A Warning to users of Excedrin!!

I started this blog in the hopes of saving others from the living hell that I have come to know as Transformed Migraines.

It all started with a few headaches a week from the stresses of school. Nothing seemed to work except for Excedrin migraine - at first. Eventually one pill every 3-4 days became one to two pills a day, and now I suffer from chronic daily headaches, also known as transformed migraines.

According to healthcentral.com:

Patients with Transformed Migraine often share these characteristics:

• A history of episodic Migraine beginning in their teens or twenties.
• Most are women, 90% of whom have a history of Migraine with aura.
• Medication overuse.

The process of transformation is often characterized by:

• Migraine attacks that became more frequent over a period of months or years.
• These attacks were accompanied by phonophobia, photophobia, and nausea, but these symptoms became less severe and less frequent.

Characteristics of Transformed Migraine:

• A pattern of daily or almost daily headaches that seem to be a mixture of tension-type headaches and Migraine attacks.
• Pain that drops in severity to mild to moderate.
• Pain isn't always accompanied by phonophobia, photophobia, or nausea.
• Other Migraine symptoms may persist including unilateral pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, and aggravation by other triggers.