Your Questions About How To Stop Migraine Attack

Do I have anxiety and if so what can I do?

Ok I am a student nurse in my first year of uni. Last year when I was at college I started taking migraines. I get them when I’m stressed and it’s usually due to exams or seminars when I know I have to talk in a large group of people. I have done two placements since coming to uni plus the one I did at college and I used to work in a care setting and I have never felt anxious or ill. Anyway I was in a seminar class yesterday and I began to see colours in front of my eyes and thought I was going to get a migraine. This soon stopped, and I was not made to talk in the group which of course made me feel better, but my lecturer started talking about how nurses have to register every year to keep working and suddenly I got breathless. I didn’t have any pains or anything so I’m not sure if it was some kind of panic attack or what. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Btw I have not been to the dr as I am waiting to see if it happens again and I have not spoken to my personal tutor as I don’t feel comfortable telling him about this.
I am looking for tactics that I can do without seeing a dr as I am a mental health nursing student and any medications or therapy I have will more then likely have to go on my record and I’d like to avoid that due to the nature of my future career.

Do you think those that do some of the most OFF THE WALL studies have some form of brain cancer?

Over the years, I’ve heard that some researchers have suggested that:

“Milk is now bad for you”, or “eating processed meat will give you bowel cancer”, or “eating eggs is linked to heart attacks or pancreatic cancer”.

BASED ON THE SAME STUDIES WHICH NOW FLOOD THE AIRWAVES EVERY FEW MONTHS OR SO.

Doesn’t it give you a migraine whenever someone comes up with a study which *suggests* that eating chocolate is bad, or being overweight will shave 20 years off your lifespan, or eating vegetables will guarantee people the fabled “Fountain of Youth”?

It does me!

I am SICK TO DEATH of these (censored) studies!

I just want them to shut up or die! Stop making my life already hellish than it already is!

I’m 241 pounds, take six types of meds (none for high BP), don’t eat the recommended fruits, veggies, grains, or meats. (I am a cereal junkie!)

But I walk every day, work out, write my books, and just *enjoy* life as it comes.

Why should I pay attention to a bunch of brain-addled idiots whom don’t know a rat hole from their butts these days?

I couldn’t BEGIN to come close to following the so-called “guidelines” of these researchers–let alone the government’s–but I do what I do because:

A) It makes me HAPPY.

B) It makes me HAPPY.

and

C) Did I mention, that it makes me HAPPY?

How about the rest of you?

Bipolar Disorder questions?

I’m 21.
When I was 14, I was diagnosed as major depressive but my mother refused treatment.
When I was 16 I began to get bi-yearly migraines that were so bad I wanted to kill myself when I had one.
When I was 19, they became stronger and more frequent, lasting for days or a week at a time.
A year ago, when I was 20, my personality changed. I used to be generally happy and chipper, very outgoing and sociable. I went from that to happy, hyper, irritable some days and depressed, antisocial, moody other days. I thought it was normal life I guess.
About 8-9 months ago, my boyfriend (of 4 years) and friends noticed this personality change. I lost most of my friends and they completely stopped inviting me to hang out with them.
My boyfriend and I started fighting and he started talking to a girl from his work that we both knew. I found out he was hiding their ‘friendship’ from me and I went “insane” as he put it. I would attack him, I screamed at him and her, and I ended up getting banned from his work for it, even though I’m friends with the managers. He started saying things like “crazy bipolar bitch” “psycho” etc.
I called my Dr. and got set up with a psychiatrist. I had one hour with her and she immediately put me on Depakote, saying it was a mood stabilizer that would help me sleep better.
-I have vivid, violent, very real feeling dreams/nightmares on a nightly basis. I have had them sparingly throughout life, but now they are almost every single night.
-I can’t concentrate in school and either fail or drop out of most of my classes.
-I’m irritable, moody, etc. to the point where I have no friends now. None. I spent my 21st birthday alone [with only my boyfriend] because of this.
-I constantly feel like everyone is talking about me. I feel like I hear them talking about me, so I exclude myself from things.
-I went through 3 jobs in 18 months, I quit two and was let go from the third, all because of antisocialism.

When I looked up Depakote, I found it’s used in the treatment of bipolar disorder. My psychiatrist never mentioned this, even though me and my boyfriend suspected it.
When I told my mother about it, she said “mental disorders like that don’t exist. It’s just a reason for them to prescribe drugs for people to live everyday life numbly.” And, “it’s just a cop-out for everyday feelings.”

So my questions are, I guess, for people who have been DIAGNOSED bipolar:

-Before you were diagnosed, what was it like?
-What age were you diagnosed?
-Do/Did you ever get violent dreams that are vivid, like you are really there? Dreams where people are dying VERY violently?
-Did you ever feel total rage for no reason? Did you wake up some days angry at nothing?
-One day about a year or so ago, I felt like the world had completely changed, but I didn’t know what was different. Did something like this happen to you?
-How did you deal with it after you were diagnosed? Did you tell people about it or were you embarrassed? I want to get my friends back, and they’ve admitted that they miss me, but they still won’t hang out with me.

I generally would like to know how it went about before, during, and after diagnoses for you. Comments/thoughts on my experiences are welcomed as well.

Thanks in advance for reading/answering.
I didn’t know it would automatically edit profanity.