I’ve written before about the effect of stress on pain. If I’m under stress for any reason and can’t control it, my pain normally gets worse but it’s not just my usuals pain. I often get tension headaches. Medication doesn’t tend to help me when I have those type of headaches, but I sometimes find that applying a heat pad to the back of my neck can help. Therefore I was excited when a company called Huggaroo got in touch and offered to send me a head, neck and shoulder wrap so I could write a review about it.
Tag: Headaches
Facial Pain & Trigeminal Neuralgia
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Chronic Migraines and Facial Pain Seemed ‘Normal’ to Me
That heading sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? How can living with chronic migraines and facial pain seem normal to anyone?
But it did seem normal to me. Normal, simply because I had lived with both of those conditions alongside other chronic and disabling painful conditions for so many years. Living with pain just seemed normal in a strange kind of way.
Unfortunately, living with pain is normal for a lot of people.
Chronic Pain
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Migraine and Trigeminal Neuralgia – Is There a Link?
As you’ll know, I often write about trigeminal neuralgia. But my life has also been blighted by migraines since I was in my early teenage years. I will write more about my own migraines next week, but it’s always interested me that many people in trigeminal neuralgia support groups also suffer from migraines. This has led me to wonder if these two extremely painful and debilitating conditions could be linked.