Severe migraine pain- in hospital

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Sat in hospital with my poor daughter (19) who is having the second horrific migraine in 48 hours.
Shes currently hooked up to IV painkillers and a saline drip because of the amount of vomiting.

Over the years we've tried anti sickness drugs, naproxen, codeine, rizatriptan, nasal sprays, daith piercing, cut out 100% of chocolate, artifical sweetness and scented candles.

She takes an antihistamine daily for allergies and is on the progesterone mini pill as we thought it might be hormone related (she also had bloody awful periods with sickness and severe pain).

Starting propranolol tomorrow.

What else can we do? I cannot stand seeing my kid in so much pain she wants to tap out of life. Her job is at risk as she is unreliable when the migraines hit she has about 20 mins warning before the vomiting starts.

Will try anything. I wish it was me 😔

Sumatriptan has been a life saver for me. I take it as soon as I get the warning signs that a migraine is coming and it stops it in its tracks. My sympathies to your daughter. Migraine is horrendous. I always lose my sight and speech but if I take sumatriptan I can be functioning (albeit slowly!) within an hour.

You've been given a million things to try. Just wanted to add my close friend with chronic migraines tried a lot of the above and ended up finding sertraline the cure (anxiety medication). He wouldn't have said he was stressed/depressed (except stress/depression because of having a migraine)! However it works extremely well for him and he gets a migraine whenever he has tried to cut down.

Just another option.

When mine were bad I had an MRI, could be worth pushing for to rule anything out.

I graduated from propranolol to topiramate. It was a life saver. It is completely contraindicated with pregnancy though so being perimenopausal with a spouse with a vasectomy was why it was easy for me to get when other preventatives failed.