To think migraine tablets should get rid of a migraine!

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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 have a really really really big pile of boxes of naproxen, take 3 once a day it says, you would be very welcome to some - they did help mine I think.

or ask the out of hours GP for the magic injection?

Being pregnant is the only that makes me migraine free!

I agree that the "Triptans" are what you need, though I find they work most efficiently if you're able to take them at the onset of the migraine. Sounds insane, but I also find Red Bull helps enormously. No idea why but I recently met someone who also recommended it.

A friend of mine finds Syndol brilliant but it doesn't even touch the sides for me. I usually take Solpadeine & sit on the tiled floor of my bathroom (if possible) and find that works. It didn't last night though :( and (apologies TMI here) the migraine only left once I'd thrown up.

dinky, yes they can have side effects, depending on which triptan you take. Sumatriptan is the one that's been around the longest, the newer ones are often more effective, with fewer side effects. But also they are quit expensive drugs and gps can be reluctant to prescribe them because of the cost. I've Hurd of people being rationed and in the USA some insurance companies won't pay for them.

Ginger Ale.

Best kept secret. Ever.

I find watching something on tv or laptop distracts me temporarily from the pain.

I am gonna ask if I can try a 'triptan' as I consistently hear good things about them and my migraines re getting worser/more frequent. My DS9 suffers with migraines and he is on a very low dose of propranolol and this has helped him enormously.

I used to take pizotifen as a preventative and Propranalol, both didn't work but Propranalol made me freezing!
I've not tried naproxen either so could get some.
I might see if there's another better triptan.

If I don't take the pill soon enough then it doesn't work and I end up in bed for the day then taking another later. I use Relpax (Eletriptan) works great. But if it's a bad enough migraine I still have all the other bits just the pain goes away, so I'm still a bit groggy, achy and sick feeling, but at least I can get on with life.

Syndol, Imigran and aspirin for me. And a hot wheat bag on my head.

DH suffered awfully with migraines and every gp he saw tried to prescribe a triptan. None of them consistently worked and he was fianlly hospitalised with a v bad migraine when dd was a baby. A German neurologist prescribed Cafergot (which is ergotamine tartrate and caffeine) which he said was old fashioned but worked and had been overlooked these days due to the new fancy triptans. He also advised soluble aspirin with each mouthful held in the mouth for at least a minute so that it absorbs through the cheeks. DH was sceptical but gave it a go. It turned his life around. I get the odd migraine once or twice a year and have tried aspirin. It works quickly and efficiently for me too.

You need a preventative as well as a pain killer. I take quite a high dose of Amitriptyline and already on a mixture of Tramadol, Naproxen and Paracetamol on a daily basis for other things, coupled with a lie down in a dark room with complete silence and a bucket for the odd occasions I need it to be sick in, I find my migraines are happening much less and less severe. But they have changed slightly and I end up feeling like I am having a stroke sometimes :( but yes, sometimes you just have to wait it out.

Get your eyes tested too just in case because if you're straining even without realising, that could bring on migraines. And also get to your gp to have them investigated.

I was on preventative meds for years then imagram/sumatripam but now all I can take is solpodol which only takes the edge of it other meds I'm on stops me taking imagram. Sleep is all that works and then not all the time luckily its not been a hot summmer but stress also causes mine and that is sky high this year.

i get hideous migraines. i find taking fresh feverfew helps, and medically i use imigran and prochlorperazine to stop the puking. metaclopromide (sp? _) helps too but not as much as the prochlorperazine.

My Gp gave me sumatripan, because oddly after years of random single migraines I seem to get them quite a lot recently.

The sumatripan gave me a very odd feeling in my chest area though, and with reading of heart side effects I'm a bit worried about taking it again.

It's hard to describe the feeling, kind of like fullness and a slight burning in the whole upper chest area eek.

My migraines always start out with the visual thing and nausea, I usually take ibuprofen and paracetamol at onset and have a moderate headache for a few hours.

The thing is I daren't not take this incase I get the full on headache, although other stuff might work better.

Sometimes there isn't anything that will make the fucker go.

I take sumatriptan if I catch it early enough along with night time mersyndol as I find the relaxant helps, obviously if I have to drive the mersyndol is out.

I take nausatil and if it is really bad I go to my GP for a Maxalon shot (luckily I have a great GP).

It is bullshit that if you can 'do' something you don't have a migraine, I can function through mine. Sometimes there is no choice. You can't just opt out if you are the only one around for kids.

I had one a couple of weeks ago that had me puking praying for death, but DS1 still needed collecting and DS2 still needed looking after, DH was away as were my other help options.

I really wish I had the choice to be able to function through mine. I just can't..... how can you when you can't stand up straight through dizziness, disorientation and confusion? It makes me so cross these people who twitter on at work 'oh dear I've got a migraine but I'm being so brave and I'm indispensable so I'll just stay and get on with things'. Meh - lucky them and unlucky me. Thank-goodness mine happen rarely.

I can use a screen sometimes with mine, so saying 'there's no way you can have a migraine' while on the internet is bullshit. Maybe you can't. Some people can.

And people can have migraine and still function. There are degrees of pain, even migraine pain.

Sorry to hear you've already tried Propranalol and it didn't work, OP, as that's what's killed mine dead. Haven't had even really a slight headache since I went on it daily in April. ::knock wood::

Forgot I wanted to say: those of you who suffered them a lot, I think it's 10 in a month, the NHS has started a trial of using botox to stop them. Apparently it works!

Perhaps you can stare at a screen - can't be a sensible thing to be doing, mid-'migraine' - surely?

Because you have no choice Silver I have two small boys, I am often in a foreign country with them while DH travels. What are the options?

Triggers can vary as well. I can look at a screen fine, but sometimes the slightest odd smell can have me on the bathroom floor.

Mine are menstrual, they usually happen about 9 days after I ovulate and I can therefore predict and manage them. But every now and again I get blindsided.

If you are not light sensitive during your migraine, looking at a screen is no different from looking at anything else.

As I said, sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. Depends on your migraine and it's symptoms.

And like, Morloth said. Sometimes you have no choice but get on with things.

I have, shall we say fond (?), memories of nearly throwing my son into his crib as a baby because I needed to puke from a migraine and needed him safe in 2 seconds or less!

Tee I have Botox for mine (pay for it). It has made things a lot easier.