Migraines - how do you cope?

[Pinkspottyegg]

Have suffered them all my life. Always got them during pill free week so obviously hormonal. At that time (about 15 years ago) I was advised to continue taking pill so I didn't have any hormone fluctuations. This worked though nowadays would not be advocated because of increased stroke risk.

Since having kids and suffering still for the last 3 years I've been on the mini pill. Not for contraception as DH had the snip but to balance out hormones so I don't get the migraines (or periods). This has worked pretty well and have only had two during this time that I can think of however one has slipped under the radar and I'd forgotten how sickening it is.

Same thing, always on left side and once there will last for exactly four days. Feels like someone has poured hot molten lead down one side and are then trying to pull it out through my eyeball. Teeth like a tuning fork has been twanged on them and a general feeling of nausea and shut down.

So, once it's there, absolutely nothing shifts it. Any fellow suffererers have a miracle cure I'm unaware of?

Bump

My sister gets them

She doesn't take any contraceptive pills as a preventative measure

She has migraine tablets on prescription

One of the main successes she's had is starting Botox

She also avoids any food with cheese & chocolate in it

She drinks full fat coke as it hydrates better than just water

She wears sunglasses in supermarkets as the lights trigger a migraine even though she feels an idiot

She never sits in direct sunshine

I feel for you , they are so rehabilitating when she gets one

I had horrific migraines for past few years, at first I thought menstrual migraine but then it would last weeks and feel like someone had hit me with a baseball bat on the side of my head!!

Prescribed amitriptilayne (sp?) at 50mg over a few mnths this worked and now down to 10mg per day as preventative.

My GP is convinced its related to contraceptive and as ive just come off (ttc) I hope they stay away!!

I feel your pain, they are nasty. I would suggest talking to GP first if you dont want to stop contraceptive. Good luck

I have had migraines since i was a small child. I always resisted prophalactic treatment but since I had the children I was really starting to struggle. I had 2 toddlers and a baby and having migraines twice a week. The full shabbang of excruciating head pain and constant vomiting.

The GP prescribed propanolol and its been brilliant, I just wished I had taken it earlier. About once a month I can feel the start of one but I just take ibrufen and cocodamol and slather my head in tiger balm until my eyes start watering. Its enough to keep me going through the day until bedtime and then its all gone by the morning.

Same as belly, had them since a kid. Went back and forth to the doctor with no success. Was suggested I take Zotrim(?) but the weight gain side effect put me off. After having children, they became more frequent and debilitating so I took the offer of Propanalol and haven't looked back. On the few ocassions I have had one grumbling in the last 5 years, I take a Sumatraptin and that knocks it away.
I wish I'd found the solution earlier, 30 years I suffered :(

Mine have eased since I cut out wheat (weird or what) but the only thing that shifts one when it's arrived is ergotamine (migril or cafergot).