I tried everything to treat my migraines — here's what worked.
In the throes of my 72-hour migraine, I got a DM from a friend who had seen my Instagram story where I complained about my pain. Caitlin is an acupuncturist at– a studio in Manhattan that also offers cupping and LED light therapy. “Acupuncture has actually been shown, in some clinical trials, to help reduce migraine headaches,” Dr. Gillespie said. So when Caitlin told me to come in for treatment, I booked an appointment stat, just two days after getting Botox.
Once I got to WTHN, I explained my ailments to Caitlin. She had me lay on my stomach, where she felt around for tightness. “Your traps are so wound up,” she commented, saying that this might be a source of the migraines. Caitlin got to work popping needle after needle around my body. She placed them in specific pressure points on my legs, in my hands and wrists, and, of course, along my back and neck. Before she slid the needle into my traps, she warned me that they might spasm — which they did, in a painful, charlie horse-like way for about 30 seconds. Once that passed, and all the needles were placed, she slipped some headphones on me, put on a meditation, and left me to cook for 20 minutes.
Once we were done, Caitlin let me know that I might be sore the next morning. She advised me to come back weekly, if I could swing it, and to drink a lot of water. I didn’t pick up the weekly habit immediately because I left town for the holidays — and I got two migraines. Since then, I’ve kept to a routine of twice a month, and my migraine frequency has decreased drastically.After having migraines for as long as I have, I’ve recognize that there are specific things that set me off.
Keeping such a close eye on my body clued me in to another weird migraine symptom — a pre-migraine kind of high. The night before one of my migraines, I felt very loopy. It was like I’d smoked some weed, but I hadn’t. I just felt completely foggy and out-of-whack. I didn’t know it at the time, but this vertigo feeling, also associated with either unusually high or low energy, is
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