Anybody get migraines?

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The flashing light trails have begun.
What do you take for yours?

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the following thread contains possible remedies but please dont rush out and try them, go and see your local trained medical practitioner, they are not local trained medical practitioners for fun...

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I used to get them a maximum of once a year. Seriously. But I haven't suffered with them for ten or more years now. The only thing I found to help was to lie in a quiet, dark room for 24 hours. They used to leave me with a horribly thick headed sensation for a couple of days aftwerwards.
 
Migraine and Tom's jokes ... nobody deserves that!
 
viv1969 said:
The flashing light trails have begun.
What do you take for yours?
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I do. I have found a tablet that kills them dead though. It's called Hemicraneal. I have no idea whether there is a version sold in the UK though.
 
I don't want to pour scorn on the fact that this is a medical issue but what difference does it make what one person uses/takes to help combat the problem - surely we are all different and therefore we could all need a different type of remedy.

I do hope that anyone reading any suggestions given, at least has the foresight to seek professional medical help first.
 
I get them.

Usually when I'm tired and I'm in the office under fluoro lighting.... think there's definitely bad posture at play (hunched over computer) but I do get them out of the blue also. When they come on during a long drive is the worst because of the concentration involved.

Generally I just have to sleep. I also take these US migraine pills called Exedrin Migraine, which help, but sleep and a damp, cold flannel over my eyes and forehead help to soothe the pain. It's not a guaranteed fix but it goes a small way to helping me manage the pain.

I also found that snorting cold water helped clear my sinuses, as I often felt very bunged up in my nose in the run-up to a migraine.
 
Ice works for me.
 
I dont get them Ruth but a mate of mine suffered with them really bad. Now I know that there is a host of things that are supposed to trigger them. But he actualy suffered far less by cutting out Tomatoes from his diet.
 
I get that vision thing, like a jagged line that slowly creeps across my view of vision and it then become like trying to view a Youtube video taken on a mobile phone at 240 px resolution. The whole thing lasts for about 20 minutes and if I don't pop a couple of paracetamol the moment that vision thing takes place then I get a thumping headache that lasts for the rest of the day.
Thankfully I have never been known to get physically ill with it and taking the headache tablets the moment I do get the vision symptom seem to "cap" the inevitable headache - apart from that one time when I had a bad "cluster" when the vision thing occurred six time in one day - I was working in a hot and stuffy tomato greenhouse at the time! That did mess me up where I was in tears by the end of the day.
I usually get just the bog standard migraine once or twice in a year, often in the spring when the temperature and light increases.
 
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Thanks all. Bed it is then.
 
neil_g said:
Yup ice here too. And a couple of ibuprofen.
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Yup that's the combo. It's the only thing that's ever really made a difference to mine.
 
I get the dodgy vision but no headache , it takes about 30 min to come on then 30 min to fade. It scared the **** out of me the first time it happened but now i just wait for it to settle then carry on with what I was doing :)
 
Ruth
Ask your doctor for "imigram 50" I have been using these for years and they work for me.

Migrains are an imbalance of fluids in the brain and these tablets help bring them back in line.

spike
 
Dark room ibuprofen cold flannel on my forehead and eyes for 20-30mins
 
specialman said:
I get them.

Usually when I'm tired and I'm in the office under fluoro lighting.... think there's definitely bad posture at play (hunched over computer) but I do get them out of the blue also. When they come on during a long drive is the worst because of the concentration involved.

Generally I just have to sleep. I also take these US migraine pills called Exedrin Migraine, which help, but sleep and a damp, cold flannel over my eyes and forehead help to soothe the pain. It's not a guaranteed fix but it goes a small way to helping me manage the pain.

I also found that snorting cold water helped clear my sinuses, as I often felt very bunged up in my nose in the run-up to a migraine.
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When you say snorting cold water, are you serious? And do you mean nose in water and inhale?
 
Davec223 said:
When you say snorting cold water, are you serious? And do you mean nose in water and inhale?
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Yup pro swimmers do it all the time.
 
Just in case he does, i'd say that medically that is not a good idea

though i'd speculate that he may mean taking the water in through your mouth and expelling it through the nose (disgusting but not dangerous)

a better way to clear your sinusses is menthol cystals in a bowl of hot water and a towel over you head
 
mrgubby said:
I get the dodgy vision but no headache , it takes about 30 min to come on then 30 min to fade. It scared the **** out of me the first time it happened but now i just wait for it to settle then carry on with what I was doing :)
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This is called a silent migraine and I suffer these from time to time. My problem generally stems from bright or obtrusive lighting and I get zig zag lines, flashing lights and patches of blurring. The worst of the headache is usually some tightening but a full headache can develop if I continue to do what I am doing without changing the causing factor. I can sometimes get nausea but not always.

Lying flat - preferably in cool shade and resting can usually alleviate symptoms in about half hour. I take co-codamol if I do get head pain.
 
big soft moose said:
Just in case he does, i'd say that medically that is not a good idea

though i'd speculate that he may mean taking the water in through your mouth and expelling it through the nose (disgusting but not dangerous)

a better way to clear your sinusses is menthol cystals in a bowl of hot water and a towel over you head
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People have been using nasal irrigation for many years. Doctors will tell you to snort salt water and spit out through the mouth to clear nasal or sinus infection.
 
I had a sinus infection recently after a bad cold. The cold lasted about 10 days but almost immediately after I started picking up, my sinuses were agony and it was causing one of my eyes to ache badly so I went to see the Doc.

He put me on antibiotics and told me to boil some water in a kettle, pour into a bowl and do the tea-towel over the head thing twice a day. I told him I did it once the previous day, with a dollop of Vapour Rub in there, and to my surprise he said that although I can flavour it with what I want, it's the fine droplets of water vapour that do the work.
 
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pepi1967 said:
People have been using nasal irrigation for many years. Doctors will tell you to snort salt water and spit out through the mouth to clear nasal or sinus infection.
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inhaling a good load of water is not the way to go though - thats asking for some numpty to stick his nose in a bowl and half drown himself.

also snorting any kind of liquid is bad for the capilaries in the nose lining and likely to lead to an increased risk of nose bleeds
 
Davec223 said:
When you say snorting cold water, are you serious? And do you mean nose in water and inhale?
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Yep.

Makes my nose run and helps clear the sinuses a little. It hurts a little, like when you accidentally sniff water in the swimming pool, but I've always found that my migraine are preceded by serious bunging up and this just helps to allow me to take deep breaths through my nose, which help. It's not a regular thing by any means - it's not like I wake up and sniff water every day (although a friend does, nutter!) - and it's literally a few drops in the palm of my hand. I tried one of those moisturiser things where it heads the water and you put your head over it, but I found it extremely uncomfortable and time consuming. I'm generally dead on my feet with migraines and can barely function so I need quick fixes and the water sniff suits me (for now).

The fact I've been a smoker for many years has something to do with this also - now I've packed up the fags my nose is clearer (I haven't had a migraine since, but it's only been 8 days). Smoking always made me a bit bunged up and I'm hoping that now I've quit I'll at least reduce one of the factors in how my migraines develop. I still think that fluorescent lighting is one of the main ingredients in my migraines....


big soft moose said:
....a better way to clear your sinusses is menthol cystals in a bowl of hot water and a towel over you head
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I had to double-take then... thought you were advocating crystal meth!!! :lol:


u8myufo said:
....he actualy suffered far less by cutting out Tomatoes from his diet.
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My mum gets them from drinking orange juice and milk chocolate. Seems everyone has different triggers...
 
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Whilst cocodamol helps take the edge off it, I find that only a dark room and sleep will clear it.
 
viv1969 said:
The flashing light trails have begun.
What do you take for yours?
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My wife used to suffer bad migraines, she now takes one amitryptilin, a day, not sure if this spelling is correct, but they do the job, she rarely gets them now, hopefully will not any more. Hope this may be of some help. Just a quick edit, cheese starts them for her, may be worth bearing in mind although I am aware every one is different.
 
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ive edited the op, please go and read it, thanks!
 
Thanks all. I wasn't about to start popping pills on people's recommendation, but was merely asking opinions.
I went to bed, and this morning, though I have a "muzzy head" it seems I have avoided the crashing headache.
Thanks again to all who chipped in :)
 
Migraleve Pink tablets. The only thing that works for me, and I get serious migraine headaches... the full tunnel vision, sparkly light and vomiting type.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Migraleve Pink tablets. The only thing that works for me, and I get serious migraine headaches... the full tunnel vision, sparkly light and vomiting type.
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These, and take them as soon as you notice the flashing/lightning ocular effects. Speed is important, the sooner you realise you have the start of a migrain and take action the better.
 
This is exactly what my Dr. has now prescribed. Thanks again everyone.
 
When I was young ice cream on a sunny day used to trigger a migraine
Doesn't happen any more but if I do get a migraine type headache I usually take a couple of tylex
20 minutes later it's gone
 
Glad you've got rid of it Ruth - they're not fun.
Used to get a lot of them and the cure was a little drastic... Had one since the op and that went after I left the computer and went for a 10 minute lie down. Just the vision disturbance, no bus-fornicating headache.
As for nasal irrigation, some Yogin do it regularly and you can easily buy the little watering cans to do it should you so wish, Neti pots would be the Google term to use (alternative spellings will probably bring up the same results!) and Yogamatters would be where I would go to get one (if we didn't already have a couple in the house). I've never used one and apart from trying it once as part of her Yoga teacher training, neither has my wife. The closest I've come is sea swimming!
 
I don't get too many, but I have noticed that those I do get are now more intense than they used to be which is why I have now sought medical intervention. I must thank my mother I think for passing this trait on to me, though she has been gone for 20 years. Payback for having a dodgy teenage daughter must be awesome :D
 
Migraines. Rule my life. Generally I have 2 - 3 a week even though I am on medication night and morning (propanolol in the morning, and propanolol and pizotifen in the evening.) Plus I self inject sumatriptan when I have an attack. Rarely do I get the visual aura, but I do get numbness in my hands and feet, as well as the terrifying head "pain" - only it's not like normal pain. Oh, and my body goes into evac mode :D I sweat, sinuses run, I vomit ... etc etc (yup - everything :gag: )
Often I "awake" after a migraine to find I have lost a couple of days ... and gained a lot of washing to do! I have been hospitalised a few times over the years and even sectioned on one occasion ... :cuckoo:
As for triggers: heat to cold to heat to cold may trigger one. If I vary my chocolate intake that will trigger one. Coffee and cheese help me come round after an attack. "Anti-stress" will trigger one - divorce or crap at work equals very few migraines :). On the other hand, if I buy a new camera or lens, all hell breaks loose ...


But then again, it's only a headache ... :shrug:
 
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