When you’ve got a migraine

MacEntyre said:
One time I had a cluster headache... one migraine followed by another on t'other side! Horrible!
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I can only say I've had one headache I would call a migraine. It hit one night trying to cycle off a third shift rotation at about 11pm. I was awake until around 3-4 am, it was the only time I ever had racing thoughts of how to end it all. It may have been a migraine or worse but thankfully have never experienced it again.
 
I know a guy that gets cluster headaches and uses a pepper spray designed to knock it out. He says it’s about 5 seconds of intensity and then the headache is gone. If I remember correctly a Dr. discovered it during a self defense class or something like that. I don’t usually get headaches. It could be all the clean living, or the high volume of pepper intake. @fishgutzy you ever get headaches? With the evil crap you ingest I’m guessing your head is very clear.
 
CZfool68 said:
I know a guy that gets cluster headaches and uses a pepper spray designed to knock it out. He says it’s about 5 seconds of intensity and then the headache is gone. If I remember correctly a Dr. discovered it during a self defense class or something like that. I don’t usually get headaches. It could be all the clean living, or the high volume of pepper intake. @fishgutzy you ever get headaches? With the evil crap you ingest I’m guessing your head is very clear.
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Interestingly, capsicum (pepper) is known to have a number of medicinal properties, including pain relief.
 
georgel said:
Interestingly, capsicum (pepper) is known to have a number of medicinal properties, including pain relief.
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Being a natural vasodilator, Capsaicin cream is a treatment option for migraines.

I'm not surprised that pepper spray has the potential to knock out a migraine!
 
I just got back from Mars after taking Maxalt.

I dont think any of these Triptans work for me.
 
MacEntyre said:
I am sooo lucky that 30 years ago I discovered that a Goody's Powder or Excedrin taken as soon as I see the visual aura will prevent my headaches. I still get the run-over-by-a-truck feeling, but no headache.

Prayers sent for wifey!
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Same here. Goody’s and a 5-hour energy when I feel one coming. Sometimes stops it in its tracks. If it doesn’t, sleep it off afterwards. Usually good the next morning.

I once had one that lasted three days. My MD sister gave me a neck massage followed by very painful acupressure in a spot in my shoulder. When she did the acupressure, I could feel something draining out of my head down in my neck for as long as she held her finger jammed down into the top of my shoulder. An hour later, it was like I didn’t have one. Wish I knew that trick.

Edited to add…praying for your healing. Migraines suck.
 
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I am never far from a Goody Powder or a BC. They will flat stop a headache in its tracks.

My only gripe with them is their new packaging. My mom told me that my grand dad could open one of the folded ones with one hand. I'll take a post it note, fold it in half, then shake the packet in the fold and the take it like we use to. Some things weren't ment to changed and that's one of them.

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Bringing this one back... holey moley I had one yesterday that was one for the books. These things are getting out of control so far in 2022. I've been dealing with them my whole life but past couple years is a huge escalation.

My magic pills used to work maybe 20% of the time now its nada. Thinking of seeing a pain/headache specialist and a chiropractor soon.

The last two ive had were by far the worst, and they weren't just the usual pain and visual auras, these visuals were legit hallucinations.
 
i used to get migraines but they went away when I stopped working…
who would know that a PITA could cause a migraine?

They were debilitating. This worked for me —
one tablet of Excedrin migraine or extra strength at the first sign of a headache.
it is 500 mg of aspirin, 500 mg of acetaminophen, and caffeine

if I don’t have the Excedrin with me I go for the other stuff separately.
coffee with extra shots is the minimum….
 
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GeorgeBush said:
Bringing this one back... holey moley I had one yesterday that was one for the books. These things are getting out of control so far in 2022. I've been dealing with them my whole life but past couple years is a huge escalation.

My magic pills used to work maybe 20% of the time now its nada. Thinking of seeing a pain/headache specialist and a chiropractor soon.

The last two ive had were by far the worst, and they weren't just the usual pain and visual auras, these visuals were legit hallucinations.
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Hope you feel better soon brother.
 
man i hate migraines....i will get the blurred vision and i pop tylenol and grab some caffeine but it will still make me feel like i got hit by a truck the rest of the day....I only get them a few times a year...I cant imagine getting them multiple times a week...those that do get them and can still function as a halfway normal human have my upmost respect.

It is interesting trying to describe one to somone who has never had them....my dad started getting them for the first time a few years ago and said that he thought he was dying with the first one...until he described it to my sister and I and we laughed and said welcome to the club. He just got sinus surgery so maybe that will fix his up
 
I get migranes related to my TBI. Peppermint oil is good. I also use frankincense; I put a drop on my thumb and press it to the roof of my mouth. Usually helps within minutes. Make sure your brand of oil is safe for ingestion.
 
If you can get it these days, I have seen Tylenol with codeine knock out a migraine in my wife like nothing else. She went from lying on the couch and having light flashes to cleaning the house in less than hour. Of course now it seems like ancient history, but before the covid crisis, we had the opioid crisis that made every quack out there paranoid to prescribe it. You may still be able to get it from a foreign pharmacy. Don't know if you still can, but you used to be able to get it OTC in Canada but you had to show them your ID and sign for it.
 
My oldest brother suffers from migraines. Most of my headaches are tension related, however, sometimes I get headaches which aren't due to tension. I've been told they're migraines, but they certainly don't hit me like they do my brother. They've never been bad enough, or frequent enough, to warrant a trip to the doctor for any kind of official diagnosis.

When I get them, the ONLY way I can get rid of them is to eat something, take some Motrin or Tylenol, then take a nap for a while. In a darkened room. If I don't do this, they absolutely will NOT go away.

I don't get them often...but I long ago figured out one thing that will trigger them: red wine and wine coolers (the wine coolers don't have to be red). Even a partial glass will bring it on...and if I drink more, it gets much more worse. So I stay away from those. I think it's the nitrates in them, but I can't confirm it. And I don't seem to get any headaches from other food sources that may have nitrates in them. Whatever...I still stay away from them.


@georgel mentioned capsaicin cream. My oldest brother's wife was a nurse who worked with a doctor when he lead the capsaicin research into pain treatment, including migraines. I remember her telling me about it a few decades ago (man, has it been that long now?). I found it hard to believe the stuff that fries your tongue and sets your (checks forum I'm posting in) anal orifice on fire could be used for pain treatment would actually work as a pain killer, but it's very much true. Topical (and even other applications) work for a wide variety of pain issues. I've never tried it myself, as my own methods described above seem to deal with my headaches whenever I get them.
 
So my appointment this morning was interesting... the new theory is certain muscles in my neck are clamping down on certain nerves.

Just went to the pharmacy for... five new medications? Uhhh... nice knowin' you fellas.
 
Just be glad it isn't Menieres. It's like nuclear powered vertigo that brings on migraines and other symptoms. About 30% of confirmed cases don't respond to noninvasive techniques. One technique is to clip the nerves to the inner ear. If course that leaves you deaf in that ear but it's not always successful. Patients with that category are at much higher risk for suicide than deal with sudden intense vertigo, nausea and migraines.
 
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