To think migraine tablets should get rid of a migraine!

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Posting here for more answers.
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...

do you find naproxen helpful then gettingagrip?

(still don't understand why GP gave me a lifetime supply of something I'm sure I'm not supposed to take when 1. the injection always worked before and 2. I don't have them often enough to need 9 packets!)

I am under a fair bit of extra stress at the moment, and have had the first real bad head that I have had for a few months this past week.

Naproxen has helped, it took the edge off it. With the domperidone for the nausea, and also sumatryptin up my nose it has finally gone today after three days.

Ice packs on head, lie in darkened room, but no vomiting, which for me is amazing - and most important, keep eating. And drinking water.

The thing is - there is no cure. But the relative effects of the blood sugar drop is ten times any other trigger, and if you can solve that one, you are halfway there.

I would urge anyone to go to your local migraine clinic - they are amazing people who really understand what you are living with.

Shullbit - side effects of Topirimate vary a lot from person to person. Mine have included dramatic weight loss (personally I like this lol but I do struggle to keep weight on now), feeling dazed and spaced out, pins and needles in my hands and in the very beginning I did hallucinate but that soon settled. If I miss a set of tablets, I get migraines very soon and very severe. All in all though these tablets work brilliantly (for me) as a preventative - they've cut my number of attacks dramatically and lessened the severity of those that I do have...

I used to want topiramate so badly (as mood stabiliser, not for migraines) because it made people thin when all the others make you fat.

I only found out recently that lithium is used to prevent some sorts of migraine, maybe that explains why I have them so rarely now.

A friend of mines mother takes feverfew and it has worked for her for years , but not good to take if you are wanting conception!

I also had some success with a course of chiropractic treatment - 6 months migraine free. The x-rays ponted to not enough curvature in my neck, which was compressing the blood vessels at the top of my spine. I got the course of treatment on a groupon discount voucher and wasnt expecting much, but it seemed to have quite an effect. Unfortunately the stress of a friend's funeral 6 months later, combined with driving into low winter sun, triggered a hideous full on puking number and they now seem to be regular again, but I definitely think mine have a mechanical cause rather than food related etc. so will try some kind of manipulation again.

I also heard recently a magnesium deficiency can be an underlying factor in migraines. One way of getting magnesium into your bloodstream is old fashioned epsom bath salts.

Thank you BoyMeetsWorld, I have pretty bad Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in both hands anyway so pins and needles I am used to and my god, I could do with losing a few pounds stone so those side effects wouldn't bother me

I am back at the doctors tomorrow so shall see what she says.

now that pro pain have been stopped does anyone know if there is a tablet with the same ingredients in as the was the only tablet that helped

DP is on a low dose of and AD, Amitriptyline, which according to some recent studies actually is effective in reducing the number and severity of migraines for some people. He has noticed the number of migraines has reduced since he started taking it.

He also uses Sumatriptan (aka Imigran) when one starts, but these are only effective if taken early enough, before the migraine gets to a certain point.

Otherwise it's the stabby pains at a certain point in his head, sensitivity to light, etc, etc. I used to try to sleep with my head under the pillow when he was throwing up in the bathroom, but I can sleep through it now (after 26 years..).

Thank you for this thread - it has made interesting reading.

I have suffered from crippling migraines all my life. They really kicked in badly at puberty, were better when I was breastfeeding, (both times), and now, mid-menopause they have been two or three a month, each lasting three or four days.

Agree with Orenishii that they are not just a headache. Mine start with a strange, drugged, disorientated, feeling and I lose the feeling in my right side, cannot focus my eyes. The pain starts and I sometimes pass out. I can't keep anything down and am sick constantly. Like others I spend hours lying on the bathroom floor. I am out of action for three days and not very good for the day afterwards. They have wrecked Christmas, weddings, my A-level English exam, dates, birthdays and job interviews let alone seriously affected my work, (and I am freelance so if I don't work I don't get paid). My DP feels powerless to help yet angry because it is not just my days that are ruined - everyone loses out.

I have also tried so many things - and am currently on Amitriptyline as a preventative measure, Imigram, (nasal spray and tablets), Naproxen, Motillium suppositories to ease sickness. I also take ibruprofen and Solpadeine. The Amitriptyline seems to have decreased the frequency and severity but I am not free of them. I know my triggers, (cigarette smoke, alcohol, stress, driving, (esp in low winter sun like RainyAfternoon said), neck pain, dehydration, hunger, (agree about blood sugar).

Agree with Gettingagrip that they are time stealers. So many lost weekends, chunks of time gone from the middle of a holiday, projects abandoned.... There are times when I have felt suicidal.

I don't often talk about them, in fact try to hide them as I need to keep up a "capable and professional front" in order to get work and anyway, what can you say...?

Reading this thread I felt a real sense that there were other people who knew what it was to live with this - I've not met anyone else who does, (except my mother), and I felt much more hopeful. Thanks - and let's not give up tring to find some way of stopping them for good.