Migraine!

Any things that've helped you?

Let's consider this a game: give advice before I really can't read from screens anymore!

But serious question!

Do you get lots of migraines? My old boss used to get tons of migraines, and she was prescribed medication for it. You might want to consider that route if you routinely get migraines.

If you're in the US, you can try Excedrin Migraine. It works well for me. If you can't sleep, there are options like Tylenol PM. It's basically like a pain reliever with a sleeping pill in it (or that's how it was explained to me by a dr).

Chivas Royal Salute.

Whisky (will try another) might actually work! Never tried it, strangely enough.

Sure to make you nauseous, which is all I need: vomit, cleared, move on.

I probably didn't use it because it feels like having had too much (which can of course it).

I you see from my relatively long post is in a bit wavy. Now is almost bearable. Hope it was just only very short.

Thanks so far, both of you. Will check back later.

i used to get over several days a week migrains until i was put on propanolol. havn't had one in over several years.

Having conquered ne of the flippin' most light-polluted places on the face of the Earth I'm home now, no whisky and I really "couldn't" risk to get any. Definitely try next time. I'll be hypersensitive in my bed now with a large dose of quetiapine.

Thanks for sharing.

Have to lay in bed in the dark, lights off, blinds closed, no noise. So boring sometimes all I can do is focus on the pain, but light or noise makes it so much worse. Excedrin Migraine works well if I catch it early enough. Also drink a big glass of water. Avoid triggers. Mine are red wine and too much tomato products.

Try the hottest water in the shower you can stand and let it pour over your head.
I also recommend rx meds when you can get them. Imitrex works for me.

Imitrex is the only thing that will truly get rid of a migraine for me. It's Rx, so you would have to talk to your doctor, but it's great!

Other than that, dark, quiet room, and drink LOTS of water.

I get mega nauseous with mine. Nasty, I know, but puking makes me feel so much better. Headache lessens up after that.

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I can't take most migraine meds and my neurologist had me start taking magnesium. I went from 20plug migraine days per month to maybe 1 every 2-3 months. 400-500 mg, from the vitamin aisle. They also recommended CoQ10 which made me hypomanic and melatonin. There are herbs too but I can't do herbals so I don't what they are. It's worth a try though; no side effects and really effective for a lot of people. I was going to need botox injections if that failed and it never even has come up again.

I take a triptan and then some excedrin migraine and zofran, an anti nausea med. And then I just sit in the dark with an icepack.

Thank you so much for all the responses!

I don't have it very often luckily (20 days per month is just torture! ). Once every few months, sometimes a year or more. Sometimes just hypersensitivity without pain (with might sound great, but isn't really either, but much better still).

No med changes that could have caused it.

It does seem to happen more often when stable. Maybe not.

Lots of water I figured out as well. I also use coffee (helps to increase nausea and I think the caffeine works as well) and cigarettes (makes it much worse few minutes later, but that helps to make the nausea worse as well, simply due to pain).

A very warm and cold shower immediately thereafter, helps me as well.

Obviously no lights or any other sensory stimulation.

Vomiting really helps, yes. But isn't always possible for me: sometimes it's just enough below just pretty much your maximum pain to not make you nauseous.

Great to hear all these solutions to make it more bearable. I will probably ask for some med just in case.

It has reminded me again of severe depression: I really find it similar (the one without pain), the hypersensitivity and feeling you suffocate (emotionally, mentally) or something, very claustrophobic.

Any of you made that association?

Edit:
Ice is a bit like nicotine for me: alleviates the pain but then...! Bit like anxiolytics/antidepressants.

Or do the meds only prophylactically/preventative?

Which meds do and which immediately, for acute (non-prodrome: it goes really quickly for me) migraines?

But afterwards (as with severe depression that lifted a bit): wow!

How lucky to be alive and free!