bertiedog
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I really cannot quite believe it and it is early days yet but wanted to post that my almost daily migraines have been brought under control since the Cefaly device arrived this last Monday. Normally I have a migraine type head develop virtually every morning and this involved me needing a lot of medication over a week or month.
I have tried changing my diet, time of waking up etc but nothing made any difference so in desperation I did 2 weeks of Lyica to try and break the habit of the migraines. All this did was make me feel very ill and the migraines switched to a horrible pain in the back of my head. It was a miserable time and I stopped the Lyrica after 2 weeks resolving never to take it again.
Then early last week I noticed on the review of the papers on TV that the Daily Express were writing about a wonderful device that stopped migraines from starting and could also treat an attack and it was very successful in over 50% of migraine patients. The NHS was even going to use in in selected patients.
Naturally I did some Google searches and this led me to the Cefaly.com and I looked up teh research and also the customer's reviews. On the whole they were excellent so I went ahead and ordered the device.
In the meantime I had had a miserable time having got a very bad attack of the Norovirus which left me feeling like death with a horrible migraine which cleared last Friday. Because I was having to rest all the time I didn't get anymore migraines which is very unusual for me so maybe it was a good time for me to start this last Monday using the device twice daily.
Definitely on Tuesday, Wednesday and probably Thursday morning I would have developed one of my nasty migraines because I started to feel pain developing having slept very badly through the night and over sleeping in the morning, something guaranteed to give me migraines.
I used the device on programme 2 for about 8 am for 20 minutes and at the end of the time there was no sign of any pain. This has happened every morning so far.
So although I realise it is very early days I am beginning to feel a lot more confident that I can control my migraines and might after a while not even have them start. So far a week has gone by since I have taken a painkiller whereas on a more normal week before I would have had to take around 18 or more painkillers plus strong meds like Sumatriptan.
If things go on like this I can truly say this device would have changed how I feel about my life. Needless to say I don't have any connection to the Belgium company that manufacture the machine.
Pam
I have tried changing my diet, time of waking up etc but nothing made any difference so in desperation I did 2 weeks of Lyica to try and break the habit of the migraines. All this did was make me feel very ill and the migraines switched to a horrible pain in the back of my head. It was a miserable time and I stopped the Lyrica after 2 weeks resolving never to take it again.
Then early last week I noticed on the review of the papers on TV that the Daily Express were writing about a wonderful device that stopped migraines from starting and could also treat an attack and it was very successful in over 50% of migraine patients. The NHS was even going to use in in selected patients.
Naturally I did some Google searches and this led me to the Cefaly.com and I looked up teh research and also the customer's reviews. On the whole they were excellent so I went ahead and ordered the device.
In the meantime I had had a miserable time having got a very bad attack of the Norovirus which left me feeling like death with a horrible migraine which cleared last Friday. Because I was having to rest all the time I didn't get anymore migraines which is very unusual for me so maybe it was a good time for me to start this last Monday using the device twice daily.
Definitely on Tuesday, Wednesday and probably Thursday morning I would have developed one of my nasty migraines because I started to feel pain developing having slept very badly through the night and over sleeping in the morning, something guaranteed to give me migraines.
I used the device on programme 2 for about 8 am for 20 minutes and at the end of the time there was no sign of any pain. This has happened every morning so far.
So although I realise it is very early days I am beginning to feel a lot more confident that I can control my migraines and might after a while not even have them start. So far a week has gone by since I have taken a painkiller whereas on a more normal week before I would have had to take around 18 or more painkillers plus strong meds like Sumatriptan.
If things go on like this I can truly say this device would have changed how I feel about my life. Needless to say I don't have any connection to the Belgium company that manufacture the machine.
Pam