Hi All,
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first time to the forum and desperate for some advice please
All my this life I've been a headache person and lived through challenging periods with abdominal pain and heavy flow etc...
After the birth of my son in January 2012, I began to experience heavier periods, very bad abdominal pain (like miscarriage pain) and heavy bleeding plus what I and know now to be menstrual headaches which were dull and heavy and unrelentless(. These headaches came during ovulation and at the time of my period, on a good month – it might last hours, on a bad month... days. As I was working full time with two small kids, I ploughed on and got through by taking painkillers and eventually leveraged acupuncture and homeopathy and I got on with life.
Roll on to June 2016, on Day 8 of my cycle whilst at work, I experienced an awful headache and with it dizziness, nausea like never before, not to mention a monster of headache and imbalance when walking. Over the coming weeks, I visited some GP's and their assessment was vertigo, however my balance was severely affected and my GP sent me to a VRT specialist and after his assessment using equipment, goggles etc.. he suggested it was vestibcauseular migrane at the root cause of my imbalance, dizziness, headaches etc.... For 5 months, I was very debilitated with above and had ongoing headaches daily plus dizziness etc...
Almost 1 year plus on, I've made progress on the vestibular front hugely thanks to VRT and time and have good level of functioning overall and able to mind my children, drive etc. My sympthons currently are headache, dull and heavy over the monthly cycle and I have charted this in detail since October 2016 eg. dull, heavy headaches with heavy flow bleeds start Day 1 or Day 2, can last for 2 to 3 days, then I have what I call the ring of pain around my right eye which can be present daily at times and at times a sense that my eyes are going from left to right when I walk (only when I walk). Occasionally, I get nausea but normally after reading or a big walk. I then ge t headaches again day 14/15 and again day 21 and some months they start again approaching day 1 e.g. day 27 i will get a low level dull headache. My cycle is also varying e.g. 23 days in Feb and 31 days in July 2017. I can't get a break at all and feel I'm caught in a hormonal cycle of migraines.
my day 3 bloods this month are as follows:
fsh - 14 (range 3.03 - 8.08)
lh 5.5 (range1.8 - 11.78)
oestraiol 47 (range 77 - 921)
prolactin 198 (range 109 - ob557)
i'm very grateful for any advice please, I have an appointment with a neurologist and gyne in Sept & October.
hugs to all.
nin x