Migraine and how do you deal with it?

Sorry, i have no idea for your problem. to be honest with you, my uncle's son has migraine. I don't know how he deals with it.

I am glad to see you fine. Hope you are feeling better at the moment. Replies will come soon and you will get better solutions.

Take care, Siamese Cat.

 

Lack of sleep trigger mine. Especially if I go without good sleep for a few days (4-6 hours) and then I try making that sleep up. Really bad news.

If I can catch it in time, I'll use BC powder with a full glass of water, and then I'll go to sleep for a few hours. Or longer.

If I don't catch it in time (after I already have that little aura deal) then I'll still take the powder, but the powder will only take some of the edge off. I'll have to lay down in a dark room in a really quiet area for at least 12 hours.

My migraines don't last that long, though. At most they last two days, and the first day is always the worst.

 

My mom had migraines monthly for 50 years. Wavy patches, radiance, flashing, pain, the whole thing. She now takes a dose of an anti-depressant, I forget which one, elavil, maybe? The end result is that she has not had a migraine in the last 9 months. I'll ask her about it to get a more specific answer for you.

 

I don't know what exactly brings on my migraines but the only way I can deal with them is to take an ibeuprofen, turn off all the lights, and fall asleep. Typically i'll feel better (or at least good enough to function) when I wake up.

 

I never know when I'm going to have a migraine. They are difficult for me to identify right away, anyway, because I also get sinus and tension headaches.

Anyway, I usually take the medication I have when they get really bad. I'm sure I take something similar to what you take. Regular ibuprofen is never enough for me, so I take the stuff that basically knocks me out, plus prescribed pain medication. Then, I just shut off all the lights and try to fall asleep. I also use ice packs or Biofreeze sometimes. On the back of my neck and wherever my head hurts at the time.

I've been given a lot of preventitive advice from various doctors. I've been told not to eat a lot of sugar or carbs, not to drink carbonated beverages, not to oversleep, to take more vitamins, and to try improving my balance (apparently, studies show that people who can't stand on one foot for very long tend to have more headaches?). I've also been to a chiropractor, and that helped considerably. I used to get them a lot more frequently, and that wasn't so great for my attendance record in high school.

 

I used to have migraines from about age 13 - 20 roughly once a month. Tunnel vision, half my body would get numb, terrible headache.... medication only seemed to add throwing up to the list of symptoms so basically the only way to deal with them was to turn the lights off and try and sleep. The smell of coffee or drinking coffee would often trigger them. I'm not sure why they stopped but it did seem to coincide with a period in my life when I started drinking lots of alcohol so maybe I killed the right brain cells to fix it

 

Heh. There's one migraine I remember was so bad I wanted to cry...but it hurt too much to produce the tears. I couldn't pay attention to my friend who was talking to me (and we were in a bookstore). I couldn't "hear" her because the pain was so bad. All I could feel was pain.

And I couldn't sleep, because it hurt to lay down and hurt to sit up. It was horrible.

But that was the worst one I ever had. Fortunately I haven't had any that bad ever again.

 

Asprin?

 

Yeah, I hated having them when other people were around. They would jumble my thoughts so bad I couldn't explain what was happening. I remember working as a delivery driver at a flower shop and one triggered in the middle of a delivery. Mine start off with tunnel vision so all of a sudden cars started looking like they were appearing out of no where as they would drive by me. My brain had all it could take trying to focus on driving that by the time I got back I couldn't formulate sentences. I think I said "head", "not coherent", "hurts" and luckily one of the ladies there had a husband who gets migraines and was able to decipher what I was trying to explain.

For myself Asprin would have been like using a band-aid to fix a severed arm.

 

Yeah, I second this. Anyone who gets migraines pretty much knows that popping aspirin is a bit of a joke. =/

 

Yeah. I get them randomly, twice a year on average. They last about 4 hours. My head's real sensitive for a day or so after. Whenever it happens, I just can't do anything else I have to go home, lie down and rest. Maybe I have low pain tolerance.

I have medication that helps it. I'm surprised to see others having it for days. I really hate migraines a lot. It's one of two health problems that really bother me. I get diarrhea pretty easily too.

I knew a co-worker whose husband was fine until he was around age 40. Never had a migraine before. Then one day he started having them.... every day. It's been like that for the last 12 years for him. He can't take painkillers anymore because his liver's already quite weak from taking them so much. Interesting story to me. Some sort of mega health problem like this could happen to anyone.

 

I have actually taken prescriptions for migraines which don't work so well for me.

Have you tried BC powder? It's the nasty stuff you'll ever take, but it's the only thing that gets rid of my headaches (migraine, sinus, etc.). I recommend drinking it with a coke. Dump the BC powder into your mouth and take a swig of coke to wash it down.

My aunt says that chocolate triggers migraines for her. Mine are just rare and random thankfully!

 

Mine are a combination of hormones and weather. I take imitrex, combined with advil and lots of caffeine. I don't normally drink caffeinated drinks, I reserve the caffeine for migraine days, so it really helps. Sometimes they last 2 or 3 days though, and I have to keep taking the meds about every 4 - 5 hours. Luckily I don't get a migraine very often, only about every 2 months or so.

 

Ouch poor you. I don't get migraines so I'm not sure what would help, but sometimes when I get normal headaches a few glasses of plain water help alot. I usually try that before taking medication.

 

My migranes were triggered by weather conditions before major storms - and only in one country I lived in.

I could never 'cure' them, but I could distract myself enough to actually be able to enjoy things:

1. 50/50 mixture of pure lavender and mint oil. The scent molecules in these two oils are identical, except that they are mirror images of each other (stereo isomers). I don't know if that is significant, but their effect is quite helpful... I would soak the stuff into a handkerchief and breath through it.

2. Squeeze the tendon in between your hand and extended thumb hard enough to wince - and keep the preasure on until it goes numb or you can't take it anymore. (on both hands).

3. Drink lots of cool, but not cold water.


This technique helped me a lot.