I need help from migraine sufferers please

[Satsuma1234]

I have had them since I was about 8, however usually in cluster form of about 3 or 4 over a short period of time and then nothing for several months even a year.

Paracetamol, nurofen etc don’t work. Nurofen plus do because they contain codeine. The dr has prescribed meds before but they can go out of date and don’t last to the point when my next cluster starts.

I can no longer take opiate based medication as I now have sphincter of oddi which is cases horrific pain. Can anyone suggest anything over the counter that has worked for them. I may just go back to the gp though. Thanks.

My first migraine at 13 was horrendous and I had no idea what the hell it was. Visual patterns over one eye followed by crashing headache on other side and awful vomitting bouts too. It took a full 24 hours before I felt ok again.

I then suffered regularly and just bore them. Hard to believe but my mother did not think it was migraine and did not offer me any help or medication. I lost a lot of school time through these and was so miserable. When one finally subsided I dreaded the next one which could be in a few days or few weeks. Bad memories! If only I had the tablets as a teenager I may have been a much happier kid!

After a couple of years they stopped. I was free of them for many more years then they started again. Then I had discovered Migralieve Pink worked very well if I took them as early as possible before the headache had time to grip. I was never without a pack of Migralieve in my bag.

Again they stopped after a year or so and I almost forgot about them.

Now I get what I understand is/are "occular migraines" which is just the visial patterns but no follow up headache. I had this twice today and it really does not worry me as I have had my eyes checked and visit to the doctor assured me they are harmless. I can have 5 in a week then none for weeks. Sometimes I experience the start of the pattern, just a little bit at the side of my vision then it disappears. Not hormonal as I am post menopause.

Anyone who suffers genuine migraine has my total sympathy but these days there really is no need to endure the horrors of it as medication is great to keep them at bay or minimise the pain etc.

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