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I'm sorry. I feel like it's hard to have this while working and studying. Recently, I've started getting headaches. They're not severe enough to be called a migraine, but also not so mild that they don't make me cry or lie there miserably. They occur every day or every other day and can sometimes last up to six hours. My doctor is inclined to believe they're stress-related. I have no way to kill the stress. Stalemate.
I also suffer from partial blindness during migraines. I usually use ice but it's hard when I'm outside cuz I can't lie down or sleep, which is my main coping strategyI am right there with you. Nobody believes me when I tell them I didn't realize that having headaches ALL the time was not normal until I was in college, living in the dorm. My room mate actually started crying when she "caught" her first migraine. She thought she was dying. I was like "Ehhhh, can you still see??" I don't know which one of us was more traumatized -- her to find out that she was probably gonna have to deal with migraines from then on out or me to find out NOBODY else felt like I did.
I am SO sorry you are dealing with these things. They are brutal -- even when it is just a "little" one.
I'm guessing you have already tried all the traditional Rxs?? Does ketamine help any at all?? When I am at my worst, I will literally be blind in my right eye. All I can do at that point is lay down in a pitch black room (not even my phone turned upside down or a alarm clock that is back lit), put an ice pack on the back of my head (on my occipital area), and other one over my eyes, take ALL the pain meds I have a script for -- and a couple I do not -- and go to sleep. That will usually break it and get me back down to a dull roar.
Again, I am truly sorry. I wouldn't wish this shit off on my worst enemy.
Oh gosh I hope the propanolol works for you. I have never found anything that actually works for me -- but then a lot of my issues are from congenital defects and/or the result if physical injuries as opposed to hormonal issues so ...
At least what little opioids they give me keeps the hard edge away -- otherwise I would have left this place a LONG, LONG time ago. I don't understand pro-lifers and there "it will always get better" bs ... Nope, nope. No, it won't. Not for some of us anyway. 
Oh gosh ... I'm really sorry. And you are so right -- I cannot tell you how many times I've heard "it's just a headache" or "you don't look sick" ... Apparently there is some unwritten rules somewhere that I didn't get a copy of. Rules about how you are supposed to look and act when you are sick.
People can be really insensitive.
Thank you :) Apparantly it's meant to stop my migraines altogether but I dont have much hope. I'm really sorry to hear about your health issues, they sound truly awful. I'm glad your opioids work thoughOh gosh I hope the propanolol works for you. I have never found anything that actually works for me -- but then a lot of my issues are from congenital defects and/or the result if physical injuries as opposed to hormonal issues so ...
