IN MY HEAD

Laying in bed with a thumping headache, I wondered what could be putting me in this horrendous pain.

‘It’s probably just your hormones,’ my GP had told me.

But I knew it was something more than that.

I had been suffering with headaches for months.

The pain changed placement in my head and caused terrible pressure in the base of my skull and neck.

In 2017, I was finally referred to a neurologist – only, she said the same.

‘I’ll put you on some new migraine medication,’ she said.

‘Migraines are just migraines…’ she continued.

I hated the drugs because they caused awful side effects and didn’t fix the problem.

On one occasion, I was sent to A&E and