Migraines - help!

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Morning all,

I have suffered with migraines for years - since childhood, and have for the past few years had a good medication routine in place to manage these. Lately there has been an increase and I brought a TENS machine to help manage the pain and it worked brilliantly.

My TENS machine pads have now been discontinued rendering my machine useless. Has anyone here got a TENS machine that they use for migraine relief that they would recommend. I've looked online and there are so many!!

Any other recommendations for non-medication support of migraines would be great too! Medication wise, I'm currently on Topiramate daily as a prevention, 100mg Sumatriptan for an attack and 2.5mg Zolmatriptan for during my period (which is one long migraine!).

Thanks lovelies

I have always suffered with migraines and they have pretty much gone with me taking a high dose of evening primrose oil daily. I never would have believed it but it worked for me.

I’ve found spacemasks warming eye masks have helped me. I got one for free in a beauty kit and used it when I had a migraine as it was a pretty bright day and I wanted to block out the light. I found it helped ease things off more than just blocking the light would, and have purchased a few boxes since with good results. I mentioned it on a thread here (about the beauty box) and a few others said they had found it helped their migraines also.

I know you said non medication route, but my dd has had migraines since she was a child, maybe since birth, and recently did a migraine diary with a neurological dept of a nearby hospital. They have said as she has over 17 migraines days a month she has chronic migraines and has been put on the medication recently agreed by the NHS Atogepant (Aquipta). It's early days but it has really helped her.
I will mention the evening primrose oil to her too as a pp mentioned.

I hope someone has an alternative tens machine suggestion that will help you. I get migraines but nothing like my dd, I now mainly get the auras after previously having the light sensitivity and pain, but they still wipe me out for a day or so.

If you like TENS for your migraine then have a look at Cephaly which is basically TENS designed purely for migraine. I really liked my Cephaly and it has settings both for attacks and prevention.

You can easily reorder pads for it.

For other things:
If topiramate has worked for you up to a point, have your tried a higher dose?

If periods are one long migraine, do you need to have periods? On another migraine thread a lot of us had used the mini-pill to stop periods, but it was definitely a love-hate option as while lots of us loved it, some people had found that it made the migraine worse.

My husband bought the renpho eye massager for my migraines and it find it great. Has cooling or warming pads.

Amazing! Thank you all so much for your help. You are all fab xxx