Posted on 05/23/2005 6:13:05 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
I suffered with migraines for years before I knew what it was.....now I thank God for Imitrex.
For me, chiropractic got rid of them. I was a frequent migraine sufferer. After seeing (and marrying) a chiropractor my headaches are a thing of the past.
Oddly, my headaches BEGAN when I got married....
Help! Help! I hav migraines during early mornings and I also experience them during late afternoons. Not that a carbo- rich diet helps though.
Trepanation ping?
Same here. Until Imitrex became available in pill form, a trip to the doctor for a shot of a strong pain medication was my only solution.
Can't figure out where they come from, heredity-wise. Neither parent has ever HAD a headache. Mine tend to come in clusters.
Wow. Someone stayed up an extra 1/2 hour after bedtime to reach that obvious conclusion!
Have a friend whose son had them at an early age. He got them after he had been playing hard. He was one of those kids whose head just got soaked when he perspired, and he learned to take it easy especially in hot weather.
He is grown now, and I believe he has little or no problems with migraines now.
Bad news because I can hardly see to walk when this happens, much less drive.
However, it's good in that it's a signal to me that I need to get home before the pain hits.
Our 12 year old son has had them for several years. We've found Ibuprofen suspension to work well for him. It's absorbed faster than pills and gets right to work on the migraine. If he gets the medicine quickly enough, we can usually prevent the nausea from taking hold. Medicine plus a 30 minute lie-down in a dimmed room usually revives him. Once the migraine develops to the point of nausea, it can take hours for him to improve, usually requires a nap and often involves vomiting.
He has learned to speak up as soon as he feels it coming on, and the school nurse has a bottle of his medicine and instructions on his situation. It took a while for us to realize that it was migraine. We both suffer them, but he didn't initially describe it as headache in a way that we recognized it. We would get a call from the school nurse that he was sick to his stomach and seemed to be coming down with something. After a few rounds of this, we put two and two together.
We try to prevent them as much as possible. Things that help him are getting enough sleep, adequate food intake, minimizing refined carbs, avoiding caffeine, wearing his glasses on car rides, wearing sunglasses and hat on bright, hot days, and keeping up his fluids. Ever since he was little, he's been very sensitive to blood sugar levels. He gets cranky when his blood sugar drops. Now we also find that he tends to get migraines when his blood sugar drops. Snacks help, as does adequate protein intake.
Each kid is different, but there are some common triggers that affect a lot of migraine sufferers. She can probably be helped in a number of ways, even if she won't take medicine.
My son had migraines which were caused by nitrates in lunch meats.
Im used to get Ocular Migraines. No head pain, but I could barely see a thing for about 40 minutes when they'd hit. Just a big, bright, shimmering semicircular mass in the center of my vision. I'd feel kind of tired afterwards, but that was all. I'd just have to sit and wait for it to go away.
No one ever believes me, but I not get them and have never had a headache.
Thanks!
Thanks, I will pass this information on to Felicity's parents. Being tired is usually one of the first clue's.
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