I'm sorry I haven't been blogging or reading blogs the last few days. I have had fibromyalgia with a migraine that has the pain radiating to my left dural sinus. A massive dose of perfume from about 10 different woman killed my on Saturday and I have been in constant pain ever since. I think it is finally easing to the point of being able to function but I am so tired that I don't want to do anything. Ah, well, such is the life with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
The problem is my neck and shoulders are hurting so much with tightness and trigger points that I think the tension on the muscles is causing my headache to worsen.
Although, some believe that it is a vascular problem.
Here's a little explanation of my chronic headache. Chronic primary headaches, including tension-type or migraines, are common in fibromyalgia patients. Some experts believe that migraine headaches and fibromyalgia may even share common defects in the systems that regulate certain neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain), including serotonin and epinephrine (commonly called adrenaline). Low levels of magnesium have also been noted in both fibromyalgia and migraine sufferers. In fact, chronic migraine sufferers who fail to benefit from usual therapies may also have fibromyalgia.
The term "migraine" refers to a syndrome of vascular spasms of the cranial blood vessels. Symptoms of a migraine attack may include heightened sensitivity to light and sound, nausea, auras (loss of vision in one eye or tunnel vision), difficulty of speech and intense pain predominating on one side of the head. You can check out the rest of the article here.
So that is about all I am writing until my head starts to recuperate. I am taking my magnesium, hoping that in time it will help. See you all soon, when I am up and on-line.
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