Migraine, persistent 11635...India
A 50-year-old nurse was suffering from recurring left-side migraine since Feb 2015. The severe headaches, triggered by over-exertion, occurred once a week, each episode lasting 5-6 hours and was accompanied by periorbital (around the eyes) pain, nausea, and vomiting. So she was not able to perform her job properly. The next month, she consulted a physician who simply prescribed a painkiller. She took it for five months but as it did not give her any relief, the doctor gave her diclofenac - a stronger painkiller; this reduced the intensity of pain only slightly and she struggled with this for several years. When her pain became worse, she consulted a vibrionics practitioner on 1 Aug 2021 and was given:
CC11.4 Migraines + CC15.1 Mental & Emotional tonic…TDS generally but at the start of an episode, every 10 minutes for one or two hours.
She continued to take diclofenac during an attack. By 31 Aug, she had 15% reduction in intensity of headaches, periorbital pain, nausea, and vomiting. However, the episodes continued to occur once a week. By the end of Sept, the frequency of headaches got reduced to once every two weeks and all other symptoms improved by 50%. She stopped taking diclofenac on 21 Sept as she did not feel the need for it. During Oct and Nov, she did not have a single migraine episode, so on 4 Dec, the dosage was reduced to BD and then slowly tapered off before stopping it on 21 Jan 2022.
As of Feb 2023, there has been no recurrence of migraine.