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Interests => Health & Fitness => Topic started by: littlelamb on August 12, 2010, 11:05:36 PM
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One of my coworkers is always saying she has migrains and with no health insurance any advice I can tell her to try?
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I used to get migraines almost every day. I recently had an eye test done and my optometrist (is that the right doctor for eyes? haha) said that my old glasses were over corrected which caused my eyes to strain. I'd first ask your friend to go get her eyes checked. Some places will do eye check ups for as little as $20 without insurance. I've seen it advertised in my local area.
Until then, I'd say take Excedrin Migraine. My migraines still come around every other week. I will take two Excedrin and drink some caffeine and it's gone within 20-30 minutes.
But if the migraines cannot be linked to an eye sight problem, she should probably go into a doctor with or without insurance. Doctor offices will set up payment plans. I should take my own advice here since I still get migraines.
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I have used Excedrin Migraine when I had a migraine and it works pretty darn well if you catch it in time.
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I have used Excedrin Migraine when I had a migraine and it works pretty darn well if you catch it in time.
Migraines is really weird.
I have known people that get them from a smell, a food or some sound that sets them off.
I seldom if ever get head aches and when it does happen it is awful.
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High pitched sounds and bright lights are usually the cause of my migraines.
It's really horrible because my daughter is like the mini-Mariah Carey. She can shriek really loudly and high pitched. I feel like my head will explode.
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Certain types of alcohol, riding in a car or anything that "sways", roller coasters, ferris wheels, or tilt-a-wheels, altitude change, are all causes too.
Certain types of ceiling lights, repetitive sounds or driving on curvy roads are guarantees for me.
When I have one, all noise is greatly magnified...all I want is a dark room, with the tv on low on something like Fox news or an old "quiet" type movie. I need a fairly consisitent, level, low decibel noise, that will block out any repetitive-type sound. If I can hear a bird outside the window, it will make screeching chalk on a blackboard seem like nothing.
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Every since a neck injury in 2008 I suffer from migraines often. I usually go through about 18 tablets of the Rx drug sumatriptan (Imitrex) monthly. Prior to this I went over eight years without having any major headache issues. I look forward to that again someday.
Like others here mentioned the OTC migraine drugs such as Excedrin do work well if you catch the headache in time. But I don't always want something with caffine if I am trying to sleep off a headache.
I would suggest anyone with chronic headaches to get checked out by a medical doctor to be on the safe side. The doctor might even be able to provide samples of Rx migraine drugs.
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My coworker told me to tell everyone thanks and she will try the Excedrin
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My coworker told me to tell everyone thanks and she will try the Excedrin
I began to think of this forum today when I walked into the living room in the middle of an ad on TV for a OTC for people that have Tinitius--ringing in the ears etc. and heard the announcer say the drug worked by causing a greater blood flow to the ears.
Now I am wondering if migraines stem from the ear to cause the headaches. Someone mentioned a loss of balance and that is controlled mostly by the inner ear.
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I began to think of this forum today when I walked into the living room in the middle of an ad on TV for a OTC for people that have Tinitius--ringing in the ears etc. and heard the announcer say the drug worked by causing a greater blood flow to the ears.
Now I am wondering if migraines stem from the ear to cause the headaches. Someone mentioned a loss of balance and that is controlled mostly by the inner ear.
The product is call Quietus and it is a scam. It doesn't work and is really expensive. I have tinnitus and nothing really works.
Mirgrains don't stem from the ear.
No one fully understands the exact cause(s) of migraine headaches. Many experts think that a migraine begins with abnormal brainstem (a part of the brain) activity that leads to spasm (rapid contraction) of blood vessels in the cerebrum (main part of the brain) and dura (the covering of the brain). The first wave of spasm decreases blood supply, which causes the aura that some people experience. After the first spasm, the same arteries become abnormally relaxed, which increases blood flow and gives rise to migraine headache pain.
Certain chemicals normally found in the brain (namely, dopamine and serotonin) may be involved in causing migraines. These chemicals are called neurotransmitters because they transmit signals within the brain. Neurotransmitters can cause blood vessels to act in unusual ways if they are present in abnormal amounts or if the blood vessels are particularly sensitive to them.
Various triggers are thought to bring about migraine in people who have a natural tendency for having migraine headaches. Different people may have different triggers.
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The product is call Quietus and it is a scam. It doesn't work and is really expensive. I have tinnitus and nothing really works.
Mirgrains don't stem from the ear.
I have to agree with you on that. I have tinnitus, but have never had a migraine, and rarely get any headaches.
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I have to agree with you on that. I have tinnitus, but have never had a migraine, and rarely get any headaches.
Ringing in the ears: I've had it since childhood and never notice it anymore....that is, until someone mentions it. Now my ears will be ringing until about lunch time.
When it comes to headaches, I've been lucky. I seldom have them and they're usually sinus related.
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M has tinnitus, too. 40 years of being in the tool and die, and metal stampings business.
He rarely has headaches, and has never had a migraine.
I did find some ear drops at CVS, that have been helping, when he remembers to put them in. They are supposed to have a cummulative effect, and he says it does. But soon as it subsides somewhat, he quits using them. :whatever:
I've been reading up on it a bit on the internet. Stress increases it. Also....for what it's worth, after Thor did a thread on the stuff that's going in cigarettes now - the "stop burn" rings - I read several articles and the comment sections to them, and tinnitus and/or increase in it, is a side effect. M smokes.
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M has tinnitus, too. 40 years of being in the tool and die, and metal stampings business.
He rarely has headaches, and has never had a migraine.
I did find some ear drops at CVS, that have been helping, when he remembers to put them in. They are supposed to have a cummulative effect, and he says it does. But soon as it subsides somewhat, he quits using them. :whatever:
I've been reading up on it a bit on the internet. Stress increases it. Also....for what it's worth, after Thor did a thread on the stuff that's going in cigarettes now - the "stop burn" rings - I read several articles and the comment sections to them, and tinnitus and/or increase in it, is a side effect. M smokes.
What kind of ear drops? I'd be willing to give it a try.
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What kind of ear drops? I'd be willing to give it a try.
Ring Relief. Got them at CVS. It's a little white bottle, the same shape as Visine.
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One of my coworkers is always saying she has migrains and with no health insurance any advice I can tell her to try?
What are her symptoms?
Quite frequently migraines are mistaken for tension headaches. Does she have any strange visual, smell, or auditory changes a few minutes to hours before a migraine comes on?
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What are her symptoms?
Quite frequently migraines are mistaken for tension headaches. Does she have any strange visual, smell, or auditory changes a few minutes to hours before a migraine comes on?
Update on my coworker she went to the doctor when we all chipped in to send her and she explained her migrains. I just wanted all of you to please keep her in your prayers the doctor is sending her in for some more tests he said it didn't sound like any run of the mill migrain. He is sending her for a cat scan and hopes he can find the cause. She has missed 4 days of work due to the pain. She said it just feels like she is being beaten on the back of her head by a baseball bat.
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Oh that's terrible! Well, I hope she finds something out soon :(
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What kind of doctor did she go see?
I'm asking because I am going to make an appointment for my migraine problems. I've had one almost all day. Woke up with it, it went away in the afternoon, but then I got really stressed out and it came back. :(
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What kind of doctor did she go see?
I'm asking because I am going to make an appointment for my migraine problems. I've had one almost all day. Woke up with it, it went away in the afternoon, but then I got really stressed out and it came back. :(
We helped chip in for her to see a Family Practice Doc but he is making her see a neurologist just to rule anything else out. The doc she is being referred to is taking her for a small fee and letting her make payments on her CAT Scan he wants done
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I was going to recommend a neurologist. My neurologist is really good. Out of a dozen doctors, she's the first to diagnose (successfully) my SCA.
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I just got off the phone with my coworker was saying she kept having migraine's.
Well the doctor sent her to a neurologist's and he performed a CAT scan.
She just got the results and it is a small tumor that he does not want to risk operating on her because of where it is located.
She is going to need to do aggressive amounts of chemo and radiation to try and shrink it.
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I just got off the phone with my coworker was saying she kept having migraine's.
Well the doctor sent her to a neurologist's and he performed a CAT scan.
She just got the results and it is a small tumor that he does not want to risk operating on her because of where it is located.
She is going to need to do aggressive amounts of chemo and radiation to try and shrink it.
That is so scary. :(
I hope everything goes well for her.
It's scary thinking about this because my own neurologist appointment is on Wednesday morning. Your co-worker sounded like she had migraines daily though. Mine are about two-three times a week. Still excessive.
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Wow, that is scary. Keep us posted.
Good luck EC with your neurologist apt.
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What scares her the most is she has a new baby (2 months) that she is not going to watch grow up.
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What scares her the most is she has a new baby (2 months) that she is not going to watch grow up.
This is so upsetting! :(
Is there any way at all for her to make it through all of this?
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This is so upsetting! :(
Is there any way at all for her to make it through all of this?
Will say prayers for you EC that everything turns out ok....
LL...prayers for your friend.
If it's one of the one's that are octopus-like...probably not. Operating on them tends to make them spread. :( We had a friend who had one....they operated on it prior to chemo and radiation.
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Talked to my co worker earlier she said it is Neuro Blastoma (sp?) and it is stage 4 she has been give 6-18 months to live.
I suggested that she write her daughter letters to open on special days and to make home movies and lots of them to let her daughter know who she was.
At our job we are taking a collection up to help her with her medical bills.
My heart is breaking for her I just wish their was something more I could do she is a single mom and struggling every minute every day.
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I just don't know what to say.
Does she have other family around who can help take care of her daughter?
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No she said she is it one of our coworkers and her husband offered to adopt her they have been trying to adopt for years
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Well, I hope something can be worked out for the little girl. That mother needs the biggest, longest hug in the world right now. It must be so hard having to deal with all of this, on top of having another person to care for. :(
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I've had many people come into the store with migraines. But I have had quite a few myself in passed years. This is what helped my customers most. B-2 100mgs,1-3to4 times a day with butterbur about 100mgs. There is a product called Migrasolve that has helped many as well. But the B2 is most important.
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A friend was complaining of migraines today. I heard at one point that caffeine can make them worse.
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A friend was complaining of migraines today. I heard at one point that caffeine can make them worse.
Yes, you are right.
I've had caffeine withdrawal migraines. It's bad to give yourself caffeine (with soda or coffee) to cure it. I used to do that, and then I'd get the dreaded caffeine headache on top of my migraine. It was awful. The only thing I take that has caffeine in it is Excedrin Migraine. It works best if you take two before bed.
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Yes, you are right.
I've had caffeine withdrawal migraines. It's bad to give yourself caffeine (with soda or coffee) to cure it. I used to do that, and then I'd get the dreaded caffeine headache on top of my migraine. It was awful. The only thing I take that has caffeine in it is Excedrin Migraine. It works best if you take two before bed.
Will all of you Please describe your head aches to me. Where in the head do they start back, side or front.?
Is this a steady Pain or does it have other features to it.?
The reason I ask is I never get headaches unless I partyed too long.
Anyway one day I began to get a headache bad, it seemed to ring around my head into my jaw. I took all the over the counter pain relief but it just got worse.
After 3 days of this shit I left work and went to the ER.
the pain was so bad at that point I could hardly talk to the Doctors, I remember I was rocking back and forth trying to get away from the pain. They called a family member to come get me, when they arrived I didn't even recognise my own daughter.
Next thing I remember is being on my belly and getting 2 painful shots of Demerol in both buttocks.
My daughter was told to get me home as soon as possible, that I would be out like a light in 30 minutes.
She indeed got me home and put me to bed, but, the pain was over riding the drugs. I was at that point suicidal, had I had access to a gun I would have killed myself.
Next morning Hubby looked at me all weird and said that one side of my face was swollen. He got me into his dentist and it was found I had an abscessed back moller. The poison had gone into my head and brain and causing all kinds of havoc up there.
So severe was my problem the dentist perscribed me an antibiotic a huge dose. The drug ate up my stomach and I ended back in ER thinking I was going to die.
Finally I got that tooth pulled and all was joyfull and happy from then on.
Head aches, migraines are not normal, there has to be something else going on.
So can any one of you tell me how they start and end?
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Talked to my co worker earlier she said it is Neuro Blastoma (sp?) and it is stage 4 she has been give 6-18 months to live.
I suggested that she write her daughter letters to open on special days and to make home movies and lots of them to let her daughter know who she was.
At our job we are taking a collection up to help her with her medical bills.
My heart is breaking for her I just wish their was something more I could do she is a single mom and struggling every minute every day.
I am so very sorry, EC.....your friend will need lots of hugs. I guess the only good thing....if there is such a thing in a situation like this, is that her daughter, is too young to realize what is happening to her mother. The equally bad thing, is that her daughter is too young to remember her mother. What a horrendous tragedy for both of them.
A neuroblastoma is what our friend had. He was in his 70's, and lived a bit over a year after they found it, and it was also a Stage 4. He had surgery, chemo and radiation. His quality of life, was not very good, though I know his age and prior health problems contributed to it....
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Will all of you Please describe your head aches to me. Where in the head do they start back, side or front.?
Is this a steady Pain or does it have other features to it.?
The reason I ask is I never get headaches unless I partyed too long.
Anyway one day I began to get a headache bad, it seemed to ring around my head into my jaw. I took all the over the counter pain relief but it just got worse.
After 3 days of this shit I left work and went to the ER.
the pain was so bad at that point I could hardly talk to the Doctors, I remember I was rocking back and forth trying to get away from the pain. They called a family member to come get me, when they arrived I didn't even recognise my own daughter.
Next thing I remember is being on my belly and getting 2 painful shots of Demerol in both buttocks.
My daughter was told to get me home as soon as possible, that I would be out like a light in 30 minutes.
She indeed got me home and put me to bed, but, the pain was over riding the drugs. I was at that point suicidal, had I had access to a gun I would have killed myself.
Next morning Hubby looked at me all weird and said that one side of my face was swollen. He got me into his dentist and it was found I had an abscessed back moller. The poison had gone into my head and brain and causing all kinds of havoc up there.
So severe was my problem the dentist perscribed me an antibiotic a huge dose. The drug ate up my stomach and I ended back in ER thinking I was going to die.
Finally I got that tooth pulled and all was joyfull and happy from then on.
Head aches, migraines are not normal, there has to be something else going on.
So can any one of you tell me how they start and end?
My migraines start in the front, usually above my left eyebrow. Throughout the day, it will then migrate above my right eyebrow. It's a throbbing pain that also makes me feel light-headed, dizzy, and nauseated. Loud sounds and bright lights add to the pain. I get blurred vision as well. The pain lasts anywhere from 2-6 hours and they happen several times a week.
My neurologist prescribed me sumitriptan for now. If that medication doesn't work, he will try other meds. If those don't work, he will run tests on me to see what else the problem is. All he can tell is that I have common migraines without aura, but other then that, I'm a very healthy person.
If you get frequent headaches/migraines, especially ones that last for days or do not react to medication, go see a doctor immediately.
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Mine usually start with my neck tightening up. Pain moves up the right side of my head, my vision "haloes"...lights seem to just glow. Sound is amplified to what seems like a thousand times, a bird chirp outside the window, will seem like it's sitting on my shoulder screeching into my ear. Repetitive noises have the same effect as chalk screech on a blackboard. My face above and below my eyes throb. (I even have had "windows" put in my sinuses)
I need a dark room, tv on low to something with little change in sound - a talk show, or Fox - to drown out any other noises. A bit of chocolate, 2-4 advil with a glass of water, if there's no let up, another 2 in an hour. Anytime I have tried prescription, I throw them up.
I first got them in college. Very intermittently. They went away for several years until I got pregnant with my first child. Had 2 while I was pregnant with her...and honestly thought I was going to die, because there had to be a reason for my head feeling like it was going to explode. Didn't have any more until after my second one was born about 2.5 years later. Have had them ever since.
Went to a neurologist ( a woman, which I highly recommend for another woman), as I went through a time when I had one most everyday for 8 months. Turned out, they were muscular in origination in my neck, but progressed to full fledge migraine by late afternoon. Took Flexeril for 2 months, to "break the cycle" as she called it and ease the spasms in my neck. That stopped the every day ones.
She had me "track" the ones I continued to get. They seemed to be tied into my menstrual cycle....5th day of my period to be exact. I continued that way, even after a hysterectomy. Then I got them on the 5th day of my daughter's who was still living at home!!! :banghead: She moved out, and the frequency stopped. Apparently, hormones can be a big contributor to them. My daughter was on daily meds for them when she was in her mid teens, then she seemed to almost grow out of them...as she aged and her hormones stabilized a bit, the headaches became much less frequent, though she has had them more since her second child was born.
Now I get them if riding as a passenger, in a car on wind-y or mountain-y roads. Or in someplace with really bright lights, or very loud noises. Most of the stuff I can avoid, but the road thing is hard to do, living where I do...in the foothills of the Smokies.
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All of my migraines stopped when I was pregnant with our daughter. If I wanted a nine month break, I could get pregnant again. lol
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All of my migraines stopped when I was pregnant with our daughter. If I wanted a nine month break, I could get pregnant again. lol
Maybe yours are related to your hormones too. After my son was born....I was convinced I had to have a tumor or aneurysm or something....they were the worst I had ever had up to that point. My OB said it was pretty common during/after pregnancy. You have to remember that was 29 yrs ago....who knows.
I was 35 when I had them for 8 months. Had a deviated septum that I had fixed and the windows put in my sinuses and it didn't make a bit of difference!! Went into surgery with one, and came out with one that lasted a couple of days...there was not enough Demerol to conquer it!!!
I went to the neurologist after that. She did do an MRI to make sure they weren't anything else other than migraines, too.
Outside of having issues with the "hormone parts", 3 lumpectomies, and some stupid allergies, I've basically been really healthy during the 35+ years of my adult life.
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My neurologist told me the same thing. Your hormones are so wacky after giving birth. While the hormones are trying to get back to normal, it can cause migraines. My daughter was born 14 months ago. I'd like to know how long it takes hormones to stop acting so stupid.
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My neurologist told me the same thing. Your hormones are so wacky after giving birth. While the hormones are trying to get back to normal, it can cause migraines. My daughter was born 14 months ago. I'd like to know how long it takes hormones to stop acting so stupid.
T was not quite 2 when we moved here, and I didn't have them then. We moved here the end of June, the end of the following February, I had my first ovary out. It was soon after that, I started having them towards the end of my periods. I remember I was not on any type of BC by then, because the ex had a vasectomy.
I breast fed him for about 5.5 months and I know they went on for several months after I quit, I just don't remember how long. I do remember that I went back on the pill after I quit nursing though.
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Went to a neurologist ( a woman, which I highly recommend for another woman)....
Sexist!!!
For the record, my neurologist is a woman. She's pretty damned good at what she does, too!!
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Sexist!!!
For the record, my neurologist is a woman. She's pretty damned good at what she does, too!!
I'm not a sexist!! :tongue:
I have just had experience with older male doctors, who will blow off a woman's complaints...as hormonal and suggest bon-bons and movie magazines. My response to him started with an F..... :censored: I never went back to him.
He was a referring physician to my ex....my ex who at the time was my husband...was not happy with me. I didn't care....no doctor should talk to a woman - or a man - like that!! :censored:
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I have just had experience with older male doctors, who will blow off a woman's complaints...as hormonal and suggest bon-bons and movie magazines
:rotf:
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:rotf:
At the time, I saw no humor in it.
He was dead-ass serious when he said it too.
I was dead-ass serious when I ripped up the Rx for Prozac he had just handed me, and threw it on his desk...with my well-executed 2 word sentence...and turned around and walked out.
To say I was furious, was an understatement!!! :censored:
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The bigger thing is that he was probably right in MOST cases........... :uhsure: :fuelfire:
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The bigger thing is that he was probably right in MOST cases........... :uhsure: :fuelfire:
He was probably good for women that were only looking for "happy" pills...weight pills....any kind of pills.
I was looking for a way to get rid of pain.....without pills that weren't going to get me "hooked".
Another male doctor....not one happy pill or anything addictive....tried some alternatives first, then finally surgery. I was a new[/] woman!! :yahoo:
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Vesta, my migraines start with an aura as a warning. If I don't take something for the headache before it starts I can't get rid of it. The pain starts on one side of my forehead/eye and progressively gets worse. As time goes on it spreads but remains more on the side it starts on.
I throw up, I can't think, I need the room to be totally dark, no sound at all and I rock back and forth because it hurts that bad. My neurologist prescribed ultram for the migraines, sometimes it worked sometimes it wouldn't. I would just have to sleep it off, my whole day would be screwed. The next day I was exhausted. I don't have ultram anymore because I get migraines infrequently.
I was getting them several times a week before I had a stroke. Now I mainly get the aura with out a migraine but every once in awhile I will get a migraine and it's the same as I described above. A migraine is constant with no let up until it goes away.
I've had an abscess (I was 7 months pregnant with my first child) and I would describe the pain as about equal but different. My abscess started on and off for a few days then one night it was agony. I was visiting my mom at the time and she called my childhood dentist at 4:00 in the morning and he met us at his office. He prescribed me something for my pain, I can't remember what it was and gave me the name and a number of endodontist. Called him as soon as they opened and he got me right in. Had a root canal and it was so bad he had to leave it OPEN until I flew home. My dentist back home finished the treatment.
For the past few months I have had a headache everyday, actually it is constant. It's the top of my head, it feels like my brain is swelling type of headache. It isn't like a migraine, it's a totally different feeling. I can ignore it and do chores, etc. but I think I'm going to talk to my doctor about it because I am sick of having it every single day. Also my tinnitus is on HIGH right now. It is driving me nuts.
Edited to add: a few years ago I was having symptoms of a TIA. My doctor told me to go to the ER. I went to Baylor (Dallas), where he told me where to go, and had to wait quite a long time to get a bed. I got a migraine and the lights and all the people talking/noise made me vomit. When I finally got to a room they turned off the lights and gave me morphine. It didn't touch the pain. I asked for ibuprofen and they gave me 800 mg and it went away.
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I've only recently developed debilitating migraines and am grateful for the advice in this thread.
I do have a caution about the drug Topamax. It's prescribed to prevent migraines, plus it's used as an anti epileptic. I took it for about a month and experienced severe and extreme dry skin to the point of itching, flaking and actual skin pain. After speaking to a few health care professionals it sounds like Topamax was touted as the wonder drug for migraines, but the side effects prevent many people from being able to tolerate it.
I still haven't decided on a replacement, but am going to try the OTC mentioned above.
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If caught just as the aura starts, Advil seems to work best for me. 4 of them is 800mg of (Motrin)ibuprofen, and I have found that works for a lot of things.
I went from morphine to 800mg of Motrin, every 4 hours, the day after my hysterectomy, and it was enough...but I also I felt much better the day after surgery than I had for a couple of years and especially the prior 8 months...so it might not be the best example of ibuprofen pain management. :uhsure:
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If caught just as the aura starts, Advil seems to work best for me. 4 of them is 800mg of (Motrin)ibuprofen, and I have found that works for a lot of things.
I went from morphine to 800mg of Motrin, every 4 hours, the day after my hysterectomy, and it was enough...but I also I felt much better the day after surgery than I had for a couple of years and especially the prior 8 months...so it might not be the best example of ibuprofen pain management. :uhsure:
I'm not sure if I get an aura unless bright flashes of light count. Mine begin with a slight headache and light sensitivity and explode from there.
Funny you mention morphine vs. ibuprophen. After I have surgery I have to remind the doctors that morphine actually gives me a horrific headache. One would think it would help. I have to be given dilaudid post surgery and it's been given to me twice by injection for the worst of the migraines.
It's so weird that I didn't realize I was having migraines when they began. It wasn't even on my list of reasons why my head was exploding. Oh, I immediately jumped to brain tumor because of my history and was shocked when after the scans and testing the diagnosis came back.
I need to do more research as to why they would suddenly begin at this late stage of life. It's similar to my severe hay fever from adolescence just disappearing when I hit 30.
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I'm not sure if I get an aura unless bright flashes of light count. Mine begin with a slight headache and light sensitivity and explode from there.
Funny you mention morphine vs. ibuprophen. After I have surgery I have to remind the doctors that morphine actually gives me a horrific headache. One would think it would help. I have to be given dilaudid post surgery and it's been given to me twice by injection for the worst of the migraines.
It's so weird that I didn't realize I was having migraines when they began. It wasn't even on my list of reasons why my head was exploding. Oh, I immediately jumped to brain tumor because of my history and was shocked when after the scans and testing the diagnosis came back.
I need to do more research as to why they would suddenly begin at this late stage of life. It's similar to my severe hay fever from adolescence just disappearing when I hit 30.
Auras are different than flashes...but both are symptomatic of migraines. Still require a dark room.
You know how a street light is in the rain or fog.....kind of like a halo around the light? That's what I get. I don't get a halo around a specific object...it's like the halo is in my eye and I'm looking through the halo which sort of tunnel's my vision and it glows all around the edges. That's about the best way I can describe it. My eyes get very bloodshot.
I was almost 29 when I had them after my son was born. I was 35 when I had them for 8 months. If they are hormonal based, some change in your body, will trigger them or stop them.
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Auras are different than flashes...but both are symptomatic of migraines. Still require a dark room.
You know how a street light is in the rain or fog.....kind of like a halo around the light? That's what I get. I don't get a halo around a specific object...it's like the halo is in my eye and I'm looking through the halo which sort of tunnel's my vision and it glows all around the edges. That's about the best way I can describe it. My eyes get very bloodshot.
I was almost 29 when I had them after my son was born. I was 35 when I had them for 8 months. If they are hormonal based, some change in your body, will trigger them or stop them.
After i get a blind spot, that is how my auras start. That is a great description. Mine eventually look kind of like prisms and start off small and and slow. Grow bigger, faster and more jagged then move from the center of my vision to the side. Last time I had it when I closed my eyes it looked it fireworks going off. It actually scared the crap out of me.
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I'm not sure if I get an aura unless bright flashes of light count. Mine begin with a slight headache and light sensitivity and explode from there.
Funny you mention morphine vs. ibuprophen. After I have surgery I have to remind the doctors that morphine actually gives me a horrific headache. One would think it would help. I have to be given dilaudid post surgery and it's been given to me twice by injection for the worst of the migraines.
It's so weird that I didn't realize I was having migraines when they began. It wasn't even on my list of reasons why my head was exploding. Oh, I immediately jumped to brain tumor because of my history and was shocked when after the scans and testing the diagnosis came back.
I need to do more research as to why they would suddenly begin at this late stage of life. It's similar to my severe hay fever from adolescence just disappearing when I hit 30.
Do you get the flashing of light when you aren't having a migraine? If so it could be a sign of an issue with your retina (retinal detachment).
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Do you get the flashing of light when you aren't having a migraine? If so it could be a sign of an issue with your retina (retinal detachment).
No, but I did once and it scared me straight to the ophthalmologist. She said it wasn't retinal detachment, but a torn something or other on the surface of the eye along with a huge floater. It finally healed itself, but the floater stayed behind to drive me crazy.
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A woman suffering a chronic migraine headache went for a lie down only to wake talking in a – FRENCH ACCENT.
Kay Russell, 49, spoke with a well-clipped accent until the acute migraine struck and she woke to find her speech was â€strange and slurred’ before it turned into a Gallic drawl.
Former saleswoman Kay went to hospital where she saw a neurologist and underwent an MRI scan who discovered the migraine had inflicted a mild form of brain damage.
Doctors diagnosed Kay with Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) – an extremely rare condition which damages part of the brain controlling speech and the way words are formed....
Quelle horreur! (http://swns.com/migraine-sufferer-wakes-up-with-french-accent-141005.html)
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So that is what happened to Madonna, only she woke up with a British accent.
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Quelle horreur! (http://swns.com/migraine-sufferer-wakes-up-with-french-accent-141005.html)
If that happens to me, I want an Australian accent.
Good day, mate.
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If that happens to me, I want an Australian accent.
Good day, mate.
How odd but I also wonder why and how accents effect a persons personality.
All the years I spent in the south I began to mimic the accents of those around me. I developed such a southern accent that when I moved back north it took 3 or so years before I began to talk Yankee again.
When I head south now for a weeks festival camping out in North Carolina, it takes me just 6 hours to revert to the southern drawl.
I don't notice it until Hubby asks why I am speaking so different. Then I begin to realise that I am in fact almost a different person, almost like having a duel personality. Spooks him out.
I do have the sensations some of you have mentioned for years.
Closing my eyes at night there are times in the pitch black of the bedroom I will see behind closed eyes bright sparks or a gray rectangle moving about in a solid black ground.
Petite Mal's are some thing different that we all have from time to time.
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How odd but I also wonder why and how accents effect a persons personality.
All the years I spent in the south I began to mimic the accents of those around me. I developed such a southern accent that when I moved back north it took 3 or so years before I began to talk Yankee again.
When I head south now for a weeks festival camping out in North Carolina, it takes me just 6 hours to revert to the southern drawl.
I don't notice it until Hubby asks why I am speaking so different. Then I begin to realise that I am in fact almost a different person, almost like having a duel personality. Spooks him out.
I do have the sensations some of you have mentioned for years.
Closing my eyes at night there are times in the pitch black of the bedroom I will see behind closed eyes bright sparks or a gray rectangle moving about in a solid black ground.
Petite Mal's are some thing different that we all have from time to time.
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Not to change the subject but has anyone had rebound headaches? I ask this because I think that is what is wrong with me. My doctor is referring me to a neurologist that specializes in headaches but it will take awhile to get in. I have a headache every waking minute of every day. Sometimes it's worse than others. Most of the time I can ignore it a do whatever I need to do but I'm sick of having this headache. The thing with rebound headaches is you have to stop taking what ever it is you are taking (for me it is ibuprofen or excedrine migraine) and suffer through the headaches for a couple months. Part of me hopes that is what it is and the other part of me wants it to be something I can just get a prescription for and make it finally go away.
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Not to change the subject but has anyone had rebound headaches? I ask this because I think that is what is wrong with me. My doctor is referring me to a neurologist that specializes in headaches but it will take awhile to get in. I have a headache every waking minute of every day. Sometimes it's worse than others. Most of the time I can ignore it a do whatever I need to do but I'm sick of having this headache. The thing with rebound headaches is you have to stop taking what ever it is you are taking (for me it is ibuprofen or excedrine migraine) and suffer through the headaches for a couple months. Part of me hopes that is what it is and the other part of me wants it to be something I can just get a prescription for and make it finally go away.
Oh yeah, definitely.
I had to stop taking Excedrin migraine for about half a year. I was using some sort of Tylenol during that time. It was weak and didn't work worth a damn.
The neurologist will more than likely prescribe you something stronger that actually works within 15-30 minutes. That's what I have currently. The last migraine I had was on Monday. It's now Saturday. This is a new weekly record of not having a cluster of migraines all week long.
Good luck at the neurologist!
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Oh yeah, definitely.
I had to stop taking Excedrin migraine for about half a year. I was using some sort of Tylenol during that time. It was weak and didn't work worth a damn.
The neurologist will more than likely prescribe you something stronger that actually works within 15-30 minutes. That's what I have currently. The last migraine I had was on Monday. It's now Saturday. This is a new weekly record of not having a cluster of migraines all week long.
Good luck at the neurologist!
Where are your migraines? I just basically stopped have migraines except for a couple times a year but get auras several times a week. These headaches are at the top of my head, feel like my brain is bigger than my skull, sometimes it feels like it is behind my eye/eyes, forehead and/or back of the head. My migraines were so bad that I threw up and couldn't have any light or sound. I would have to rock back and forth. These headaches are totally different but I think they are connected. I read about transformed migraines and rebound headaches, I think I'm zeroing in on mine. Also, my head hurts worse when I lay down.
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My migraines typically start above my left eyebrow, but move above my right eyebrow after an hour or two. After that, my whole head feels like it's pounding. I can't walk around because it makes the pain that much worse. I've never thrown up from the migraines, but they have made me nauseous and light-headed.
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BEG, too bad that you're not still in Dallas area. If you were, I'd recommend my nuerologist to you. SHE is REALLY good!!
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BEG, too bad that you're not still in Dallas area. If you were, I'd recommend my nuerologist to you. SHE is REALLY good!!
Thor, when I lived in dallas I had a neurologist that specialized in headaches. His name is Dr. Steven Herzog. I ended up having a crush on him because he went out of his way to help me numerous times. I could also call him up and get in to see him within a day if I lived there. Another reason I'm hate moving to CA.