I had my second ever migraine today. It was shocking! I am only just starting to feel ok now 9 hours later. Does anyone know what causes them? What do you do if you know one is coming on? I had about 20 mins warning with this one.
Whenever someone says they have a migraine coming on I will now appreciate what they mean
Sometimes there can be triggers for them. Chocolate, red wine, cheese off the top of my head. I know that my mum's friend gets them with flashing lights (she can't supervise school socials, driving with the sun flicking through the trees). But also they can come on with no reason. Some people can get warnings that it's about to happen, but others don't.
If you do get warning that is good as it can give you a chance to prepare, ie head home if you know you're not going to be able to drive. If you're only just starting to get them now then it's worth talking to the doctor and getting some medication which may help with the pain.
My pet hate is people saying they have a migraine and they are happily chatting to you. If you've ever suffered a migraine you would know you are bed ridden for hours upon hours and many times more than one day.
I suffer from them but don't know what triggers them, haven't been able to figure that out yet. Know when I can tell it will be a migraine not just a headache I take three Nurofen, go into a darken too
And hope I can get to sleep before it gets any worse. Most of the time that will stop it becoming a full blown migraine.
Mine are triggered through stress and have no warning. I will start of with a headache and it will progress from there, my last one lasted 14days and I ended up in hospital twice (for just that episode). So i'm very sympathetic when someone says that have had a migraine. (Mine have been called both Chronic Migraines and/or Cluster headaches)
And Dr Oz did a show on headahces a while back... do a google search for "Dr Oz Migraines" and his advice will come up. xoxox
Mine are set off by tiredness and sometimes stress.
I get flashing lights, pressure behind one eye, then (usually all of a sudden) nearly complete loss of vision, sometimes ringing in my ears, always numbness in my hands and feet, and vomiting about half of the time. It'll go from a mild headache to all of this within about 5 minutes. Its horrible. I've been getting them since I was 12, so 7 years. My brother is 14 and just started getting the intense headaches and vomiting.
I have to lay in a completely dark room until its gone.
Luckily I haven't gotten one when I've been alone with DD. There's no way I could take care of her.
Mine are generally linked to my cycle, as well as tiredness and stress. I get warning thankfully so I can get home and get to bed. Mersynol is my drug of choice, but if I get cluster migraines then I need to get injections. I ended up being put on daily preventative medication after the birth of DD2 when I was getting them every two or three days.
Definitely try to get somewhere calm, quiet and dark as quickly as you can. Migraines seem to have no real commonality between all sufferers and different things aid different people. I need heat when I have/am getting a migraine - early on I will sit in a really hot shower with the water running over my back (not head - that would send me over the edge!). If its later into it then hot hand towels over the back of my neck and wrapped up over my temples ITMS. An old work colleague on the other hand needs cold and he usually has those freezer pad things to wrap around his head like a helmet.
Great that you're coming out the other side but continue to be careful what you do and what you eat/drink - if you are getting migraines triggered by caffeine, chocolate, alcohol etc if you indulge again too early you can bring your migraine back. Try to stay calm and quiet and just get as much sleep as you can.
my migranes are triggered by my hormones- before AF, after AF, before i ovulate and after I ovulated. Whilst breastfeeding i also get them when DS2 increases or decreases his feeds
that means when i could get them at least 4 times a month!!!! A day or 2 of migrane and then another day or 2 to recover- pretty terrible way to live hey
i also cant have orange juice or citrus fruits as well as they are big triggers as well
i get blinding pain in my head- so bad that no drugs relieve the pain. i cant see properly and i vomit sometimes uncontrollably.
for me the magic solution has been beta blockers
they have made a massive difference to my life and now instead of getting a migrane i just get a dirty big headache which is far better!!
if i know that they are coming on, there is nothing i can do but try and adjust my day to make it easier on myself
sometimes getting a massage helps, plenty of fluids
and believe it or not a drink of caffenine!! i dilutes the blood vessles and helps get the blood through to my head. also a heat pack on my neck and another heat pack on my head help increase the blood to my head as well which helps me
its really trial and error what works for you. have also tried natropathy, osteopathic treatment and TCM and got some relief whilst i kept the treatments up
hope they settle down for you
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A new found sympathy for migraine sufferers...
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