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What about headaches? Well this is kind of a loaded question because I use to get severe
headaches. Migraines before my accident. Allergies anything gives me headaches. you know. And
now when I was at college the concentration would give me like the worst headache you
know and I had to got like decompress somewhere you know like it was just ah. Now I its significant
to talk about the pre-injury migraines. It is one, one of those things we need to try
to access what was there before and what is after but it is perhaps more important because
of a significant risk factor for troublesome outcome with a migraine history. Now as a
teenager if you had migraines might not mean you would have them as an adult. um. so because
migraines are often become worse during rapid hormonal build up periods. but when you say
you had migraines what, tell me about those. Did you get treated? Before? Yes, tell me
about a migraine you had before? Did you get an aura? I I...before um, it would get so
bad I would throw up. you know. Did you have any sort of indication that is was coming
before the headache really hit? Do you remember anything before it came on. Nah, I just know
after I get a migraine now I do have tingling sensation all over my body. Let's so the migraines
before were you didn't get the auro and you didn't get the tingling? No. They were bad
enough that you would throw up. Yea, yea. Really light sensitive when you have them.
You have to be in a dark room? Yes, Yes. How long will they last? Um, well usually I they
last as long as they ahh until I went to sleep. And then... Did you miss school because of
them? No, No, Before your accident, how many days a year did you miss school because of
headaches? Not a lot. Not at all really. You wouldn't want to miss practicing..Exactly.
Um, what did you do in the winter? I lifted. And I use to play basketball but I wasn't
burning way too many calories cause I would play the whole game so I would run back and
forth for the entire game so.. I need that weight...The so your pre-injury migraines
you never go medicine for them? Um, I, I had medicine but not like I do now. But before
you didn't have something that you would take when got one to try to knock it out? We tried
stuff like my Mom gets them too so we would try you know prescription stuff. None that
I am aware of..Did you try something like Imatrex? Which is a I think they call it a
triptan which is actually a symptom relief um,, Nah. Do you ever try a um something like
deprkote that you take every day to avoid getting them. No, No. To avoid getting them.
No, No. Um, Headaches that first few months there are a lot of things going on headaches
may not seem more important , didn't get to be very important. But when you get back to
school did you suddenly start to feel like you that these headaches were really getting
in the way? A little bit. When do the headaches really become a problem? You mean in college?
No at any point when did you .. cause I mean When did the headaches, most of my people
my clients will tell me you know...I have had headaches before that hurt but I didn't
know what a headache was until after my brain injury. Yep. Is that apply to you? No, cause
I use to get them pretty bad before but um, my first day of of high school we had a scrimmage
uh after at our football team and I was going to rehab um and I would I was just so excited
to see everyone oddly saying that made me get a headache and my brain was like all swelled
up and didn't fit in my head. Did before you got hurt did your migraines come from excitement
from stress? No. your ah, Maybe, maybe..no. You didn't have the big game kind of headache
the ...nope...most important at bat or...no, all my headaches were usually from allergies.
I never ah you know, there wasn't any other reason. So the headaches that would make you
throw up before you got hurt were related to allergies? Yeah, Yeah. Alright I am going
to stop a minute, a second here..