Posted 4/10/2016 5:23 PM (GMT -5)
Hello! I've been experiencing migraines with aura for a few years now ever since I was about eleven or twelve. I haven't had a major episode (knock on figurative wood) since I was fifteen (I'm nearly nineteen now), which makes me believe my main trigger was probably hormone related since, as a female, most of my migraines occurred around either before, during, or after my period. Once I started taking norethindrone a short time after my last episode for painful cramps I was also experiencing, my migraines basically disappeared. I still get the occasional headache, but since then I haven't had the aura and awful pain.
So after that extremely long introduction, I have a question to ask. I'd like to start burning incense every now and then, but have heard it can be a trigger for migraines. I'm terrified of getting one again, so I figured I'd post to a forum & see what advice people had to offer before trying it out myself. I'm completely fine with perfumes & in fact love wearing fragrant lotions & the like, so I seem to be okay there, but I still want to be sure. If I'm okay with perfume, will I be okay with incense? Thanks in advance & have a swell day! ^-^