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[unixronin]

The bad news:  I just spent seven hours in the ER at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center with a blinding, skullsplitting migraine.  IV, CAT scan, spinal tap, vomiting, the works.  I had to have cymrullewes stop the car four times on the way home so that I could open the door to throw up.

The good news:  It wasn't either an aneurysm or meningitis.  The various tests found no organic cause.  (Which of course means we don't know what caused it.)

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[yndy.livejournal.com]

Oh my.

Clinical migraines run in the family here. My brother and my dad both swear by Imitrex, but it does nothing for me.
I had nocturnal seizures (always when I was sleeping, wouldn't 'wake up' until after the seizure) as a child - then they went away around puberty, and resurfaced as migraines (light, sound, motor) about 10 years ago.

But nothing that horrid of late!! You poor thing!

I'm glad it wasn't an aneurysm or meningitis - but sorry they couldn't finger a cause. Are they thinking about doing EEGs on you? I had dozens of those as a child - all I know is that putting electrodes all over an 8 year old's head, putting her in a gurney in the middle of a room, turning out the lights, and having 4 people watch her through a window? not the way to get her to "go to sleep dear, so the nice doctors can read your brainwave scan"...

Seriously - I hope they find something causal.

I do have a horrid recommendation for you tho - monitors can trigger optic migraines. Stay away from the computer for awhile hon.
Seriously.