Any MIGRAINE sufferers here? ....HELP!

the only thing i have found to get rid of my migraines is vicoden, but i cant get a doctor to prescribe me any. so the only other thing that helps me is sleep. i just have to deal with it. they tell me to take tylenol, but i can take 5 or 6 and it doesn't help 1%. i know vicoden helps because they prescribed me 30 of them after i had my first son, and i had a ton of them left over. i took maybe 1 a month. but they still wont prescribe me any. they act like im a pill head or something.

If you had one as bad as I get them, you would not be on the computer. You would be convulsing with nausea over a bucket.

Phenergan. Emergency room. Find a good neurologist who will prescibe strong pain relief.

Migraines are hideous. Try to offer them up to God. Good luck.

yea mine are not that bad.... good lord!

I think I'm getting one now! :(

Funny you should post this.

I've got the kaleidoscope thingy going on in my left eye..Slight nausea..no headache yet.

Doesn't always turn into a full-blown migraine. We'll see.

Wish me luck.

Good luck to you too OP.

I can't sleep. I can't even lay my head down because then my head feels like it's going to explode. And I'm the same as you, OTC doesn't even touch my migraines.

There is such a mentality with doctors now about prescribing pain killers - they make us feel like drug addicts. Such a shame.

Thanks for your input.

Take you big toes.

On the underside-right where the knuckle is.

Take your thumb

press hard with the tip of your thumb-good not to have nails for this
hold for 5 seconds.

repeat

all the brains nerves are in the toes
specially the big toe, the next, the middle..the other two aren't wired to the brain.

good luck:)


google reflexogy and migraines/headaches

Oh, believe me, I know exactly what you are talking about. I'm sitting here only because it hasn't progressed that far yet. I usually have about a 30 to 45 minute lead time from the first "signal."


Edit: well, I've definitely got to log off. I'll read all of your comments later. Thanks!

Last Edited by Tully D on 05/12/2009 08:31 AM

If its as bad as you say then have someone take you to the Dr and they will give you a shot that will take the pain away. I usually do this once a year when the migraine is lingering on.

magnesium pills or

beans are high in magnesium and also because refried beans are rather well cooked and rather mushy, which may make them more easily digestible.

I know these ignorant doctors act like we are drud addicts or something!

Some years ago I was lucky to find a MD who suffered from migraines himself. I no longer live in his area, sadly.

I used pills left over from a Cesarean. I never used the good stuff unless absolutely necessary. I had heart issues with Imatrex, plus, that stuff only works if you can catch the migrain as it starts. My worst ones occur during my sleep and I wake up in misery.

Avoid chocolate, peanut butter, high stress, eyestrain, too much bright sunlight. Take special care of great barometric changes. Use Benadryl often for allergic attacks - oak fronds(pollen) can be killer triggers. Take care with aged cheeses.

I have not found a natural herbal cure,but parasite cleanses and good natural cleansing treatments do seem to help.

do you eat enough bananas,
i think i read it is due
to low potassium levels;

Whenever I get migraines, I lay down in bed, cover up my head with my pillow and blanket, then I breath in and out as fast as I can. It really helps easy the pain and then I usually fall asleep and sleep the rest of it off.

OH!!! Also Epsom Salt baths, really hot water! And ice packs on the head can really make a difference. The ice can reduce the swelling which is smashing your brain inside.

Probably pollen related

My daughter gets them. Once she gets one, she has to ride it out in a dark room, quiet, away from everything, sleep if possible.

Her best defense is not to get one. To do that she keeps a strict, regular schedule that includes 9 hours of sleep every night. Goes to bed between 9:30 and 10 no matter what. She takes a multi-vitamin every day, and a capsule each of feverfew and magnesium, both of which are natural migraine remedies.

She also limits her TV watching, and does NOT indulge in playing video games as both tend to exacerbate her migraines.

Migraines stem from unbalanced brain chemistry...

Please take two table spoons a day of good quality hemp oil...

It helps balance the hemispheres and provides a whole load of protein and Omega 3 and 6. Tastes pretty good too. You can cook with it..


NO coffee!! Try tea instead, but don't over do that either.

Seasonal changes will contribute to the pressure but is not causing it.

GOSH I HATE THAT!! I sometimes get only the visual and nausea...never getting the full blown headache. Usually though as soon as I get the visual stuff...(sort of tunnel vision/kaleidoscope.....nausea, a weird feeling of sort of being confused/unattached...can't describe) anyways I usually take 2-3 excedrin and a drink with caffeine ASAP...Over the years I've found "triggers" to my migraine and avoid them so I get them very seldome now. However this month I had about 3....in one weekend.

Strange, I just posted in the other headache thread...lot of headaches around here, it seems.
I suffer from migraines too. I've found that NOTHING works except for Excedrin Migraine (or a generic substitute). I take 2 of those as soon as I get warning signs and it knocks it out within an hour. However, the trick is catching it right when it gets going because if I don't, I'll have a full-blown one anyway and the meds will just shorten it or lessen the effects.

As bad as it is for you, it's the caffeine that does the trick.

I know one of my triggers must be a chemical/preservative in processed chicken meals....I can't eat anything like Chicken Taquitos...or any processed chicken meals without risking a migraine. Not all of them give it to me, but most do. So I just stay away from any processed chicken.

funny to find this posted as I seem to be trying to develop one this morning

i've got most of desk lights off...it's quiet as I can make it being that I'm at work...we'll see how today goes

:(

i used to suffer quite badly from them and the 2 things that have made them stop altogether are;

marijuana (you could use a vaporizer instead of smoking)
botox injections - apparently its something to do with the muscles above your eyebrows which i can well believe. its worth a mention to your doctor.

honestly i havent had a migraine for about 3 years.

My doc gave me the perfect migraine cure. 650 mg tylenol with 25-50 mg benedryl and down with a can of coke in under 5 minutes. Works for me every time.

My 'kaleidoscope' has gone!!

I shut the curtains and had a couple of pills - feeling a bit better now :)

Good luck to you AC

You mentioned you get them more frequently "this time of year". What has changed? Allergies, sleep, home temperature? I find that changing anything significantly, be it caffeine, sleep, room temperature when I sleep, will give me a migraine. Find out what has "changed" in your life around this time and see if that helps.
Good luck and I hope you feel better.

when mine come on, my neck muscles get real tight and hurt, and over a day or two it moves up into one side of my head and turns into a throbbing pain that just doesn't go away no matter what. from the initial muscle pain to the headache - its a good 3 or 4 day event. it sucks.

enema takes the pressure away from the blood vessels causing the problem!

i was always told i got migraines cuz they run in my family but im pretty sure i get tension headaches

start in the neck run up and over my head and end up feeling like someone is trying to remove my eye with a screwdriver.....and if i dont catch it soon enuff i get nausea

after yrs of tryin every new pill that came out only to find out after a few times taking them they didnt work annymore i started takin regular aspirin

thats the only thing beyond sleeping it off that works for me.....and the sleep doesnt always work cuz i sometimes wake up with them

to ease the pain i cram my knuckles into my eyebrow forehead area and right above the bridge of my nose

good luck

OP, the herb Feverfew has been known to help. You can find it in a health food store. They'll know what you are talking about. Go in and ask.

drink a lot of watter, reiki also helps a lot

exactly my problem