Anyone have skin hypersensitivity that have migraines? - Headaches & Migraines Message Board

Jenny R. · 07-13-2006, 08:54 PM

My story is very complicated. My so called migraines started about 8 years ago, actually about 3 months after a minor car accident. They were just sporadic then, but over the next 2 years started getting this weird facial feeling, like a hair or spider web on my face. Now 8 years later, I have contributed these headaches to hormones, meaning they occur either during ovulation or period. I finally havd a brain MRI done in April, everything was normal except for some sinus thickening. I notice that when I get these weird feelings in my face 9 chances out of 10 my left shoulder will be hurting, there is actually a spot on the back of my neck that if you touch it will cause these feeling to appear. But wait, it gets better, sometimes I can't stand to wear a tight fitting top because it feels like there are hundreds of ants crawling under it, drives me insane. I do know that alot of time when I get these feeling I end up with a migraine at least within the next few days. Does this sound migraine related? Or am I just nuts? Anyone out there, please help!!!!

Cheyenne1 · 07-13-2006, 09:22 PM

Yes. Hi Jenny actually I do get this and is usually around the time of a period. Anywhere from 7-8 days before to be exact. Its a "dont you dare touch me feeling" lol! Im sorry but it doesnt really hurt its irritated I guess you could say. Is that what you are feeling? Sometimes having pants on gets to be too much for me cause the feeling gets in my legs too. And if you have migraines do you ever have those little moving light balls that you see in your vision? Sometimes they zip across your field of sight...right then I know I am within hours of having a migraine. Also sensitivity to sound. Im guessing it has to have something to do with hormonal changes during that time of month.

Jenny R. · 07-13-2006, 09:49 PM

Hello Cheyenne, glad to hear I'm not alone. The feelings that you get in your legs, are they like what I described? How about your face? Do you get them there also? I feel like I'm going nuts, worried to death that I have some kind of neurological disorder. Migraines do run in my family, my mother, and her dad both have them, so I guess I'm the lucky one, neither of my 2 brothers get headaches at all. I hope my son doesn't take after me. Write back, curious to hear from you. BTW, what is your age? I'm 35, thinking some of this maybe peri, being that my maternal gram went through menopause at 39, nothing provoked this, just plain old meno. My gyn says it skips a generation. Talk again hopefully!!!!!

Worried1977 · 07-13-2006, 10:56 PM

Well ill join this little club you got going here!

I get them daily..my mother had them and her father did also. I dont ever seem to get the little balls of light though. i was actually thinking mine are TMJ related.

Im going on 16 years of having them. in your case of you saying you have the funny feelings then you know you are gonna get one. well alot of the times i start getting this weird feeling in my neck and i know ones gonna start. feels like a muscle or a nerve feeling. but other times i have expirienced and skin crawling sensation in my head on the same side as headaches normally only when im laying down to sleep. other times it starts in front of my ear and then goes to my left temple and into my eye. a heating pad takes it completely away in about 5 mins ( i just recently found that out) But now im on topamax a second time and have been headache free for 3 days.

Jenny R. · 07-14-2006, 07:13 AM

Thanks for the reply Worried 1977. I have had the crawling on scalp also, left sided above my ear, this is the headache side, the TMJ thing is what I think might be my problem also. My shoulder and neck hurt alot on that side, but when the hormone stuff kicks in, wow, big time pain, it feels like someone is pulling the muscles off my scalp, and twisting them, kinda a burning, throbbing pain. I'm going to go to PT next week to see if I can get some relief, I take Motrin 800 for mine, and yes, the heating pain is awesome, see some people, like my mom for instance, uses ice compresses, it only makes mine worse. I never tried prescription medicine, although I have samples the doc gave me. Thanks, I'm glad I'm not alone here.