Migraines: A testimony of supernatural healing
My name is Kris. I’m a wife, mother of three, and a homemaker. I was born again at the age of eighteen, yet didn’t understand much about the Bible. After my husband and I married, I slowly began to learn more about God and what the Bible says, but didn’t yet know all that God had done for me through Salvation.
Thirteen years ago, I started having terrible headaches. They would start out like a regular headache but within an hour the pain and pressure was so severe that I would become incapacitated and unable to function. I tried all the over the counter pain relievers. At the time, I had no idea prescription pain relievers for headaches/migraines existed. These headaches came randomly every few weeks without warning and would almost always last three full days. As soon as I would feel the pressure in my head build, my first reaction was to freeze in a panic! I’d have to stop whatever I was doing, or leave wherever I was. I’d go into my bedroom, turn off the lights, put blankets over the curtains to darken the room as much as possible and lay under the covers. That’s where I’d be for the next three days. I couldn’t eat, sit up, or walk. My only focus was to sleep as much as possible to get away from the pain.
My husband had to drop whatever he was doing, and pick up the pieces of wherever things were left: dinner, pack lunches, and be in charge of school activities or needs we had while still doing whatever he could for me and keeping up his responsibilities at work.
Because the migraines would last for so long, it wasn’t uncommon for them to happen on days our kids had practices, games, and other school activities. On one occasion, I woke up with pain so severe I couldn’t stand up without wanting to puke. That day was our daughter’s school play hosted at the city courthouse. I knew I wouldn’t have a clue what was going on, but I had to be there. So my husband and I went; I ended up laying down on one of the bench seats like a bed, during the entire play! I knew all the other parents saw me, being seated right next to us, and wondered what kind of mother “sleeps” during their child’s play, but all our daughter knew was that we were there.
Nevertheless, as time went on, the times I couldn’t be available for the kids seemed to be more and more often and laid a heavy load of responsibility on my husband. I began to have a lot of guilt for not being there. I also began to have constant fear and anxiety about every upcoming event.
A reprieve
By this time I had learned some about divine healing and I even experienced some individual breakthroughs of healing, but my only concern was the pain at the moment, not the chronic condition, and therefore, I continued to have what I finally understood to be migraines; keeping me from family, friends, and from doing the things I wanted.
I decided to see our family doctor. He gave me a sample of a migraine reliever and said; “if this helps, you’re having migraines”. I had begun to feel the pain coming on during that visit and had planned on going out to dinner afterward. So I tried it, and within just a few minutes, all of the pain and pressure in my head was gone! So I took it whenever the pain would come on and get relief.
I had now adjusted to life with migraines, although I was certain that it wasn’t God’s will for me to have to.
As time went on, the migraines became more frequent, and the current medication less effective. Although I began to add other medications, nothing new helped. Soon I was having migraines which medicine didn’t help at all. Little by little, I was losing my freedom again.
Turn for the worse
Then in March, 2014, things immediately changed for the worse. It was as if I woke up one day and the pain I had fought for so long to keep at bay-had made permanent residence in my head. This began the most difficult time of my life, and progressively grew worse over the next five years.
I still wanted to believe one day I would be healed supernaturally and knew it was God’s best, but I felt so bad most of the time, that I was unable to take care of daily activities for long periods of time, or focus on my relationship with God. I sought medical help even more aggressively but nothing else was effective.
The single abortive medication which provided some relief became my daily regimen, but the pain would always return 24 hours later, like clockwork, often not taking away all the pain. Without realizing it, I found myself taking it for the next 5 years.
I also began having other symptoms of complex migraines: bouts of dizziness or vertigo for days or a week at a time, language difficulties, like mixing words or trouble remembering words, slurred speech, confusion and muscle weakness often causing me to fall.
Progressively, the pain started to come back sooner and sooner and often lingered. It was as if my life was in a downward spiral. The chronic pain controlled every day. My days were measured by how long I could tolerate the pain so I wouldn’t “use up” the few hours of relief the medication provided. There were hours each day that I was completely nonfunctional or nights of constant pain.
My unavailability to my family and other responsibilities continued to change the dynamics of the house. Just surviving a day became effort and guilt was my constant companion.
I continued to have breakthrough migraines, which the medicine didn’t relieve at all, and urgent care visits became so frequent, the doctors began to tell me they wouldn’t be able to treat me again.
Of course, by this time, I had exhausted the conventional treatments and had seen neurologists and pain management specialists for more aggressive pain relievers, and drugs like opioids to the point that even those weren’t having any affect. Beyond the pain, the other symptoms continued, causing me to fear having to even leave the house. My days and nights were limited to maybe a few hours that I could function enough to do some basic things at home or even sleep. Simple household chores, dinner, laundry, were difficult to keep up, and at the mercy of how well I could function at the time it needed to be done.
Healing journey begins: April, 2019
The more I grew in my relationship with the Lord and my understanding of His perfect and loving will for my life, the more difficult it became to “accept” living with something that was devastating my life. I could have continued to seek medical help, but I knew I needed to seek God instead. I was determined to receive my healing!
I got rid of the medications and pain relievers. Instead of using the time I was feeling well enough to do chores, cleaning, etc. I spent whatever “functional” times I had renewing my mind to God’s Word. My days were spent watching videos of faith teachers, and listening to messages from ministers like Creflo Dollar, Barry Bennett, and Andrew Wommack.
Daily, I confessed scriptures on healing and deliverance, reminding myself that healing is a finished work of the cross and that it had already been given to me right now. At first, the pain would leave for a couple hours, and then come back. As soon as it did, I’d stop whatever I was doing, go into my bedroom, close the door and instead of panic, and running from the pain, I would run to God and thank Him that he’s already taken the pain away. I put on worship songs and praised Him, and took time throughout the day to pray, especially, praying in tongues.
This kept me in a place of peace and rest, knowing the pain had to go because Jesus Christ already took it in my place. I would do this each and every time, until the pain left.
My attitude changed from one of being controlled by the pain, to taking my authority that God has given me to stand against and resist the pain and all the other symptoms.
This became my daily routine, and what all my attention was focused on; spending time in my Father’s presence and constantly renewing my mind to His love. It became my place of refuge and strength.
For the first time in 5 years, I went 24 hours without pain in my head! Praise God. A day turned into two, and eventually a week. I began to function again, being able to do the things I couldn’t before, then a few weeks. Each time the pain, pressure, dizziness, or any of the other symptoms returned, I took the promises from scripture of being delivered from sickness and disease (Psalm 107:20, Psalm 103:1-5, 1 Peter 2:24) and spoke them over my body, expecting it. I continued to be able to do more things at home, going out more often, and eventually took a trip to London.
That is not to say it was an easy fight of faith; focusing on the truth of God’s promises instead of my feelings or circumstances. There were times the symptoms didn’t leave immediately or the pain got worse instead of better. I labored to rest by keeping myself in the love of God, believing in His goodness, and taking Him at His word.
Today, I am free from complex migraines and all its symptoms, praise God!
This is a testimony to God’s goodness and faithfulness, and just simply, my realization of it! All glory and praise to you God! What He has done for me, He has done for you! Amen