Opening Thoughts

What does it take to turn this:

into this?

No this isn't a crappy white girl attempt to look like a rapper. 

I have been living with chronic headaches for around 6 years now. It started when I was in college. Their frequency and intensity has fluctuated greatly over the years, but I don't usually go many days without them. The cause is still unknown, as is the cure. I have been working with a good doctor but we're still skipping around from treatment to treatment trying to find something that even affects the headache cycle. 

I'm currently in a 2-month long migraine marathon. I haven't gone a day without a headache in this time period, and I'm in physical therapy to deal with the toll chronic pain has taken on the muscles in my neck, shoulders, and spine.  It does seem to be helping. We recently tried amitriptyline (prevention) for the 2nd time, but it made me groggy all the time so I had to stop. Midrin worked for a while (abortive) but eventually gave me rebound headaches. Just about every pain killer known to man has made me miserably nauseated and most lead to vomiting. Today I'm starting Topamax (Topiramate) for prevention and Relpax (eletriptan HBr) as abortive treatment. So many fun things to spell lol. I'm planning on seeing a specialist in the near future, once I try a few more things with my doctor. I will be posting more later about the daily experience of chronic headaches.

Read Webmd.com's descriptions of the different kinds of headaches. 

I just started keeping a headache journal.