Migraine headaches . . sm
Posted By: Feeling bad today on 2007-09-07
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I am in menopause and am still getting the headaches, same type, that I got with my menses most months. My sister and mother had the same thing. Does anyone experience the same type headache, and how do you deal with it? I know even before my eyes are open in the morning that I have it, and it can last for one day or as long as several days. The only thing that seems to really relieve it other than a prescription drug, which I have so many adverse side effects with, is caffeine. . lots of caffeine and an extra strength Tylenol, etc. Thank you in advance for sharing. I think I just need some company on this issue today. 
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Sounds like a migraine....
I am not a physician, but I transcribe quite a bit of neurology work that specialize in migraines. I wonder if you should see an ophthalmologist... I hope you feel better, as I know this can be very distracting. I've had floater migraines in the past, but usually the floaters disappear, but then the headache comes. It is usually due to stress. I also purchased an LCD screen. How old is your monitor? The new screen seemed to help tremendously. Also, I had to get glasses due to a stigmatism, that is not unusual, but the glasses helped as well. Good luck to you!!
Sinusitis and migraine
Is there any hope for a person who has both chronic sinusitis (on one side of the head/face) and migraine (on the other)? I have both and get the pains alternating about once a month and nothing seems to work. Using hair color especially seems to exacerbate the sinusitis but how else do I cover up those grays? Staring at the computer all day brings on the migraine once a month, which lasts for 3 days (and nights ). No medication seems to help. Tried them all. Especially once the migraine starts, NOTHING works, have to take something before it does, or I'm sunk, and it has this uncanny habit of creeping on unannounced.
Six-year-old with a migraine (sm)
I need some advice. My six-year-old daughter woke up this morning with a headache and complaints of her stomach hurting. I kept her home from school because she said she was starting to feel worse. I have given her two doses of Children's Tylenol Meltaways, but she says her head still hurts. I'm thinking it might be a migraine headache because she actually wanted the TV turned off (because of the noise)! We just turned it down instead.
Anyone have any advice on how I can help her to feel better? Or does she just have to suffer through this. Don't you just feel so bad when you're little ones are sick? 
Migraine question....
My son is an hour and a half away at college; I got a call from him a couple of hours ago saying he was feeling nauseated, had numbness in his left hand, and numbness in his cheek with blurring of his vision, etc. Earlier he was playing soccer and head butting the ball............. I have migraines but have never had numbness in my hands or fingers..........he went to the ER and they did a CT but radiologist read it as normal and the nurse practitioner said he was probably having an unusual manifestation of a migraine, wanted to give him Nubain and Phenergan and send him back to his apt. I'm really concerned because he said he was feeling much better, which I have never gotten over a migraine in a couple of hours and I'm wondering why the NP would give him those drugs to knock him out when she herself said they could not rule out a head injury............I told him I would feel better if he did NOT take those drugs but stayed with a friend up there tonight.
Would I be wrong in thinking this way? I'm concerned he does have a head injury from butting the soccer ball with his head, which is way too common with soccer players anyway....
Yes, I could take Imitrex after a migraine had already started. (sm)
That was the beauty of it, (at least for me - everyone is different). The other thing that was nice about Imitrex was that I could still remain active while it was working... didn't have to go lie down in a dark cave, or anything. I've been able to abort many, nearly full-blown migraines while continuing to drive, ski in bright sunlight, hike, watch a concert, etc.
I was fortunate and had no side-effects from Imitrex at all. (Actually, I don't have side-effects with my SSRI, either.)
It did take a while to work, usually 50-90 min. in the beginning (still, that beats 3 days in bed!) As time went by, it seemed to work faster - sometimes in as little as 20 min. But maybe the differences in headache strength, duration, circumstances, etc. caused the variations. Fiorinal used to work, but gradually lost it's effectiveness. Also it's a narcotic, isn't it? Anyway, it spaced me out a little bit (who cares, if it gets rid of the pain!), and it was hard to get sometimes, especially if the frequency of use started to go up.
The nice thing about finding a drug that helps is that oddly, JUST KNOWING that I had a tablet with me, no matter where I went or what I was doing, actually seemed to cut down on my fear and anxiety about the migraines, and I actually had fewer of them as long as I had my Imitrex with me! There are other, similar drugs now - Zomig is one I can think of (though it doesn't work as well for me.) Even some you spray up your nose. So if one doesn't work, it's worth it to try others.
One thing about taking the Sudafed & Excedrin at the first sign of a migraine, was that if after about an hour, if it still wasn't better and I felt I needed to take Imitrex, the Imitrex seemed to work better and faster. Sort of like it had been "jump-started" by the earlier use of Sudafed & Excedrin. Of course, I also drank a lot of milk or ate some food with it, to keep my tummy happy.
I hear you on missing 3 days of work. I had problems at one job because my headaches always seemed to come on a Monday, and that obviously looked a little fishy. At the time I had no meds that worked. I got my doctor to write me a letter saying he was working on the problem. He also mentioned that the migraines could be rated as a true disability, and if so, the employer had to take all reasonable steps to accommodate that disability. (Which they eventually did).
I think I, too had a hormonal thing contributing to them, because after my hysterectomy they tapered off a bit.
I agree with you about the fear-psychosis thing... I swear that sometimes I could bring on a migraine simply by TALKING about them with someone! But again, having that little magic trick up my sleeve (i.e., Imitrex) made the fear go away.
Nope, thankfully I have never had a migraine.
I am 41 so I'm thinking that hormones are playing a role. I'm trying to approach this logically. It's the fact that it comes out of nowhere and does NOT last for days and days that is intriguing to me. It's just so foreign to my personality. Since it is so short-lived, I don't know that any antidepressant would be necessary.
Thanks for your input.
Could it be some sort of abdominal migraine?
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