Before I have only really felt this way about my mental illnesses and weight, but with these severe daily migraines and associated severe vertigo I feel like I'm finally starting to understand what you and my fellow chronic physical illness sufferers have to deal with and it's AWFUL! I have a newfound respect for you going about your daily life as normal despite all the pain and suffering you have to deal with. Today I told Michael the vertigo was making me feel suicidal. Thank God extra Valium was enough to make the vertigo improve for now! I have a bad headache again, but I prefer that!
Just keep in mind that you really are strong enough and you really can get through it, even on the most awful, horrible days! A good friend told me, "Nothing here will kill you and sooner or later it will pass." I use that as a mantra whenever I experience migraines and vertigo, because when I am in the middle of a dizzying migraine, it is my whole world and it feels like forever. I need to repeat, over and over, that I am strong and that I will move through this, I will move past this, and it will end, and I will have relief, no matter how long it takes. It is very scary when it's happening. But I desperately cling to that mantra that it will be over soon - even if "soon" means hours later
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Thank you for the support! I was just getting very discouraged since the ER trip didn't help much and taking the medications from the GP and ER doctors as prescribed don't really help.
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