pain is unbearable and throbbing and is also confined to the right or left side of your head. Vomiting and nausea usually accompany this, and also distortions in the visions and the appearance of blind spots caused by light scintillations. The visual problems usually last for a few minutes, but it is the headache that can last for a few hours or sometimes days. It is during this time the sufferer experiences photosonophobia, which is sensitivity to light and sound exposure and this tends to worsen the effect. This causes the sufferer to retreat to a dark and quiet room for comfort. After this time, the victim will exit the room feeling well. What is a transformed migraine? Any migraine can affect a person’s mood, and with that any mood can affect a migraine. If the sufferer enters the stage of depression, the cells that are dedicated to create a migraine are persuaded by the force of the brain, and this is more powerful than the cells. The cells lose their capacity to create the migraine, and these forcers the headache to transform into a different type of pain. The usual throbbing of the normal migraine is now replaced with a nonstop squeezing or boring pain that is now not only on one side of the head, but both. The aura disappears, but there are still a few traces. The sufferer then experiences chronic headaches, and this is usually accompanied by appetite changes, insomnia and despondency. This is what a transformed migraine is. A transformed migraine is when a migraine and depression are combined. Then again, it has the features of a migraine and the symptoms of depression, but you are suffering from neither. Most of the time, this form of migraine cannot be treated, but there are very good drugs that can help with a transformed migraine. Tricyclic antidepressants are normally used to diminish the headache, stabilize the appetite, restore sleep and improve the mood. The sufferer does become well, and those cells that are responsible for creating the migraine are broken from their shackles and freed to work on their next migraine. The situation plays out often. Migraine victims will experience intermissions of ordinary migraines and intermissions of a transformed migraine during their lives and their intervals of depression, since depression and migraines seem to get on very well with one another.
