Someone told me about Adele Davis, and her books, and pantotheric acid (?) and Vitamin B6. I searched Amazon, she has multiple books...so I'm wondering if anyone here has any common experience, or advice as to possible migrane treatments. Thanks
Ignore Adele. She's about as reliable on health and nutrition as Edgar Cayce is on spirituality. Go to
www.mayoclinic.com and read about migraines there. I've had them for many years. For me it's one or both sides of my head like a bolt of pain going in the lower back of my skull and out through my eyeball. If I lie extremely still, I can manage almost not to feel the pain.
There's often a hereditary component. My dad had them, until he had open heart surgery, and then never again. My sister has so many scotomas that she cannot see to drive. Only recently have I had any sort of visual manifestations but they don't come with the headache. Sometimes bright light can trigger migraines in some people. In the past I've found that lying very still in a dark room with an extremely cold compress over my eyes would help. Lately I've found Fioricet (also contains APAP and caffeine) to be the most helpful form of medicine since I don't have hours to lie in bed with an extremely cold compress over my eyes. The caffeine is a vasoconstrictor. Some believe that dilated blood vessels in the brain can cause the pain and that the caffeine constricts them and relieves the pain. There are other vasoconstrictive medications for aborting or preventing a migraine.
Yep, there seems to be a connection between what they call a PFO, which is a hole in the wall of the heart between chambers. When they close the hole the migraines mysteriously disappear.
Well, it might not be so mysterious. My husband was having minor strokes that some people thought might be connected to the migraines. When he had the heart surgery, the migraines disappeared, almost.
He still gets the migraines if he has food with too much MSG, food coloring or aspartame, but since he avoids those foods like the plague, he has very few migraines, anymore. Oh, he still won’t eat chocolate, either.