To wonder how Migraines can be harmless?

I’ll give it a go

Try wet cupping therapy. I know many who have been suffering with migraines feeling much better and some even cured. I used to get very bad throbbing headaches, it all went after a session. Give it a go guys...even acupuncture is good 👍

Yes if you have migraine with aura you are at a higher risk of stroke so they won't give you the combined pill. I've no idea what @FranksBank neurologist was talking about. 🤔

Solidarity to all. And sympathy to @ButtSurgery because I have had a similar experience of total paralysis and weakness on one side where I fell down in the bedroom returning from vomiting and couldn’t get myself up, just lay there thinking ‘This, then, is where my cats come in and eat me.’

Really? My GP refused me the combined pill as he said as a migraine sufferer I was at increased risk of stroke.

You shouldn't take triptains more then x2 a week, as they can cause migraine overuse headache 😫.

Migraine has to be one of the worse pain conditions in that you have to suffer with the pain. I've had six months off work recently. The first 3 in constant pain, as my botox treatment had stopped working, but no your not allowed to take triptains more then x2 a week or painkillers more then x3 times a week or they will class you as being in Medication overuse headache. So thanks for that we just have to put up with the pain. I'm not sure I even remember much of those 3 months now.

Have you tried antisickness meds? I find if I can get the nausea under control my migraine isn't as severe and with my stomach working again the triptans have a better chance of working against the migraine.

Oh but mine have actually caused some brain damage though. Well either the migranes or the seizures, Neurologist can't be quite sure, but I have a few little lesions on my brain.

I have them with aura
and think that puts me at higher risk of strokes …./cardiovascular disease

There was a theory a few years back that migraine was a form of epilepsy, but I don't think they've gone further with that research - no idea why. It would explain a lot to me!

Another chronic migraineur here.

Hemiplegic attacks in me look like a stroke. My first one was so horrific and I was living in my own in a flat. I couldn't think straight, I was in so much pain, unable to speak, facial paralysis and no upper body strength that I actually lay down on my bed convinced I was dying and wouldn't wake up again. Felt a bit daft when I woke up a few hours later 😂. I'd take a triptan when it began, so it must have kicked in while I was sleeping.

A brain scan showed nothing unusual, but marginally more white matter than the average bear. But white matter isn't a problem.

I hate migraines. I get it so my head pounds, it hurts to move and I get no appetite at all despite being starving hungry. I cannot eat cos it makes me want to throw up…which makes my head worse.

My migraines have never been assessed or looked at by anyone.

I was given sumatriptan and just sent on my way. To be fair when I was having them more regularly, it did the job, although knocked me out

I have Basilar type migranes, or MBAs as they are known now. The pain is horrendous, I can't cope with daylight, have constant nausea and vomiting, numb hands and feet, pins and needles all over.

I also have Epilepsy, which doesn't help, between both I currently have such a bad headache I genuinely want to smash my face in with a big brick. It's fucking hideous, and my current treatment is amytriptaline and a fuck load of levetiracetam. Which make me exhausted and a bit fucking crazy.

I have the same type as you op, they also then leave my tired for days and have a big impact on my blood sugar (type one diabetic). I once had a colleague in a fairly new job call 999 when I had a migraine at work, I couldn’t speak and by the time I’d managed to scrawl out a note they were here due to strole protocol.

I have got an aura while open water swimming I got out whilst electrolytes before often prevent it, not always

They've ruined my life. I'm on two daily preventives, sumatriptan, monthly Erenumab injections, I don't drink, smoke, or eat any of my trigger foods, and I still have constant background symptoms so severe that I had to give up driving 20 years ago, I can only work from home, and I often struggle to leave the house - I couldn't even walk my dog round the block yesterday and I feel as if my head's on another planet today. I haven't had a single day when I've felt completely normal for 31 years. My mental health is shot. I'm on my 4th neurologist and I don't think I'll ever feel well again. My DS is 17 and has never seen me well. I just want a brain transplant at this point. Bastard things.

Why are they reluctant to prescribe a Triptan tablet for you?

I also suffer with very bad migraines and for the days after an attack feel very groggy and find it hard to hold on to information. It does feel as though they have affected my brain long after the attack. I feel as though I live in fear of having a migraine as they are so debilitating and wish there was more awareness of how awful they are and more support to combat them! My sympathies to everyone else who struggles with them!!

My stroke consultant told me that my migraine DID contribute to my stroke.

One of the things that happens during your migraine is that the blood vessels narrow. Helped trap the clot...

Many migraines in women are linked to hormones.

I used to get Alice in wonderland syndrome, and hallucinate, and vomit constantly. It felt like my eyes were being gouged out and my face was so hot an iced flannel would be hot and dry in seconds. At one point I was admitted to hospital they thought I was epileptic or having a drugs overdose! I was 12. I don't get them as much now but it is so painful it feels like a virus. My whole head throbs and feels boiling. I sweat like mad and feel cold all over my body and can't speak. But yeah, it's not actually permanently damaging weirdly.

And I have to say, nothing annoys me more than people calling a headache a migraine.

A migraine is such more than a headache. I can't actually function, actually struggle to speak

I had migraines from a teen and they virtually disappeared overnight once I became peri.

Nothing else had changed about me at all. although I think that my migraines have simply turned into vertigo

Completely hormonal as far as Im concerned

Yes I have always thought they must be either causing damage to my brain or as a result of some other damage. As you say, complete inability someteimes to manouver my face or head, strange sensations all over my face and head, the sheer pain of it

And interestingly, on the qrisk assessment it does ask you if you have migraines and I have fiddled about with it wondering why my qrisk is higher and heart health is higher than it should be, and the migraine question affects the rating

So this worries me in terms of risks for stroke and heart attack