Migraines

[PatsFan34]

Like some slammed an ice pick in my right or left temple.

Now add nausea and unclear spotty vision (stare at a bright light for a few second and then look away).

Sounds familiar!!!

 

[flexygrl]

I get them every other month, ya know during my "girlie" time. But this week I had one that started on Monday and finally ended today! After taking a million Tylenols, aleve and tylenol PM to get to sleep, I asked one of my co-workers for some excedrine, and bam within 30 minutes it was gone!! What a relief! It was so bad today that I had to close my eyes and take a 20 minute nap in my office.

 

[vinylgroover]

I get them once a week........unless i hit them with ibuprofen early, i'm useless for the rest of the day. Not a pleasant thing at all

 

[Kaksback]

go to a chiropractor...trust me..

 

[Kaksback]

hey velvett..are you in NYC?

look up doctor Joe Caruso...he's awesome..tell him you have a good friend that met him when he spoke at Logan College..
i gaurantee he fixes your migraines so that they stay away
he'll hook you up

 

[vinylgroover]

go to a chiropractor...trust me..

I have read and heard that alot of migraines are caused by underlying back and neck problems.

 

[Red Shadow]

I'm a migraine sufferer too. Mine are triggered by glare or bright lights. The sun makes things very glarey (like car windows in the morning, or the sun shining onto my stainless steel kitchen sink) so I don't leave the house without my sunglasses. And if its a really bright day, and I'm in a car or on the train I just have to keep my eyes closed for the duration of the trip, in case I see something really bright. I walk around looking at the ground quite often because I'm afraid of getting a migraine. Camera flashes are also no good.

What happens is, I see something really bright, and when I close my eyes I can still see it. It does not always turn into a migraine but alot of the time it does. My vision in one eye will become distorted so that I can't read, and I will see a big bright ring that looks kind of psychadelic. Then I'll start to see weird wavy lines that look almost electric radiating out of the ring. It's so freaky. Finally that goes away after about 20 minutes or so of lying down in a completely quiet and dark room. Then the nausea and pain arrive... I'll have the headache for up to 4 days, and taking strong over the counter pain killers only helps a bit. After the first day it wont hurt when I'm standing up or sitting up, but if I bend down it hurts so badly that I want to collapse! I start acting like that guy in the movie Pi.

Oh and one other way I get migraines that I discovered a while back now, is going to bed on an empty stomach. I wen't to bed really hungry one night and when I woke up my world was spinning. I couldn't move without feeling nauseous and I had a killer migraine. I think it's because I get hypoglycemic if I don't eat regularly.

I've not had a migraine in about 4 months now and I hope not to ever have one again. I talked to my doctor about it and he perscribed some medication but it was way too expensive for me at that point. So he said that if I'm getting a migraine a cheap alternative would be to have a strong cup of coffee, becausae caffiene is like the main ingredient in migraine medicine. Something about it making the blood vessles in the brain stop swelling or something gross like that

 

[Big Johnson]

I use to get them before I started eating low carb. Now, I eat zero carbs and never get headaches of any kind, let alone the ones that make you wish you could puke.

 

[poultrygeist]

Lifelong cluster headache sufferer here. Ever literally wish you could die the head pain is so bad? Feels like your eye is blowing up for 5 minutes. That's what a cluster headache is like. Try taking some petadolex or feverfew. Petadolex is a little bit stronger and that's what I use. It won't fix a migraine that's already hurting but it helps prevent them or at least keep them from being so debilitating. Very low carb works awesome like Big Johnson said. Low carb + petadolex = no headache in several months for me.

 

[Puddles]

I started with migraines when I was in my teens. The worst were the years after I had my daughter. I'd litterally pass out from the pain. I had developed pre-eclampsia (high bloodpressure) when I was pregnant and after it didn't go away for a few yrs. I was put on b.p. meds. Propanalol was the one thta worked best...a very high dose, but it's also used as a migraine preventative. I also correlated many of the attacks to foods I'd eaten, like orang juice, wine, and sharp aged cheeses. Also, the worst ones were set off by nights of drinking. Certain odors would become untollerable during a migraine, like cig. smoke and perfumes. Light was out of the question...no TV, blinds closed, no computer, etc. Sounds were bad too...even the dull hum of the a/c hurt. The propanalol over years decreased the attacks but I still got them a few times a month. The vomitting was bad and the only thing I could keep down was salty broth or ramen noodle soup. Over the past year I was able to decrease my b.p. med. to the point of not needing it anymore and now the only time I get a migraine is the monthly one...usually only lasts for 1 or 2 days, but the severity is much less. The day it's gone I'm relieved (they usually dissapear during a night of sleep or a nap), but I'm left with migraine hangover. Overheating will also cause them for me, like working outside in the garden...that used to guarantee a migraine after my shower, so now I only do it if it's cooler out. A combination of caffine, Vicodin and muscle relaxants seem to help me best. I'm also using a progesterone cream for the last 2 months and the migraines have been even less severe. After 20+ yrs, they're finally almost gone.