Symptoms Affect My Performance At Work

It’s 5a.m and I can barely move; everything is blurry, my right hand is numb, and the right side of my head is pounding. A couple hours later everything transferred from my right side of my body to the left side of my body. It is a migraine that I am having, and this has been my life since 6th grade.

Fibromyalgia has been described as a full-body migraine. Another common explanation is to compare everyday life with FMS as being similar to the aches and pains associated with a severe

Transition: Now that you know what a migraine is, the causes and symptoms and the burden on a person.

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Migraine headaches are the third most prevalent illness in the world, and ranked as the sixth most disabling illness. Statistics show that only about fifty percent of people who suffer from chronic headaches know that they’re suffering from a migraine. 76% of people who suffer from migraines worry that they will suffer for the rest of their lives, and 37% of sufferers worried about their migraines between attacks. Studies found that approximately 12% of Americans suffer from migraines, and 40% of Americans could benefit from preventative therapies. Even though studies show that at least 40% of sufferers could benefit from preventative therapies, only one in five sufferers are currently using preventative therapies. Studies also show that over 25% of people who suffer from migraine attacks miss at least one working day over the past three months, and nine out of ten sufferers say that they cannot “function normally” during those days. At least 98 percent of migraine attack sufferers take medications for temporary headache relief, whether it be over the counter or prescription. Only 12% of sufferers take preventative medications as opposed to the 98% of sufferers taking medications for relief. Severe migraines are ranked in the highest of seven disability classes, along with psychosis, dementia, and quadriplegia, published by the World Health Organization. People who participated in a survey who admitted to a

I have had Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome my entire life. It is an extremely rare disorder that influences a usually hospitalizing migraine every 70 days consisting of violent pain and vomiting. When I wasn’t having a CVS episode, I was battling everyday migraines which severely limited my functionality. These health deficiencies plagued my life, yet

As a means of better identifying triggers, keep a journal of the dates, times, activities preceding onset headache. Include dietary intake for a month. Listing the aura symptoms and any other symptoms associated with headache episode is also helpful (Arcangelo & Peterson, 2013).

A year ago I was diagnosed with amplified pain syndrome. In 2012, I fell coming out of the shower and smacked my head. A smack on my head lead to a severe concussion which, lasted around 6 or 7 months. Even after most of the symptoms disappeared my headache didn’t.

HPI: Mrs. L. A. is a 44 year old, Hispanic female who presents with a severe right-sided head pain for the last 24 hours, denies fever or head trauma. Additional subjective data crucial for the health care provider to obtain are; how did the headache begin? Have you had this type of headache before? How severe is your pain on a scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain ever)? How does the headache feel? What aggravate and alleviate the headache? This information helps to evaluate onset, location, duration, character, and severity of the pain. A mental status screening, such as, Mini-Mental State Examination can be performed to evaluate mental status deficit to rule out a potentially serious or life-threatening situation for the patient requiring immediate testing (CT) and treatment (Dains, Baumann, & Scheibel, 2016). Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a life threatening condition leading to stroke or coma. Symptoms includes sudden onset severe headache with or without trauma (Dains, et. al. 2016). Furthermore, to evaluate for migraines headaches or tension headaches the RNP should ask; are there any other

The world starts to blur, all thoughts become distorted and jumbled in a mass of panic. Air, the lifeblood of our existence, evades you. Nothing makes sense. When you are finally able to gulp sweet oxygen down, it sets your lungs ablaze. This is a panic attack. A horrific experience wish upon no mortal man. The barrier that I have faced is anxiety; Persistence and Determination have helped me take my disorder head on and overcome it.

In seventh grade, the migraines started. The headaches started in September, I received sinus surgery in November, and I went back to school in March. Between those dates, I spent countless hours in dark quiet room alternating with multiple doctor offices and a few hospital beds. Eventually, after trying a new combination of medicine for the fiftieth time the pain subsided enough so the words stopped blurring on pages and I could handle light and noise stimulation for longer than an hour on end. I returned to school, spent the hours previously spent in the dark working on all the school work I missed and finished seventh grade on time with straight A’s.

Dementia often forces family members to admit their loved ones into long-term care facilities. Unfortunately, a variety of issues commonly arises after admission. For instance, family members, especially those who have previously taken care of the resident, are sometimes reluctant to allow changes in the residents routine, medication regimen, diet, etc. This can create conflict because sometimes changes are necessary in order to create a plan of care capable of enhancing the resident’s quality of life.

Headache History – Your history with headaches and migraines can tell us a lot about how we can help you.

Have you ever felt so overworked that it may be affecting the quality of the outcome? In today’s day and age of our American judicial system, most would agree our judges are overworked. The federal judges of the court system handle a vast number of court cases each year in the United States. It has become directionally proportional between the growing populations, the increase in crime, in turn leading to more cases. There should be a dramatic addition of judges within the federal court system to lower the workload of the justices.

A migraine is a common type headache. In addition, migraines can cause moderate to severe pain and is often described as throbbing or pulsating pain on one side of the head. In addition, migraines can cause blurred vision when exposed to light and sound, nausea, and vomiting pounding.