posted Wed, 07/17/2013 - 04:05
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So I just finished a 6 day migraine last night by taking a sumatriptan injection. Needless to say the past 6 days left me feeling worse than shit.
So my question to you guys is how many of you also experience migraines? Have you figured out what trigger yours? And howmdo you guys gonabout dealing with them?
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I get chronic headaches from arthritis in my neck and disc herniation real bad. I tried everything from acupuncture to cortisone injections and different meds. The only thing that has helped me is fioricet which is a barbituate but is non addictive that works real well. Check it out.
xub3rn00dlexI'll give it a look. How do barbituates react with steroids, if they do at all.?
tread-mOk so here is what I've learned about migraines over the yrs and the research has led me from getting several really bad ones a yr to one or two very mild ones a year. In fact so mild I'm almost 100% an hour after it begins through the research and trial and error.
So I had my first one when I was about 20 I guess and it freaked me out! I had the Aura many describe and it lasts about 20 minutes and progresses and then I can't see much for 10 minutes or so followed by the OMG migraine! Cripples you, can't move your eyes sometimes for a couple days sick to your stomache or throwing up just unreal and ruins you for a bit!
Well I began looking into what initiates them and there are many things but a couple that seem to be very common. One is a smell. So what I would do as I felt one coming on is try to think what smells were around as it happened. Often there were no flowers or food etc so I began to wonder if it was my cologne? Turns out in part it was. They decreased as I stopped using it and then I realized the underarm deoderant I was using was also made by the same company and stopped using anything made by mennen. Dramatic difference cut them by two thirds but still ahving some. Then I heard that a bright flash of light can do it. Such as a car turns in front of you and the sun glares on a chrome bumber and straight in your eyes. Well boom! Seemed everytime now that I had one that had happened to me in the last 5 minutes. So then I make it a point to wear dark sunglasses when out and my migraines rarely ever came. Now I can detect so good I know every single one I get is from exactly that, a bright light or glare but I've noticed another common denominator in that if I have clogged or slow sinuses it seems that is somewhat a predisposition. Meaning, when I get the glare followed by migraine, almost always I have slow sinuses.
Then later some more valuable information for me because after learning all I had, I would still get them on occassion. A pharmacist friend of mine had crippling migraines and cluster headaches and she told me once she had found a very effective way to control hers and wanted me to try so I did.
The very second I get the glare/Auro begij I take 2 aspirins. Then exactly 30 minutes later 600 mg inuprofin. BOOM! Now the headaches are near nothing even on the rare occassion I get them and I am actually nearly 100% within an hr or 2 compared to as you know, 24-72 hrs sometimes in the past!
Migraines after all I have learned for my specific case, no longer have any impact on my life...hope that helps someone else too!
xub3rn00dlexThat is interesting. Usually once I begin to feel the onset of a headache i take about 600-800mg ibuprofin, and if the headache is a normal one it'll go away within an hour. I'll have to give the combination method a try, next time i feel one coming. Thank you for the tip.
I have gotten them after a flash of light too. I also wear my sunglasses everywhere. But usually the light is just the final trigger, it is rare that I get one unless I am really stressing about something. It's like your brain revolts on you.
One trick I have found is at the very first sign of one (tingling/numb fingertips, a weird spot in vision, or just a really weird feeling) I will slam a redbull. If you can get the caffeine in you quick enough it seems to either get rid of or very much shorten the duration and severity of my migraines. But if you missed the window of opportunity you will just be wired up and unable to sleep (after puking your guts up) so that can suck.
I will have to give your way a shot Tread, knock on wood mine have been very infrequent lately.
I take aspirin daily and the past several times I've taken a good dose of ibuprofin (600-800mg) it actually gives me a damn headache. Not sure what's up with that...
I do believe in wearing my sunglasses and it does help me
I was wounded in the 90s and ever since than I get migraines at times that make any pain I have felt feel like nothing. I have to go to the VA and get Meperidine HCl injections. I hate that shit because it makes me foggy and not clear headed.
I don't not what initiate them and they are not that frequent but damn they can knock you on your ass!
Man that sucks. I know what you mean about not liking the meds. The last time I went to the ER they gave me Demerol and phenergan in my IV and I just kept puking. I literally thought I was about to die! They finally gave me some dilaudid before I stopped hurling
Yes me too brother! Same exact effects its like out of the frying pan and into the fire.
When they tried prescribing me them pills that melt under your tongue at the first sign of one always had me feeling really sketchy the next day or two. It's bad enough the day or two after getting a bad one being paranoid that another one is coming on ,lol
Yeah I use to live on those damn Maxalts. I think the taste made my head hurt worse, lol. Now they have generic Maxalt and its just a regular pill so it doesn't taste like shit
xub3rn00dlexYeah when they hit that's it, meds and naptime is all i can do, and the sleep is so damn restless too. Do you get them from food by any chance?
You know that could be it, 3 times I got them a couple days after a HALO jump from 36000ft. So I don't know if the drop plus the pressure has something to do with it but that is the only pattern I have recorded with any consistency. But yeah I can't even open my eyes they feel like they are going to explode right out of my skull lol!
If I get really stressed out about something it is almost a guarantee. I have not had one since starting on TestE back in March. Also my allergies and asthma disappeared as well. I still sneeze a little now but not anywhere near what I did before AAS. I really feel for you guys that get migraines for multiple days. I am fortunate mine are always less than 12 hours.. Knock on wood
xub3rn00dlexI don't think i've ever gotten one from purely stress, but i know for certain that when i coupled that with hunger i am pretty much fucked. My migraine this time started because i had no time to eat since 6am breakfast until around 8 at night thanks to a clusterfuck at work, and i guess i payed the price for it.
Allergies and bp have been the major triggers for me. I just started back taking allergy shots a couple weeks ago and I also started Micadis for bp. Since I've started I haven't had a migraine but its a little too early to tell. In the past I would get migraines weekly and suffer from minor headaches daily
xub3rn00dlexWow, i get minor headaches here and there but i get a migraine once every 3 months or so. I'm lucky not to have had it as bad as you i guess, but when it hits it's debilitating. And it's interesting that allergies give you headaches, as i also suffer from allergies but never considered it as a cause of a headache.
Here's an interesting article on the allergy/migraine connection..
http://www.achenet.org/resources/allergy_rhinitis_and_migraine_headache/
Yeah I've had to go to the ER several times from them. Ill just lay on the bathroom floor and puke for hours on end and get so fucking dehydrated that I have to go because I can't stop puking and I can't hold down water or Gatorade. There's been a couple of times that I've thought of suicide or asked my wife to shoot me but she hasn't done it yet, lol. The car ride to the ER is the worst and i have to make her pull over multiple times so i can hurl. Luckily, I haven't had one that bad in over a year
I take it you get the "aura" too. It is like your eyes have gone batty, the center of my vision is a blur which leads to puking and pain. Lucky I have only had one rise to that level in the last couple years.
Truthfully I didn't even know they were migraines until I was in my late 20's. I started getting them when I was 13 or so, I always thought it was something I ate. To this day I cannot stomach a bagel lol
I don't get it every time but I usually get a dull headache first and ill notice my saliva/mucous has a different consistency. Then I get extremely sensitive to sound, light, and scents
xub3rn00dlexThanks for the link bro, i've already contacted insurance about covering my allergy shot. Might as well take care of that being a possible cause. My headaches usually start one of two ways. A dull one in the back of the head is a normal maneagable one ( ibuprofen ) but the ones that start in the eye area are always migraines and take a big chunk out of me.
Yelp. They are for me too. Good luck homie
xub3rn00dlexThanks bro, i hope the new routine you're doing with the shots and BP med works out for you, keep me posted.