The nerve that the medications my mother's neurologist prescribed for nineteen years were supposed to stop was running through three points on her face she had been pressing her fingers on her whole adult life. My name is Megan. I am studying nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also the daughter of a woman who has spent the last nineteen years of her life — most of which has been my life — pressing her fingers at the same three points on her face every time a Migraine started. My mom Linda is 52. She teaches AP English at the high school I went to. She started having Migraines a few months after I turned two. I do not have a memory of her without them. I want to tell you the medication list my mother has been through, because if you have been through anything close to it I want you to know somebody is reading it and feeling the same way I did when I finally sat down and wrote it out. Excedrin Migraine, four to five times a week, for years. Until her neurologist told her she had Medication Overuse Headache and the painkillers themselves were part of the cycle. Topamax for twelve years. She forgot the names of her own students. She forgot the title of a Shakespeare play she had been teaching for a decade. She came off it. Propranolol. Her blood pressure dropped so low she fainted at my high school graduation in 2022. She came off it. Amitriptyline. She gained thirty pounds and slept fourteen hours a day. She came off it. Triptans worked for a few years and then stopped. Botox at thirty-one injection sites across her forehead, temples, and neck every twelve weeks. Eight rounds. My dad drove her to the appointments because she could not drive afterward. And as of fourteen months ago, a CGRP inhibitor that costs $720 a month before insurance. Her copay is $35. Her insurance pays the rest. The CGRP brought her Migraine days down from twelve a month to eight. Her neurologist called that a "meaningful clinical response." Eight Migraine days a month was the response they were calling meaningful. I came home for spring break in March. I had a clinical anatomy exam on Tuesday morning of that week. I was on my mom and dad's back porch with my flash cards on Wednesday at 4 p.m. My mom was in the chair across from me reading the New York Times and pressing her right temple absently. I was holding up a card with the trigeminal nerve on it. V1, V2, V3. The three branches. The diagram showed the nerve running through the temples, behind the ears, and down to the base of the skull. My mom looked over at the card. She said "What's that nerve called." I told her. Trigeminal. Largest cranial nerve in the face. Three main branches. Runs through the temples, behind the ears, base of the skull. She said "I have never heard that word before in my life." I am going to say what I said next exactly as I said it because I have replayed it in my head a hundred times. I said "Mom. That is the nerve causing your Migraines. That is literally the first thing they teach us about Migraine in school." She set down the newspaper. I want you to understand what was happening in my chest right then. I am a second-year nursing student. My mother had been to four neurologists in nineteen years. Each one of them had spent years and around $200,000 of training to learn what to call that nerve. Not one of them had said it to her. I pulled out my laptop and I sat on the back porch with my mother for the next three hours and I walked her through what I had been learning in clinicals. The trigeminal nerve becomes sensitized in Migraine sufferers. It begins firing 20 to 40 minutes before any pain. That is what nursing school calls the prodrome window. The aura. The slight pressure. The strange smell. The mood drop my dad had been telling me about for years. By the time my mom felt the pain, the nerve had been firing for almost an hour. By the time she took an Excedrin or a Sumatriptan, the pill needed another 45 minutes to absorb through her stomach, cross her bloodstream, and reach the trigeminal pathway. By the time the medication arrived, the storm was already over the house. I told her every medication she had been on worked downstream of that cascade. Triptans constrict blood vessels after the cascade has already triggered them. CGRP blockers neutralize a signaling protein after it has been released. Botox interrupts pain signal transmission, not nerve initiation. Topamax sedates the central nervous system at the cost of cognition. Then I told her about Medication Overuse Headache. Taking Triptans more than ten days a month, or Excedrin more than fifteen, trains the trigeminal nerve to fire more easily. My mom said "Megan. I was on Excedrin three to four times a week for six years." I said "I know, Mom." My dad came out onto the porch around 7 p.m. He had been making us dinner. He saw both of us sitting there with our hands in our laps. He said "What happened." My mom said "Our daughter knew the answer." That night after dinner, I showed my mom a paper my anatomy professor had referenced in lecture two weeks earlier. A research letter by a neurologist named Dr. Fiora Laurent. Dr. Laurent has been writing for years about topical access to the trigeminal nerve at the three points where it surfaces closest to the skin. Temples. Behind the ears. Base of the skull. 2 millimeters under the surface. Topical reaches the nerve in 90 seconds — no 45-minute stomach detour. Dr. Laurent had built a roll-on around five ingredients. Magnesium glycinate. Wild peppermint. Menthol crystals. Chamomile. Feverfew extract. It was called Florus. I ordered a bottle for my mom on her phone that night before I went back to school. I have been getting weekly updates from her since. Week 1: she caught two prodromes with it. Neither became a full Migraine. She said the cooling "reached deeper than skin." Week 2: she caught three. All three stopped. Week 4: she stopped carrying Excedrin in her purse for the first time since 2009. Week 8: my mom went to her own school's spring concert. She had been the AP English teacher who sat in the back near the door for the last seven years because she always assumed she would have to leave halfway through. She sat in the third row this time. She stayed for the whole concert. Last week she called me at school. She had been to her neurologist follow-up. The neurologist had pulled up her log, looked at the numbers, and asked her what she had changed. My mom told her — about the trigeminal nerve, the prodrome window, the application points, the topical formula. The neurologist closed the chart and said "keep doing what you are doing." My mom said she did not bring up the fact that this neurologist had been treating her for seven years without saying the word trigeminal. She said she did not have the heart for it. I am writing this because there is somebody reading this whose mother has been on the same medication carousel mine has and has also never heard the word. I am not your nurse. I am not anybody's nurse yet. I am a 21-year-old in my second year of school who happened to be on my mom's back porch with the right flash card. I am going to tell you what I told my mom. The trigeminal nerve is real. The prodrome window is real. The application points are real. The mechanism is in every nursing school curriculum in the country and somehow it is not in most of the neurology appointments my mom has sat in. 7,405 five-star reviews. 90-day money-back guarantee. If it does not work, you send it back. Your mother loses nothing. 👉 https://florusrelief.com/blogs/news/every-migraine-tool-you-have-works-downstream-of-the-source-here-is-what-works-at-it P.S. I passed my anatomy exam on the Tuesday morning. My professor wrote "keep going, you're a natural" at the top of the exam. I am going to be a nurse in two years. My mother does not have to wait that long anymore. P.P.S. I want to warn you about something my pharmacology professor mentioned in lecture last week. There are knockoffs of Florus on Amazon that look almost identical to the real bottle. They use synthetic peppermint fragrance oil. They do not contain therapeutic-grade magnesium glycinate or real feverfew extract. My professor said two of his own family members had tried the cheap version, decided it did not work, and almost did not try the real one. The real Florus is only sold on the official site. The link above is the right one, I just checked it before posting.

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Migraines have NOTHING to do with Hormones, Perimenopause, or "your time of life." Let me explain. I have been a Neurologist for over 15 years, and I suffer from migraines myself. Let me tell you about my patient Diane. She's 48, mother of three, and for the past five years every single day has started the exact same way. She opens her eyes, and before she even sits up, she checks. Is it there? The pressure behind her left eye. The tightness wrapping around her temple. The dull, heavy throb at the base of her skull. It's always there. Some mornings it's a 5 and she can push through. Most mornings it's a 7 or 8 and she's already calculating which parts of her day she'll have to cancel. She'd been told by multiple doctors that her migraines were hormonal. Her gynecologist called it perimenopause. Her primary care said it was her cycle. Her endocrinologist tested her thyroid four times. She was on her third version of birth control trying to find the formulation that wouldn't trigger attacks. Her husband stopped asking how she feels. Her kids stopped asking if Mom is coming to their events. She stopped telling the truth years ago anyway. "I'm fine." After five years of this cycle, she'd tried everything to address what doctors called her "hormonal migraine"... First, her gynecologist switched her birth control three times. Combined pill, then progestin-only, then a hormonal IUD. Each switch came with weeks of waiting to see if the migraines would change. They didn't. Next, her endocrinologist tested her estradiol at multiple points in her cycle. Everything came back "normal for her age." She was told to wait until menopause, the migraines would probably resolve themselves. Then she tried hormone replacement therapy. Estrogen patches. Bioidentical hormones. Progesterone cream. She'd been told by countless practitioners that "stabilizing her hormones" was the answer. Then she tracked her cycle religiously for two years. Every migraine, every period, every ovulation logged. The pattern was supposed to reveal hormonal triggers. It didn't. Her migraines hit on day 4, day 14, day 17, and day 22. They weren't tied to her cycle. They were just there. Magnesium for "menstrual migraines." Vitamin B2. Coenzyme Q10. The supplements every hormonal-headache article online recommended. Some helped slightly. None of them stopped the attacks. By year four, she was on three medications: a triptan for acute attacks, low-dose Topamax for prevention, and an SSRI her psychiatrist prescribed because "perimenopause causes anxiety and the anxiety is probably making your migraines worse." She still had migraines. So she finally came to see me. I spend my days treating migraine cases that most doctors never get clear answers for. Chronic migraine, migraine with aura, vestibular migraine, hemiplegic migraine, I've seen it all. When I examined Diane and reviewed her history, I could tell right away what was happening. And this is the part almost no one explains to patients... Her trigeminal nerve was chronically sensitized. Firing pain signals before the headache ever started. I explained that a migraine doesn't begin with pain. Pain is the last stage. The migraine actually starts 20 to 40 minutes earlier, when the trigeminal nerve, the largest nerve in your head, running from the base of your skull through your temples and behind your eyes, becomes activated and starts sending cascading pain signals. By the time you feel the throbbing, that nerve has been firing for almost an hour. And then I told her something her gynecologist would never have told her, because it wasn't in her gynecologist's specialty to know. Hormones don't cause migraines. They lower the firing threshold of an already-sensitized trigeminal nerve. Estrogen withdrawal, the drop right before your period, the fluctuation in perimenopause, is one of dozens of inputs that determines whether the nerve fires on a given day. But it isn't the cause. The cause is a hyper-reactive trigeminal nerve that fires on inputs a normal nervous system would absorb without noticing. This is why HRT didn't fix her. Why birth control changes didn't fix her. Why "waiting until menopause" wouldn't have fixed her either. Every hormonal intervention was modulating one input on a nerve that fires on twenty. Lower one input and the nerve still fires on the others. And you can't fix a nerve problem with pills that take 30 to 45 minutes to reach your bloodstream. By the time the Excedrin dissolves, gets absorbed, enters the bloodstream, crosses the blood-brain barrier, and reaches the pain receptors, the migraine is fully established. You're an hour behind. And you can't fix a nerve that fires at the surface of your skin with medications that work systemically through your blood. The delivery method is wrong. You're sending relief to the wrong place, arriving at the wrong time. The problem was that Diane needed to calm that nerve at the source. Directly. Immediately. The moment it starts firing, not 45 minutes later. I could see the frustration on her face. She'd spent thousands of dollars and five years of her life chasing a hormonal answer that didn't exist. She asked me if there was anything that actually worked. And that's when I told her about something I'd been developing. See, I'd been seeing the same pattern over and over again in my practice. Smart, desperate women in their 40s and 50s who'd been told the same thing: "it's hormonal, just wait it out." Years of HRT, birth control changes, supplements, and tracking apps. Every treatment trying to stop a migraine that was already fully activated. Nobody addressing the nerve at the moment it starts firing. So I focused on something most treatments ignore entirely: calming the trigeminal nerve topically, right where it surfaces closest to the skin: at the temples, behind the ears, and at the base of the skull. That's when I developed a topical roll-on formula using specific compounds studied for their neurological calming properties. Magnesium Glycinate - applied topically, it stabilizes nerve excitability and reduces the firing that triggers the pain cascade. Critically, it does this regardless of what's happening with your estrogen, progesterone, or thyroid levels. The nerve doesn't care about your hormones. The nerve responds to magnesium at the contact point. Wild Peppermint and Menthol Crystals create an immediate cooling sensation that interrupts the pain signal at the nerve surface, not by numbing it, but by activating competing sensory pathways that quiet the pain transmission. Chamomile calms the peripheral tension that feeds into migraine episodes. And Feverfew Extract, studied for decades for migraine frequency reduction, helps reduce nerve reactivity over time. All five working together, applied directly to where the trigeminal nerve lives, at the moment the migraine begins. Not 45 minutes later through your bloodstream. Seconds later, at the source. I opened my drawer and showed Diane the roll-on. It's called Florus Relief. She was skeptical. After three birth control changes, HRT, supplements, and Topamax, she was supposed to believe a roll-on would help? I told her I understood. And I told her this was one of the rare times I was comfortable saying: if it doesn't help, you get your money back. That's why I back it with a full 90-day guarantee. Feel relief or it's free. So she decided to give it a shot. First time, she felt the familiar pressure starting behind her left eye on a Tuesday afternoon. Instead of reaching for the Excedrin, she rolled Florus across her temples and behind her ears. The cooling hit within seconds. The pressure didn't escalate. It peaked at a 3 and faded by dinner. Second week, she caught three migraines at the first sign. All three stayed below a 4. By week four, she'd gone five consecutive days without a migraine. Hadn't happened in five years. She called my office and the receptionist said she was crying. Now, Diane isn't the only patient I've recommended Florus Relief to. Over 7,405 migraine sufferers have tried it. Women and men who'd been told for years that their migraines were hormonal, genetic, stress-related, or "just bad luck." The majority who use it consistently, applied at the first sign, directly to the trigeminal nerve pathway, report significant improvement within the first few weeks. So if you've been told your migraines are hormonal, perimenopausal, or "your time of life" and you've changed birth control three times, tried HRT, taken every supplement Google recommended, and you're tired of waiting for menopause to maybe save you, you deserve to try something that targets the nerve itself. In seconds. Without entering your bloodstream. Without modulating one more hormone on a nerve that fires regardless of them. Florus Relief is topical, non-invasive, takes 10 seconds to apply, and is backed by a full 90-day guarantee. If this sounds like what you've been dealing with, you can learn more at the link below. → Read The Full Breakdown on Why Hormonal Treatments Don't Reach The Nerve, And What Does (There are cheap imitation roll-ons popping up on Amazon. The real Florus is only at the official site.) P.S. If your gynecologist has told you to "wait until menopause", please understand that the trigeminal nerve does not become less sensitized after menopause. The frequency of attacks may shift, but the underlying mechanism continues. The hormonal answer was never going to be the answer.
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My mother has had Migraines for nineteen years. I am twenty-one and in my second year of nursing school. The nerve has a name. It was a Wednesday at 4 p.m. on my mom's back porch. My name is Megan. I am studying nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also the daughter of a woman who has spent the last nineteen years of her life — most of which has been my life — pressing her fingers at the same three points on her face every time a Migraine started. My mom Linda is 52. She teaches AP English at the high school I went to. She started having Migraines a few months after I turned two. I do not have a memory of her without them. I want to tell you the medication list my mother has been through, because if you have been through anything close to it I want you to know somebody is reading it and feeling the same way I did when I finally sat down and wrote it out. Excedrin Migraine, four to five times a week, for years. Until her neurologist told her she had Medication Overuse Headache and the painkillers themselves were part of the cycle. Topamax for twelve years. She forgot the names of her own students. She forgot the title of a Shakespeare play she had been teaching for a decade. She came off it. Propranolol. Her blood pressure dropped so low she fainted at my high school graduation in 2022. She came off it. Amitriptyline. She gained thirty pounds and slept fourteen hours a day. She came off it. Triptans worked for a few years and then stopped. Botox at thirty-one injection sites across her forehead, temples, and neck every twelve weeks. Eight rounds. My dad drove her to the appointments because she could not drive afterward. And as of fourteen months ago, a CGRP inhibitor that costs $720 a month before insurance. Her copay is $35. Her insurance pays the rest. The CGRP brought her Migraine days down from twelve a month to eight. Her neurologist called that a "meaningful clinical response." Eight Migraine days a month was the response they were calling meaningful. I came home for spring break in March. I had a clinical anatomy exam on Tuesday morning of that week. I was on my mom and dad's back porch with my flash cards on Wednesday at 4 p.m. My mom was in the chair across from me reading the New York Times and pressing her right temple absently. I was holding up a card with the trigeminal nerve on it. V1, V2, V3. The three branches. The diagram showed the nerve running through the temples, behind the ears, and down to the base of the skull. My mom looked over at the card. She said "What's that nerve called." I told her. Trigeminal. Largest cranial nerve in the face. Three main branches. Runs through the temples, behind the ears, base of the skull. She said "I have never heard that word before in my life." I am going to say what I said next exactly as I said it because I have replayed it in my head a hundred times. I said "Mom. That is the nerve causing your Migraines. That is literally the first thing they teach us about Migraine in school." She set down the newspaper. I want you to understand what was happening in my chest right then. I am a second-year nursing student. My mother had been to four neurologists in nineteen years. Each one of them had spent years and around $200,000 of training to learn what to call that nerve. Not one of them had said it to her. I pulled out my laptop and I sat on the back porch with my mother for the next three hours and I walked her through what I had been learning in clinicals. The trigeminal nerve becomes sensitized in Migraine sufferers. It begins firing 20 to 40 minutes before any pain. That is what nursing school calls the prodrome window. The aura. The slight pressure. The strange smell. The mood drop my dad had been telling me about for years. By the time my mom felt the pain, the nerve had been firing for almost an hour. By the time she took an Excedrin or a Sumatriptan, the pill needed another 45 minutes to absorb through her stomach, cross her bloodstream, and reach the trigeminal pathway. By the time the medication arrived, the storm was already over the house. I told her every medication she had been on worked downstream of that cascade. Triptans constrict blood vessels after the cascade has already triggered them. CGRP blockers neutralize a signaling protein after it has been released. Botox interrupts pain signal transmission, not nerve initiation. Topamax sedates the central nervous system at the cost of cognition. Then I told her about Medication Overuse Headache. Taking Triptans more than ten days a month, or Excedrin more than fifteen, trains the trigeminal nerve to fire more easily. My mom said "Megan. I was on Excedrin three to four times a week for six years." I said "I know, Mom." My dad came out onto the porch around 7 p.m. He had been making us dinner. He saw both of us sitting there with our hands in our laps. He said "What happened." My mom said "Our daughter knew the answer." That night after dinner, I showed my mom a paper my anatomy professor had referenced in lecture two weeks earlier. A research letter by a neurologist named Dr. Fiora Laurent. Dr. Laurent has been writing for years about topical access to the trigeminal nerve at the three points where it surfaces closest to the skin. Temples. Behind the ears. Base of the skull. 2 millimeters under the surface. Topical reaches the nerve in 90 seconds — no 45-minute stomach detour. Dr. Laurent had built a roll-on around five ingredients. Magnesium glycinate. Wild peppermint. Menthol crystals. Chamomile. Feverfew extract. It was called Florus. I ordered a bottle for my mom on her phone that night before I went back to school. I have been getting weekly updates from her since. Week 1: she caught two prodromes with it. Neither became a full Migraine. She said the cooling "reached deeper than skin." Week 2: she caught three. All three stopped. Week 4: she stopped carrying Excedrin in her purse for the first time since 2009. Week 8: my mom went to her own school's spring concert. She had been the AP English teacher who sat in the back near the door for the last seven years because she always assumed she would have to leave halfway through. She sat in the third row this time. She stayed for the whole concert. Last week she called me at school. She had been to her neurologist follow-up. The neurologist had pulled up her log, looked at the numbers, and asked her what she had changed. My mom told her — about the trigeminal nerve, the prodrome window, the application points, the topical formula. The neurologist closed the chart and said "keep doing what you are doing." My mom said she did not bring up the fact that this neurologist had been treating her for seven years without saying the word trigeminal. She said she did not have the heart for it. I am writing this because there is somebody reading this whose mother has been on the same medication carousel mine has and has also never heard the word. I am not your nurse. I am not anybody's nurse yet. I am a 21-year-old in my second year of school who happened to be on my mom's back porch with the right flash card. I am going to tell you what I told my mom. The trigeminal nerve is real. The prodrome window is real. The application points are real. The mechanism is in every nursing school curriculum in the country and somehow it is not in most of the neurology appointments my mom has sat in. 7,405 five-star reviews. 90-day money-back guarantee. If it does not work, you send it back. Your mother loses nothing. 👉 https://florusrelief.com/blogs/news/every-migraine-tool-you-have-works-downstream-of-the-source-here-is-what-works-at-it P.S. I passed my anatomy exam on the Tuesday morning. My professor wrote "keep going, you're a natural" at the top of the exam. I am going to be a nurse in two years. My mother does not have to wait that long anymore. P.P.S. I want to warn you about something my pharmacology professor mentioned in lecture last week. There are knockoffs of Florus on Amazon that look almost identical to the real bottle. They use synthetic peppermint fragrance oil. They do not contain therapeutic-grade magnesium glycinate or real feverfew extract. My professor said two of his own family members had tried the cheap version, decided it did not work, and almost did not try the real one. The real Florus is only sold on the official site. The link above is the right one, I just checked it before posting.
My mother had not heard the word trigeminal. My mother had been on Topamax for twelve years. My mother had been pressing her fingers on the three places the nerve surfaces for half her life. My nursing school flash card said the word she had been waiting for. My name is Megan. I am studying nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also the daughter of a woman who has spent the last nineteen years of her life — most of which has been my life — pressing her fingers at the same three points on her face every time a Migraine started. My mom Linda is 52. She teaches AP English at the high school I went to. She started having Migraines a few months after I turned two. I do not have a memory of her without them. I want to tell you the medication list my mother has been through, because if you have been through anything close to it I want you to know somebody is reading it and feeling the same way I did when I finally sat down and wrote it out. Excedrin Migraine, four to five times a week, for years. Until her neurologist told her she had Medication Overuse Headache and the painkillers themselves were part of the cycle. Topamax for twelve years. She forgot the names of her own students. She forgot the title of a Shakespeare play she had been teaching for a decade. She came off it. Propranolol. Her blood pressure dropped so low she fainted at my high school graduation in 2022. She came off it. Amitriptyline. She gained thirty pounds and slept fourteen hours a day. She came off it. Triptans worked for a few years and then stopped. Botox at thirty-one injection sites across her forehead, temples, and neck every twelve weeks. Eight rounds. My dad drove her to the appointments because she could not drive afterward. And as of fourteen months ago, a CGRP inhibitor that costs $720 a month before insurance. Her copay is $35. Her insurance pays the rest. The CGRP brought her Migraine days down from twelve a month to eight. Her neurologist called that a "meaningful clinical response." Eight Migraine days a month was the response they were calling meaningful. I came home for spring break in March. I had a clinical anatomy exam on Tuesday morning of that week. I was on my mom and dad's back porch with my flash cards on Wednesday at 4 p.m. My mom was in the chair across from me reading the New York Times and pressing her right temple absently. I was holding up a card with the trigeminal nerve on it. V1, V2, V3. The three branches. The diagram showed the nerve running through the temples, behind the ears, and down to the base of the skull. My mom looked over at the card. She said "What's that nerve called." I told her. Trigeminal. Largest cranial nerve in the face. Three main branches. Runs through the temples, behind the ears, base of the skull. She said "I have never heard that word before in my life." I am going to say what I said next exactly as I said it because I have replayed it in my head a hundred times. I said "Mom. That is the nerve causing your Migraines. That is literally the first thing they teach us about Migraine in school." She set down the newspaper. I want you to understand what was happening in my chest right then. I am a second-year nursing student. My mother had been to four neurologists in nineteen years. Each one of them had spent years and around $200,000 of training to learn what to call that nerve. Not one of them had said it to her. I pulled out my laptop and I sat on the back porch with my mother for the next three hours and I walked her through what I had been learning in clinicals. The trigeminal nerve becomes sensitized in Migraine sufferers. It begins firing 20 to 40 minutes before any pain. That is what nursing school calls the prodrome window. The aura. The slight pressure. The strange smell. The mood drop my dad had been telling me about for years. By the time my mom felt the pain, the nerve had been firing for almost an hour. By the time she took an Excedrin or a Sumatriptan, the pill needed another 45 minutes to absorb through her stomach, cross her bloodstream, and reach the trigeminal pathway. By the time the medication arrived, the storm was already over the house. I told her every medication she had been on worked downstream of that cascade. Triptans constrict blood vessels after the cascade has already triggered them. CGRP blockers neutralize a signaling protein after it has been released. Botox interrupts pain signal transmission, not nerve initiation. Topamax sedates the central nervous system at the cost of cognition. Then I told her about Medication Overuse Headache. Taking Triptans more than ten days a month, or Excedrin more than fifteen, trains the trigeminal nerve to fire more easily. My mom said "Megan. I was on Excedrin three to four times a week for six years." I said "I know, Mom." My dad came out onto the porch around 7 p.m. He had been making us dinner. He saw both of us sitting there with our hands in our laps. He said "What happened." My mom said "Our daughter knew the answer." That night after dinner, I showed my mom a paper my anatomy professor had referenced in lecture two weeks earlier. A research letter by a neurologist named Dr. Fiora Laurent. Dr. Laurent has been writing for years about topical access to the trigeminal nerve at the three points where it surfaces closest to the skin. Temples. Behind the ears. Base of the skull. 2 millimeters under the surface. Topical reaches the nerve in 90 seconds — no 45-minute stomach detour. Dr. Laurent had built a roll-on around five ingredients. Magnesium glycinate. Wild peppermint. Menthol crystals. Chamomile. Feverfew extract. It was called Florus. I ordered a bottle for my mom on her phone that night before I went back to school. I have been getting weekly updates from her since. Week 1: she caught two prodromes with it. Neither became a full Migraine. She said the cooling "reached deeper than skin." Week 2: she caught three. All three stopped. Week 4: she stopped carrying Excedrin in her purse for the first time since 2009. Week 8: my mom went to her own school's spring concert. She had been the AP English teacher who sat in the back near the door for the last seven years because she always assumed she would have to leave halfway through. She sat in the third row this time. She stayed for the whole concert. Last week she called me at school. She had been to her neurologist follow-up. The neurologist had pulled up her log, looked at the numbers, and asked her what she had changed. My mom told her — about the trigeminal nerve, the prodrome window, the application points, the topical formula. The neurologist closed the chart and said "keep doing what you are doing." My mom said she did not bring up the fact that this neurologist had been treating her for seven years without saying the word trigeminal. She said she did not have the heart for it. I am writing this because there is somebody reading this whose mother has been on the same medication carousel mine has and has also never heard the word. I am not your nurse. I am not anybody's nurse yet. I am a 21-year-old in my second year of school who happened to be on my mom's back porch with the right flash card. I am going to tell you what I told my mom. The trigeminal nerve is real. The prodrome window is real. The application points are real. The mechanism is in every nursing school curriculum in the country and somehow it is not in most of the neurology appointments my mom has sat in. 7,405 five-star reviews. 90-day money-back guarantee. If it does not work, you send it back. Your mother loses nothing. 👉 https://florusrelief.com/blogs/news/every-migraine-tool-you-have-works-downstream-of-the-source-here-is-what-works-at-it P.S. I passed my anatomy exam on the Tuesday morning. My professor wrote "keep going, you're a natural" at the top of the exam. I am going to be a nurse in two years. My mother does not have to wait that long anymore. P.P.S. I want to warn you about something my pharmacology professor mentioned in lecture last week. There are knockoffs of Florus on Amazon that look almost identical to the real bottle. They use synthetic peppermint fragrance oil. They do not contain therapeutic-grade magnesium glycinate or real feverfew extract. My professor said two of his own family members had tried the cheap version, decided it did not work, and almost did not try the real one. The real Florus is only sold on the official site. The link above is the right one, I just checked it before posting.
I am 21 and learning the words my mother spent 19 years not being told. My mother is 52 and being told the words I just learned in my second-year clinicals. My name is Megan. I am studying nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also the daughter of a woman who has spent the last nineteen years of her life — most of which has been my life — pressing her fingers at the same three points on her face every time a Migraine started. My mom Linda is 52. She teaches AP English at the high school I went to. She started having Migraines a few months after I turned two. I do not have a memory of her without them. I want to tell you the medication list my mother has been through, because if you have been through anything close to it I want you to know somebody is reading it and feeling the same way I did when I finally sat down and wrote it out. Excedrin Migraine, four to five times a week, for years. Until her neurologist told her she had Medication Overuse Headache and the painkillers themselves were part of the cycle. Topamax for twelve years. She forgot the names of her own students. She forgot the title of a Shakespeare play she had been teaching for a decade. She came off it. Propranolol. Her blood pressure dropped so low she fainted at my high school graduation in 2022. She came off it. Amitriptyline. She gained thirty pounds and slept fourteen hours a day. She came off it. Triptans worked for a few years and then stopped. Botox at thirty-one injection sites across her forehead, temples, and neck every twelve weeks. Eight rounds. My dad drove her to the appointments because she could not drive afterward. And as of fourteen months ago, a CGRP inhibitor that costs $720 a month before insurance. Her copay is $35. Her insurance pays the rest. The CGRP brought her Migraine days down from twelve a month to eight. Her neurologist called that a "meaningful clinical response." Eight Migraine days a month was the response they were calling meaningful. I came home for spring break in March. I had a clinical anatomy exam on Tuesday morning of that week. I was on my mom and dad's back porch with my flash cards on Wednesday at 4 p.m. My mom was in the chair across from me reading the New York Times and pressing her right temple absently. I was holding up a card with the trigeminal nerve on it. V1, V2, V3. The three branches. The diagram showed the nerve running through the temples, behind the ears, and down to the base of the skull. My mom looked over at the card. She said "What's that nerve called." I told her. Trigeminal. Largest cranial nerve in the face. Three main branches. Runs through the temples, behind the ears, base of the skull. She said "I have never heard that word before in my life." I am going to say what I said next exactly as I said it because I have replayed it in my head a hundred times. I said "Mom. That is the nerve causing your Migraines. That is literally the first thing they teach us about Migraine in school." She set down the newspaper. I want you to understand what was happening in my chest right then. I am a second-year nursing student. My mother had been to four neurologists in nineteen years. Each one of them had spent years and around $200,000 of training to learn what to call that nerve. Not one of them had said it to her. I pulled out my laptop and I sat on the back porch with my mother for the next three hours and I walked her through what I had been learning in clinicals. The trigeminal nerve becomes sensitized in Migraine sufferers. It begins firing 20 to 40 minutes before any pain. That is what nursing school calls the prodrome window. The aura. The slight pressure. The strange smell. The mood drop my dad had been telling me about for years. By the time my mom felt the pain, the nerve had been firing for almost an hour. By the time she took an Excedrin or a Sumatriptan, the pill needed another 45 minutes to absorb through her stomach, cross her bloodstream, and reach the trigeminal pathway. By the time the medication arrived, the storm was already over the house. I told her every medication she had been on worked downstream of that cascade. Triptans constrict blood vessels after the cascade has already triggered them. CGRP blockers neutralize a signaling protein after it has been released. Botox interrupts pain signal transmission, not nerve initiation. Topamax sedates the central nervous system at the cost of cognition. Then I told her about Medication Overuse Headache. Taking Triptans more than ten days a month, or Excedrin more than fifteen, trains the trigeminal nerve to fire more easily. My mom said "Megan. I was on Excedrin three to four times a week for six years." I said "I know, Mom." My dad came out onto the porch around 7 p.m. He had been making us dinner. He saw both of us sitting there with our hands in our laps. He said "What happened." My mom said "Our daughter knew the answer." That night after dinner, I showed my mom a paper my anatomy professor had referenced in lecture two weeks earlier. A research letter by a neurologist named Dr. Fiora Laurent. Dr. Laurent has been writing for years about topical access to the trigeminal nerve at the three points where it surfaces closest to the skin. Temples. Behind the ears. Base of the skull. 2 millimeters under the surface. Topical reaches the nerve in 90 seconds — no 45-minute stomach detour. Dr. Laurent had built a roll-on around five ingredients. Magnesium glycinate. Wild peppermint. Menthol crystals. Chamomile. Feverfew extract. It was called Florus. I ordered a bottle for my mom on her phone that night before I went back to school. I have been getting weekly updates from her since. Week 1: she caught two prodromes with it. Neither became a full Migraine. She said the cooling "reached deeper than skin." Week 2: she caught three. All three stopped. Week 4: she stopped carrying Excedrin in her purse for the first time since 2009. Week 8: my mom went to her own school's spring concert. She had been the AP English teacher who sat in the back near the door for the last seven years because she always assumed she would have to leave halfway through. She sat in the third row this time. She stayed for the whole concert. Last week she called me at school. She had been to her neurologist follow-up. The neurologist had pulled up her log, looked at the numbers, and asked her what she had changed. My mom told her — about the trigeminal nerve, the prodrome window, the application points, the topical formula. The neurologist closed the chart and said "keep doing what you are doing." My mom said she did not bring up the fact that this neurologist had been treating her for seven years without saying the word trigeminal. She said she did not have the heart for it. I am writing this because there is somebody reading this whose mother has been on the same medication carousel mine has and has also never heard the word. I am not your nurse. I am not anybody's nurse yet. I am a 21-year-old in my second year of school who happened to be on my mom's back porch with the right flash card. I am going to tell you what I told my mom. The trigeminal nerve is real. The prodrome window is real. The application points are real. The mechanism is in every nursing school curriculum in the country and somehow it is not in most of the neurology appointments my mom has sat in. 7,405 five-star reviews. 90-day money-back guarantee. If it does not work, you send it back. Your mother loses nothing. 👉 https://florusrelief.com/blogs/news/every-migraine-tool-you-have-works-downstream-of-the-source-here-is-what-works-at-it P.S. I passed my anatomy exam on the Tuesday morning. My professor wrote "keep going, you're a natural" at the top of the exam. I am going to be a nurse in two years. My mother does not have to wait that long anymore. P.P.S. I want to warn you about something my pharmacology professor mentioned in lecture last week. There are knockoffs of Florus on Amazon that look almost identical to the real bottle. They use synthetic peppermint fragrance oil. They do not contain therapeutic-grade magnesium glycinate or real feverfew extract. My professor said two of his own family members had tried the cheap version, decided it did not work, and almost did not try the real one. The real Florus is only sold on the official site. The link above is the right one, I just checked it before posting.
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