Migraine Misery - Any other sufferers

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I honestly don't know if I've ever suffered from a migraine or not. I know that 90% of the time I get a headache, my head is throbbing and I get dizzy and have to just lay down. Usually Ibuprofen and sleep takes care of it. My brother suffers from pretty bad migraines, though, and I know that all of his are stress related. He rarely gets to the point of getting physically ill, but he has on occasion.
 

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I honestly don't know if I've ever suffered from a migraine or not. I know that 90% of the time I get a headache, my head is throbbing and I get dizzy and have to just lay down. Usually Ibuprofen and sleep takes care of it. My brother suffers from pretty bad migraines, though, and I know that all of his are stress related. He rarely gets to the point of getting physically ill, but he has on occasion.
Keep in mind that a migraine is not just a really bad headache. It does cause specific physiological responses in the body that even the worst tension headache does not. It actually alters brain functions throughout its duration.
 

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This topic blows me away. I am amazed at how many sypmtoms that I share with you guys. I get the throbbing headache and halo effect first, then the echoing of sounds, then the dizzyness. If it gets really bad my vision goes black and all noise is deafening, along with the vertigo. Luckily I only get a few migraines per year.

I got in a bad car accident two years ago and now suffer from pretty bad migraines multiple times a week since then.

I never had a migraine until after a bad car accident. I hit my head on the windshield (wasn't wearing a seat belt.) I was wondering who else has only experienced migraines AFTER head trauma.


When I was in grad school a friend gave me a great home remedy for migraines Coca~Cola and aspirin. Not Pepsi not Advil, don't know why it works but it does. I think it has something to do with the vasoconstrictors.

I mostly get my migraines during caffeine withdrawl (I can't seem to stay away from it.) Does anyone else have this problem? I find that a coke and an IB or two will usually prevent a migraine if I take it early enough. I always have a few Oxycodone tablets handy, but they make me high as a kite and I try to avoid them.
 

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I get migranes, but I'm more prone to cluster headaches - the result of a viral infection that spread to the lining of my brain after getting the Texas Flu back in 1995.

I take beta-blockers as a preventitive, have in the past taken a brand of feverfew called Tanacet, and use 600mg of Ibuprofen at the onset of the aura to help bring it under control.

If it's a cluster headache, I'll also use oxygen sometimes, though for me the relief only lasts as long as I'm using the oxygen.
 

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When I was younger I got a lot of migraines, I don't get them very often now but when I do I know that despite taking medication they're usually not going to go unless I throw up. I've had all sorts of things prescribed for them but the only thing that ever worked well was DF118's which are dihydrocodeine which my doctor was never keen on prescribing, but the pain was sometimes so acute they'd do it after I hassled them. I've never found over the counter medication to be effective with them, and out of the things my doctor has prescribed it's only been DF118's and Distalgesic (co-proxamol) which have had any effect. Distalgesic has now been withdrawn unfortunately.
 

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I have suffered from migraines for over 20 years. I had one that was so bad I went completely blind in one eye. I was taking the meds nonstop and it still happened. I think my family triggered that one. Well, coworkers helped trigger it. The doctor told me I'd have to have a biopsy on that artery if ever again that happens.
I feel for everyone that has them. It feels like someone has taken Norman Bates weapon of choice and is stabbing me through the top of my head until the handle hits my skull.
 

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It feels like someone has taken Norman Bates weapon of choice and is stabbing me through the top of my head until the handle hits my skull.
You know, I can handle the throbbing headache. It's really not that bad. It's all the other stuff that bothers me the most, especially the nausea and blindness.

Even worse is the ignorance of people who think it's "just a headache" and that I just have to work through it. Hell, I can't even drive a car to get to work. I don't tell my boss that I have a migraine; I tell him that I have the flu.
 

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You know, I can handle the throbbing headache. It's really not that bad. It's all the other stuff that bothers me the most, especially the nausea and blindness.

Even worse is the ignorance of people who think it's "just a headache" and that I just have to work through it. Hell, I can't even drive a car to get to work. I don't tell my boss that I have a migraine; I tell him that I have the flu.


For the most part, I don't throw up from pain. I can pass huge kidney stones and not throw up. I do feel for all of you that do. I've left work before because of a migraine. I've had to pull over to the side of the road because of a migraine. My headaches aren't throbbers. It's really like someone stabbing me in the head. It goes from the top of my head down my neck. I started having them again a few years ago when I stopped wearing my headset at work. I have it back on and avoid my family.

rec3000 ummm I remember a joke about a man seeing spots and having terrible headaches. It involved him wearing pants that were too tight. Maybe, you should go around with your nads out like you have in that first photo. It might relieve your headaches. :wink:
 

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Stress can definetely trigger my migraines but so can odors.
Sometimes I get migraines that feel like my brain stem is throbbing.
The worst kind for me is the kind that hits me right between the eyes, and then spreads over my head like a combination of vice grip and spiderweb.

For the most part, I don't throw up from pain. I can pass huge kidney stones and not throw up. I do feel for all of you that do. I've left work before because of a migraine. I've had to pull over to the side of the road because of a migraine. My headaches aren't throbbers. It's really like someone stabbing me in the head. It goes from the top of my head down my neck. I started having them again a few years ago when I stopped wearing my headset at work. I have it back on and avoid my family.

rec3000 ummm I remember a joke about a man seeing spots and having terrible headaches. It involved him wearing pants that were too tight. Maybe, you should go around with your nads out like you have in that first photo. It might relieve your headaches. :wink:
 

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rec3000 ummm I remember a joke about a man seeing spots and having terrible headaches. It involved him wearing pants that were too tight. Maybe, you should go around with your nads out like you have in that first photo. It might relieve your headaches. :wink:

I get enough complaints about going commando around the house. Boxers are a decent compromise. The boys still flop around, but nobody can tell me to put on underwear.
 

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It's mid-May now and I'm awaiting my annual May migraine. It's really weird but my sister and I always seem to get at least one in May. I've never taken medication for the damned things because they happen so infrequently; maybe 3-4 times a year? Some years more, some less.

My symptoms manifest as a sensitivity to light, as if I was looking into a high-powered lamp. The sensitivity is always more in the right eye so I end-up squinting like Popeye. The throbbing is always on the right side too only to call it throbbing is something of a misnomer. It's more like that's where I'm being rhythmically hit by a ball peen hammer.

As for dealing with symptoms, the only thing I've done is take two Ibuprofen (it seems to work better than other pain relievers), make the room completely dark (I've designed it so I can), put an ice pack on the right side of my neck, turn the TV volume way down and put on GSN (the game show network). I know it sounds ridiculous but whatever it is on TV has to be absolutely, totally vapid. If the show isn't then it doesn't distract me from the pain; as if thinking too much only worsens it. The last thing I do, and please let me know if anyone else does something like this, is do an Uncle Fester. Applying pressure to my head really seems to help whether it's just my arm or a big heavy book. I now use a 100 oz bar of metal and just let it sit on where it hurts and that helps too. It's crazy but it relieves some of the pain.

I generally don't feel very nauseous, at least not as bad as other people seem to get. I'm not sure why that is.
 

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i've suffered from migraines since I was a little kid, unfortunately some people who have never had them just think "oh its just a headache".. but its so much more, and completely disables me, and usually ends up in vomiting. Get a bad one once a month, progressing to once a week if I'm really stressed. Get a headache of some sort every other day, though usually eating regularly keeps on top of the minor ones.
My dad and paternal granddad had them to, so guess its on the Y chromosome..!
For me lots of sleep, lots of food, taking something like Imigran early (not sure if its just a UK drug, its active ingredient is sumatriptan). Aspirin/paracetomol /ibuprofen do nothing.
Don't get any visual effects, but do get an intolerance for loud noise, and when really bad i can't hold my head up or walk properly :(
 

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I get migraines that last from 2 to 4 days. They always start as a small throbbing behind my eye and slowly spread out from there. Like others here I seek out silence and darkness. I don't get the aura or the vomiting, just throbbing pain that seems to be just under my skull for about 3 days.

No pill I've tried seems to put much of a dent in them. But I can prevent them with regular cardio exercise. As long as I am running or bike riding a few times a week and get my heart going, I never get a headache. If I stop for about six weeks, they start again. I told a friend and my daughter about this and it works for them as well.

Once I had a migraine and I went for a run to try to get rid of it. The jarring of my brain was terrible for about a mile. Then the headache lifted and didn't come back.

Are migraines related to the fitness of your cardiovascular system? Maybe.
 

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I woke up with a migraine Saturday morning which I mistook for allergies. It subsided, but then came back with a vengeance late Saturday night, so I took a Relpax which made me sleepy and relieved the pain behind my eyes. Now I feel like, if I could just puke I would be ok.:redface::frown1:
 

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I have had migraines since I was in my late teens. I'm one of the relatively few migraineurs who get significant auras before a migrains starts. I generally lose peripheral vision on one or both sides, I can see but can't make out letters or numbers, both fields of vision sort of blur together, I get numbness in odd places (like the tip of my nose). and I have a hard time saying what I am thinking. I may be thinking, "where is the cat?" but I'll come out with, "I just wore a chicken." On hearing such things, I'll try to say what I mean but it requires intense concentration. I get very anxious. After this part, the headache starts, which others have tried to describe. I also get very nauseated and end up throwign up for hours. I used to get really severe headaches that lasted most of a day. One of the worst I had put me in the ER where I was given compazine, which made me even worse. I've never had any medication work for a migraine.

After the initial few, I haven't gotten that many migraines. Sometimes I'll have the auras and only a slight headache, or I'll have the headache without the auras. It's really not tied to any food I consume and I haven't found any real triggers yet except possibly hormones.

Since starting an anticonvulsant drug for other reasons, I've been migraine free. I don't know if that's why I haven't had one, but I know anticonvulsants are often used to treat chronic migraines. However, migraines have, thankfully, never been something I have often anyhow.
 

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I have gotten migraines for years and now take prescription water pills the week before I get my period. I can not believe that that has been causing most of them all this time. I still get them here and there but at least the monthly ones are gone. I use a shot of imitrex to help the others because I always end up losing the pills 5 mins after I take them.