Posted by bookgurl99 on December 22, 2002, at 0:34:06
In reply to Re: Brain fog, posted by michael73 on December 21, 2002, at 14:14:03
> I wonder if obsessive thoughts are just fooling me into thinking that sinus pressure is a feeling actually inside my brain.
Actually, if it _is_ migraine, it _is_ in your brain -- or rather your vascular system in your brain. It sounds nutty, but I feel a sensation in a specific location in my forehead -- now I realize it's from vein activity. Sometimes I also get what I call 'dot headaches,' a little pain spot somewhere in my head, but not bad.
If you do any search on migraine, you can see that migraine causes numerous symptoms. I've even become very hyper from them.
OCD, though, does make us obsess about things. I really obsessed on this, got an MRI, the whole deal. Went from doctor to doctor. Most docs look at your psych history and write off symptoms. I finally saw a _neurologist_, not a gp, and he figured it out right away. :D
>I was just getting ready to ask my grandmother to more closely describe a migraine. Migraines run in my family on one side
As for the family connection, my twin (fraternal) gets them _with_ pain, but we can be treated the same way.
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