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Triptans don’t work for me. My migraines may be of a different variety though.. from several severe closed head injuries. However, a frozen bag of peas/or frozen wash cloth placed in the eye orbits and around the temples do help a bit. And sunglasses... I’m NEVER without sunglasses.
Migraines are horrendous and often friends, employers and family do not understand how debilitating they are.
It’s not a “take 2 aspirins” and your back on your feet in 30 minutes.
They are there for a minimum of 24 hours (sometimes days) and then when they do go away, you are left with that punched out migraine hangover.
Dulled, tired, and behind at work.
The treatments are too extreme for most people. I never took meds for them. I hope they can find a way to help people who suffer from migraine.
I get ocular migraines but fortunately I don’t get headaches. I do get to see some interesting light shows tho.
My Daughter used to get them and nothing really helped. She somehow outgrew them.
I’ve been suffering with `cluster headaches’ (which seem to be a mostly male affliction, with migraines the ladies’ affliction) since last February. I smoked for years and my Dad suffered with them also. Three `lucky’ sufferers out of every thousand people, so I’m told.
Ice packs, Naproxin sodium (Ibuprofin), aspirin and acetamenophen, scalp massager give some relief ... but the only thing that really seems to knock one out is 50 mg of sumatriptan, and if taken soon enough after the onset of the attack. Zomig (zomiltriptan) works too but is more expensive.
Anyone with a bad insurance plan might try one of the Canadian pharmacies.
Some of the stuff I’ve read calls them “suicide headaches” because men suffering them have stated they would rather be dead. But not me: first of the year/at the onset I would just projectile vomit, bang my head against a wall and weep with pain ....
All right them.
I am also using a home oxygen condenser but again, it seems to aid the triptans while not giving much real stand-alone relief.
My doctors think I was using too many and cut back on my prescription. They seem timid about prescribing them, although the instructions say the risk of stroke is very slight.
The aches seem to come and go for 2-4 day periods every week, and lately have just been constant low-grade aching with occasional severe pain.
After a rough 2015 the headaches seem to finally be relenting. Maybe I’m close to being out of the woods.
Any thoughts or questions, feel free/I would appreciate hearing. I wouldn’t wish these headaches on my worst enemy.
Very interesting. I am most interested, as a serious migraine sufferer, in something that will stop them without having to take medication.
I’ve tried just about everything. My favorite triptan, Frova, works very well. However I have to take it so often and I don’t like having to, with any risks that might cause me. And it is extremely expensive.
I’d do anything if I could be migraine free with no horrible side effects.
I don’t know what my Chiro does, but it works. After his massage therapist gets done with me I’m a new person.
I’ve had a lot of luck with a combo of Advil and Excedrin at the same time. Usually two pills of each with milk or light food. Works great.
My daughter suffered with migraines for decades. Cured with beta-blockers.
I’ve had migraines since childhood. In my forties I read an article that suggested a link to dehydration. So I decided to try to be more hydrated. I never drank very much, just coffee and drinks with meals. After I’d done that for a while I noticed my sense of thirst developed. I didn’t really notice it before. Then I noticed that every time I got a migraine I also had dry cotton mouth. Maybe there was something to this.
Now I know that if I allow myself to get to dehydrated I will get a headache, and I can tell how close I am to getting one by how much liquid I’ve taken in and how thirsty I get. It can still be hard to keep up. But even when I wake up with a headache now, if I drink a lot of water, maybe a liter, and take a couple of Excedrins, it will go away. It never did that before, it lasted all day. I know longer take prescription meds at all. I know that for me it was dehydration all along.
Most people go around partially dehydrated all the time.
The May-June 2014 issue of "American Scientist" had an interesting article about the phenomenon, in which they said research suggested that it came from a genetically derived deficiency in the "release and uptake signaling molecules in the synapses between brain cells" - serotonin and glutamate - which apparently build to an abnormally high level because of the deficiency in the reuptake mechanism until a sort of "flashpoint" is reached, setting off waves of hyper-activity which spread throughout the brain but are apparently mainly in the occipital region in the case of ocular migraines - my own "attacks" which take place probably every couple of months have become more an entertaining nuisance than a worry since I found out that both my eye-doctor his eye-doctor-son experience the same issue and say "there's nothing to be done about it".....
Nothing commercial has ever worked, and only one “home remedy” was worth anything. That’s where a strong friend would hold my head in his/her hands, applying constant lifting pressure for up to two minutes. I relaxed while he was doing this, so he literally was holding my head.
When he finally let go, the headache was gone. I’ve done to same to other people with success, but don’t have that many strong friends, these days.
I don’t know why it works or how; I just know it does.