Body
You lose days at a time to migraines and you can name only some of the triggers.
You feel the migraine coming, with hours of warning or none. You go to a dark room and take what’s in your medication arsenal. You lose the rest of the day and sometimes the next one. You’ve tracked the triggers. You can name some of them. Many migraines arrive without any trigger you can identify.
You’re getting migraines because something has been loading your system. The triggers only have to spark what was already there.
You had another migraine.
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You very likely came out of a period in your life where you absorbed a load you’ve been carrying ever since. You may have grown up as the sensitive one, the child who picked up everyone else’s stress. You may have lived through something that didn’t get processed and your nervous system has been amplifying signals ever since. You may have spent years pushing through stress without rest, and your body has built its own way of stopping you when you don’t stop yourself.
You can reduce the triggers and that reduces frequency, but it leaves the load underneath in place. The preventives address the chemistry of the migraine and don’t reach the load. The same trigger that produces a migraine on a hard week produces nothing on a quiet one. The trigger sparks. What’s loaded is what makes it burn.
For the related tension pattern, see I have tension headaches .
You’re carrying a load. The migraine is what your body does when the load is too high. We work on the load.
Strategic therapy meets you at what loads you between attacks, alongside the neurology care and acute medication you already use. We bring your baseline down so the same trigger that produced a migraine on a hard week produces nothing on a normal one. You stop running at the threshold every day, and the frequency drops because the spark stops finding fuel.
You stop losing days. The calendar starts being yours again.
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