Extreme pain in head when vomiting with migraine.. help

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I have had migraines my whole adult life, with vomiting usuall so it's a well trodden path. Migraines behind one eye.

Yesterday was a bad one. I vomited maybe 20+ times. In the last 2 of the day (after I had eaten a tea biscuit so perhaps more forceful), I experienced THE WORST head pain of my life,in a band around the back of my head. It was absolutely excruciating and lasted a few minutes before dying down.

Please tell me this is just a response to increased pressure from vomiting and not an aneurysm!! No neuro deficits of course, and otherwise well.

I know some may say go to Dr, this is just a message board but that isn't possible right now home alone with 2 kids. So i just want to know if anyone else has experience this before?

If you had vomited over 20 times I would assume you were severely dehydrated and that can cause horrendous headaches.

Weirdly I had this yesterday as well. It is however not my first experience with it. As PP said I figured it was dehydration so I had some electrolytes and slowly sipped them in very tiny amounts. I still have the migraine but the vomiting is down and the tight band headache you mention is gone.

Hope you are feeling better now, migraines suck. I am just waiting for my GP practice to open so I can beg them to prescribe stronger meds

I get this too! My migraines are very vomity and tmi - also get extreme head pain if I need to push to poo! (Again sorry for the tmi) it’s excruciating! So no help but just to say you are not alone

How frequently do you get them? Could you try a preventative?

I agree the dehydration can make a migraine seem worse which feels impossible when you are in so much pain from the migraine itself.

Have you tried to find the migraine trigger or been to the GP to try to stop them?

I expect it was from vomiting and the migraine itself. Perhaps keep some rehydration sachets in the house so you don't get dehydrated. Hope you feel better soon .

Ah op that sounds so distressing.

id definitely speak to your doctor but also treat it as dehydration until you get some answers

hope you get answers soon

It's a migraine, I suffer from them too. Last week I'd one and was sick constantly the whole day. It was so sore I cried with the pain. I'm my own worst enemy though and don't drink enough water which tends to trigger them to be unbearable. Hope you get your migraines sorted out.

Thank you all, and sorry to those with the same pain.

I have had migraine pain that makes me bang my head on the floor but this was another level of excruciating! I had to just tell myself to breathe and be calm while it passed. Scary. I then became terrified of throwing up and triggering it again. I think it was (hopefully) dehydration, but anything that goes in will come back up again, so I'm thinking anti nausea medication is needed. I'll chat to the GP.
Feeling washed out today but thank god its gone.

Thanks again

Also I get migraines when my neck goes into spasm - and that presents as a really awful pain in neck/back of head. DH always knows as he finds me with my head twisted in odd positions trying to stretch it out/push against it.

And I think it's the cruelest when you get that awful pain when puking, genuinely does feel like something is about to explode.

Definitely speak to GP about anti nausea meds - your digestion slows right down during a migraine which is why often you're sick - and can mean you don't absorb medication too - so I've always been told to take the anti-nausea meds when you take migraine meds, even if you think you don't need it, just to help you absorb the migraine meds better

Best of luck

I had a migraine yesterday too!
Definitely speak to your GP in any case, but I get that weird excruciating pain like my head is being squeezed in a vice for a few minutes when I'm throwing up/directly afterwards before it tapers back to throbbing general ache.

I get that too, it's agony, isn't it?