{"id":968,"date":"2019-11-25T21:11:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2020-08-11T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:44:42","slug":"migraine-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themigrainediet.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Migraine Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year I went months (months!) without suffering a migraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respite, relief and disbelief were my experience in those months and I eventually began to feel like a \u2018regular\u2019 person; making plans, going out alone, having a social life. And, if I didn\u2019t know what it is like to live with migraine, I might have said, \u201c Great! Look at you go. Now you can do everything you\u2019ve ever wanted.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because what never left me during those migraine-free months, was fear; the fear of suffering a surprise migraine and of being caught off-guard while I was out enjoying the world. I lived every day on edge, fearing the migraine that could be just around the corner, believing (knowing) I needed to be wary, on the look-out for prodromal signs and making sure I didn\u2019t \u2018over-do it\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the months passed and I became more confident in my newfound migraine-free lifestyle, I became aware of how much my life had become surrounded by, and guided by, fear. I recognized the enormous number of daily (hourly) calculations I was making to manage fear, and I started to wonder if it was all necessary. I wondered too, if I was negatively affecting my health. Had I been overreacting to this condition called migraine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And whereas I had the self-awareness to ask these questions of myself, I\u2019ve not yet found any hard answers. Because once that streak-breaking migraine hit and the magical respite I\u2019d been having from migraine ended, I remembered: the fear IS REAL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m afraid of the incapacitation caused by migraine, the helplessness, the pain. The fear of all these things is real and, for now, it\u2019s still with me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So each day, I am sure to make time for coping. I make time to see beyond the fear and migraine that live with me and I remind myself that these things- powerful as they are- cannot and must not overwhelm my identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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