[Miracle1986]

Migraines freakin' SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have had one since yesterday morning.
Taken so much Motrin and Aleeve it's probably doing god knows what to my stomach.
I know it can't be good, because I am also taking a lot of Promethazine (prescription nausea medicine)...
and today, it's not doing it's job. I am soooo nauseous! The pain got bad and I got so desperate for relief
last night I took a Loritab. Not even that worked!!!! Today, I just now took 800mg Motrin AND a Loritab. Ugh!!!
I am so flippin nauseous I want to puke my guts out, and I don't know if it because the pain is so bad,
or because I took too many meds... or both.

I JUST WANT RELIEF!!!!! I take 250mg of Depakote every night.
It's supposed to be a "migraine preventative"... yeah, right!

I don't have another appointment with my doctor until probably sometime in October
(I was supposed to call and set it up for "early October", but our phone got turned off)

UGH... part of me wants to go to the ER and get Intravenous relief, but I know it's not good to run to that every time I hurt...
not to mention it is expensive!

[sundog]

Ugh!!! I'm really sorry (((((((Miracle))))))))) That sounds AWFUL!! I cannot STAND feeling nauseous. It is torture!! Not to mention you have a splitting headache as well. I'm keeping everything crossed for you that relief comes soon!!

[Miracle1986]

*sigh* and grrrr........
I still have it today...

[Miracle1986]

Ever since I posted this thread it seems like my migraines come and go....
one minute I will be fine, no headache at all, feeling good... then all he sudden, BAM!
it hits like I ton of bricks... and when it hits, it's not just a slight headache,
no it's a full-blown, make me curl up in a fetal position and cry headache, I take medicine (lately I've resorted to taking left over Loritab... I know it's a bad choice, but it's the only thing that gives me any kind of relief)... it usually takes it a while to work, but then I am good for a while... until it comes back anywhere from 4-10 hours later. (so it's not like it always hits as soon as medicine wears off... it's very sporadic and random)

What the hell? Is it too much to ask for a little bit of relief???

[CedarS]

I have migraines too. The world of migraines is such a difficult one, robs us of our quality of life while we are in it.

I'd vote you go to ER if you go through another series again, worth getting yourself checked over and given something to give you a much needed break from pain.

Ice packs sorta help me. As does turning off lights and music.

I've figured out some of my triggers, although triggers can always change on us. My main trigger is cigarette smoke. Also don't seem to do well with orange juice, big weather changes, or bright sunlight.

http://www.migraines.org/ is helpful

[trixielou]

i have a migraine coming on im getting drug screened on december 6 i would like to know if anyone has a general idea of how long one darvocet stays in your system its the 650 100 pink ones i have 800 motrins but those dont help these

[trixielou]

also i know darvocet has 2 metabolic processes & a pretty long half life & everyones body metabolizes stuff at different rates i just need to know in general how long one would stay cuz i need to get this sucker before it becomes a full blown pms change of weather migraine uugghhhh

[sista53]

I have been getting migraines most of my life. They have gotten worse as I age. One sister and one brother have gone through the same thing. I have never been to the ER because it costs too much, I have to get a ride and the next day I might experience the same pain and often do. Right now I have not been without a migraine below a 5 since the beginning of last week. I use promethazine then take a zomig and lay down. It lowers it and at night I take L-tryptophan, melatonin, 5-HTP , valerian or ambien. I wish I had an answer to your migraine pain. I do know that stressing out only makes it worse. No lights no sound in a dark room and try to sleep. I can't lay down with a migraine, need to sit up with pillows.............sucks. I haven't had a cup of coffee in years, no booze, rarely chocolate, no tea, no salt etc. I'm probably just making you depressed..........wish I had the answer for everyone in pain! You are NOT alone!:grouphug:

Originally Posted by Miracle1986

Migraines freakin' SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have had one since yesterday morning.
Taken so much Motrin and Aleeve it's probably doing god knows what to my stomach.
I know it can't be good, because I am also taking a lot of Promethazine (prescription nausea medicine)...
and today, it's not doing it's job. I am soooo nauseous! The pain got bad and I got so desperate for relief
last night I took a Loritab. Not even that worked!!!! Today, I just now took 800mg Motrin AND a Loritab. Ugh!!!
I am so flippin nauseous I want to puke my guts out, and I don't know if it because the pain is so bad,
or because I took too many meds... or both.

I JUST WANT RELIEF!!!!! I take 250mg of Depakote every night.
It's supposed to be a "migraine preventative"... yeah, right!

I don't have another appointment with my doctor until probably sometime in October
(I was supposed to call and set it up for "early October", but our phone got turned off)

UGH... part of me wants to go to the ER and get Intravenous relief, but I know it's not good to run to that every time I hurt...
not to mention it is expensive!

:soapbox: :bawling:

[trixielou]

mine are getting worse as i get older also. i took the darvocet last nite & it stopped it. the relpax is so expensive maxalt & imitrex give me allergic type reactions. so its messed up when theres something that helps & u cant get just the bare minimum from doc cuz of addictive history. i dont blame him cuz of the liability cuz i know its an opiate & a good doctor knows its playing with fire letting a recovering addict have it. i have been on klonopin for 4 years for nerves & seizures & he drug tests me randomly to make sure im takin em like im supposed to. did have problems with em at first but with Gods help i take em like i should. well to be honest every year when winter comes & in house more & im more anxiety prone theres a month or 2 where i gotta really watch. i heard they give shots for migraines but i guess maybe 4 people who get em really bad really often. i pray 4 everyone who suffers with these

[billieJ]

trixielou, I am sorry about your migraines. I used to have them, and they could recur, but I keep a little migranal, a nasal spray, which seems to clear them up without narcotic use. That being said, I, too, am a recovering addict who takes darvocett 100 regularly for back pain. Try the migranal. It's effective for me and has nothing addictive about it, so far as I know. Blessings on you. I know about headache and nausea, which makes you unable to move without pain exploding. I care about you and hope that you find something. There are several migraine meds without narcotics, but migranal is just one of the few my insurance co will pay for. I once worked for a doc, who said that he effectively treated the migraines which he had during med school, but holding a hand to the temple on the side of the migraine, reducing the blood supply to that side of the head. He would do this until the pain stopped. Hope you find the help you need. Blessings on You! billieJ

[ringtailcat]

I feel for all of you.... I know all too well the pain that comes with migraines & having the constant pain. A neuro doc started me on a perventative called Topamax about 5 yrs ago. It not only stopped my migraines but akso works good as a mood stabilizer for my bi-polar, too. Relpax has worked for the few break-thru migraines I've had. Both of these can be obtained thru PPA's.... PM me if you are interested.

sista, try stopping the chocolate to see if that might be triggering your migraines..... it's also known to be one of them

[trixielou]

thanks 4 reply. also after like a 5 day migraine is your head sore in the spots on each side where all the pressure was. like over & in front of my ears or further up on the sides & temples. while the headache is happening it feels like the nerves are being pulled back like horse reins burning swollen eyes shaky & nausea just crippling. i remember after my 3 yr old was born i kept one for the first month. they had sent me home with 15 tylenol 3s which i had never taken before & they didnt do anything. my t says im just the type that has a naturally high tolerance to everything. a doc also tried me on fiorcet one time which has tylenol caffeine & a barbituate & that didnt do crap. i had one refill & didnt even get it filled. all i have is med part a & b no rx plan so i get meds out of pocket. my doc wrote me a rx for 6 relpax one time & they wanted 120 dollars. crazy. well i notice when major stressors are gone i dont get them as much at least.

[sista53]

I said I 'rarely' eat chocolate, last time was about the size of a ritz cracker, very little and that was months ago. I am still plagued with migraines if I avoid ALL my triggers. I don't have any answers. I tried Topamax years ago but it made me extremely tired and I don't like taking any medication everyday because of side affects. My brother takes Topamax everyday and still gets migraines.

Originally Posted by impoftsn

I feel for all of you.... I know all too well the pain that comes with migraines & having the constant pain. A neuro doc started me on a perventative called Topamax about 5 yrs ago. It not only stopped my migraines but akso works good as a mood stabilizer for my bi-polar, too. Relpax has worked for the few break-thru migraines I've had. Both of these can be obtained thru PPA's.... PM me if you are interested.

sista, try stopping the chocolate to see if that might be triggering your migraines..... it's also known to be one of them

[Moose72]

I get them too. Only maxalt works at home. At the drs they give me a shot - forget what- but it lowers my blood pressure and gets rid of it. I've had them so bad I've vomitted. Nobodys given me narcotics but next time I get one as horrible as the one last year, I'll go to the ER. Problem is, people who drug seek use "migraine" as an "untestable" excuse to get drugs. An ultrasound or petscan would show a migraine or not, I'd think.

[eskielover]

I've had migraines since 1995.....started out as side effects to the AD meds my pdoc kept trying....seemed like every one had the side effect of migraine. I had never even had a headache before in my life....than that. Don't know if my OD's might have messed with the migraine problem either....but it finally got so bad that they just never went away....it was/is 24/7 non-stop. My eyes would hurt so bad if I closed them or if I left them open....any movement was horrible.

My neurologist tried all the migraine meds & nothing...no effect. He even stuck me in the hospital for a week & tried the DHEA (think that was what it was) injections. Gave me morphine while in there & had an allergic reaction to the morphine. The only thing that would touch my migraines was demoral......& a high dose at that...but the migraine would only stay gone as long as the demoral was working.....so at least I would have relief for a day but ended up sleeping through most of that anyway.

Couldn't stand to even brush my hair the pain was so bad. They did an MRI & determined that I needed a neck fusion....thought that was the cause of my migraines. I went through that surgery in 1999 but there was no relief. While in the hospital for that, they brought in a pain specialist who gave me the fentynal duragesic patch. It seemed to help some, but not enough to take away the migraine, so I still ended up back at the ER for the demoral shots to at least have some relief.

The pain specialist I ended up going to prescribed the duragesic patch, but tried to suppliment it with other meds that just didn't work. He also tried nerve block injections instead of just finding the right dose of patch to work. They came up with the Actiq (fentynal in sucker form). That actually was the first constant relief I had between 1995 & 2001.....but just my luck, they changed the formulation on the actiq & it quit working for me...so I asked the Pain specialist why he wouldn't just prescribe the equivalent. I had quite a few patches I had acquired over the time....times when I was in the hospital & they wouldn't let me use my own.........so he told me to go ahead & try doubling up on them to see if it worked (my husband was there to witness this). It was wonderful...like a miracle....I no migraine....went away within the first 4 hours. When my husband & I went back & told him, he denied that he had said that & told me he wouldn't prescribe that, gave me the prescription for the larger amount to cover 2 months & said I had to find another Dr because he wouldn't treat me any longer. what the????

Well, I looked around for another pain specialist...one Dr told me that the meds were causing my migraines & that I needed to come off of them, so she gave me the name of a pain specialist that practiced in the same hospital as my pdoc so they could put me in the hospital & take care of the withdrawal. I made an appointment with that other pain specialist & told him what was going on....he said no, that prescribing me that amount of the duragesic wasn't a problem & he would take me on as his patient. The MRI showed white spots that he said indicated severe migraines. He had his own practice, but was also part of UCLA's medical center & specialized on caring for migraine's.

So, from 2003 until now, I am still on the same dose, I only now & then get twinges of migraine pain....but mostly only the strange symptoms without any pain. I have only felt the pain a couple of times in all this time & that was when the smell of skunk was so bad & just a few weeks ago when I fell off the horse I was riding & hit my head (lucky I was wearing my helmet).

When I moved away from California, I had to get a new pain specialist & finding one who was willing to prescribe this medication wasn't easy. I did find one, but needed to go to a pain psychologist to prove that I wasn't in an addictive situation. This new pain specialist said that it wasn't normal to treat migraines with narcotics, but he has several patients that is the only thing that works successfully (I'm one of them). We did try to lower the dose the first year because I wanted to know if the migraines were gone or just covered up (couldn't really tell at that) but the migraines (or just one huge never ending migraine) were still there.....right there ready to hit.

Just wanted you to know what finally worked for me after so many horrible miserable years. Hope you can find the one thing that works for you....just keep going after the help until you hit on just the right thing.

Now that I have been pain free & able to function again, it's so wonderful. All I could do was lay in bed in a dark, quiet room with no smells. Today, I ride horses, do all my acres of yard work, work on my house (including painting). I finally have my life back & that quality of life is what keeps my pain specialist willing to prescribe this med.

Wishing you the best in finding a solution. There is nothing more debilitating than a migraine that's for sure.

[trixielou]

well darvocet is now off the market so wont be takin those anymore. nothing works except that & relpax maxalt made me feel a little weird but not as bad a reaction as imitrex after i had 2nd baby 3 years ago i begged the doc for some relpax knowing it worked well 4 me. before that visit i was sent home from hospital with an rx for 15 tylenol 3s which didnt help this young doctor insisted on giving me fiorcet here i am a recovering addict beggin for somethin non-narcotic & he gives me fiorcet which didnt do anything either. i had one refill & didnt even get it filled. dunno i know theres lots of people who have them worse than i do so i will just be thankful & ask God to help them go away

[trixielou]

wow eskielover sorry uv been thru so much espcially with the doc who was playing ping pong with ya one nite i had one & someone gave me a small dose of xanax relaxed my nerves in my head enuff to take the edge off i guess i take 3mg klonopin a day but even though both are benzos they work different cuz 4 me i often wonder is migraine more pain center or nerve or i guess both if i wasnt getting drug screened monday i think i would get a xanax cuz i have a splitter rite now

[trixielou]

i had one coming on today a bad one where the bottom has dropped out of the temps i know theyve taken darvocet & darvon off the market 4 now but its the only thing that helps so i know someone who still has some --this is how bad this one was gonna get-- i took one darvocet did not help waited 5 hours took another one & its gone thank the Lord! & yes i tried everything before i took the darv 800motrin zyrtec rx so im migraine free well until my next period or drastic barometric pressure change in weather. i know i shouldnt be so pessimistic but theyre like clockwork & predictable