Doing things on automatic lately, wondering why?

[mkh9]

Hi, I am 54 year old women and have migraine with aura. I take Klonopin, at night plus low dose (10mg) amitriptyline and 75mg of Trokendi XR (topirmate).  I have been Klonopin for 20 years for vomiting due to migriane at night, the other two are to control vertigo, double vision and flying lights that I got a couple years ago due to migraine. My MRI, Ear test etc all negative. I have a neurologist and ENT who checked all that out. Recently, I have been doing things and then finding out I did them without knowing. For example this morning I went to get my gym shoes and found they weren't there and then I looked around and found I already put them out. This kind of thing has been happening for about a month or two once in a while or more frequently lately. I wondering if it is a drug thing making me tired or has anyone had anything like this or am I getting dementia? What is going on? I am a microbiologist and have been unemployed for 10 years due to a back problem then tendonitis etc. and I still keep up my continuing education etc. Read a lot on the internet. Just noticed this odd thing going.  I will tell my doctor but wanted to hear what you all think.
mkh9

[ArisStavy]

I suffered from classic migraines for 15 years and by shear coincidence found a cure for my migraines.

What is important is that you do suffer from the classic type of migraine  :  Do you get the early warning bell : which is an aura or spots, which then progress to numbness in the face, then nausea  and finally an intense head ache where you cannot face any sort of light, and need to rest in a state of darkness.  I used to lock my self in a cupboard seeking complete darkness.

So I tried all sorts of doctors, medication , even the headache clinic, and nothing helped.  I used to play soccer, and I was just out of the army, playing a game of soccer .  We had just started, I was on the field when I started getting the "spots", I new I had to get off the field as I had about 30 minutes before I would experience the worst migraine. By this stage I experienced about 3 migraines a week.

Co-incidentally as the spots arrived, I also felt like sneezing, and what I normally do when I get the urge to sneeze, is look into a bright light, this helps the sneeze come quickly.  So I naturally glanced at the sun for about 3 or 4 seconds.

This made me sneeze, but what it also did is made my spots go away.  So here I am waiting for my migraine to come but it never came.

I thought this was weird as I would always get a migraine after the spots.  I put 2 and 2 together and realized that staring at a bright light may have caused this.

So I waited for the next migraine to arrive, a day or so later.  The minute I got the early warning spots/or aura, I ran outside and stared at the sun for 3 or 4 seconds, looked away, stared again, looked away, and I think I tried it again for 2 or 3 seconds, and noticed that the spots went away. To my utter joy, once again the migraine did not develop.  So for the next couple of months I realized if I stared at the sun by day, or at a bright light at night, just when the spots arrived, it would stop my migraine dead in its tracks.  The important thing was to do this the minute I saw the spots/aura.  If I was too late, the migraine would develop.

It's funny the, irony is that bright light really affects you when you have a migraine, who would think that bright light is what causes a chemical reaction in your head to stop the migraine from happening.

After doing this for about 1 year, my migraines completely disappeared, I never even got the spots.

I am not a health professional, and this cure may seem ludicrous, as we all know that staring at the sun can cause damage to your eyes.  For me, my migraines were so extreme, that I was happy to glance at the sun for a couple of seconds, knowing that my migraine would not develop. So you can try this, or leave it, but if you do decide to try this, please ensure that you do it the moment you get the spots or aura, you have to catch it the second you get the early start of it.

[mkh9]

As I mentioned on the other post you should never look directly into the sun you can damage your retina and cause blindness. Try looking into another source of light. As for me light triggers my migraines. Even a sparkle on the street or any type of light can trigger them. So for me it doesn't work.
mkh9