To think migraine tablets should get rid of a migraine!

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Posting here for more answers.
I have a hideous migraine, I took cocodomol and ibuprofen this morn. Did nothing.
So I took some migard (frovatriptan) and that has done nothing, it usually works well.
How, how do I make this pain bell off?
Havnt had one this bad in years.
The nausea is starting to come...

I think a really determined migraine won't respond to medication My music teacher says she just has to go and lie down in a darkened room and wait for it to pass.

Only things that help me are dark, quiet room (ideally with ear plugs) and sleep it off! Migraine cool and soothe strips are really good but since it's Sunday, maybe a cold flannel?

You need to take the Triptran In this case migard as soon a the pain starts, any delay and it will be less effective.

A pain I know as you often want to try pain killers first. But that's the way they work. Plus you shouldn't really be taking cocodomol for migraine that are not normally very effective and you risk addiction agent taking them for head pain. Or more correctly put more headache from over use. therefore you take more.

Best first line drug for a migraine is normally a high dose ibuprofen which you can get from the chemist.

Note I'm not an expect just a long suffering migraine suffer.

If you are able to type out a post, then I doubt you have a migraine.

YANBU. If I don't get the migraine stuff down me as soon as I realise I have the earliest symptoms, nothing will touch it. Migraleve usually does it, fortunately.

What silver? How would you know this? I'm not light sensitive when I have a migraine so yeah I can type on my phone. Would you like to speak to my neurologist?

Thanks for the ideas :). Syndol. Is that the sinus meds? Never heard of using that but I'll give it a try. I always convince myself right at the beginning that it might just be a headache so I take pain killers, which I know is a mistake. And then the triptans a bit late.

Whatever does or doesn't shift it, reading posts on a phone screen is going to make it far, far worse.

Sounds horrid, but if the nausea is coming it might be worth just letting it's take it's course and just throw up rather than fight it. You might feel a bit better afterwards. My recommendation otherwise would be to try to sleep. Easier said than done I know. I sometimes put on a audiobook very quietly in the first stages of the migraine to try to help me fall asleep. My migraine meds will shorten and lessen the intensity of my migraines, but wont do away with them enough to go about normal life.

Imigram.

I just don't get how you can type anywhere let alone on a phone. Migraines - in my experience - are incapacitating. I can barely open my eyes to get to the sick bowl, just finding my phone would be out of the question.

Quite, Worraliberty. The only thing that shifts mine is sleep.

Worral - really you can't know how everyone migraines work. I can quit haply sit zombiefied in front of a scream. But put me in the pitch dark and the pain is totally unbearable.

I don't claim to know how anyone's migraine's work and thank God I'm not a sufferer.

But I think it's common sense that even if it was just a bad headache, the person avoids staring at a small screen.

My Dad and sister and me suffer hideous migraines. Only thing that gets rid of ours are Syndol. But they are addictive and can cause rebound headaches and daily misery so only use 2 to 3 days a week and only for bad ones. 4head is good also or the pound shop version for in between doses. Also sunglasses in bright weather help prevent mine but sometimes they come anyway.

Worrall, neurologically migraines work in a completely different way to a headache. Some suffers don't even get head pain with them. You just can't compare the two.

Everyone's migraines are different. Sometimes I can look at a screen sometimes not....I am not always light sensitive.

OP you need Imigran. You can buy it behind the counter now, it's the only one that has any hope of working on me. Hope it goes soon, as a sufferer I know how awful they a

Migraines are extremely variable in different people. I have developed migraines over the last year or so and even mine vary wildly. Some, I cant move and feel dizzy and sick with not much pain. Others times I cant stand light and have severe pain but no sickness - and then some fluctuate between the two, lasting days! Before I got diagnosed, I naively assumed they were all the 'lie down in a dark room and stay still' type which is why it took so long for me to recognise mine. Amitryptiline at low doses worked for me but Nurofen works best if I can take early enough. If not, I just have to suffer.

Mine tend to build slowly from a fuzzy head to one sided pain then it gets much worse then I feel sick and vomit. I havnt got up To the incapacitating stage yet and often don't because my tablets usually work. That's why I'm trying to find out other ways to get rid of it before it gets really bad, since my tablet hasn't worked... Light doesn't make it worse for me.
I might see if bf can pick up Syndol on the way home. Really hope it works! The worst I've ever had was 3 days and I couldn't move. I thought that wouldn't happen again since a new doc gave me migard (imigran stopped working for me) but it might do :(

I suffered very badly with migraines for many years. My gp fobbed me off with food diaries and little else. After a really bad one a new gp prescribed zolmitriptan and I can honestly say that they have changed my life.

I could lose 3 days at a time with a bad one but now the vast majority go within an hour with the occasional stubborn one that might take a few hours at the most to go.

I keep a packet in every handbag, in the house, the car and my desk at work

Do the 'triptans' have any side effects?

Sumatriptan (think other name for zolmitriptan) has changed my life too, if taken in time - at first symptoms then the pain never really peaks, I take100mg so quite a high dose as soon as I feel the one sided pain. Sometimes I avoid it as it can make me groggy, dry mouth etc, but far better than having migraine, I always regret not taking it cos then can be 3 to 4 days of pain.

No, no side affects for me. Tbh, unless they were truly horrendous I would still take the tablets rather than suffer the migraine.