AIBU to be so ANGRY about migraines?

[museumum]

I am self employed and have been working way too much recently. So this week I arranged my work to take a few hours off this morning to do something nice. I worked extra hard earlier in the week and went to bed last night sooo looking forward to this morning.
BANG migraine from hell. Tossing in pain all night. Cancelled plans.

Aaarggghhhhh. I’m soooo fucking angry at my stupid head. It always does this when I have any prospect of relaxation. My main trigger is relaxing at the end of stress. But I deserve to relax sometimes. AIBU to want to just scream ITS NOT FAIR?!?!?

YANBU, they're horrible. Have you been to your GP?

Me too; I was looking forward to today to have a nice day and wine tonight then bam a migraine and I can’t do anything I want to as it’ll aggravate it

@ThreeLittleDots

YANBU, they're horrible. Have you been to your GP?

Not for a while. Before March 2020 I would usually only get one or two a year and sumatriptan relieves the weirdest symptoms and allows me to go to bed for a day or so.

Since the stress of lockdown 1 I’ve been getting up to 6 a year.. I’m just really burnt out which makes it even more annoying if I have one on a day I’m supposed to be doing something relaxing

Sorry you are suffering too @Fdksyihfd

Aye - Sod's law.

Used to get one every Saturday without fail (my only day off).

I have naratriptan - if I don't take it in time, I end up being sick.

Every now and again I was prescribed beta blockers as they would stop them immediately. But the side effects made me feel spaced out.

The stolen time is what I hate the most too. The weekend plans, the date night with my husband, the outing with my daughter, even the work meeting I have to reschedule. The pain and misery and lying on the tile floor wishing it would end are awful, but it’s the stolen time that I hate the most.

Yep. Worse thing is when you half wake up in the night and realise one is imminent but don't wake fully so,you,don't take tablets to stop it. Then in the morning it's in full swing

How old are you?

Mine increased when I was peri-menopausal

Migraines are bloody awful and you completely have my sympathy as mine tends to surface when I have plans that are not work! Sudafed red sinus tablets can be a miracle worker and my neurologist told me they help with the nerves, if you keep getting them get the GP to refer you, I was eventually put on an anti epilepsy medication that I take everyday and it has been life changing

I really feel for you they are just awful 💖

I feel for you, they are awful, I get migraines, and Ice-pick headaches. Having Botox for them has been life-changing. Might t be worth asking for a referral to a neurologist or headache clinic to see if you would qualify to try it out?

@RandomMess

How old are you?

Mine increased when I was peri-menopausal

45

I get them too and reading your comments has made me realise that I get them when I'm winding down too - usually on a Friday. Is there some medical reason for this ? Xx

I get up to 23 per month when unmedicated. I'm currently on a monthly injection - Ajovy - which has me down to 4/5 a month which is life changing.

The one thing I wish I'd known 25yrs ago is that poorly managed episodic migraine is a common denominator amongst those who go on to have chronic migraine.

Please go back to your GP. There are lots of triptans they can try you on if sumatriptan is there working any more. Even just changing from a sumatriptan tablet to a nasal spray made A HUGE difference for me.

They are so shit. I know my triggers but sometimes they seem to appear out of nowhere.

@RandomMess

How old are you?

Mine increased when I was peri-menopausal

Interesting. Mine completely disappeared in my mid-40s when I was perimenopausal, and haven't ever returned.

Mine were hormone related without a doubt, they started when I first got my periods at 13, then disappeared at menopause. They could hit any time of the month, though, and made my life utterly miserable.

I'm seeing my doctor soon for this same thing today as my other doctor took me off a Rx causing my migraines to return. They are awful. Good luck

I could have written this post...booked holiday from work and had plans for an event booked for months today...all cancelled because of a horrendous migraine for the past two days. Only just starting to ease now but the nausea is still here and no way I could have sat in a car to get to the event or coped with the crowd noise, lighting and food smells/peoples perfume etc. I'm so upset. I've tried so many things and nothing has worked long term. I fully sympathise with you

Much sympathy. I've had one for about 4 days now. Mine are arent excruciating pain but go on for up to a week and are utterly exhausting.

Sympathy OP. Mine ramped up as I approached peri menopause, with weeks 1-2 of my cycle being particularly bad. However, they have calmed down quite significantly since I started being medicated for an underactive thyroid.

I sorted mine with craniosacral therapy - had a couple of minor migraines during menopause, but used another healing method, and none since. I had relief from 1995 apart from those menopause ones.

I 100 per cent recommend craniosacral therapy. Sorted me, sorted my son. He didn't sleep when he was born - then he had craniosacral therapy and he slept to the extent I initially thought he was dead.

I would guess GENTLE cranial osteopathy would do the same thing.

DO NOT do chiropractic. The US is a weird place where these people are allowed to say they are doctors. this does not apply to the rest of the world.

Western medicine insists that the skull is fixed and immobile. This is wrong, and has been proven by so many, once Sutherland initially showed it.

I used the Upledger Institute (because I trained with them - my relief happened during my taining). But you can search for what suits you.

Mine were bad through puberty then eased off and came back with peri.

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Mine seem to also be associated with perimenopause (not menopause). I've gone on the mini-pill recently but have still been having some days spent in pain and unable to do anything... Hopeing it settles down on this pill otherwise I'll have to change my GP and try to see if HRT helps to stabilise wildly swinging oestrogen levels

It’s mad how I can go ages without one and then the first day of a holiday, bang without fail hello migraine. I’ve been on 3 short holidays this year and every one has been spoiled by migraine. There must be something in the winding down/relaxation thing.
I’ve always suffered with migraines. They changed recently though and instead of getting the one-day massive can’t leave the bed type migraine, they last 4-5 days now still headbangers but usually without nausea. I’m late 40s and they seemed to change with a change in cycle (perimenopausal?) It’s shit!