Migraine 11647...India
A 41-year-old housewife suffered for four years from frequent headaches in the front and back of her head, since Jan 2019. These occurred at least thrice a week after sun exposure, head bath or stress, each attack lasting 7 to 8 hours. During this time, she needed complete rest which in turn disturbed her routine and adversely impacted her family. As she could not afford any treatment, she resorted to over-the-counter (OTC) medication for temporary relief. When she learnt that her daughter’s teacher at school was a practitioner, she consulted him on 29 Dec 2022. At that time, she had runny nose with fever and she was given:
#1. CC9.2 Infections acute + CC10.1 Emergencies + CC11.3 Headaches…6TD
After four days, she reported 100% relief from runny nose and fever. She continued to take her usual OTC headache medicine. At her next visit on 25 Feb 2023, there was hardly any improvement in her headache, the practitioner on further enquiry realised her condition was migraine. So #1 was changed to:
#2. CC10.1 Emergencies + CC11.3 Headaches + CC11.4 Migraines + CC12.1 Adult tonic…every 10 minutes for 2 hours followed by 6TD
There was remarkable improvement during the next week as she had only one episode lasting 2 to 3 hours and that too following a full-day outing. And she did not need any OTC medication!
By 10 May, exposure to sun or head bath no longer triggered headache, and stress-induced headache was milder lasting only an hour; patient put this improvement at 90%. On 15 June, #2 was reduced to TDS and she had a mild headache that day. As that was the last of her headaches, she was put on maintenance dosage of OD on 18 July.
As of 26 Oct, she remains headache-free and happily continues with #2.