I'm able to quell my migraines for the first time, thanks to this medication

I've had migraines for 25 years, at times totally debilitating. Today is the first day I feel like that may be in my past.

I've suffered from migraines for nearly my entire adult life.

I've talked about it publicly from time to time, hoping to connect with other migraine sufferers, sharing our own coping mechanisms and “cocktails” that might help someone else. I feel fortunate that in the last 5-7 years they have come only a few times a year (in my 20s, it was as much as every 2-3 weeks).

When I was in my early 20s, and even into my 30s, every single one of my migraines was utterly debilitating. I would have to leave work due to the pain, exhaustion and disorientation they caused. My bosses rarely understood, telling me I just had to “power through” all of the symptoms, even though that was literally impossible.

About 10 years ago I settled on a "cocktail solution" — a pain-killing combination of hydrocodone, naproxen and caffeine that usually quelled 90-95% of the pain but didn't stop any of the other issues. On a day that I had a migraine, I knew I couldn't write an article — I literally couldn’t focus. And I came to realize that (THANKFULLY) my body doesn't like opioid painkillers. 

I had my last migraine in February or March. I knew then that I had to find another way. So my doctor suggested Ubrelvy, a pill I’d never heard of that you take when a migraine — in my case with an "aura" — kicks in. 

I grabbed the small box from my doctor, afraid of whether or not it would work for me (and if it didn’t, knowing that my day would be over).

Thankfully, I hadn't had a migraine since last winter. Yet this morning at 8:30, I saw the aura in my eyesight. A migraine was setting in that could disrupt — it could end — my entire day.

Here goes! I went with the single white pill that my doctor suggested, and I gave all to hope. I knew that if it didn't work — like so many migraine-specific medications before it — my day would be over.

Instead, the Ubrelvy was a miracle. 

The last few hours have been like the sun rising on a new day.

Previously, with the pain-killing cocktail of hydrocodone and naproxen, I still felt the other migraine symptoms: the dizziness and inability to focus, as well as other side effects.

Today — over four hours after the aura set in — I feel 99% myself. No pain. No exhaustion. No confusion. It feels like a miracle.

Everyone experiences migraines differently. For me, they have ranged from a mild issue to destroying my life for 36 hours, sinking me into intense pain and confusion.

I don't know how Ubrelvy works. What I do know is that I wish I had it 25 years ago, when there were days I wanted to stab myself in the head to relieve the pain. 

No, this post isn’t a plant from a pharmaceutical company. I don’t even know who produces Ubrelvy.

This is just me hoping that someone suffering from migraines — thinking that this medical condition could be the end of their life as they know it — might see this and find the same relief I have today.

I know that some people who haven’t had a real, clinical migraine might think “miracle” is a bit of a stretch.

But that’s how today, after over 25 years of dealing with migraines, feels — a miracle.

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