Please tell me your tried and tested migraine relief remedies

[zeromanghoul]

Migraines ... my god. Ever since I had my DS 11 months ago I'm having migraines almost every other day due to sleep deprivation (my son is still not a good sleeper unfortunately!) Napping in the day when he does makes it worse because I'm so tired it makes it worse because I just need sleep.

(I did have my iron levels checked recently at the GP and all fine)

My go-to is usually anadin extra and migraine relief gel patches but these haven't touched the sides recently. It's really starting to impact my mental health as I'm so exhausted and now always in pain too.

I've had a look on Amazon and there's so much for migraine relief that I don't know where to start or what to try! Any advice would be really appreciated, thank you.

Honestly check with GP as you'd meet the threshold for preventative medicine, I've just started propranolol and it's already helping - not sure if suitable for you but defo worth a chat with GP.
Non prescription wise - ice pack hat and shoulder ice packs, 3 dissolvable aspirin in full fat coke, salty crisps if can eat, oh also buccastem (or something like that, it's a prescribed tablet, slip up into gum to slowly melt and helps with nausea/sickness)

Triptans are a game changer.

I've tried a few and landed best on Naratriptan.

Naratriptan
2 x asprin
1 x can full sugar coke
And ideally, a snooze of at least one hour.

From unbearable to unnoticeable. Amazing

Neurologist prescribed 900mg soluble aspirin+ 10mg domperidone as soon as start getting signs of a migraine developing. I use an ice pack on my forehead and another on track of my neck and drink a can of cola.
Since doing this I have had one migraine in 3 years. I used to get one every couple of months and the last big one put me in hospital for 4 days with an IVI and morphine injections (that’s when I saw the Neurologist).

It might have some aesthetic effect due to the site of the injections. It's usually more expensive (£600 here on average - and do go to a medical practitioner not a beauty salon) and the sites of injections are different. Forehead, back, side of head and shoulders, etc.

Though some say botox administered for purely aesthetic reasons has helped with migraines.

@NameIsBryceQuinlan It does have the aesthetic effect but not quite fully as they don’t fill in crows eyes etc. and don’t go into the areas fully effec

@NameIsBryceQuinlan oops! Hit post by accident! They don’t intentionally hit the areas effected by wrinkles but it definitely helps. I am nearing 50 so do notice.

Cost would be around $500 Canadian ish where I am. I am not certain as I believe I am currently fully covered due to differently disability coverage and extended medical. I do not know if you can get it covered in Britain but it is a known medical treatment so maybe? My neurologist applies it so that helps get it covered.

Mine seem to be triggered by stress (and not eating during the day) - I find a hot water bottle at the very base of my skull coupled with a cool pack or flannel over my eyes works wonders. That and the good tablets (codiene/nurofen). Something to do with the muscles in my neck tightening under stress, which restricts blood flow to my brain, which causes the migraine. By relaxing my neck with the hot water bottle I open up the blood flow and helps relieve the pain.

I was also on propanalol for a while which massively helped, but I found them creeping back in over time.

Relpax, Lamotragine… and Contra Schmerz

Thanks everyone sorry to hijack about botox.

I'm 32 I wouldn't want it to go somewhere that would have an anti-aging effect

Codeine and Metoclopramide.

Syndol (with doxylamine) and nurofen. A coke, water and something salty for good measure. A forehead TENS device (I have the cheap one from Lloyds not the Cefaly) and an hour lying down with my eyes closed.

It’s not perfect and it often doesn’t take it away completely but it’s a big help.

Solidarity with all of you who suffer. It really is shit.

Taurine either capsules or usually red bull for the sugar and caffeine plus full dose of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Taken as soon as the aura starts. Usually stops it. Ice pack for the back of my neck.

It's a daith piercing, and it worked for me too!

Sumatriptan is my lifesaver and generally works within 30 minutes, even less if I can twin it with a warm bath.

Anadin extra don't touch the sides of a migraine, although they are fab on normal headaches.

I've been on Propranolol as a preventer in the past but didn't find it made any difference, but it may be worth asking.

I had a daith piercing but it made no difference and after a year of it not healing properly I removed it.

I had a mouth guard made at the dentist as she said that teeth clenching could well be a cause and that's been by far the best treatment so far, it's literally stopped all the early hour onset ones.

Lots of good suggestions on here - you have my sympathy, migraines are awful.

Syndol. It has a muscle relaxant.

Sumatriptan is the only thing that really works properly for me. No other meds touch it. You can get a pack of 2 over the counter.
. Put an ice pack on the area for longer than comfortable, then put your warm palm on it. Gives me 10 seconds or so of relief.
. Oxygen... so, fresh air. Sometimes I nap outside.
. Stodgy stodgy food!

It goes from your shoulders, up the back of your neck over your scalp and into the top of your forehead. It does freeze the top of your forehead but for me personally a small price to pay for massive improvement in quality of life, and I look late 30s instead of mid 40's.

It's available on the NHS but you have to have tried at least 3 preventative treatments under Neurology supervision, and you have to see a certain level of improvement for it to continue.