Fucking migraines

[mikado1]

Floaters and pain sat, floaters, pain and pins and needles in face Sun, just floaters and nausea yesterday and now out of the blue, thinking I was recovered, more pain and floaters. Can only take migrelief once in 24 hrs and nurofen doing nothing. I just hate them. Does anyone do anything else to help? It was months and months since I got one but now I've had two lasting a few days in 3m. I hate them!!!

Three aspirin if you can take them. Much better than paracetamol or ibuprofen.

Migralive can give me the “headache hangover” I tried a few prescription ones from the GP and ditched migralieve to be honest.

Apart from a pinch of bicarb in water to sort out visual disturbances, it's just painkillers and sleep for me.

They really are shit things to have though.

Cold full sugar coke and painkillers.
Cold cloth on head.

When was last eye test?

Aspirin works better for me than the triptans I get on prescription. I’ve just started topiramate daily, as a preventative measure, which so far seems to be working, so maybe go down a preventative route moving forward?

Have you tried three soluble aspirin and a full fat coke?

Migraleve pink you can only take once in 24 hours, Migraleve yellow you take every 4 hours.

Aspirin can make you nauseous.

Have you tried prescribed migraine relief like Triptans OP?

Paracetamol rather than ibuprofen... but even better are prescription only drugs. I have a painkiller that's combined with an anti-emetic and a triptan. Go to see your GP.

Paramol, Tiger Balm and water. I also import the original formula Syndol from South Africa at ridiculous vast expense but they do knock you out at night. I feel your pain

Sleep is the only thing that’s ever really helped me kick a migraine.

If you’ve not already done so then I’d advise looking on the migraine trust website. It has a whole section on preventative treatments. I reduced the frequency of mine by loads by taking a huge amount of magnesium everyday. The neurologist I was referred to advised me to go down the supplement route after I’d reacted badly to a few of the preventative tablets he gave me. For me prevention was better than a cure once it’s already kicked in.

I do suffer with them from time to time

I take the nurofen migraine relief
Cold flannel
Sleep
Dark or darkish room if you can ( if I’ve got the dc I normally at least have the blinds closed while they play so it’s not so light)
I find a cup of coffee or some full sugar Coca Cola can help too

Other than that, not much you can do sorry

Three x 300mg asprin.

I took daily preventative stuff for a while and now have a melt thing that seems to help. Both on prescription.

At home with 2dc, no car and lashing, can't get out for the coke tho i know it's effective. Ok will add paracetamol to nurofen, have no aspirin. It's not ful force so hopefully will hold it off. Gave up processed sugar two weeks ago, wonder if thats doing something. Interested re magnesium.

Gave up processed sugar two weeks ago, wonder if thats doing something

Absolutely - this is likely to be withdrawal symptoms

I find a cold pack at the base of my neck helps, as lying with a blackout eye mask on and sulphadene

A banana and a bottle of original, non fizzy, lucozade (I know it's the devils piss but it knocks them right out for me).
I feel your pain though, it's utterly miserable!

Good work on the processed sugar. That's what cured me after 25 years and an increase in my fitness. Took abut three or four weeks so hang on in there. Down from 8 Elitriptan tablets a month to just one every 2 months. Stay strong. Drink water or fizzy water if no coke.

Imigran nasal spray.
I have had migraine for 30 years and it's the only thing that actually works.
And works well.
Prescription only.

Try a cup of coffee, has the same effect as triptans although might not work this far into a migraine. Ibruprofen, sumatriptan and sleep are the only things that help me.

Can I ask why some prefer paracetamol or asprin to ibuprofen? I've always had migraines though they're now occurring with increasing frequency and severity. I've been taking ibuprofen and a small cup of coffee and that seems to help. I can't take migraleve because it contains codeine and I'm allergic to it :(

Thanks for the link to the migraine trust slowsloth, I'm just looking at it now.

Sorry you're suffering so much with this OP.

Paracetamol does nothing for my migrainey-type headaches. It only works for me for headaches caused by colds.

Ibuprofen doesn't really work either, though if I take it in conjunction with drinking cola it does the trick. I also have a magnesium roller thing that i roll over my forehead which helps to get rid of sickness.

argh wish I knew 200mg topirimate and 16mg candesartan daily, 12 almotriptan a month combined with 600mg ibuprofen and metoclopramide for the nausea for abortives and I still have migraines and cluster headache almost daily

Go and see the GP and get some sumitriptan to take as soon as one starts. They can also give you better painkillers such as naproxen and anti sickness pilss if that is how you want to go. You could also try a magnesium supplement - ask GP about dosage - to be effective it usually needs to be quite large.

A friend of mine who has suffered cluster migraines all her life now has an injection in her neck about 4 times a year which keeps her pain free for a few months til it wears off. I think they botox a vein in her neck or something similar. She has to get this done privately as it's not on the nhs and costs her a couple of hundred quid a time but it is worth it as she is now mostly pain free.

Imigran turned my world around. Ask the doctor about different types of triptan prescription. Do some research of your own too. Perhaps join or look at the Migraine Society. Cold damp flannel on core of pain can help. Eating regularly and drinking a lot of fluids can help prevent them.

And possibly shoot anyone who tells you it's "just a headache"