Anyone else suffering from migraines right now?

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by 666DanceParty

I find the best thing for it comes in the form of a plant and you don't even need a prescription for it. You just have to know someone.

Well hook a brother up.

I get migraines when the pressure changes or if I get very little sleep within a 2-3 day period.

[Thor]

Reading this thread reminds me how many people mistake bad headaches from actual migranes.

Migranes will destroy you, put you into a fetal position, make a pin drop sound like a jet engine, and if your lucky take only 1-2 days from your life.

I also have a friend of mine whom suffers cluster headaches, which causes a very high suicide rate amongst sufferers.

But anyhow, migrane folks, includes loss of sight, extreme sensitivity to light, sound... Also usually causes extreme nausea and if not caught before it begins, is about the worst 3-8 hours of your life, where you actually wish you were dead.

Anyhow thats just my take, I hear people claim they have migranes all the time, when they have no clue what a real migrane is like.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Thor

Reading this thread reminds me how many people mistake bad headaches from actual migranes.

Migranes will destroy you, put you into a fetal position, make a pin drop sound like a jet engine, and if your lucky take only 1-2 days from your life.

I also have a friend of mine whom suffers cluster headaches, which causes a very high suicide rate amongst sufferers.

But anyhow, migrane folks, includes loss of sight, extreme sensitivity to light, sound... Also usually causes extreme nausea and if not caught before it begins, is about the worst 3-8 hours of your life, where you actually wish you were dead.

Anyhow thats just my take, I hear people claim they have migranes all the time, when they have no clue what a real migrane is like.

Mine are definitely migraines, it runs in my moms side of the family and whenever there is a big change in weather myself, my mother, and my sister are all in bed incapacitated (not together). Really sucks!!!

[CGYTransplant]

Yes. Mine are usually related to pressure changes.....and Calgary just happens to be barometric hell.

[peter12]

I don't get migraines but I'm basically crippled by overwhelming fatigue during the month of December.

[stampsx2]

Lights and pin drops sounding like jet engines for sure and also if the pain is so bad you can't even stand up straight and feel like puking then it's a migraine. Other than sunglasses if anybody has any prevention techniques that they know works please post.

[TheU]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

Lights and pin drops sounding like jet engines for sure and also if the pain is so bad you can't even stand up straight and feel like puking then it's a migraine. Other than sunglasses if anybody has any prevention techniques that they know works please post.

Once I get a migraine, one way I can settle it down is with caffeine and advil

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Thor

Reading this thread reminds me how many people mistake bad headaches from actual migranes.

Migranes will destroy you, put you into a fetal position, make a pin drop sound like a jet engine, and if your lucky take only 1-2 days from your life.

I also have a friend of mine whom suffers cluster headaches, which causes a very high suicide rate amongst sufferers.

But anyhow, migrane folks, includes loss of sight, extreme sensitivity to light, sound... Also usually causes extreme nausea and if not caught before it begins, is about the worst 3-8 hours of your life, where you actually wish you were dead.

Anyhow thats just my take, I hear people claim they have migranes all the time, when they have no clue what a real migrane is like.

I have only had one migraine in my life and I had to lock myself in a dark room and couldn't leave for several hours. I was really luck it only lasted a night. I could not imagine how people could live with them constantly.

[Flames0910]

Originally Posted by Thor

Reading this thread reminds me how many people mistake bad headaches from actual migranes.

Migranes will destroy you, put you into a fetal position, make a pin drop sound like a jet engine, and if your lucky take only 1-2 days from your life.

I also have a friend of mine whom suffers cluster headaches, which causes a very high suicide rate amongst sufferers.

But anyhow, migrane folks, includes loss of sight, extreme sensitivity to light, sound... Also usually causes extreme nausea and if not caught before it begins, is about the worst 3-8 hours of your life, where you actually wish you were dead.

Anyhow thats just my take, I hear people claim they have migranes all the time, when they have no clue what a real migrane is like.

this is so true.
my friends once gave me the gears for not going to class once and they could not understand what a migraine entails. i think they made the common mistake of assuming that migraine and headache are synonyms. they're not. i was really ticked at them that day but couldn't really do anything but curl in a ball of hellish pain.
it's pretty hard to imagine though. i basically describe it as having no option but curling up under your covers for 5+ hours wishing you were dead and cringing at any sound. so of course my friends watched a movie in the other room and talked loudly throughout...

i remember the first migraine i got i was looking at the computer screen and all of a sudden i couldn't really read it anymore. my vision was swirling. i asked my dad and he sighed and told me to close my eyes. asked if i saw bright swirling dots and sure enough, i did. he basically told me to brace for it, that in 20 mins i'd be knocked flat. i didn't really totally believe him and went back to computering...sure enough though it didn't taken long before i was enjoying my first migraine. oddly enough, i get them but my identical twin brother does not.
also got one at the doctor's office after being stressed and running about then finally calming down. he said that happens often because you're blood vessels tighten then open up rapidly(or the other way around, i can't really remember, i had a migraine, remember?)

i got one once on a job site doing physical labour in the summer and my boss said he could tell there was something obviously wrong with me as my face was pure white. the guy was a complete dbag but at least in that regard he had a rare moment of clarity and sent me home.

^^also jolinar, bang on. i really don't get them that often but when I do it is a living hell. my dad gets them more often. when he was a kid apparently they brought him, puking, to his knees.

[Flamesoholic]

I get migraines too but haven't had one for about 2 years now (thank God). I started getting them when I was in junior high. My first one was an absolutely brutal experience. I was sitting in class and then all of a sudden my vision went crazy. I could only see parts of what I should be seeing. It was like someone had put big black polka dots in front of my eyes or something. I could see part of my friends face beside me but part of her face was blacked out. Everything was like that. I grab her arm and I say "I can't see. There's black spots everywhere." She doesn't believe me at all.
I tell my teacher that I need to go to see the nurse but I didn't think I could go on my own. She doesn't believe me either. She lets me go but makes me go alone. I had to walk through the hallways holding on to the walls and lockers so I didn't walk into anything.
While I'm in the nurse's office, I start smelling oranges. She finally lets me go home and by then I'm still partially blind, smelling oranges everywhere and then the pain starts. I'm on the bus and suddenly my head feels like something is trying to rip my eyes out of my head from the inside out.

When I finally get home I get treated to hours of the most hellishly painful experience ever, even breathing hurt. Thank God I don't get those very often, but since then I can't smell oranges without feeling sick.

[T@T]

Man, I feel sorry for people with migraine's, I get all sukey with a little hangover headache and I only get about 2 of those a year out of about 30 piss-ups.

Isn't there drugs available to get rid of those things? (and no I don't mean narcotics)

[psicodude]

My wife suffers from hardcore migraines, and these past few weeks have been awful. About a year ago, however, our family doctor prescribed a new drug for her to try called Amerge. This drug has proven to be the miracle we have been looking for, and I suggest that anyone that suffers from migraines should check it out. One catch though...it is almost $20 per pill if you don't have a drug plan.

http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/drug...d_name_id=1117

[Thor]

Any of you use Immotrex? I find that works great for me, screws you though, my mind is in a haze for 4-5 hours but it beats the migraine any day.

[badnarik]

Maxalt works well too

[Thor]

Ugh what a night, wake up at about 1am with a brutal migraine, of course I'm out of my immotrex and can't find even a Tylenol.

Spent the last 6 1/2 hours in the fetal position and finally was in half tolerable state to drive to 7/11 and get some Tylenol.

Its so funny how after that suffering when you start to feel slightly better like I am slowly now doing, you feel almost euphoric from just not being in so much pain.

Well so there goes my day, off to try to get some sleep!

[jschick88]

I suffer from migraines all of the time. I have been living in Calgary for about 6 years now and those damn chinooks kill me. I combat it with 3 advil 400's. Usually does the trick.