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| Migraines?
Posted: 10/10/2006 8:15:43 AM | | Yes, I can relate. I take Zomig, they usually take in away in 30 minutes. Had 3 last week. Nasty pain... | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 10/16/2006 1:10:52 PM | 25 yrs and still trying to manage them.......... I've tried most of the stuff out there and the best result i found is a cup of coffee (caffine) and a dim lit room thats cool where you can relax; Also try the relaxation CDs. They are mostly caused by the dilation of blood vesels in your head (around the brain is a protective layer that is filled with fluid with a GOOD blood supply). the best way to sum it up I think is try to regulate your blood pressure (RELAX). As the brain has no feeling its not your brain. I've also tried sleep (6 hours) to get rid of them but who has an extra 6 hours to nap. Red wine is a trigger mech for a % of them so stay away from red wine and chocolate (all the good things we find for comfort). Some luck I also had was a beta blocker (PROPANALOL) it has some mild side effects at first but your body will adjust, it lowers the blood pressure and helps in a more preventive messure (Guys have a more common side effect called temp impotantce)
Good luck
countryboy215
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| Migraines?
Posted: 11/1/2006 2:17:58 PM | I feel for anyone who has these damn migraines. Like the rest of you, I live with the fear of when I'll get my next one, the guilt over the impact it has on my life, family, and friends, and anger that I'm 24 years old and yet migraines run my life.
Luckily, the past few weeks have been better than the past 7 years, thanks to the recognition that my migraines aren't caused neurologically; rather, due to misalignment of my skull on my atlas because of a 13' fall 7 years ago. I've been through the mill with all the various medications, neurologists, MRIs, MRAs, MRVs, X-rays, physical therapists, trigger point injections, nerve blocks, chiropracters, and alternative meds...if I can be of any help to anyone (I know what it's like!), please email me at Laurie882@hotmail.com | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 11/1/2006 10:00:34 PM | | so does imitrex really work,cuz my mom has severe migraines all the time? | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 11/2/2006 6:12:38 AM | ^^^^^^^^^^For me it works like magic once I have one, Cluster Headache!
The most important part is to get a balance of, thought, vitamins, emotions, physical activity, rest, food and make sure there is no underlying spinal, neck etc problem that is causing them. Unless a balance is found the headaches come back. OH and I listened to sombient and increased my water intake and it helped tremendously. I hadn't realized that I was not getting enough water again.
There is three of us in my family with headache problems and imitrex works for all of us. For me though I can only take it for three days and then it will give me a rebound headache. Asprine, tylenol, advil will all cause rebound headaches if taken to often. Make sure she is not taking to much of either and switching from one to the other as this helps aleviate the problem. | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 11/2/2006 6:40:31 PM | | Several here have mentioned that they had MRIs EEGs and spinal taps. I had a MRI that came back showing "lesions", am now scheduled for a Spinal tap (?) and a EEG. They tell me it could be a result of severe migrains (which I've had for over three years in spells) or "Mini-strokes"(?) or possibly MS. Anyone here ever heard of such things? | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 11/4/2006 12:28:02 PM | | I've had migraines and tension headaches for 20 years now. I've been on a variety of meds but apo-naproxen(375mg), a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication, has been working for me for the past 8 years. | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 11/8/2006 10:25:22 PM | txmn,
well,when my mom went to the ER,she got an x ray of her head,and they said that there is nothing wrong.do u think it might b because she takes percocet?she has been taking them cuz of the pain,the doctor wont give her any pain meds.she said she has had these headaches since she was a kid,but i dont know.i do kno however,she smokes almost 2 packs of cigarettes a day,and drinks coffee all day long.she hardly EVER drinks water,and i am glad u mentioned that cuz the nurse at the hospital said that she needs to drink more water,and that water would definitely help.i think it just may be hereditary,cuz my little brother and i both have been having alot of headaches,and my gramma has had them for years. | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/10/2007 1:52:09 AM | I like most used Imitrex up to a few years ago. I haven't had any bad mirgraines for years and maybe because I watch my coffee intake ( 2 cups per day only), massage helps me lots not only for my migraines but relaxing the entire body.
Maybe for some they should try to eat better, drink more water and watch their strees levels.
I also stopped watching tv/using the computer in my bedroom as my bedroom is now the place to "HIDE FROM THE WORLD"
Hope that all loose the Migraines and find peace
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grtea
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Joined: 6/3/2006
Msg: 85 | |
| Migraines?
Posted: 2/11/2007 6:56:45 AM | I don't like the new migraine meds. I find they lead to 'rebound' migranes, i.e., the migrane reappears after 12 or 24 hours. Also they are very expensive. Instead I use one of the early migraine meds, cafergot. Actually, it is interesting about the post above (msg 83), with the advil and the coke...because of the caffeine. Caffergot is part egot and part caffeine. caffeine is a big trigger for migraines for me, but for some reason the caffergot works.
The problem with finding a med that works is that sometimes you go back to the behaviors that caused the migraine in the first place. I would occasionally sneak a cup of coffee to help me study, then the caffergot would get rid of the migraine. My experience is that if you do this one of two things can happen. First your meds stop working and second, you start developing other triggers as well.. weather, hormonal, etc. i.e., you start snowballing into more migraines.
Also, there are problems with side effects from the medicines themselves. For example, if you take too much caffergot in a week you can get serious vascular issues. (A doctor told me he had a patient lose an arm). I certainly did start getting some vascular problems in my arms.. which I believe came from caffergot... so now I am very careful about using it.
My primary goal now is to avoid any and all triggers that will give me a migraine. (Because I think that if I keep going longer without them then I can reverse the trend.) I am out of grad school now so there is less stress. I also totally avoid any and all caffeine... even decaf tea and coffee (I find I am sensitive to it too). Overall I am getting way fewer migraines... I can't do much about the odd weather or hormonal trigger.. but I know how to handle these better. I take as small a dose of caffergot as I can get away with (1/2 to 1 pill) and have two advil at the same time. This seems to intensify the effect of the caffergot (and doc said it was okay.. always good to check).
I feel like I have gotten this migraine thing under control. Everyone's road is different... and it is a tough road. One thing I am looking forward to is hearing more about the research with large magnets. It sounds as though there is real potential and it would be nice to have a non-med approach available. My best to all... | |
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| Migraines? gr tea
Posted: 2/11/2007 7:28:11 AM | Green teas are said to be effective for some who suffer with headaches .........noticed your post in the health and wellness thread.
headache stay gone.com - you only pay for it after it works -
If it does not work simply do not pay - all natural ingrediants..
A fairly new product , as far as I know...
gr tea - I'd guess your into green tea?
I'm not sure how much you know about green tea or black teas.
I do know that the polyphenols in the teas work very well and are usually said to be 20-200
times more potent an anti oxidents than Vit C or Vit E..
And I note the effects and feeling of wellness as few as 20 minutes after drinking common black teas- I must say for whatever reason I've not taken notice if the green teas do anything at all I'd guess they are said to be at least 5 times more potent ???
But - I've just never noticed anything ???
Question about teas
The problem with ''FLOURIDE''
The plant (most teas) seems to have a natural inclination to obsorb tremendous amounts of FLOURIDE....
While much or most of this flouride is ''natural'' ??? in or from the enviroment ???
nevertheless..... its still flouride...
I do recall hearing at one time or another - certain kinds of teas are said to be low in flouride
but the mention thereof was somewhat vague !
What do you do about this?
Do you know which types?
Both black and green ?
And I wonder if you would know the answer as to why I feel immediate sense of wellness from common -cheap- black pekoe teas - and notice nothing at all from green
teas???
Eddy | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/11/2007 7:34:21 AM | Question about teas..
I entered a post just below yours in the forums
Migranes !
I noted you r screen name - and just presumed you might know a lot about teas
I intended to send the message via e-mail
But overlooked the board thinking it was an e mail !
Perhaps they will delete the post ? as it would be somewhat off topic
Also I made mention of a somewhat new product
headache stay gone..
All natural - herbal etc.
Guarenteed you try it first before you pay!
Sorry for double posts ! | |
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grtea
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Joined: 6/3/2006
Msg: 88 | |
| Migraines?
Posted: 2/11/2007 11:17:43 AM | Just in quick reply, I usually can't get away with drinking green tea any more either... maybe one day.
Thanks for your suggestion. | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/13/2007 3:57:21 PM | | ...i like zomig the best too...u have to be diligent and not wait to long to take it when u feel migraine onset... | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/22/2007 6:05:51 AM | Hi ,
As a therapist I'm an ex-migraine sufferer too ...
It is true that migraine can have many trigger causes ,and sometimes it can be hard to find wich one it is ,but there are ways out of this .
I'll try to be short here .
Migraine ,just as other forms of headaches and pain in general ,are alarmsignals of the nervous system .My 26 years of experience in my practice showed me that the worst we can do is to deny those signals by taking all kinds of drugs or supressants ,as the only thing they do is to neutralize neurotransmitters who send those alarmsignals to the brain ,they don't cure NOTHING ...and the cause remains !! So if we take drugs for a longer time ,we - indeed - lie to ourselves ,and we do not respond to what our body is asking for : DO something !!
In most cases of migraine statistics show that the blood-irrigation to the brain is involved ,and more precisely the nervous controll of those functions .
What a lot of medicall staff don't consider is that bloodvessels also have their own innervation system ,and that bloodvessels have MUSCLES (for as "small" as they are ,but yes ,check it out !! ) .So with this knowledge we can look at those phenomenae with another more logical ,causal eye .
Under this condition it becomes less difficult to imagine that those bloodvessel-muscles ,just as any other muscle in a human body ,can contract ,produce some kind of cramp situation in wich the diametre of that bloodvessel (arteries or veins) becomes more narrow ,and the consequence is that a lesser volume of blood passes trough ...Can you still follow ??
Well in such moments ,your nervous system produces an alarmsignal ( and that's normal too ) and it would be ab-normal if it wouldn't !! So the migraine attack shows you taht your nerves are functioning properly ,in this sense that it shows you when something is going wrong ,and invites you to undertake something ,that you repair something where the pain is felt .
Do you remember when your attcks come up ,that you feel at the same time pain in your head (laterally),a pressure or contraction in your troath (laterally too ?) AND in your neck ??
(Your stomach can be implicated too ,not necessay inviting you to go vomiting ,but yes )
To stop this pain "attack" we'll have to follow the proper logics of what is REALLY going on ,and search for the trigger that directly causes the contraction allover that described area ( I hope you still agree ) .
So the first measure we have to take ,following the logical functioning of those contracted bloodvessels ,is to look wich NERVES have to do with the most painful spot ,and find out wich is the ROOT of that nerve(s) ,and then look in wich condition that root can be (damaged,compressed,blocked ,injured somehow ) .In most cases of migraine cervical nerves ( in the neck) are directly implicated (the upper thoracics too ) .So when one (or some ) of these nerves can only send contraction signals to a part of your bloodvessels (throat,head) due to a blockage of those nervefibres that controll the intermittent contraction/decontrac-tion reflexes ,you can (logically) imagine what happens :the bloodvessel remains in a sort of cramp for "X" time (the time the attack takes ) .The contrary can also happen ,causing an excessive dilatation of the same bloodvessels ,lowering the bloodpressure to the brain ,wich also causes an alarmsignal as migraine .Both descriptions are valid in most cases .
Knowing what I mentioned here above ,we can start acting ,so that the local conditions of bloodvessels and related nerves CHANGE .Not by taking drugs ,as they won't never change NOTHING ,and will make you only dependent on them ("for the rest of your life" as many docs say ,even if they know that there are alternatives ,but they prefer to lie to their patients ) .
Logically we should restore the normal functioning of the nerveroot that controlls the local bloodvessel-muscles (and the muscles around them too ) FIRST .Therefore we have to move back to their normal position those vertebrae (bonemass) that block those nerveroots ,and this can be (safely) done by a chiropractor or an osteopath ,adding afterwards deep local massages of the surrounding tissue and reinforce local tendons that keep those backbones on their place ...
But there is an incovenience too : it is a rather long treatment ,but the most honest an efficient .WHY is this so ?? Not because your practioner does a bad job on you ,but because your body needs TIME to rebuild the cartilage-mass between the affected backbones ,and this soft mass can only be rebuild if you stop eating junkfood ,and eat those nutrients ,in a varied way ,that are healthy !!
There are also some things you can do by yourself when you feel an attack coming up : put your head and neck under the tap and moist it allover with ICEcold water !! This cuts considerably the time of the attack ,AND when still in y'r bathroom ,STRETCH your neck by lifting up your head ,do it gradually ,but using FORCE (this will broaden the space between the cervical vertebrae ,and diminish the bonepressure on the nerveroot !! ) ,Stretch your arms in the air STRAIGHT above y'r head ,but in sudden movements (as karatekas do ) .Doing this you will hear y'r backbones crack a bit ,but don't worry this is normal ,as they get back on their normal position .Go on with this (moisting and stretching ),and when you hear suddenly that you "burp" ,THIS is the signal that you're getting back to "normal" !! ( bet on this !! ) .
Well this were the basics ,but there is more :-))
Any more questions ?? I'm here (and I'm glad when I can help people getting out of their misery ,and out of the surrounding illusions )
Good luck
and drop me a line (here ? ) with some news !!
Notice : and if you know about a jobvacancy for me in your area ,let me know !! | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/24/2007 6:00:39 PM | | I read what everyone posted about migraines and wanted to tell you all that I was more or less a "lab rat" for awhile for epilepsy meds. One med I tried out was Topamax and it took away the real bad headaches I always had. I would call my Drs. and tell them side effects and everything and told them that this med took away the bad headaches I kept having. I have a few relatives that get migraines and told the Drs. to try the Topamax on a migraine patient that was willing to try it. My Dr called back a few weeks later and thanked me, a person tried it and it helped, that was in the mid 90's and they started prescribing it to people with migraines a few yrs later. I was thanked by my Drs. and the President of the hospital for telling them to try it for migraines, if I were you and had migraines I would check on it, it works! | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/24/2007 6:11:17 PM | I get them from time to time... (maybe 1-2 every 3 or 4 months) they aren't pleasant and usually I end up with a headache for the next few days after the migraine is gone... I think in my case it is caused by diet... or extreme lack of sleep...
I find I can ward it off if I act immediately as soon as I know one is comming... I pop a multi vitamin if I haven't taken one that day yet , and some mineral supplements (magnesium, potassium ) with something fairly sugary such as coke or just chug a bottle of gatorade (gatorade or other sport drinks have the minerals and the sugars so work well) and then take a couple of asperin with a caffiene pill or just take one of those extra strength asperin based headache pills (which are essentially asperin with caffeine)
And take a nap for a half hour or just try to relax for a while if I am at work...
if that doesn't work and I get the full on migraine, there is nothing else to do than go home, black out the outside light and sleep
I have a high pain tolerance and I don't get them as bad as some people do where they make me sick to my stomach.. but even the lesser migraines I get are worse than a hangover headache | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/25/2007 9:27:43 PM | | Oh yes. I would get severe headaches and/or migraines on a daily basis. Have you seen a neurologist yet? A neurologist could run tests and/or give you a preventative medicine. If that doesn't work, try seeing your dentist. I know, sounds silly. I've seen a neurologist for about a year now. Tests come back fine. Preventative meds work for a little bit and then they stop. She recommended talking to my dentist. I did and part of my daily headaches/migraines may be due to TMJ. It's something to check out. Good luck. If you find any other "cures" please let me know. | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/28/2007 4:38:01 PM | | try acupuncture , that worked for a woman having chronic migraines and the medics didn't work for her . | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 2/28/2007 4:41:47 PM | | forgot also check your environment maybe a change could enhance or solve the problem | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 3/13/2007 4:49:17 PM | My doctor told me to try the soda trick a few years ago. Caffine gives most people migraines but in a rare few it actually helps relieve the pain. I never drank it much and people always told me not to because it was probably causing the headaches. The Dr. suggested drinking it right away with your meds as soon as the headache starts and it really helps. I don't drink much and I usually feel better, but I feel bad for wasting all that soda. It doesn't work alone for me (must use meds right away) now I always keep a few cans in the car. I've found that Pepsi, Coke, and Mountain Dew seem to work the fastest.
I also have another trick that I got from a co-worker years ago. If the pain is in the front of your head, rub some bengay on your forehead. It sounds stupid but really does help if its bad. I've also found that Bio-Freeze works way better than the store brand bengay like products. We use it at the rehab center, it's got differents ingredients and is much stronger and long lasting. I didn't know it was available anywhere for regular people to buy, but I recently found it on ebay. It also comes in a roll on which I'm gonna try because it would be more convienient while out.
Just trying to help, I know how horrible it is. | |
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| Migraines?
Posted: 3/13/2007 6:00:42 PM | | I can't believe that people take pepsi or coke for a migraine.That is just silly. First of all there are all kinds of pain killers on the market, but none work. They all have side effects, some even cause migraines! Also, did you know that aspartame, splenda, and other artificial sweetners cause migraines?? The only good cure is to stop doing what is causing the migraines in the first place. Stop using sugar,and that means all kinds of sugar. Also stop using caffein, thats another known migraine causer. And stop using any artificial sweetners. (stevia is fine) Try that for starters, but don't expect results overnight. It could take a few months to get that crap out of your system. Lots of green juices would help the body detoxify. | |
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grtea
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Joined: 6/3/2006
Msg: 98 | |
| Migraines?
Posted: 3/13/2007 8:46:30 PM | In terms of the cold cloth.. one thing I do is to saturate a face cloth with water and then fold it over until it is long and about an 1 and 1/2 inches wide... then place it in the door of the freezer. This icy cloth really helps until medicine kicks in. I often use it in combination with a hot bath i.e. cold cloth on temple or eye or occipital bone (back of neck).
.... good to know about that bio-freeze. thx. | |
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| I get them
Posted: 3/13/2007 9:09:20 PM | | I find that Maxalt and Tramadix works. | |
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| I get them
Posted: 3/13/2007 10:25:39 PM | I've suffered with them all my life. The thing I've noticed with coffee is that I have to avoid it as part of my daily diet, but when I feel a migraine coming on, a bunch of caffeine (I prefer a cola drink or Mountain Dew) seems to help, and if I'm taking painkillers the caffeine helps get them into the bloodstream faster.
I like to put one of those blue gel packs on my head - I keep it in the freezer all the time. I haven't tried an icy washcloth - maybe the moistness would help.
I take three different medications to prevent them, and I still get them often. Maxalt often helps if I take it soon enough - it not, then I take 2 Advil and 2 extra-strength Excedrin and try to get to sleep.
I'll try the Icy Hot (??) or whatever it's called - I've tried Ben Gay and other balms on my neck because I've got chronic pain there and it triggers the migraines quite often.
I'm sorry for my comrades in pain.  | |
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