Hello, everyone!
First of all, thanks for this forum you guys! Reading about the success stories really made my life better!!!!
So first of all, let me introduce myself: I am a 36 year old male - I have always being an healthy individual, no issues, nothing to worry about (Well, at least is what I believed!)... Until 8 years ago...
8 years ago I was working in a very stressful job with a relentless client - everything was grim... _until_ it got "grimmer"! It was an afternoon, I was at the client and... the words on my screen started disappearing! Soon, I noticed that parts of my vision where disappearing and weird angular lines were distorting my vision - I thought I was having a retinal detachment and was rushed to the hospital! Thankfully as some of you might had already guessed, it wasn't anything as serious - it was something more common than I knew: a migraine aura.
And it was my only occurrence until 2 years ago (2024). 2 years ago, I, again, was facing a very stressful situation and guess who got back? Exactly.
But this time was different: I started to research about it on the internet - what I found shocked me: people who lives were destroyed by migraines (just a note: I am on the "lucky" ones side who don't get the headache), people who lost their choices, lives. I was getting more and more desperate.
I went to my yearly ophthalmologist (I have high myopia): my eyes were perfect and that I shouldn't worry about the auras - they are scary, but harmless, all bark no bite. But I should consult a neurologist just to be sure.
That did little to calm me, I was already deep in the google rabbit hole. And getting more and more scared - and then, the crisis became monthly. To make things worse, I was sure that there was something wrong with my vision - I started to became hyper aware of it.
By December of 2024, I was so anxious I couldn't hold a pencil anymore - my auras started to happen 2 times or more per week. I decided to visit a neurologist. Did the MRI and as _he_ expected, it came clean. He advised me to relax and try to find my triggers.
Again, this did little to help me - I was a trembling pile of nerves. I started to research and try to find my triggers but I couldn't... So everything became a trigger.
The food I liked? Trigger (the ingredients!!!). The computer screen that I used to game with my long time friends? Trigger (The brightness!). Drawing (that I loved)? Trigger (it tires your eyes!). Going out? Trigger (the sun!). Exercise? Trigger! (It causes headaches!).
I went from being that guy who was known for being great to be around and upbeat to a depressed sack of potatoes.
I became deeply depressed. I went back to living with my parents and by a string of luck I didn't lost my job. I would go to bed at 8PM and cried until I slept. I was thinking and fearing my auras 24/7. That was my life and.... my life was over.
I started to think about ending it.
By the second half of 2025, my mother, a retired nurse, seeing my situation suggested a psychologist - and I started to work my issues with her. She was admant that my emotional state played a big role on it.
And what do I know? It started to get better. My auras became monthly again, not every 3~4 days. She was right. I went to (I know I shouldn't) to Reddit
to see if other people had the same experience only to be met with a bucket of cold water - I was lying, I was lucky, you can't get better and etc. However, one user shared his experience and he had the same experience as me and suggest "A Way Out" by Allan Gordon. I started to read and was impressed how it mirrored what I faced. I started to work with it with my psychologist. So far, everything seems promising! And I want to soon write my own success story here, in this forum!
First of all, thanks for this forum you guys! Reading about the success stories really made my life better!!!!
So first of all, let me introduce myself: I am a 36 year old male - I have always being an healthy individual, no issues, nothing to worry about (Well, at least is what I believed!)... Until 8 years ago...
8 years ago I was working in a very stressful job with a relentless client - everything was grim... _until_ it got "grimmer"! It was an afternoon, I was at the client and... the words on my screen started disappearing! Soon, I noticed that parts of my vision where disappearing and weird angular lines were distorting my vision - I thought I was having a retinal detachment and was rushed to the hospital! Thankfully as some of you might had already guessed, it wasn't anything as serious - it was something more common than I knew: a migraine aura.
And it was my only occurrence until 2 years ago (2024). 2 years ago, I, again, was facing a very stressful situation and guess who got back? Exactly.
But this time was different: I started to research about it on the internet - what I found shocked me: people who lives were destroyed by migraines (just a note: I am on the "lucky" ones side who don't get the headache), people who lost their choices, lives. I was getting more and more desperate.
I went to my yearly ophthalmologist (I have high myopia): my eyes were perfect and that I shouldn't worry about the auras - they are scary, but harmless, all bark no bite. But I should consult a neurologist just to be sure.
That did little to calm me, I was already deep in the google rabbit hole. And getting more and more scared - and then, the crisis became monthly. To make things worse, I was sure that there was something wrong with my vision - I started to became hyper aware of it.
By December of 2024, I was so anxious I couldn't hold a pencil anymore - my auras started to happen 2 times or more per week. I decided to visit a neurologist. Did the MRI and as _he_ expected, it came clean. He advised me to relax and try to find my triggers.
Again, this did little to help me - I was a trembling pile of nerves. I started to research and try to find my triggers but I couldn't... So everything became a trigger.
The food I liked? Trigger (the ingredients!!!). The computer screen that I used to game with my long time friends? Trigger (The brightness!). Drawing (that I loved)? Trigger (it tires your eyes!). Going out? Trigger (the sun!). Exercise? Trigger! (It causes headaches!).
I went from being that guy who was known for being great to be around and upbeat to a depressed sack of potatoes.
I became deeply depressed. I went back to living with my parents and by a string of luck I didn't lost my job. I would go to bed at 8PM and cried until I slept. I was thinking and fearing my auras 24/7. That was my life and.... my life was over.
I started to think about ending it.
By the second half of 2025, my mother, a retired nurse, seeing my situation suggested a psychologist - and I started to work my issues with her. She was admant that my emotional state played a big role on it.
And what do I know? It started to get better. My auras became monthly again, not every 3~4 days. She was right. I went to (I know I shouldn't) to Reddit
to see if other people had the same experience only to be met with a bucket of cold water - I was lying, I was lucky, you can't get better and etc. However, one user shared his experience and he had the same experience as me and suggest "A Way Out" by Allan Gordon. I started to read and was impressed how it mirrored what I faced. I started to work with it with my psychologist. So far, everything seems promising! And I want to soon write my own success story here, in this forum!
