Migraines....

CHANGEinWAVES

i think OREOS may be a trigger .... had a migraine from hell yesterday and all day today, and they were the one different thing I had!

:(:(:(:(:(

Indian Summer

migraines are just a normal headache for weaklings who can't handle a little pain.

CHANGEinWAVES

Indian Summer wrote:

migraines are just a normal headache for weaklings who can't handle a little pain.

naaa.... i get reg. head aches too.
believe me I can handle pain too:)
just don't like puking from migraines. :rolleyes:

mookie blaylock 10

who gets them? me

what are your triggers? pretty much could be anything. sometime they hit fast, sometimes they are long and drawn out. my longest lasted eight days.

what has worked to get rid of them? marijuana

mookie blaylock 10

Indian Summer wrote:

migraines are just a normal headache for weaklings who can't handle a little pain.

very easy for someone who hasn't had one to say.

gobrowns19

Another unfortunate here. I tend to get them most when I don't eat or drink adequately enough, or am in front of a tv, computer, or text too long. [Just typing and thinking about this and I can feel that slight twang.] It's always in one of two exact spots. I'd be interested if others have the same exact spots they always occur in.

I get what most other people mentioned. I become incredibly nauseous, can't think, can't move or see or hear anything. If it's bad enough in the one spot I lose vision in my right eye temporarily.

The things that help-

Throwing up.
Ice on the back of my head by the neck [I know others have said heat, but ice works for me]
Dark Room
Must be really really cold
Try to keep my eyes still, it will feel like my eyes are darting around when they are not, try to focus as hard as you can as staring into nothing
Imagining certain scenes [like your daily morning routine, think of everything in extreme detail, the way you whip your blankets off, what foot you'll take out of bed first, etc all while 'staring into nothing.']

I've only ever done this a few times when it's been extremely bad, but Marijuana helps. To the OP and others, it's a decision based on you and your morals, but if you're like me, sometimes it comes down to either that or a knife through your eye sockets.

Another that is kind of embarrassing, but if you know one is coming on, an orgasm helps 80% of the time.

CHANGEinWAVES

gobrowns19 wrote:

If it's bad enough in the one spot I lose vision in my right eye temporarily.

it's my right eye that I lose vision in too.

gobrowns19 wrote:

Another that is kind of embarrassing, but if you know one is coming on, an orgasm helps 80% of the time.

hmmmm

Stella

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

very easy for someone who hasn't had one to say.

Agreed! It's one of my pet peeves. As a customer service person (once upon a time) i say to a lady "how are you going today?" - "Oh terrible, I have a mirgraine".
If you have a migraine, how is it that you are out in 40 degree heat walking around the markets, and functioning properly. Migraines for me means bedridden, only being able to get up to throw up. nice. Dizyness churning stomach, weird eyes - but no aura to begin with, not to mention the massive pain were you think your head is imploding/exploding/brain is dying. PLUS the feeling dazed for two days after is not really a normal headache symptom.

I don't know what my triggers are. Hormones and heat i think....

Odd thing is, I crave really weird foods when I'm recovering. Mostly fish and chips with lots of butter on the sandwich. Or crunchie bar icecreams, or the other day it was salt and vinegar chip sandwich with butter and tomato sauce.

mookie blaylock 10

Stella wrote:

Agreed! It's one of my pet peeves. As a customer service person (once upon a time) i say to a lady "how are you going today?" - "Oh terrible, I have a mirgraine".
If you have a migraine, how is it that you are out in 40 degree heat walking around the markets, and functioning properly. Migraines for me means bedridden, only being able to get up to throw up. nice. Dizyness churning stomach, weird eyes - but no aura to begin with, not to mention the massive pain were you think your head is imploding/exploding/brain is dying. PLUS the feeling dazed for two days after is not really a normal headache symptom.

I don't know what my triggers are. Hormones and heat i think....

Odd thing is, I crave really weird foods when I'm recovering. Mostly fish and chips with lots of butter on the sandwich. Or crunchie bar icecreams, or the other day it was salt and vinegar chip sandwich with butter and tomato sauce.

indeed. i've heard people say that as well and i'm wondering...just how is it that you are talking to me and up and around? i wouldn't be able to turn my head or lift my arm without vomiting if i had one. it would probably be difficult just to say that i had one!

iluvcats

sponger wrote:

I saw this documentary on managing pain with the mind. A woman who gets severe migraines claimed to reduce that pain by half by focusing on a part of her body that didn't hurt.

Meditation also supposedly helps.

I get migraines, but I guess I'm lucky in that over the counter migraine meds do the trick. A combination of asprin, tylenol, and caffeine in a big mega-dose will clear it up in 20 minutes flat.

For me, very warm weather, excessive exercising, or opiate withdrawal are the typical triggers.

Has your doctor ever suggested tricyclic antidepressants? They have been used for quite some time for migraines and people with nerve damage.

I have not determined yet if mine are migraines, but I agree that the combos work. I take 1 tylenol and 1 advil (ibuprofen) and it is gone in 45 minutes.
I see flashes of white light and have difficulty some days tolerating light.

urbanhippie

I suffer from migraine, but often without the pain of them. I get the visual disturbances and vomiting, the bad reaction to light, etc, but only 1 out of 3 has the accompanying pain. I didn't think they were migraines because of this, but my doctors diagnosed them as such.

Painkillers, as much water as I can keep down and going to bed are the only things that help with a bad one, but the others just need to be ridden out.

CHANGEinWAVES

well I just lost the sight in my right eye and I can't focus on anything with my left. (took forever to type this) looks like i'm in for a fun night. :( Damn where are the drugs when I need them!

ladygooddiva

i really had them this days aswell ...and i can handle little pain ..
i would never wish even mz worst enemy this pain..
i really could not do anythink ...than sleep sleep
staying in a dark dark room ..i hate thoose days

nuffingman

My wife has migraines and they triggered by stress. Also red wine.
Friends have had chocolate and oranges as triggers.

mert

I've had migraines since I was about eight or nine years old. When I was younger, I'd get them like clockwork once a month - worst PMS ever! They would make me thrown up then, too. They have tapered off a bit since then, thank god... Now I get about 2-6 a year.

I always get an aura - I see a sun spot that just doesn't go away, then I lose my peripheral vision in that eye (usually my right, which is my stronger eye). It slowly comes back and then I get slammed with the migraine. By this time I'm in bed, in the darkness usually, having taken 2-6 Ibuprofen. The pain is often localized to a quadrent of my brain, but not always, and there have been times where I was bawling from the pain in my head and eye and started to think that scratching my eye out would be a sensible alternative. I have also had my tongue and half my body go numb on a few occasions. Not fun.

They last generally about 2-8 hours from the beginning of the aura until I'm able to get out of bed, but my eye generally aches for about 24 hours and I'll have a super bad headache for up to three days afterwards.

Many, many things trigger mine.... It's not so much the outside world as a sensitivity within me on the day I get one. Basically, I am genetically screwed. My dad's mom got them for decades, my dad used to get them, my brother gets really mild ones....

I often get hormonal ones, ones from a drop in barometric pressure, ones from the heat and sun, and stress. In fact, one time I was baking a complicated cake and spilled the whole thing in the hot oven when I put it in.... Parchment paper caught on fire, the oven and the drawer under it had cake batter all through it.... I started to bawl and gave myself a migraine. I also freak out at people when they shine a flashlight in my eyes...

Nothing works to get rid of them. Ibuprofen speeds my recovery up, and keeps me from throwing up. I just sleep them off. I was prescribed Imitrex by my doctor once, but he told me not to take it if it doesn't work - I took it once and had one of the worst migraines ever. In the end stages I also drink strong tea.

stargirl69

I was plagued by migraines throughout my teens and into my mid 20's,then they disappeared.
But in the past few months they have returned with a vengence and don't seem to respond to medication the way they did when I was younger.Work is hellishly stressfull just now,so don't know if that's got to do with their return or if its hormonal.
Ibropufen takes the edge off but the only thing that takes it is lying/sleeping in a cool dark room.