I get them about 3 times a month. It is horrible. That is what it sounds like. I don't have insurance so I treat mine with 3 Excedrine migraine, lots of water and sleep.
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I was worried that it was a migraine but kinda hoping it wasn't. If so, it was my first one ever. It was light sensitive. I don't have insurance either so no doctor for now. Hopefully, it won't become a thing. I took a hydrocodone that I had left over from my dental stuff and it didn't even touch it! How can that be?! I basically tried to sleep all day.
Thanks for the advice guys! For a while yesterday I was starting to worry that I might need the ER!
I've never heard of maxalt. What is that?
Thanks for the advice guys! For a while yesterday I was starting to worry that I might need the ER!
I've never heard of maxalt. What is that?
(this is chips.. didn't feel like logging out Morgan)
I've been told I can't take traditional migraine meds because of blood pressure issues, so my doc prescribed me Fioricet which is acetamenophin + caffeine + butalbital (sedative/hypnotic drug). No clue why this combination works for me, but it does. I've taken lortab before, but nothing has worked for me like Fioricet.
I've been told I can't take traditional migraine meds because of blood pressure issues, so my doc prescribed me Fioricet which is acetamenophin + caffeine + butalbital (sedative/hypnotic drug). No clue why this combination works for me, but it does. I've taken lortab before, but nothing has worked for me like Fioricet.
For my minor migraines, I take Excedrin Migraine. For the really tough ones, I use Maxalt. A variety of things can exacerbate my migraines, sometimes light, sometimes motion. Very rarely does noise impact it. Usually, I put a cold compress on the back of my head/neck or on my face. Turn down the lights, curl up into a ball and whine like a little girl. That's about all that can be done.
Okay, so more curling and whining and less taking hydrocodone. Got it.
Again, I only hope this was isolated. I've never had one before so I can hope...
Again, I only hope this was isolated. I've never had one before so I can hope...
Yikes! Keep me in your thoughts guys! They are evacuating a neighborhood about a mile and a half from us due to wildfires! A friend of my daughters house just burnt down. In fact, many of her friends from school live in that neighborhood. Hopefully it won't come our way - wish us luck and spare a positive thought for those who are in the path of the fire right now. Thanks guys!
If I had wildfires a mile and a half from me, I would be gone as far away as possible. No one would have to tell me. I've lost a house to fire before. No fun!
Prayers to you and your community, Pchela.
Prayers to you and your community, Pchela.
Looks like winds are blowing the opposite direction for us so that's good. We have a house full of my daughters friends who are displaced... if I were their parents, I would want to keep my kids with me but... *shrugs*
The high school close to us is housing evacuees right now so I feel fairly safe but have made a contingency plan for my parrots - I think they'd be the hardest part of evacuating. Where do you put 4 parrots?
The high school close to us is housing evacuees right now so I feel fairly safe but have made a contingency plan for my parrots - I think they'd be the hardest part of evacuating. Where do you put 4 parrots?
While you can remember - wrote down everything you ate in the 24 hours before your headache and (turn away guys) where you are in your cycle. Changes in hormones can trigger migraines in women. Also - if you were around anything new (carpet, car, shoes, plasticware etc) Is there any chance you were dehydrated?
I've foudn if I eat a banana as soon as I feel it coming on (I get aura's, so a bit of an advance warning) it helps. Doesn't keep them happening, not they seem to be more bearable. And I ditto the caffeine and coldpack. It helps for some reason.
Caffeine causes the capillaries in the brain to expand when taken in small doses, this may be the cause of it's helping with migraines.
Caffeine can cause a migraine because of the increase in blood pressure, but since the prevailing theory right now is that migraine is caused by constricting blood vessels, small doses of caffeine can help.
If you've never had one before, the trigger was most likely environmental--either something you ate or were around. Where you are in your cycle cannot *cause* a migraine, but hormonal fluctuations can make you more susceptible to environmental factors or can trigger them if you are one of those people who have migraine cycles.
No one knows what "causes migraines" (though for some individuals the cause of *their* migraines can be deduced) although chocolate, caffeine and stress are the most common 'triggers' (though they are almost never the sole trigger), though constriction of the blood vessels in the brain is present in almost all migraines. The only treatment known to "work" in all cases is a cold compress on the forehead and temples and aspirin--though for some people (like myself) the aspirin doesn't work enough to make a noticeable difference.
Other treatments can work, but they will be different for everyone. I knew a woman (a former boss' wife) who was finally (after more than five years of specialists) prescribed an anti-nausea drug and 150 mg Thorazine--the anti-nausea drug was to keep her from throwing up the Thorazine until it could knock her out for three days.
Everyone else has given excellent advice and I suggest you follow it. Figure out *anything* you've eaten, drunk or come into contact with that was unusual for you. Also, try to think back to *any* kind of warning you may have had (wavy lines in your vision, "auras" and a slight ringing in your ears are common ones--if you had any) so you can take the aspirin and lay down with a cold-compress immediately. If you have any kind of warning they are much easier to head off than to treat.
You definitely don't want to have migraines become a "habit"
Excedrin migraine seems to work well for me if I take it as soon as I start seeing the floating specs that lets me know a doozy of a migraine is coming on. Learned the hard way about taking to much of it to keep the migraines at bay though. It can get you on a really nasty cycle of rebound headaches.
Last year I was at the er 13 times for migraines. They used to just shoot me up with diloted till it knocked me out. Now they have a migraine protocol where I get an iv to hydrate me and magnesium, and something else. It works great, 15 mins and the migraine is gone.
They have me on a caffine and a manesium pill that is supposed to be taken once a day now. This year I've only been to the er twice for migraines and those were my own fault since I know hard alcohol is a definite trigger for me. Which is odd because I can down beers al night long and not have to worry about migrains.
Last year I was at the er 13 times for migraines. They used to just shoot me up with diloted till it knocked me out. Now they have a migraine protocol where I get an iv to hydrate me and magnesium, and something else. It works great, 15 mins and the migraine is gone.
They have me on a caffine and a manesium pill that is supposed to be taken once a day now. This year I've only been to the er twice for migraines and those were my own fault since I know hard alcohol is a definite trigger for me. Which is odd because I can down beers al night long and not have to worry about migrains.
Pchela, Praying for y'all down there, and for everyone in the path. 
its so maddining. We were blessed with about 3 inches of rain sat and sunday, so they think that put out the hotspots. If they just will catch the idiots lighting ours we will be better off.
I get miagraines- Started getting them when I was preg with my first kid. I finally was PUT on blood pressure meds. my BIGGEST trigger is if my BP gets OVER 60/100. I kid you not - my bottom number has to stay below 100 or my head will explode. So anger or agervation is one of my biggest triggers.
I no longer take BP meds for mine. Years without insurance and I just kinda quit. my other trigger is smells. yesterday I went to walmart, and it was after church, and every person who could manage to bath in their dollar store purfume did- and then came to walmart. IT was AWFUL. before I left I was trying NOT to puke, and one of my kids DID puke in the parking lot.
I can also tell where we are in the month with my headaches. Sometimes I get a warning. Other times, I literly feel like someone hit me with a 2x4, everything goes black for a split second and my head feels like its trying to explode. Not a pounding, but a true feeling of pressure. Like if you just drilled a tiny little hole in the very top of my skull, you would either let the pressure off and I would be okay- or it would explode like a perfectly ripe watermelon.
As far as how to deal with them, I dont know- its been 13 years and I am still pretty much the same as I was. I DO try to take some caffine laden pain pills of some sort. I just try to function as best I can. I need to go back to the Dr, they have made great strides in recent years, But, I just hate to waste the money. LOL
its so maddining. We were blessed with about 3 inches of rain sat and sunday, so they think that put out the hotspots. If they just will catch the idiots lighting ours we will be better off. I get miagraines- Started getting them when I was preg with my first kid. I finally was PUT on blood pressure meds. my BIGGEST trigger is if my BP gets OVER 60/100. I kid you not - my bottom number has to stay below 100 or my head will explode. So anger or agervation is one of my biggest triggers.
I no longer take BP meds for mine. Years without insurance and I just kinda quit. my other trigger is smells. yesterday I went to walmart, and it was after church, and every person who could manage to bath in their dollar store purfume did- and then came to walmart. IT was AWFUL. before I left I was trying NOT to puke, and one of my kids DID puke in the parking lot.
I can also tell where we are in the month with my headaches. Sometimes I get a warning. Other times, I literly feel like someone hit me with a 2x4, everything goes black for a split second and my head feels like its trying to explode. Not a pounding, but a true feeling of pressure. Like if you just drilled a tiny little hole in the very top of my skull, you would either let the pressure off and I would be okay- or it would explode like a perfectly ripe watermelon.
As far as how to deal with them, I dont know- its been 13 years and I am still pretty much the same as I was. I DO try to take some caffine laden pain pills of some sort. I just try to function as best I can. I need to go back to the Dr, they have made great strides in recent years, But, I just hate to waste the money. LOL
Good morning!
I got a 3 hour nap and then chips woke me up.. now I am wide awake.
I got a 3 hour nap and then chips woke me up.. now I am wide awake.
good morning got 8 hours sleep last night!!! First time in a week! Hope everyone has a great labor day! Cook out at moms today
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