Migraine hack?

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I've vomited and have been laid on a dark room for a few hours. Feeling well enough now to sit up and ask for help.

Any cures for a horrendous migraine please?

Not necessarily a cure but drinking cola helps me not to feel sick. My mother maintains it has to be fat coke but I think any variety helps.

Also headsticks or magnesium menthol stick you can rub across your forehead.

I find running usually helps too but only while I am doing it, and I can't run all day!

They are so horrible, hope you feel better soon.

Lots of water and make sure you eat once the nausea wears off.

Either heat pack or cold pack on your head/neck. I generally find cold more effective but some people get on better with heat.

What painkillers have you taken? I find codeine/ibuprofen more effective than codeine/paracetamol.

You have my sympathies - migraines suck!

Can you drink without bringing it back?

Check your folate levels. Not immediate relief though sorry

Try stretching the muscles in your neck. Turn your head to look over your shoulder then tilt your head down so you stretch the neck muscles. Do it on both sides and to the front. There is a guy on tictok called I think the migraine doc who has several of these stretches.

There is also a pressure point at the base of your thumb on the fleshy bit which if you massage it that can help too.

Thank you

I haven't taken anything yet because the nausea is still very much present. I'm hoping to take some in the next half hour if I can keep my water down.

What would you suggest painkiller wise? We have naproxen or paracetamol

I find a wet flannel put in the fridge or freezer for a bit very effective and some peppermint oil on my forehead and ginger tea to sip for sickness

Sumatriptan - game changer in terms of suffering. Gets rid of the banging head in half an hour. I find it gets into my system quicker if I eat something after taking it. I do feel worn out afterwards though.

Aspirin is better than other OTC painkillers for migraine I find.

Lucozade and aspirin are good but if no one can get it the paracetamol.

Naproxen is no good on empty stomach.

Get a prescription for rizatriptan before the next one!

Something high sugar and high caffeine when I feel it come on - no help to you now, I know!

Cold flannel on my forehead and an eye mask helps.

I find Excedrin from America the best combination of drugs if I've run out of sumatriptan - paracetamol, aspirin and caffeine.

Thank you. I'm home alone with three kids so unfortunately haven't got anyone to get different things in.
I found some amandine extra which has paracetamol and aspirin. I've taken them with some orange juice and now lying down again, hoping to keep them down

Anadin.... not whatever I accidentally typed

Something a GP once told me - take one ibuprofen, one paracetamol together with caffeine - tea or coke are my choice. It always works for me. If I do it soon enough it can actually stop the migraine.

Also, pressure applied at the base of the neck (the ‘y’ bit), get your fingers down deep either side of the raised arms of the y and squeeze.

I just lie down in a dark room, tv off, curtains closed.

If you can drink water, that might help.

Take your medication as soon as you realise the migraine is coming on.

I also have started to sense when one might be coming so I take myself off to bed at that point.

It is hard to say what the best pain relief is. I know lots of fellow migraine sufferers, all take different medicines. However one thing I would recommend you buy is Buccastem the anti-sickness drug. No medicine will work if you are vomiting it straight up. Buccastem used to be only available on prescription but is now available. OTC. You rub the tablet onto your gum and it absorbs into the blood stream without going through your stomach.

Only ibuprofen works for me. I avoid ibuprofen like the plague as it gives me stomach ache, but for migraine it's worth it. And vicks on the temples is very effective. Plus a sleep or eyes closed for ten mins. I wear sunglasses as soon as it starts now as bright light sets me off.

Full fat coke for the nausea and something cold on the back of my neck/bottom of my head like a cold wet flannel or cool shower run on it

I've found that either a bag of pork scratchings or a bacon sandwich, and 2 ibruprofen, is the only thing that works for me.

I have never found anything that relieves migraine once they are established. Aspirin and caffeine will head them off if I take them as soon as I see the aura. Non-diet Coke works best for me and soluble aspirins. I also know that sticking my head under a very cold shower will stop a migraine in its tracks but it's not often very practical. I'm lucky that nowadays I seldom have anything more than half an hour of visual disturbance. I used to get the headache and also lose the ability to string words together, which was horrible. Back then I wound that I could fend them off only so often before they started coming a few times a day, at some point I had to let one run its course and then I would have none for a few weeks. Everyone's migraines are different though.

The last bad migraine I had landed me in in hospital. I'd had it ten days straight with no let up and was also unable to stand up or walk straight due to vertigo. I have brain injury related migraines though. After IV paracetamol, oxygen and anti sickness and wanting to sleep in a dark quiet room they let me out in the early hours of the morning with a prescription for prochlorperazine and told me to keep taking 2x500 paracetamol and 1x200g ibuprofen 4 times a day and not to stop them when headache subsided. I had another 11 days of that migraine but it eased a lot with the painkillers. One down side to taking that much paracetamol though is it bungs you up to fuck. During a normal migraine I can usually manage it with either a cold wet flannel over my head or by rubbing a little olbas oil on my temples and sleeping it off in a dark room. If you suffer from them a lot amitriptiline is also really good. Yes it's an antidepressant but it works by relaxing the muscles in your neck. Downside is it makes you drowsy so it needs to be taken on a night time. Not tried this method but they say putting your hands and feet in hot water and placing an ice pack over the back of the neck is meant to pull blood from the extremities. As daft as it sounds caffeine also works for me

I suffer with extreme vomiting so need an injectable triptan.
It's life-changing for me.

The cold migraine gel strips helps me and sleep, I drink lemonade incase I’m sick because it taste the same coming up as it did going down