M is for migraine, I've had off and on since yesterday...

Send me your cures.

I've tried coffee, Ibuprofin, Sudafed, hot steamy showers and can't seem to get rid of it for good. The top of my head hurts...Haven't had one like that before; and I don't think anybody really hit me over the head with a shovel.

and take a nap to try and recover.

I hate them. They will wipe you out. The visual disturbances, the nausea, the incredible stabbing pain.

Hope you get some relief soon.

It's so odd.

I'm going to try that right now. :hug: Thanks.

Well, since Saturday night actually. Had one beer and one glass of wine, then it hit. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to them, no pattern but apparently alcohol is at least sometimes a trigger.

All I do is try to sleep. Which is hard because lying down actually seems to hurt worse for some reason.

Right where that depression is between neck and skull.

Try it.

last week that nasal spray helped. Another said B2 (Riboflavin)...

A third person mentioned a Rx drug that helped her.

Hope you get some relief soon. p

also copious amounts of Advil. Sorry you're hurting, my friend. :hug: Hope you're feeling better soon!

I've had one too. The nausea is almost as bad as the headache itself. Believe it or not, sleeping a lot, no matter how much you need to make it go away, or at least laying down is the best thing I have found for a migraine.

Sorry that I can't remember the name of it, but your doc would know.

Gentle :hug: to you.

whimpering, tylenol, motrin, sleep, cold rag on neck, caffeine, shit...

only had a couple of what i might call migraines, one was coming on today, had trouble with light. better now, but can still feel it.

:hug:

I had one today, too. I can at least trace mine to the fact that I've been at the State Fair the last few days eating all manner of nasty sh!t and being in the sunshine for far longer than I'm used to. Mine today sent me back to bed with an aspirin, an eye mask and the air conditioner. It's been hot here. The single most important investment for migraine sufferers, in my mind, IS the eye mask. It deadens light like nothing. I got mine at Bed, Bath and Beyond and it is always in my nightstand, just in case.

Funny thing of mine is that they lessen their iron-clad grip just after sundown. Like right now, I'm semi-fine; not nauseous, the stabbing pain is gone, and I begin to remember that eventually I'll feel normal. I can't do Tylenol or Advil; in some bizarre way of the universe, they make it worse. So it's straight aspirin and rest. That is all the advice I have...

I think. I hope.... :yoiks:

Hope you're feeling better now! :hug:

Went out Tuesday; the migraine was gone by late Monday night. Yay. It's interesting, how they go; when I was younger, it was two days, no exceptions. Now I have them from anywhere to 12 hours to 24 hours, but rarely longer. I often wonder why that is.

Thanks for your response. Hope you're better too. :-)

I know it sounds strange, but I've tried everything and this is the only thing that works for me outside of massive quantities of opiates.

Get a friend to do this for you, as long as it takes. Have them really work the pressure points in the meat of your thumb and in between the fingers (pinch just below the webbing). It works best if it hurts a bit (or more). My girlfriend taught me this technique and it has been a lifesaver.

I know nothing about accupressure, so if someone wants to explain why this works, I'd love to hear it.

Some people are helped by magnesium supplemements. There's a lidocaine nasal spray that helps some, prescription only. Merck may be coming out with a new drug that's in phase 3 trials right now, so keep an eye out for that. I'm a migraine researcher. Migraine is sadly underfunded and dominated by Pharma. Just like the rest of medical research will be if funding trends don't change soon.

Not cheap, but totally worth it.

Last day before the audit, and yesterday...THE MIGRAINE JUST WENT AWAY. Disappeared slowly like ground fog burning off over about an hour or two. It tried to kill me for about a week this time before it gave up and went away.

I am sympatico, compadre.

Unfortunately, the only thing that REALLY works for me is prescription pain killers: Percodan, Darvon, Vicodin. Demerol works but is hard to get and puts you to sleep. I have been parsing out my stash of meds VERY SLOWLY. Percs are gone. Three Darvons left. About 20 Vic's but they shut down my digestive tract: a last resort before suicide.

I wish you well.

And my stomach was almost as bad as my head, so I couldn't even consider it as an option.

It is the only thing that works for me. Gets rid of the pain, but also seems to inhibit brain wave activity. So my choices are not being able to work 'cuz my brain hurts, or not being able to work 'cuz my brain is asleep. I usually choose the no pain, no brain option!

I tend to get sinus pressure which leads to migraine. I take a Benedryl and it works better than any pain med. If it's caused by other factors, hormonal for example, then, I would take advil on first sign of headache, and get right into a dark quiet room. Sometimes, when Advil doesn't cut it, (waited too long) or a dark quiet room is not practical, Immetrex (Prescription) works very well for me most of the time. When all else fails, like last Sunday, total incapacitation inevitable, nausea, dizziness, etc... tears, you pray your doc has prescriped synthetic morphine and you just go to bed and ride it out. It sucks.

I'm going to bookmark this thread just in case I'm in for an encore performance. :grouphug:

I've suffered with migraines for a couple of years and never found a really effective non-prescription way to get rid of them. I try to sleep them off. I understand that ice helps too.
I found that certain foods triggered them and try to avoid them. Do you know your triggers?

:( :hug: I've been getting really bad ones lately too. The only thing that works for me is coffee (at work) or sleep, because I'm allergic to just about everything I could take for it.

Eucalyptus beads. I swear by them. You can buy the beads in jars, which you just open and inhale. I don't know why they help me, but they do.

My doctor has given other remedies as well. Hot washcloths over the eyes, painkillers, chocolate (really), and stimulating pressure points. Sometimes, though, mine get so bad that only vomiting rids me of them.