What a typical migraine aura looks like. A C-shaped dark form facing in the direction of its choice, replete with shimmering gold zig-zags.

The return of the migraine.

I sometimes think that the more a migraine sufferer prevents an episode, the more it comes back to get rid of itself. It is almost like it has to happen for some clearing out of a buildup. Is it electrical impulses? Stress? Does it manifest as anxiety one minute and a headache the next? I know! Let’s blame it on the government! The fires in the Amazon! The changing climate! You know the list.

I had never been a big vaper and certainly what I was “vaping” was nothing like what we’ve been seeing in the news. On the occasion that I vape Medical Marijuana, the product is strictly produced by known companies. The CW (Charlotte’s Web) vape also comes in a little stick and never produces the vast cumulonimbus clouds we see on the news after another vaper is afflicted, or worse. I have taught myself not to inhale and on the few occasions I make use of a stick in hopes of fending off an ocular migraine, I hold the vapor in my mouth and work it up through my nose.

In short, I stick with oil.

I had used the self-injected AIMOVIG for over a year, beginning with the lower dose and feeling the need for a greater one, hence it was doubled. It never provided a cure but the frequency of ocular migraine was reduced significantly and vertigo was gone. To have everything suddenly return to about a dozen episodes in the month was significant, and the return of the dizziness, which I had hoped was a thing of the past, made me feel very insecure and vulnerable. I remind myself, however, that at the high point of this insane condition, I could have one visual migraine or more in a day; things have improved.

So, I informed my headache doctor and his physician’s assistant, and approval was gotten for another self-injected drug, “Historically, many migraine preventive medicines were designed for other conditions. Emgality was specifically developed to bind to CGRP, a substance in the brain that may play a key role in migraine, and block its binding to the receptor.”

In short, who the hell knows, but I will give this one a try. And I will keep trying.

The first of the series on CBD oil/medical marijuana, begins here.

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