Hi all,
I am a longtime sufferer of severe migraines. Have had them off and on since age 14 am now 42. The past 8 years have been a living hell with the past 3 worse than a living hell.
I have daily headaches, am lucky to have 1 day a week where I don't have some sort of pain. I can no longer work outside my home and absolutely hate it. I am to the point where I have no patience and am angry a lot of the time.
I applied for disability almost 2 years ago and I had to go thru being turned down twice and now I have a hearing to see if I can be approved. Does anyone on here get disability for these nasty life destroying creatures? If so, any advice on how to convince a judge that they are real and disabling?
It used to be that my migraines could be measured on a normal pain scale of 1-10, but in the last 3 years what used to be a 6 is now a 3 if that makes sense? My tolerance for pain has gone up due to necessity. I have tried so many treatments, drugs, pain meds, abortives, preventatives, chiro, massage therapy, physical therapy, accupuncture and so on to no avail. Meds help for a bit then after a few months they no longer work. Pain meds and ER visits help a couple times a year.
I am so sick of living with migraines and to make it worse I started having seizures this summer. Then in Oct I had 2 "seizures" in the same day and ended up in the ER for 8 hours unable to speak and was diagnosed as having had a TIA, but the EEG and the MRI showed no abnormalities. Well, I have had 3 more of these seizures since being in the ER but only 1 of them took my voice again.
Sorry this is so long, I am just desperate for help and getting disability will be a lifesaver in the regards that I can not afford to go to specialists and the ER. Not to mention the being unable to work and what that has done to my self esteem and my family!
Sorry again that this is so long.
Hope to hear from folks!