I was diagnosed with migraine a few years ago. At the time it was completely managable. The migraines were few and far between. Triggered by weather changes mainly - snow, bright sun, thunder and lightening.
Another trigger was work. I work in care and sometimes they want me to stay over in work. This often involves going into work on a regular day and staying over night where I do have a bed. However sometimes I would not be allowed a night's sleep. Go to bed late due to working late and maybe being risen from about 4 or 5. Doing another day's work.
I probably should have given up and looked into a different job.
Back then migraines were about once every 2 or 3 months and completely managable.
Over the past few months, migraines has increased 10 fold for me. Now about 2 or 3 a week.
This is all down to pure hard solid stress that I am amazed hasn't killed me yet.
My work can still be demanding. That is just my physical role. My work has me studying an online course and all in all I would say 65% of my time is spent on work or college. My mother is also likely going senile and I have family home from abroad that is on pure holiday mode. In contrast I am being worked into the ground and likely an very early grave. There is just so much stress.
Migraines for me feels like a hammer to one side of my head and a vice crushing down on top of my head. It is so so so painful and feels like I am going to explode. I can still manage somewhat ok but it does take me about 3 or 4 days to really recover. That's usually just a few days of feeling hungover without drinking.
The recent increase it's all pure hard solid stress with no support. To make things worse, my mother's condition I strongly suspect she's going senile but it's not presenting ina typical manners with memory loss but it's more behavioural, emotional and just pure crazy. There's no support because she's not a little old lady forgetting where she lives.
My life is hell.
I haven't had a day off since June and a day off looks unlikely. I had to ignore some of my friends because I just don't have time for them.
I recently had a spell in work where it was two weeks live in too.