Tension Migraines

Sawyer

...anyone else get these....I feel like there is a vice squeezing my head. In the process of getting my eyes checked. Hard to teach 24 6th graders when I feel like this and cannot see.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning......

No charge......

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Sawyer wrote:

...anyone else get these....I feel like there is a vice squeezing my head. In the process of getting my eyes checked. Hard to teach 24 6th graders when I feel like this and cannot see.

Go to the doctor...
Get some Imitrex....

Problem solved....

Hopefully......

Steve Dunne

zomig nasal spray. not cheap. hopefully your insurance covers it. it's a prescription. 1 shot will be sufficient IF you catch the headache in time...kind of like the imitrex deal. if not, then 2 shots will absolutely numb the hell out of your head for a few hours.

i've had cluster headaches/migraines for over 20 years now, and this is the only thing that relieves the headache...aside from the whole 'lying down in a dark room with complete silence for 12 hours' bit.

marcos

I've suffered from migraines most of my life and have tried numerous medicines. Be very carefull with the drugs. Imitrex and zomig did not work for me. Different drugs work for different people. You should contact a headache clinic in your city and work with a specialist.

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Yes, I have these ALL the time. It really inhibits my productivity. I was just considering gettin a prescription for Imitrex, which my sister recommended. Hadn't heard of zomig though. Does that stuff knock you out like Imitrex? I'm getting desperate for a solution here. :(

IJ305747

I suffer from migrains but I chaged my diet and it really helped, no chocolate or anything with additives and lots of water, sounds boring but worth it.

Behind The Sun

Do you smoke?

I suffered from cluster headaches for years. Migraine like they would last from 20 minutes to 2 hours. They could range in pain from a dull roar to incapacitating. I had my eyes checked. I had my teeth checked. Then one day I quit smoking...after 3 weeks I realized they had stopped. Three months later I started smoking again and they came back.

I finally quit smoking on October 26th of 2006.I have not had an issue since. I'm over the addiction to nicotine. It wasn't even as hard as I thought it would be this time. The headaches are gone too.

Cluster headaches are more common in males than in females. They can be triggered in smokers by alcohol, bright lights or loud noises. Thank you God that I no longer need to smoke.

For the best quitting option I ever used, the one that worked for me, please visit the American Lung Associations website and find their quitting program. Do whatever stupid thing it tells you to do.

If you infact don't smoke...disregard everything I have said and see your doctor...It's probably a tumor.

Eddie Birkby

You should get checked out by a specialist headache doctor, once qualified, the average doctor does little more than half a day training on headaches. Most of what is understood about headaches is recent so you can imagine the level of expertise most of us encounter, even a neurologist will specialise in specific types of headache.
My wife has suffered from migraine for about 20 years an recently was dianonsed with chronic cluster headache when she found herself entirely incapacitated several times a day with them. After so long dealing with them she now knowsore than most doctors on the subject. She has tried pretty much every medication around and is currently taking what the neurologist called the dangerous toxic drugs. Some of them seem to work for a while, then she moves on to another.
The damn things have caused her to miss the pj gigs I went to!
We found a charity here in the uk which really helped, I'm sure they'll put you in touch with someone useful in your part of the world. The link is below, it'd be nice if Ten Club linked to the site too.
Anyway all the best, hope this helped.
Www.ouchuk.org
cheers,
Eddie

Steve Dunne

marcos wrote:

I've suffered from migraines most of my life and have tried numerous medicines. Be very carefull with the drugs. Imitrex and zomig did not work for me. Different drugs work for different people. You should contact a headache clinic in your city and work with a specialist.

good post and advice.

zomig pills didn't do a thing for me, nor did imitrex and any other pill. it was the spray that numbed best for me. and quickly. but it is not for the meek. or stupid.

Flagg

Imitrex worked like a charm for me and did not knock me out. But yes, different drugs work for different people as fas as migraines go.

dcfaithful

i suffer from migraines too. Really bad, actually. I expreience aura (a white light obstructing the vision), and they are so intense that i cannot do anything else, the only solution is to vomit and go home and sleep it off...

Recently saw a doctor for it and he gave me a sample of imitrex to try the next time I get one....there hasn't been a next time since, so I'm just waiting for my next migraine in order to try what will only be a trial run.

TravisTheSky

IJ305747 wrote:

I suffer from migrains but I chaged my diet and it really helped, no chocolate or anything with additives and lots of water, sounds boring but worth it.

I agree with IJ. I have many food allergies. One of the first symptoms I get from eating a tiny amount of a trigger food is a mild headache. I was incapacitated by my breathing problems for a decade with the symptoms of undiagnosed food allergy. Unfortunately, all of the doctors I saw just sold me drugs and ran tests with expensive machines. I even consented to one surgery (The doc was keen to perform more.)

Doctors don't make any money off of healthy people. Think about it this way: Something is causing your migraines. If you remove the cause, the disease is gone! That's the real way to a cure, not masking symptoms with meds to ensure that the condition is chronic and lifelong.

Allergies and food chemicals were the two causes of my hell. By switching to organic food and coffee, I cured my severe insomnia, and 26 pounds of fat fell off of me! By figuring out which foods I was allergic to, I cured my breathing problems. An exclusion diet is very easy: Choose an allergen to test for. Let's say wheat. For 4 days, don't eat anything that might contain a trace of wheat. Then on the fifth day, eat a large portion of wheat and see what happens. If nothing happens, try wheat again later in the day. If no symptoms occur on the second day of re-introducing wheat, then wheat is not a problem.

See my blogs for the longer story: http://www.myspace.com/goodnightbrynne Click on "View all blog entries" and scroll down the the earliest ones toward the bottom of the page.

Good Health!

JS81606

I agree wholeheartedly with the food allergy issue as well. I found an article in a local paper, a rag really, and there was a chiropractor, yes a chiropractor, interviewed and telling the story of a number of his patients and how they were helped by his manipulations/ adjustments, they received relief from the migraines. I went. Neat guy, a little strange, yet low and behold, RESULTS!!! What he did was AMAZING! I tell everyone about this cat. Also found out that he did nutrition and the likes, and yep! after a few hundred dollars of testing for food allergies, I found more useful info. I avoid those on the list and what do you know, no more migraines. None! Zero! Can't say enough of how grateful I am to this doc. testimonial, yeah of course, may not be for everyone, but it might not hurt to give a go. Just a suggestion. It worked for me!