Salt

I love it when there is a simple answer to a ginormous problem.  It feels miraculous.  Maybe as close to a miracle as I will experience in my life.  (Although I will admit that during my 14 month remission of symptoms, I felt overjoyed most of the time.)  Before I began taking one of the drugs prescribed to me in 2005 to see if it would help, I think I had maybe 4 migraines in my life.  I remember one very clearly.  It came on because of hunger.  I wasn't seeing a neurologist then and was otherwise healthy, so because it wasn't a ginormous problem, I didn't feel any real suffering from it.  Well, after the drug Neurontin, gabapentin is the generic equivalent, it is the second most debilitating of all my symptoms.  I was only on it for a one month trial.  During that one month, I had a migraine almost every day.  It was September and of the 30 days, at least 24 of them were spent in splitting pain so unbearable as to put me in bed, all day, each time.  I called the doctor twice during the month saying, this side effect is too much, and like all the other months, he asked me to please stay with it for at least one month.  He said that my body might still adjust, adapt to the medicine.  Hang in there, he said.  He was one of the more compassionate doctors I had.  He was working with me in trying to find a medicine, an anti-seizure medicine, that would calm my nerves down.  So, we tried several.  I would titrate up, stay on it for a month if I could, and then titrate back off.  I think I did that for eight months or so.  This was one of those experiments.  And it changed my life.  I think it changed the face of the condition I live in, as well.  Now, this is just me speaking but, I think it has rewired the trigger for migraines to be so low and easily sprung, that I get them so often and so severely that they are one of the worst culprits of my fibro.  It's interesting because I know others who have fibro and don't suffer migraines.  Also, I know some folks who swear by their Neurontin.  It's crazy how we are each a feat of miraculous, supreme, exquisite human engineering.  So, it has been one constant battle to stay on top of my headaches.  In fact, I find them more debilitating than the physical pain.  I am on two preventative medicines, and have one rescue med that works most of the time.  But, some don't get caught and I still am left with an axe in my head and, well, etc.....

I stumbled upon something online which has already helped 3 times in 2 days.  Salt.  Specifically, pink Himalayan sea salt.  That kind of sea salt has a very high concentration of some certain minerals not found anywhere else and, they cure a migraine headache.  To think that something as simple as a teaspoon of salt in water with lemon can be my medicine, it is a miraculous feat.  It makes full sense to me, because every time I feel one coming on, I crave salty Tostitos.  I must need it.  My lil' inside Marie knows it. A remedy exists that is not put out by a pharmeceutical laboratory, does not have any side effects, is not expensive, feels wholesome, on which I can now count.  So, I will continue to take my prevention meds.  But, when I feel one coming, I will get to my salt and water as fast as I can.  And now, I have a backup med if the salt doesn't work.  I have a plan A AND a plan B.  How sweet is that?  Super delicious yummo sweetness.

I have true gratitude that the internet and all its many "do this, it will cure you" sites guided me to one that WORKS.  Gratitude for a plan B.