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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - the hardest part for me is that I’ve had about a total of 20 migraines over a span of 25 years, yet I think about them every day. I obsess about them. Sometimes after I go a year or two without one I will start to forget about it, and even though I think about it a little bit every day, I don’t obsess. But coming off of one it really sends me into a spiral of this OCD like thinking. So it’s not even the migraine itself that is ruining my life. It’s the thoughts that come with it.[/quote]

You need to find a doctor to help treat you with that anxiety.  It's not really the migraines that are the problem.  But find a neuro that specializes in headaches and see if he can help.  I ended up taking Topamax and carrying Imitrex--and it helps with the anxiety part too.[/quote]

Stop with the anxiety nonsense and dismissing them.[/quote]

PP is not saying the OP's migraines aren't happening. They are saying that the anxiety caused by anticipation of a migraine is more debilitating for OP than the migraines themselves, given how infrequent they are. And PP is right. Look at the OP's own words: "...it's not even the migraine itself that is ruining my life. It's the thoughts that come with it".

OP needs help to stop worrying about migraines and catastrophizing about what will happen if one occurs. I have gotten migraines with aura for 20 years. Frequency has ranged from monthly, to once or twice a year, to multiple in a week. Hormones are a big trigger for me, so perimenopause has led to a significant increase over years past. I understand what OP is saying about any little visual disturbance making you freak out that one is coming, because the auras start out so subtle. You have a few minutes where you are just kind of frozen waiting to see if it persists and expands over your visual field. I am definitely getting that feeling lately because of such a large uptick in frequency. But the level of anxiety OP is describing is not normal and needs to be addressed separately from any migraine treatment.

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No, she doesn’t. You are lucky yours are mild.  I never leave home with a triptan. It’s very normal. [/quote]

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