Homeopathic Treatment for Migraine

Migraine Case History

A 32 year old lady reported what she described as terrible headaches that started right after she got a divorce about 3 years before she saw us. The headaches would start on the first day of her periods and continue to the last day. Her periods were regular. She would be totally incapacitated and felt slightly better when she slept in a darkened room. Any motion could cause severe nausea and a dizzy attack. She generally slept through her periods, had no appetite, and did not stir out of her darkened room. She sought help for her headaches.

A little inquiry into her personal history indicated that she was a sensitive soul, not very articulate about her feelings, had a tendency to be very clean to the point of being obsessive, and had an unhappy childhood. She was totally devastated with her divorce and felt that if only the headaches would be cured, then she would get on with her life. Her family history revealed that there was cancer on both the paternal and the maternal side of her family.

A carefully selected homeopathic drug, first based on her physical symptoms at the onset of her periods, produced a lessening of the intensity and duration of her headaches in about 2 months. The careful study of her personality and a few quirks that she mentioned in subsequent visits, along with her family history, gave us an indication about her constitution and we put her on a constitutional drug which she took for the next 3 months.

After the 5th month, she reported that she was symptom free during her periods and was now much calmer. She had actually made a few plans and was in the process of working on them. We advised her to stop taking the homeopathic medication. About a year later she called to say that she was doing better and once had a mild attack of headache, again at the beginning of her period. She decided to wait this one out and the headache abated on its own without any medication.