A little background on my medical problems.

I am 26 yrs old now. I had headaches when I was as little as 10 yrs old. Without any reasons or symptoms, the headaches just comes and torture the hell out of me. Remembering the younger days, whenever the pain comes, mum will have sleepless nights. She will just sit by my bed and massage my head till I manage to fall asleep. When the pain comes, I will feel nausea and any lights or sounds or even smell will aggravate my condition.

Each time the headache comes, it will stay for at least a day and highest record lasting 7 days! It was really bad. I was still young then so all I knew was just to cry each time. Of course that was a course for concern so mum brought me to the doctor. The doctor checked my eyesight and all was fine. She couldn't really tell what was wrong except attributed it to stress.

So this went on for a couple of years with just pouring intensively of medicated oil and massages trying as hard as we could to lessen the pain. Even panadol didn't really help. So as i grew older, and more visits to the doctor, i was told this is called 'migraine'. That was in secondary school days. So mum tried all ways after much hearsays.

Accunpuncture was one of them but the poking of needles into my head soon freaked me out. So nothing else helped at that point in time. Went on a few years, nothing changed except that frequency and intensity has probably increased. So i realised what could have triggered the migraine, it was sweet stuff. So I avoided sweet stuff as much as I could. I was told it was stress again. Still nothing much to be done except to endure the pain.

And in recent years, something new came about. Turned out that it was my crooked spine (scoliosis) that caused the headaches. Coupled with a crooked neck. So it was spinal problem coupled with migraine. So it was really bad to a point I wake up with headache everyday. Yes, EVERYDAY. Of course I was older now, more able to seek professional help and there were more advice widely available. And so with much discussions, I consulted a bone specialist at SGH who referred me to physiotherapist.

I went for my first physiotherapy and almost thought I couldn't make it. The treatment was too much for me to bear. I gave up eventually. And then I was introduced chiropractic treatment. Signed up for a 90 sessions package and guaranteed results. I diligently went for my treatments for 1 yr, every monday wednesday friday. Initially there indeed was improvement. But the happiness didn't seem to last. I was soon back to normal. I heed mum's advice to give accupuncture another chance but I still couldn't in the end. I was then given this painkiller/muscle relaxant on one visit to the doctor.

Aha! That was immediate cure! 2 pills and headache gone! Easy, effortless. So i became dependent on the drugs and could never leave home without them. If i did, i feel insecure. It was to that extent. Been almost 2 years on painkillers now and it has reached an amount that I cannot imagine anymore. How my liver has suffered and what will be the outcome to my liver eventually? I was indeed worried. Look at the amount of painkillers I've taken below. A whole ikea box full. Scary isn't it?

我的背景

我今年26岁。我十岁就与头痛开始了一段难分难解的关系。非常憎恨它的存在也不知从何起，它已住进了我的生活里。念小学时，每当头一痛，恶梦就会开始。晚上痛得睡不着，妈妈就会在我床边帮我按摩，疏解一些疼痛直到我能入睡为止。由于还小，就只懂得哭。猛倒药油，按摩的日子就这样过了几年。当然有向医生求救过。医生检查了我的视力，说一切没问题，或许是压力。既然医生那么说我们也就没什么办法。妈妈听说针灸有效便带我去试一试。结果，我被那些细细的针给吓跑了。

这样东试西试过了几年。渐渐的，情况越来越糟。次数多了，痛也比较难受，会有想吐的感觉。不过还算有进展。我明白了那叫做‘偏头痛’。也知道哪些事或物会引起头痛发生。我发现吃甜的食物后头就会痛，所以开始不吃了。只知道为什么却不知道怎样解决。又到了近年，发现了头痛是因为我的脊椎有问题。所以是脊椎加偏头痛。到现在，比较有学问了，接触的人也多了，所以有好多人给我一些意见。其中，我看了骨科医生。他介绍我做物理治疗。我受不了治疗所以最终放弃了。接下来，我看了矫正脊椎的医生，签了一个90次的配套，为期一年。起初还看得到一些转变。不过好景不长，结果还是打回原形。最后终于发现了什么方法最有效。

那就是医生给的止痛药。吃了止痛药，头痛马上就会消失。但这方法始终治标不治本。这一年来我吃的止痛药真的无法想象，已变成了依赖。我知道这是慢性自杀不过我还是没办法。好担心终究肝会出事。看看下面我吃了多少的止痛药。恐怖吧？

And so one day i was talking to a good friend. She came to know about my condition and out of concern, she asked if I'm willing to try supplements. Then I thought, I've almost given up on all other methods and don't know what works for me now. Really sick of waking up everyday with headache and having to endure the pain daily.

It's really affecting the quality of my life greatly. It was hard for me to be cheerful and wear a smile all the time infront of this nagging pain. It was almost impossible. I couldn't concentrate at work and knew i was affecting everyone around me. And being in the bank, doing forex, the amount of numbers and high concentration level certainly didn't help my condition. And because the painkillers causes drowsiness, I can't take them at work and also because I had to drive. All I could do was just endure till I reach home.

So, I agreed to my friend's suggestion and gave it a try. That was the start of my journey with TRA.

有一天我和一位好朋友在闲聊，聊起了我的情况。看到那些药她也很为我担心。她开始问我愿不愿意尝试服用保健品。当时的我在想，反正都已经到了这个地步也尝试了那么多的方法。也因厌倦了每天醒来头都会痛。

这的确大大的影响了我的生活。我没有办法每天开开心心，没办法面带笑容，影响了周围的人。更糟的是，我在银行工作，天天对着千千万万个数字，还得集中精神。头疼时都无法吃药，就因为吃了会感觉昏昏层层，也不能开车，就只好忍痛到家。于是，我接受了朋友的建议，开始了我和TRA的旅程。