My Migraine Story
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the creator discusses their personal experience with migraines, highlighting the importance of Migraine and Headache Awareness Month in June. They share their journey from first experiencing migraines to discovering the trigger was their birth control. The video serves as a cautionary tale against self-diagnosing and emphasizes the need for medical advice, offering insights into the debilitating nature of migraines and the importance of seeking professional help.
Takeaways
- 📈 The video creator uses AdSense earnings to purchase a ring light, enhancing video production quality.
- 🌟 June is recognized as Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, prompting the video's focus on migraines.
- ⚠️ The video is a deviation from the usual archaeological content, aiming to raise awareness about migraines.
- 🏥 The creator emphasizes that the video is not for medical advice and urges viewers to consult professionals for medical concerns.
- 🤔 Migraines are described as severe, potentially disabling headaches, often with additional symptoms like nausea and light sensitivity.
- 🧬 The exact cause of migraines is unknown, but they are linked to environmental factors, stress, genetics, and hormonal changes.
- 🌐 Globally, about 15% of people suffer from migraines, with women being affected more frequently than men.
- 📜 The earliest description of migraine-like symptoms dates back to ancient Egypt, around 1500 BC.
- 🩺 The video shares a personal journey with migraines, including the experience of auras and the impact on daily life.
- 🚫 The creator warns against self-diagnosis via internet searches and the importance of seeking professional medical help for migraines.
- 💊 The video concludes with the discovery that the creator's migraines were triggered by birth control, leading to a change in medication.
Q & A
What is the new addition to the set mentioned by the speaker?
-The new addition to the set is a ring light, which helps the speaker avoid depending on the weather for proper lighting.
Why did the speaker choose to make this video during June?
-The speaker made this video during June because it is Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, making it an appropriate time to discuss migraines.
What is the primary goal of the video according to the speaker?
-The primary goal of the video is to raise awareness about migraine symptoms and to encourage viewers to seek professional medical help if they experience migraines. The video is not meant to offer medical advice.
How does the speaker describe migraines?
-Migraines are described as severe headaches that often incapacitate people. They typically affect one side of the head, are pulsating in nature, and can last from a few hours to a few days. Additional symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, and sensitivities to light, sound, or smell.
What does the term 'aura' mean in relation to migraines?
-An 'aura' refers to a period of visual disturbance that can act as a warning sign before a migraine occurs. About one-third of migraine sufferers experience auras.
What was the speaker’s initial reaction to their first migraine experience?
-The speaker initially dismissed their first migraine, thinking it was just a bad headache or a leftover symptom from a recent cold. They didn't seek medical attention and continued working despite the pain.
What pattern did the speaker notice in their migraine occurrences?
-The speaker noticed that their migraines followed a monthly pattern, with one migraine occurring in May, one in June, and two in October. The frequency increased in November and December.
What event prompted the speaker to finally seek medical help for their migraines?
-The speaker sought medical help after experiencing three migraines in one week in early December, which prompted them to make an appointment with a doctor.
What did the doctor suggest as a potential cause of the speaker’s migraines?
-The doctor suggested that the speaker’s migraines could be triggered by their birth control, specifically the dual-hormone pill they had been taking. Hormone changes can trigger migraines, and the doctor advised the speaker to stop taking the pill immediately.
What advice does the speaker give to people who experience migraines?
-The speaker advises anyone who experiences migraines to seek medical help immediately, rather than ignoring the symptoms or relying on internet searches for medical information.
Outlines
💡 Introduction to Migraine Awareness
The speaker introduces a video deviating from their usual archaeological content to discuss migraines, motivated by June being Migraine and Headache Awareness Month. They clarify that the video is not for medical advice but to raise awareness about migraine symptoms. The speaker defines migraines, mentioning their debilitating nature and additional symptoms like nausea and light sensitivity. They note the uncertainty around causes but mention environmental, stress, and genetic factors, as well as hormonal changes, which disproportionately affect women.
🌐 Historical and Personal Context of Migraines
The video script delves into the historical context of migraines, citing ancient Egyptian descriptions and the Greek origin of the term. The speaker then shares a personal anecdote from Easter 2017, detailing the first experience of a migraine with an aura, which they initially mistook for an eye floater. They recount the headache's intensity and how it was dismissed by themselves and others as not requiring immediate medical attention, reflecting a common but misguided approach to such symptoms.
🚑 Escalation and Medical Consultation
The narrative continues with the speaker's experience of migraines becoming more frequent and severe, leading to a panic attack and a visit to the emergency room, fearing a stroke. Despite the scare, tests at the hospital came back normal, and the speaker was advised to see their GP. The GP linked the migraines to the speaker's birth control, which contained hormones that could increase the risk of migraines and blood clots. The speaker was advised to stop the medication and was prescribed preventative treatment for migraines.
💪 Overcoming Migraines and Advocacy
In the final paragraph, the speaker expresses relief after their migraines ceased following the change in birth control. They reflect on the newfound empathy for those with chronic migraines and urge viewers to be supportive rather than dismissive. The speaker concludes with a call to action for viewers to seek medical help promptly if they experience migraines and to engage in Migraine and Headache Awareness Month activities. They also invite viewers to follow them on social media for more content.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Migraine
💡Adsense
💡Aura
💡Archaeological content
💡Disability
💡Hormones
💡Birth control
💡Mini pill
💡Medical professional
💡Panic attack
Highlights
Introduction of a new ring light funded by Adsense earnings, enhancing video production quality.
Announcement of a video deviation from regular archaeological content to raise awareness about migraines and headaches.
Clarification that the video is for awareness, not medical advice, and a disclaimer about the presenter's qualifications.
Description of migraines as severe headaches that can incapacitate individuals and are considered a disability.
Migraines are often accompanied by additional symptoms like nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light, sound, or smell.
Migraines are believed to be linked to environmental factors, stress, genetics, and hormonal changes.
Globally, about 15% of people suffer from migraines, with women affected two to three times more than men.
Historical context: the earliest description of migraine-like symptoms dates back to ancient Egypt around 1500 BC.
Etymology of the word 'migraine' from the Greek word 'hemicrania', meaning pain on half of the head.
Personal account of the presenter's first migraine experience in 2017, mistaking it for a sinus infection.
Recognition of 'auras' as visual disturbances that precede migraines in about a third of sufferers.
The presenter's initial dismissal of migraines as a serious medical issue and the delay in seeking medical attention.
Description of the pattern of migraines increasing in frequency and severity over time.
Urgent advice to seek medical help immediately if experiencing sudden or frequent migraines.
The presenter's panic attack and hospital visit due to a fear of having a stroke, triggered by internet research.
The discovery that the presenter's birth control medication was likely the cause of her migraines.
Recommendation to switch to a different form of birth control to manage migraines and the subsequent relief.
A call to action for viewers to be sympathetic and supportive towards those suffering from migraines.
Encouragement for those experiencing migraines to seek medical help early and not delay treatment.
Transcripts
hey everybody welcome back to my channel
we have a new addition to the set
today which i can't really show you
because it's behind the camera
but thanks to the adsense money that
i've made for my videos i now have a
ring light
ooh fancy which is really nice to have
because it means that i don't have to
depend on the weather
outside to film videos so that my
lighting doesn't put me like
half in shadow today's video is going to
be a deviation from my regular
archaeological content
i've been thinking about making this
video for a while and
since june is actually migraine and
headache awareness month
i thought that now would be an
appropriate time to do so before i even
get into it i want to be clear
that me putting up this video is not me
asking for people's medical opinions
and is not meant to provide any kind of
medical advice or guidance
to anyone watching the intent is more to
provide
awareness of the symptoms of a migraine
and to and to help you recognize the
symptoms
and that it is time to go seek help from
a medical professional
please do not base your medical
decisions for yourself
upon what i have done slash did
and do not ask me in the comments
you know i'm having this situation what
should i do etc
my only response to those kinds of
comments will be go see a doctor because
i am not qualified to answer those
questions for you
so migraines what are they chances are
that you either
know someone who has them or you've had
them yourself usually i think people
would describe migraines as
a severe headache that can often
incapacitate people
it actually does qualify as a disability
because they are so bad that you cannot
really
work through them according to wikipedia
migraines typically affect
one side or one part of your head and
they are pulsating in nature
and they can last from a couple hours to
a couple
days they also sometimes have additional
symptoms like
nausea vomiting and sensitivities to
light sound or smell
we don't exactly know what causes them
to happen to some people and
and not others but people are fairly
confident that it's something
to do with things like your environment
and stress as well as genetic factors
changing levels and hormones also seems
to play
a part in giving people migraines as
women tend to be affected two to three
times more than men
and our hormone levels as some of you
may know tend to go up and down a bit
more
the underlying mechanisms of migraines
aren't fully known
but we do know that it is involving the
nerves and blood vessels within your
brain
across the world about 15 of people
suffer from migraines and it is suffer
my two archaeological facts that i'm
going to squeeze into this video
is that our earliest description of
migraine-like symptoms comes from
ancient egypt
written in a papyrus that was written
around 1500 bc
so around 3 500 years ago the word
migraine
comes from the greek word hemicrania i'm
not sure if i'm saying that right
which translates to pain and half of the
head so very descriptive
so now that we kind of know what
migraines are how does this all apply to
me personally
let's time travel back to easter
2017. i was working in
lincoln in england where i was provided
with 24 7
accommodation for work but my life
itself was still very much
based in edinburgh my partner was there
and i was still paying rent for a flat
up there i was just working down south
for a period of time after the long
weekend for easter
i had come down with a cold which took
me out for about two days
on the day that i was coming back to
work i was feeling much better
obviously and i vividly remember as we
were driving to site at 6
30 in the morning that we were driving
into the sun and all of a sudden i got
what i would call like a sunspot but is
also known as like an eye floater
in my eyes and so because we were
driving into the sun it wasn't
exactly that unusual so i like tried
closing my eyes and stuff like that and
like blinking a couple times to get rid
of it
but it wouldn't go away i remember
thinking like that's kind of weird
but i just dismissed it ignored it and
eventually it
went away i got to work and i started my
day digging and shortly afterwards i got
this
killer headache right behind
one of my eyes i can't exactly remember
which i think it was this one
it kind of felt almost like a headache
that you get during a sinus infection
where this was
like intense pressure in your head
except it wasn't just like when i looked
down but it was definitely worse than
any of the headaches i've had when i've
had sinus infections it was and i would
have categorized it as a time as like
the worst headache i had
it definitely slowed me down but because
i had just come off of sick leave
i wasn't really eager to take more sick
days and i thought it was just maybe
left over
from that so i just kept working after
like an hour or two i think it went away
and then around one of our breaks i was
chatting to my co-workers and i was
saying oh yeah i got this really bad
headache today
and i was describing it and one of my
co-workers said oh
you just had a migraine and i was like
what
i've never had one of those before how
can i just like suddenly have a migraine
i also learned that the sun spot that i
had seen in my eye while on the drive-in
was actually an
aura which is a period of
visual disturbance that like warns you
that you're about to get
a migraine and about a third of the
people that suffer from migraines get
these
the co-worker who alerted me to the fact
that i had a migraine was somebody who
regularly got migraines and so he was
just kind of saying oh yeah like people
get them and
nobody really knows why or what causes
them etc
it was a very like casual response not
like oh that's that's wrong you need to
go
see a doctor immediately later that
evening i also spoke to my partner
who when i told him about it had a very
similar response
saying you know you know oh it's just a
migraine like he had a migraine
years ago that i think actually
incapacitated him for a day and then
never had one again
we had a friend who had a migraine that
was so bad one time
he got like sent for an mri or something
like that this kind of like response
that i got to me didn't signal that this
was a
medical situation that i immediately
needed to deal with additionally
i hadn't registered at a gp or doctor in
lincoln when i'd
kind of moved there for work i still had
a doctor up in edinburgh who
obviously doesn't work on the weekends
which was when i was usually visiting
edinburgh
and i wasn't keen to waste like an
evening going to like a hospital or a
walk-in clinic in lincoln
to just be told that like oh yeah you
had a migraine there's nothing we can
really do
this was a hundred percent not the right
thing to do
and a bad idea do not brush it off
like i did if you suddenly have a
migraine out of nowhere or you start
having migraines
go see a doctor immediately after i
decided like oh yeah this isn't really
something i need to bother with
i proceeded with my life i had a
migraine in may
another one in june so they seem to be
doing like a bit of a monthly pattern
then i went three months without any at
all and then
i got two in october about two weeks
apart
very much remember one of them because
it took me out when i was in the midst
of cooking my canadian thanksgiving
dinner that i was gonna serve to some
friends that evening
which was very inconvenient because i
couldn't just like stop
cooking but thankfully it went away
before
my dinner was served and so everything
turned out okay
every time i had a migraine i had an
aura precede it which was very helpful
retrospectively because it kind of gave
me enough time to realize what was
happening
like pack up at work like tell my boss i
was going home sick and usually gave me
enough time to go home
my way of dealing with them was very
typical for a lot of people i would go
home
and go into a dark room and attempt to
sleep for a couple hours which usually
got rid of it
i might have taken like ibuprofen or
like paracetamol or like a minor
headache medication but i don't really
remember
but typically i think on the scale of
migraines mine were pretty minor
the later on episodes when i started
having more of them
i did started getting nausea but i never
got the vomiting which is good and while
i was somewhat sensitive to light it
wasn't like as bad as i've heard it
being for other people
so i had two migraines in october i had
two migraines in
november and then in very early december
i had three within the space of one week
at this point i was living back in
edinburgh full time i wasn't in lincoln
anymore
and this increase in the amount of
migraines i was getting
basically gave me the kick up the butt
to make an appointment to speak to my
doctor
i think that i would have called my
doctor on a tuesday after i had the
third migraine
and i got an appointment for the
thursday and then
hit the proverbial fan excuse my
french
so i will admit that i am a bit of a
warrior and
in between when i made my doctor's
appointment and when i actually had the
appointment
i made the carnal mistake of
looking up my symptoms on the internet
specifically
like an increase or a change in the
pattern of how often you get migraines
do not do this do not do what i did
instead
speak to an actual medical professional
don't look stuff up on the internet it's
never helpful
i don't know what search term i put in
exactly but what i basically got back
was a bunch of pages talking about the
connection between
migraines and strokes so basically from
reading that stuff
i got it into my head that this increase
in the amount of migraines i was getting
that was my body telling me that i was
like about to have a stroke
which was terrifying especially since at
that point in time
i had absolutely no idea what was
triggering them like i said they've gone
on and off
and there wasn't like any specific thing
that i could pinpoint
that had caused them to have to start
happening i did have
a family history of migraines my
grandmother
got them but my mom doesn't but that
itself was like quite tenuous and it
just didn't make sense to me that i
would start getting them at like 28
29 when i had never had them before
previously in my life
fast forward to wednesday evening fast
forward to wednesday evening so like the
night before my doctor's appointment my
partner and i were
driving to the grocery store to do our
weekly show on the way there
i got an aura which based on
my bad internet search put me into
a full-on panic attack which i i'd never
had before in my life this was the
fourth one that i'd had in a week
and so i just convinced myself basically
that like i was about to have a stroke
so while my partner was driving i was on
the
phone with like the nhs i don't know if
i called like
the emergency hotline or like the
24-hour medical hotline there are two
different things
but i was speaking to an operator on the
phone who was asking me about my
symptoms while we were in the car
and that's when my panic attack made it
so that
i started having trouble speaking so
like she was asking me stuff and i just
like couldn't
get the words out i couldn't even really
think of them i couldn't say them i was
stuttering when i was trying to put
words
out so again this only like reinforced
to me the idea that i was like
having a stroke because speech problems
are one of the classic signs of someone
having a stroke the operator basically
said
okay you need to go to a hospital just
to make sure that you're okay
there's no point in sending an ambulance
because you're already in a car drive to
the nearest hospital
so my partner put it into gear drove us
he himself was quite scared as well but
he did very well under pressure
um once we got to
the emergency room we registered and
spoke to some staff and i described what
was going on
i think the lady the operator had like
called ahead to warn them that i was
coming
but i think when i got to the emergency
room it
became clear probably quite quickly that
i wasn't actually having a stroke i
walked in
under my own power like you know i
didn't have half of my body just like
peace out i was able to speak a bit more
and
the longer i was there the more and the
more that like i calmed down
the better i got despite this they did
check me out anyway and did like a bunch
of like heart rate tests and all this
kind of stuff we were there for a couple
hours
which kind of reassured me that i wasn't
imminently about to have a stroke so
like
yay for publicly funded healthcare
getting to the hospital kind of
reassured me that even if i was having a
stroke
i was going i was somewhere where i
could get taken care of and like not die
so i calmed down which meant that all of
my tests came back fine
and the hospital sent me home but said
obviously like keep your appointment
with your doctor the next day to talk
about a bit more in depth the next day
i went to my appointment with my gp i
gave her the full story including what
had happened the night before
and the first thing that she asked me
after i finished was
what kind of birth control you were on
which at the time was the
dual hormone pill called seasonal which
is
estrogen and progesterone and you take
it so that
you only get your period four times a
year like on a quarterly basis rather
than a monthly basis
and i had been on it since i was like 19
so almost
like a decade by that point when i told
her this she said to immediately
stop taking my pill as those of you who
have taken the pill you will know that
one of the potential side effects is an
increased risk of strokes and blood
clots
and as we said at the beginning hormones
and changing hormone
levels are one of the things that could
potentially cause migraines so yeah so
she told me to immediately
stop taking my pill and she also gave me
a prescription
for medication that i could take when i
started getting an aura which
if i took it in time should either make
it so the migraine didn't happen at all
or that it
was like drastically reduced from how
bad it could be
so going out of that appointment i i did
what she said i got my medication
i stopped my pill and my migraine
stopped a week later
i started the mini pill which is a
single hormone birth controls uh it only
uses progesterone
not estrogen and now i actually have the
single hormone implant
in my bicep which means i don't have to
like take a pill or anything
which is completely separate but like
highly highly recommend that
i had one like kind of residual migraine
about a month later in january but since
then
i haven't had a single migraine so
that's about four years
this would make it seem that the thing
that was triggering my migraines
was my birth control which is something
that
is a bit weird because like i said i've
been on that for
quite a long time and somehow it just
like suddenly
changed and it didn't like me anymore
i'm
incredibly grateful that my migraines
are stopped and i dread the day
that i may or may not ever get them
again i can't describe
how deflating and defeating it felt when
i got that residual migraine in january
because to me that was like oh no
we got rid of one trigger but they're
not completely gone but luckily since
then i've been okay
i wouldn't necessarily wish a migraine
on anybody
but having them definitely gave me a new
appreciation
and respect for people who do suffer
from like chronic migraines
i've heard people dismiss them as like
they're just like oh they're just a bad
headache like what's the big deal you
know you're making
a big deal out of nothing which is not
something anybody would say if they'd
had
a migraine so the next time someone you
know has a migraine
be sympathetic not a skeptic and if you
ever have a migraine
go see your doctor sooner rather than
later don't be stupid like me
and wait months it's not entirely likely
that if i had gone to see a doctor right
away i wouldn't have had
anything beyond that first migraine
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it's an uphill battle i'll be frank
thank you so much for watching guys and
i'll see you next time bye
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