Migraines

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Cru said:
When I was younger the vision thing happened before every migraine. Now it's a little pain behind the ear. Also crave something sweet or salty. Does anyone else obsess over a weird thought during a migraine? It's hard to explain.
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Do you mean by 'obsess over a weird thought' something like remembering something but not quite able to catch what it was what crossed your mind? That is what I have when I start to get those deja vu's.
 
I used to have migraines a couple times a month when I was younger.
Vomiting, light and sound sensitivity, awful awful stuff.

Down to only once or twice a year I would say.

Like two years ago, I had a bad migraine at work. Made it through the shift, but threw up right after.
 
Waldo Lydecker said:
Do you mean by 'obsess over a weird thought' something like remembering something but not quite able to catch what it was what crossed your mind? That is what I have when I start to get those deja vu's.
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That's what I get sometimes. It's non stop deja vus and if I'd try look at one more closely its very confusing, because the thought doesn't actually make sense or represent something real.
 
HelloMeow said:
That's what I get sometimes. It's non stop deja vus and if I'd try look at one more closely its very confusing, because the thought doesn't actually make sense or represent something real.
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That is EXACTLY what I have. It starts by a memory of something suddenly popping up and dissapearing rapidly again, leaving me in complete confusion what the memory that just crossed my mind, reaching and reaching but not able to 'grab' the memory but having a strong feeling it was something I have thought of before of that it was something I've dreamed sometime of that it was a scene in a movie.

And then time and time again it shortly pops up again and dissapears again, starting a cycle of deja vu's of that memory but also of random other things, like a co-worker walking up to me with a book in her hands, and she asks 'have you read this book?' and I somehow think at that moment that that real-life scene is a deja vu and that it happened before and that I exactly knew what she would ask. And that last sensation makes me very sick and wants me to vomit.
 
Get them on the rate of 4x per year or so.

A sudden aura around my eye that blocks my vision and as that subsides an awful headache takes its place.

Whenever the aura pops off I take ibuprofen, and then rotate it with Tylenol taking them every 2 hours or so. No percriptions but it seems that mine aren't as bad as some of you guys. The next day my brain seems to be sore and I have a bit of a residual headache but the pain is generally more throbbing.
 
I'm just going to throw this out there (please don't hurt me) but has any one tried something like cupping or Hijama to help (like what we have seen with some of the Olympians this year)?

My wife has been a practitioner for several years. She has treated quite a few people who suffer from severe headaches / regular migraines / require medicine to control and she's had a lot of positive outcomes, from lessening the duration or severity or frequency of occurrences. I'm always amazed when she tells me about the feedback she receives :)
 
I get one every other year. It keeps me in bed for a full day, but once the worst pain lets go, I manage to go to sleep fairly quickly. My significant other gets them about twice a year.
 
CraigerGamer said:
Why do we (as humans) get migraines? Like, the science behind it all. Headaches and other brain phenomena always interested me.
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I've asked my father about this before (both of my parents are practicing doctors). The unfortunate answer is that no one knows.

They're caused by the blood vessels in your brain swelling up and pushing against your skull, but we don't know why that happens.
 
score01 said:
I'm just going to throw this out there (please don't hurt me) but has any one tried something like cupping or Hijama to help (like what we have seen with some of the Olympians this year)?

My wife has been a practitioner for several years. She has treated quite a few people who suffer from severe headaches / regular migraines / require medicine to control and she's had a lot of positive outcomes, from lessening the duration or severity or frequency of occurrences. I'm always amazed when she tells me about the feedback she receives :)
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I tend to prefer a bit of trepanning.

Sorry :P
 
Waldo Lydecker said:
That is EXACTLY what I have. It starts by a memory of something suddenly popping up and dissapearing rapidly again, leaving me in complete confusion what the memory that just crossed my mind, reaching and reaching but not able to 'grab' the memory but having a strong feeling it was something I have thought of before of that it was something I've dreamed sometime of that it was a scene in a movie.

And then time and time again it shortly pops up again and dissapears again, starting a cycle of deja vu's of that memory but also of random other things, like a co-worker walking up to me with a book in her hands, and she asks 'have you read this book?' and I somehow think at that moment that that real-life scene is a deja vu and that it happened before and that I exactly knew what she would ask. And that last sensation makes me very sick and wants me to vomit.
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Yeah if I don't stop trying to recall what the deja vu was about I get sick as well. That's so weird. Luckily this really rare for me. I've had it 4 times that I can remember. It happens around 30 minutes before I get a blind spot and around one hour before the headache starts.

Another thing that happens sometimes is that when I look at my arm, I get this really strong feeling that it's not my arm. Like some part of my brain doesn't recognize it.

All of these things were a bit concerning to me, but I've had an MRI and it didn't show anything weird or scary.
 
HelloMeow said:
Yeah if I don't stop trying to recall what the deja vu was about I get sick as well. That's so weird.
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This is so recognisable. I too always think 'shit, I really should strop trying to recall what the deja vu is otherwise it goes from bad to worse' but sometimes I keep continueing really hard to try recall the deja vu to prove myself that it isn't a deja vu that leads to a migraine but just something I forgot in the normal way. And then get migraine after that.

I wrote about it on a Dutch Migraine Forum if somebody could recognize this in the same way you do and fortunately some other people on there had it to so it lessened my fears of being something much worse.
 
Waldo Lydecker said:
That is EXACTLY what I have. It starts by a memory of something suddenly popping up and dissapearing rapidly again, leaving me in complete confusion what the memory that just crossed my mind, reaching and reaching but not able to 'grab' the memory but having a strong feeling it was something I have thought of before of that it was something I've dreamed sometime of that it was a scene in a movie.

And then time and time again it shortly pops up again and dissapears again, starting a cycle of deja vu's of that memory but also of random other things, like a co-worker walking up to me with a book in her hands, and she asks 'have you read this book?' and I somehow think at that moment that that real-life scene is a deja vu and that it happened before and that I exactly knew what she would ask. And that last sensation makes me very sick and wants me to vomit.
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This is it exactly. Both of yall did a better job describing that feeling.
 
I rotate triptans... zolmitriptan usually works but I also have sumatriptan injections for emergencies and frovatriptan tablets.

Cluster migraines are the worst... pointed, concentrated pain behind one eye that lasts for days and makes my eyes all red, dry and irritated.
 
t-storm said:
I rotate triptans... zolmitriptan usually works but I also have sumatriptan injections for emergencies and frovatriptan tablets.

Cluster migraines are the worst... pointed, concentrated pain behind one eye that lasts for days and makes my eyes all red, dry and irritated.
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Ok was getting scared I was the only one with the eye thing. I really need to see a doctor.
So sorry to you and anybody else that has them for days at a time.
 
KurtSloane said:
This is key, don't skip meals and don't over sleep.
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Oversleeping always gives me migraines, but when I was on a diet, I got to the point of fasting for 18 hours a day for two weeks and I was fine (but really hungry). I guess eating better had role in it
 
I have headaches almost every day, and have migraines once a week or so. Sucks but I have them so often I almost got used to it.
 
I only got diagnosed with them this year after maybe having them for a year prior and me I brushing it off as eye strain and playing too many videogames. They always start with a strong pulse and pain right behind my right eye, after which I have a headache like you wouldn't believe, sometimes it also makes me physically sick just feel like it drains and drains. I actually bought a comfy eye mask just so I could block all light, when it happens i normally try to get some rest and an eye mask really does help for me.

Normally triggers for me seem to be around stress especially from work, or if I have a bit of a late night and it catches up with me following day. I personally have cut down on energy drinks and coffee which I know I drunk too much, so I keep it to maybe one energy drink a month and one coffee a week.

I was prescribed sumatriptan and that seems to help but only if I take it when I feel pulse/pain in my eye.
 
I haven't had a migraine in quite a while thank god. But I get vomity and fever and chills and I absolutely have to sleep for 8-12 hours before it'll go away.

Migraines fucking suck.
 
Only time I get migraines are when I am dehydrated. Which has only happened 4 or 5 times ever, thankfully.

That said each time I end up in the hospital with an IV so that's obviously not a good thing. IV is usually gone in an hour or two, then I end up sleeping for 3-4 hours when I get home and then I'm mostly good. Just have to take it easy for a day or two after.

They suck ass.
 
I've been suffering from chronic migraines and neck spasms since april 2014. I had concussion when I blacked out from my heart problems in the shower and my head went through the tile. It's a crapshoot day from day and its hard to make simple plans like doing laundry. I woke up with a stiff neck I couldn't even move and a migraine this morning. I took a muscle relaxer (my neurologist prescribes for me because I told him its the only thing that knocks me out and he just nodded and said he understood). Woke up 7 hours later feeling a little better. Took a sumitriptan and half hour later was in the bathroom puking. I just call them "bad days" now. It's one those things people suffer from that you mention and people go uh huh, oh, and then write off as not serious. The reality is much uglier and life impacting.
 
I had migraines regularly every since I was a kid. My main trigger is caffeine, and I dont even have to eat/drink it, if someone leaves a take away coffee container in my bin at work the smell of it is enough to trigger one.

I had some medication I could take during the aura phase, but I dont get an aura or anything that hints a migraine is coming on, just BOOM how you doin! So the medication was pretty useless (and expensive). Im extremely sensitive to light and had blackout curtains installed in the bedroom for this reason.

Since Ive worked out my main trigger and avoid it like the plague (lack of sleep and dehydration also can bring them on) I dont suffer so much anymore.
 
My mother has chronic migraines that leave her stuck in her bed for days. I feel terrible for her. She has sought medical help and tried various things to control it, but most things have failed. Someone told her to take up a relaxing hobby as a way to control her migraines, so she has taken up photography and that's helped her significantly. She still has migraines, but not as frequent as before.
 
I get Ocular Migraines about once a year where I lose vision completely for about a half hour then have a dull headache for a couple days. It usually comes if I've been having sleep trouble.
 
I used to get them on a weekly basis. My neurologist suggested I go to an ophthalmologist after noticing that the pupil in my right eye is smaller than the one in my right. There, I was diagnosed with Horner's syndrome and mild astigmatism. It was suggested that I try corrective lenses before medication. I did just that, and now I only get them two to three times a year. My usual symptoms are vertigo/dizziness, nausea, phono- and photosensitivity, and ocular twitching. I sometimes get auras and floaters, but not always.

There are two that I had that really stand out to me, though. The first one is one that lasted for five days straight. I was still in high school at the time, and missed the whole week of classes. Just a dull, dizzying, debilitating pain that wouldn't let me open my eyes or even listen to ambient sounds in my house. I barely crawled out of bed to go to the bathroom or eat.

I'm not quite sure if the second one was a migraine or not. The pain was familiar to that of a migraine, as were my usual symptoms. But the pain was so much more intense than a usual migraine, that I can't even accurately describe it. The only way I can describe it is it was like having my head run over by a lead bus the size of Jupiter. My only thought was that I didn't want to live anymore. I was driving home from university when it struck, and I legitimately thought about crashing my car into a lake or a tree just so I could end it. I ended up pulling off to the side of the road. I called my mom and told her that I may have to call an ambulance, closed my eyes, and took a short nap. I then drove the rest of the way home. When I got inside, I straight-up fell to the floor and passed out because of the amount of pain I was in. I ended up sleeping for about 16 hours.
 
Dr_Boris_Goltz said:
I get headaches about 3 to 4 times a week. If I don't catch them early they turn into migraines.

I remember when I was a kid I was awful at catching them before they got bad... I swear I would have cut my arm off to make them go away.
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This is me, I carry ibuprofen with me everywhere, paracetemol and asprin are useless.

The craziest thing is one of the ways I can tell a migraine is happening, the excellence before the storm. Full of energy, happy, confident, everything just works. I can articulate, socialise, take on challenges, whatever. For about a hour. Then the blindness starts..
 
Yes! Exactly.

And then when the storm fades, that absolute clarity of things after a debilitating, paralyzing migraine that's lasted for hours on end.
 
Migraines are horrible OP and we hear you. Stopped having for a very, very long time. About 10 months I had the first one in about 10 years. Nausea, lights blurring my vision with a very strange pattern. I have to say that I've noticed that: the light pattern I see is the shape of the pain area but at the contra-lateral side.. In my case they only last for about 3 hours. Best thing to do: Try to sleep in a quiet and dark room.

bwakh said:
Yup. Do you people experience flashing worm like things when looking at the sky or anything in sunlight?
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UP Yes we do and they are horrible.
 
I usually get about one a week. Used to take Imatrex but it didn't work well enough for the huge pricetag so I stopped renewing my prescription.

Mine aren't super bad compared to some people's. No aura, just intense headache behind one eye, light sensitivity, smell sensitivity, noise sensitivity, and nausea. My preferred way of combating them is to constantly be caffeinated and if I feel even the slightest twinge of a headache, take two 500 mg acetaminophen immediately. That can usually get me through a work day without too much trouble.

No idea what my triggers are, though my best guesses are too much sleep (>7 hrs), mild dehydration, not enough caffeine, and strong perfume/cologne/scented candles.

One of my Indian friends had this painkiller she lent me once, Pamidol. Man, that stuff was amazing. No idea what was in it (and I'm scared to check), but it got rid of my migraine in about fifteen minutes. It's a shame it's not available in the US.
 
I haven't had one in over a decade, but I got them bad back in school. Started off with the blindness - often in only one eye and a little off-center - then the nausea, then finally that unforgettable headache that amplified sound ,and being surrounded by loud school kids didn't make for the best environment for it. Unsure how I got them to stop, but I'm very glad they did.
 
Years ago I used to suffer from migraine attacks almost 3-4 times a week and it was crippling and made me unable to do anything for almost the entire day. I eventually got prescribed Maxalt and it was a lifesaver. I got the fast dissolves and I would still need to turn off the lights and chill out after an attack for 30-60 minutes or so to wait for it to take effect, but it was better than losing entire days from pain.

Thankfully, I haven't suffered from them in years. I don't know for certain why they went away, but over the last 5-6 years since the last time I suffered from them I've given up smoking (and snus), alcohol (outside of rare occasions, and not in the quantities I used to drink) and fast food (again, outside really rare circumstances). I imagine all of that combined helped.
 
I first started getting them when I suffered from insomnia in my early teens. I was instructed to cut my caffeine intake, which did little to help me back then, and the migraines were a less than stellar side-effect. I don't get them as frequently any more these days, but I can usually anticipate them based on my tolerance to light and noise.

The worst part that I've also had meningitis a few years ago, and it apparently is is hard for me to distinguish the two. Every time I suffer from migraines now, I am incredibly worried it might be meningitis again. The only way I could tell them apart was that my tolerance to noise did not seem to be affected when it was meningitis.
 
Luckily my migraines are only 3-4 times a year.

But oh god I go fully blind in one eye whenever they happen, like someone smeared vaseline across my Iris.
 
What seems to have solved my migraines is cutting out orange juice. I used to drink a lot and once I stopped they seem to have too.

They are also photosensitive but I haven't had one in a while thankfully. I'd be unable to usually focus with my left eye (an aura I believe it is called) and be reduced to my dark bedroom for the day.
 
I feel you, fellow migraine-sufferers. I used to get horrible migraines when I was younger - they were bad enough to send me to a hospital for a brain-scan. They found nothing serious, fortunately, and I got medication for the migraines.

I still get them, but rarely. Strong smells can act as a trigger, and sunlight during summers if I go a long period without shades.
 
Ethelwulf said:
UP Yes we do and they are horrible.
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:( Yes they are. Staring at them gives me that migraine feeling too.

Lé Blade Runner;219716162 said:
I feel you, fellow migraine-sufferers. I used to get horrible migraines when I was younger - they were bad enough to send me to a hospital for a brain-scan. They found nothing serious, fortunately, and I got medication for the migraines.

I still get them, but rarely. Strong smells can act as a trigger, and sunlight during summers if I go a long period without shades.
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Number 1 cause of migraines for me is this. Especially if I go in the sun soon after waking up.
 
The first time I got a blindspot migraine I thought I was having a brain haemorrhage or something. Was surprisingly relieved when the horrible headache kicked in.
 
I'm prescribed Sumatriptan for mine. I get migraines at least twice a month and tried a fair few medications for them but that's what works for me. i have two ways of taking it, depending on the stage and severity of the migraine, nasal spray and injector. The sprays taste like chemical death as they drip down the back of your throat but they're pretty effective if I catch a migraine early (for me when it's hypersensitivity to light and sound and a nasty, crunching neck pain) and the injector is my nuclear option for when I'm unable to keep even sips of water down.

t-storm said:
Yes! Exactly.

And then when the storm fades, that absolute clarity of things after a debilitating, paralyzing migraine that's lasted for hours on end.
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God, this. The absence of that pain afterwards is incredible.
 
Feel you OP, I got one yesterday night and my head still hurt this morning.
I think it has to do with eye fatigue in my case.

The worst I got, once the pain lasted for 3 days until it went away. Another time I just couldn't talk anymore, I wasn't making any sense, my sentences weren't coherent and I could not find the most basic words I needed to talk.
 
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