i feel your pain girls i have suffered migraines and servere headaches from the age of 11 years hospitalised on average once every 3 months or so till i had my first child they then began to taper out and for the first 2 years of her life i suffered i wasn't hospitalise at all though i still had the occassional migraine when she was 3 i hit rock bottom and averaged one every 2 weeks and was tried on a array of preventive drugs none of which worked i tried accupucture it helped a little i then had my 2nd child and they all but disappeared and probably got one a year for the next 7 years and then just before i fell pg with Ryan i was hospitalised again with a cluster that lasted 10 days of pure hell i have had one since having him i seriously can not remember a day when i don't wake up with a headache in varying degrees and i have come to terms with that fact that is is a game of chance whether it turms into a migraine or not i have become very good at recogonising the signs and try very hard to avoid triggers and medicate accordingly over the years i have had countless tests MRI Ct scans etc and all they have found is fused vertabrae at C4 and C5 which is constricting blood and nerve pulses apparently it can be operated on but the chance of ending up in a wheelchair doesn't appeal to me so i soilder on the best i can but it ****es me off that i have missed out on so much of my children by being in bed lights off curtains drawn and a wet wash clothe on my head so this thread i will watch with anticipation for some great tips .