Since going through the change I have been plagued with migraine headaches with hormonal fluctuations. They were minor for several years except on occasion. Recently they became harder to deal with and even had progressed to visual aura, occasionally. One night, while Scott and I were watching video, one started to hit me. Scott stopped the video and gave me a short FI (Functional Integration) lesson. Now you know he is my husband, but I was skeptical he could do anything for a migraine since medical wisdom says they can’t be cured. Some, because of this conventional wisdom, will say it wasn’t a migraine. However, this one was accompanied earlier by the visual aura that had lasted about 15 minutes. Scott spent at 5 or so minutes gently making suggestions to my nervous system about my neck and back carriage. I paid attention to these suggestions by being still and letting the lessons sink in, concentrating on them. When he finished I had just a mild headache and then within a couple of minutes it was gone.

Several times since then, I have had a hormonal fluctuation and started to have the familiar symptoms of extreme drowsiness, clumsiness and then the headache would begin. I would stop adjust my head and neck and support structure the best I could remember of how I felt during and after the lesson. For the last couple of months, I have been able to stop them as they are beginning to become a full blown migraine.  I hope to remember the early symptoms and start working on my awareness before I start to feel the headache pain.  L.A. Forrester