Hi everyone! I have been lurking here for months, but this is my first post! Just wanted to ask you peeps a question about your health and stress.
I have had aura migraines since I was 15 years old ( I am now 32). Depending on whatever stressful thing (good or bad) that is happening in my life, I might get a migraine.
My job is extremely intermittent, and so is my income. Between September 2010 and April 2011 I did not work at all, and my cash reserves dwindled down to a stubble. The migraines increased. I was a wreck waiting for the call to go to work. My migraines had increased to 2 or 3 per day, even waking me up a night! When I finally went back to work in May, the migraines slowed down, although they were still present.
Work has been pretty steady since then, and I have been actively rocking my finances. (I have had a $28,000 "change in position" in the last 12 months---paid off my $15k student loan, and saved $13k in cash). Anyway, when it became clear in December that my student loans would be paid off in full by the middle of January--guess what?? The migraines friggin stopped. THEY. STOPPED. I literally have not had one since December 20, 2011. Has this happenned to anyone else? Woop Woop!