I am very thankful to have relatively good health. I had some health problems in the spring and early–problems severe enough that I feared I would become unable to work. I saw my whole life turn upside down for several weeks. I missed several days of work and worked despite feeling terrible on several other days.
Thanks to good medical treatment, I am doing quite well now. I have bad days, but nothing as bad as the days I suffered in April, May and June.
For those who do not know or do not remember, I have atypical migraine. Rather than getting the classic migraine headache, I get vertigo, nausea, tinnitus, and loss of hearing. I sometimes get other migraine symptoms, including the throbbing headache, but each episode varies. I have had these symptoms off and on for fifteen years without knowing what was wrong and without getting a correct diagnosis.
Now I know how to prevent the attacks, and have had pretty good success in doing so. I also am blessed to have found a drug that aborts the attacks if they become full blown.
I have not missed a day of work so far this autumn. For that I am very thankful.
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