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!!!

Triptans, so much better! Though you may have to try a few to find one that suits you.
Also epilepsy medication, botox also there has been mixed results with the piercing ( daith i think).

Absolutely sure that the withdrawal from your sugar fix is part of the problem. I can sometimes stave off an attack by dissolving sugar under my tongue to quickly raising my blood sugar levels. I also used to always get migraine on the first day of a holiday. It wasn't until many years later that I realised the link to caffeine withdrawal. Regular and copious cups of tea/coffee in the office followed by maybe one or 2 in the whole day.

How long is it since you last had a medication/treatment with your GP. A year or two ago, my migraine got a lot worse and I was losing 3 days every 3 weeks to my bed/throwing up/major dehydration.

I now take triptans which have changed my life. It doesn't stop me suffering for several days but they usually clear the symptoms sufficiently for me to get on with my life. I couldn't believe I'd been struggling along for years with just paracetemol and codeine. The best bit though is that I can get them in oral dispersible form which means that I suck them and they enter you blood stream in my mouth (similar to heart attack remedies that go under the tongue) so you don't get the delay whilst they are digested. (I find that my digestive system shuts down with migraine)

Hope that you are feeling better soon and get your migraine under control - it can be ridiculously debilitating.

I have a neurological condition and was given, well prescribed, some neuropathic painkillers from my neurologist. I think that's the name for them (triptans or something).

I survived on Nurofen express through uni - also, keep an eye on what you're eating (sorry that sounds patronising). But certain foods trigger mine off.

I have been known to take soluble aspirin dissolved in red bull, plus 2 ibuprofen, plus 2 paracetamol. My husband despairs but nothing else seems to touch it. Recently I have been taking a B12 complex daily and can say that I feel a massive improvement in frequency of severe headache/migraine.

Suffered 2/3 migraines a week for past 20+ years. Triptans would shift the pain but made me feel awful. Put on high blood pressure meds’ in Feb for...erm...high blood pressure. Not one migraine since. My consultant doesn’t understand why. I’m not questioning it, just enjoying being headache free for the first time in my adult life.
Much sympathy to all other sufferers. Hope you find some relief.

I have imigran for when one kicks in but I also take pizotifen daily As a preventative

You need a caffeine kick. Take 2 solphadine washed down with a can of full coke. It really works!

Shaving been hospitalised for an eight day migraine, the neurologist prescribed three soluble aspirin and Domperidone for nausea/vomiting.
For the first time in years of trying just about everything, it staved it off in a couple of hours.

Triptans. They’re the only thing that touch mine.

Put on high blood pressure meds’ in Feb for...erm...high blood pressure. Not one migraine since. My consultant doesn’t understand why.

This is a fairly standard preventative for migraines. It isn't really working for me though.

There is a need to distinguish between "floaters" and migraine aura. Floaters are bits of tissue that have come adrift from the cornea and float about in the visual field. If you have lots of these then you do need to see an optician.

But maybe you have a migraine aura.

I treat my migraines with sleeping tabs - I knock myself out and when I wake up it is gone. I do not bother with any other attempts at treatment as none work. Not easy to do with little ones around I know - mine are grown up.

Are you taking anything to try and prevent them? I take a beta blocker and a small does of anti-depressant.

Do try and get some aspirin. I had to see a neurologist last year for a spinal issue and he took a full history- so I brought up my migraines. He recommended three soluble aspirin. I said well usually paracetamol and ibuprofen don’t work- he said ‘sometimes the oldies are the best’. It has literally been life changing. Three of them, a twenty minute power nap and I’m good. Can not believe it myself.

can you get five or ten minutes in the shower? I find really hot water helps...over the back of my head/neck...I usually sit in the shower and cry for a bit too!

then if that fends off the vomiting a strict regimen of 2 paracetamol every six hours, and 2 ibuprofen every eight will hold one off enough for me to function. And max out on the caffeine...keep the motor running!

one the vomiting starts I am doomed, it's bed and a darkened room with the sick bowl for at least six hours.

I've also been prescribed beta blockers, and that seems to have stopped them...you also get those for HighBloodPressure. I only take one on alternate days though as every day I can barely climb the stairs without getting out of breath.

Try and work out what causes your migraines eg; what food had you eaten. I did this and by avoiding caffeine, chocolate (I was a chocoholic) and bananas, I stopped getting them.

I have suffered with migraine since I was a teenager and used to get a minimum of one per week, sometimes up to three per week. I tried all the preventive and rescue medications and while some helped the symptoms nothing made them stop until I got a daith piercing. I did not expect it to work, and because I was so skeptical I don't believe it's efficacy is because of the placebo effect. This just plain worked for me. I've had maybe three actual migraines in the past two years. DD16 has this piercing now as well and has had a sharp decrease in migraines since. We swear by these little rings in our ears.

So sorry you're suffering with this OP. It's awful. I've had migraines for ages and I've gone to my GP but never really been given anything - so it's interesting to read others have been prescribed things. I find exercise triggers mine and so I always have a full fat Coke afterwards - cancelling out the benefits of the exercise no doubt .
Can I ask: Did you give up processed sugar because of your migraines OP, or was it for a different reason?

Only triptans work on mine. I have sumatriptan on prescription. Magical stuff and I only wish I'd done something about it sooner. Codeine is hideous stuff and doesn't work on migraine anyway - it might take the edge off, but that's all. See the GP.

I take one soluable asprin and a nap. Had migraines for years and tried triptans. They make me feel worse now, kind of sick and spaced out. Dr said try the asprin as soon as my aura starts and lay down. 20 minutes later all done with a light headache.

Hot shower as hot as you can stand for now. I use triptans And Ibruprophen (800 mg) and I take a antacid with it or I get awful heartburn.

I am in the States and mt triptans are uber expensive. My Copay is $290.00 per 30 tablets, and my insurance pays $250.00. Thankfully I can use my insurance 'credit card' but I'm still draining our insurance account.

I can go a few weeks and nothing, then have one every day for three weeks. A few months ago I had to go to Urgent Care for an injection it was so bad. It took an hour and a half to work but then I didn't have another one for three weeks.

It's awful OP. Truly awful, I hope you get relief soon.

Ok so the aspirin and the coke seem to be coming out on top for the quick fix but I see I do need to go to a gp. There are so many different fixes for different posters. I said floaters but yes aura is what they were. Thank God they didn't last long today. Being mum is erucuciating with a migraine. In the past i have taken to bed, black outs, cold face cloth on eyes but at moment i have no back up and cabt do that so it's frightening as well as painful.

Thank you all so much for posting your go-tos, I am going to re-read in next day or two. Usually I don't drink fizzy drinks but can see I need a coke on hand! I actually can't believe I became such a chocoholic while suffering from migraines as you'd think they'd trigger it but no, it's now when I by chance give it up but perhaps it is sugar withdrawal..I was eating a horrifying amount. I am still eating wholegrain pasta so was wrong to say completely off p sugar but massive difference on a daily basis. I'm a huge water drinker and have Dr in maybe 2.5L today so will keep that up. Thanks again and huge sympathies to all, it's such a bloody scourge.

I have stopped eating after say 6pm as that was my temptation time now am wondering if perhaps I'm bringing on low blood sugars which are causing the migraine.

I always used to use a cold water flannel to help but now use a hot water bottle. That and syndol and shed loads of water have saved me!!

What is soluable aspirin? Is it 'disbursable' aspirin? How many mg do you take at once, and is it preventative or when symptoms occur? Thank you.

Coming from a family with three migraine sufferers, and a MIL who gets. crippling ones and is also a pharmacist.
Aspirin as a first stop.
Then either get a script for a drug called Relpax, or better on called Maxalt - both are rizatriptans.
Son takes sumitripan - which works for him.
Nurofen or anit-inflammatories do FA for any of the adults. Though for my son a combo of these plus a low dose codeine/parcetemol tablet (prescribed) works.
MIL, DH and me all add a codeine/paracetemol dose as a step after the aspirin if that fails to work, then add the rizatriptan.
I and my son also take ondansetron to stop the nausea.

If the caffeine is helping you, there is a drug called Cafergot which is a mix of caffeine and ergotamine. This used to work brilliantly for me but you have to be very careful with your dosage as ergotamine is poisonous in larger dosages. It is only availble in where I live a as a suppository now ( erk) or through a compunnding pharmacist.
Also regular magnesium tablets to aid in preventing.

Water, but in the quantities you are drinking I'd suggest adding a pinch of salt per 500ml. I've been told by Dr that big water drinkers are flushing out potassium etc from their system and the salt balances this out. Works for my son in summer, as his migraines have a strong link to dehydration and the truckloads of water he drank had no positive effect till we added the salt.

Good luck

DD had her daith pierced, it hasn’t stopped the migraines completely but has reduced the frequency and intensity.