Do You Suffer From Migraines?

I have been dealing with migraines for almost 7-8 years, cause i did not know it was migraine not after 2 years when i went to another doctors. My migraine is Blood vessel migraine. My key is the Migraine Aura, this is a signal i am approaching a migraine attack. if i am at work i would take the tylenol migriane 2 caps, so it does not continue anymore, but that was only temporary relief, my idea was treatment. hot and cold water bath w/c i learned from some chinese internet site. SO, three pail of water, 1 hot the other cold as ice. optional 3rd pail with normal temperature for actual bath. i did this for some time, weeks.. i pour around a pitcher of hot water over my head then alternate cold water. this was supposed to relieve pain and it did so i continue for a few more days and its like i felt being comfortable with it, i actually made it as a routine, now i dont take my medicines anymore. but i am not 100% cured though, i had 2-3 attacks last august but thats it. I WANT YOU TO TRY THIS METHOD,, just to show you how bad my migriane attacks are. Its like you can hear an ant, like there a helicopter hoovering just above you, i would mess up the house, and ,my eyes they just voluntarily cry due to intense pressure in my head. I was begging my dear Lord, come and get me know. and then i always passed out when i could not endure more pain and i would wake up around 2-4 hours and i could feel my head numb. bUT WITH THIS METHOD THE PAIN IS NOW MORE BEARABLE.

I've had migraines since I was 11 yrs old, and while part of the causes are my food allergies, but stress and certain types of buildings. I've had a lot fewer migraines since I retired

I get migraines every time I have my period except this time when it was very light and only flowed for about a day and a half. In 2005, when I had my TIA event which is what they call a near stroke I was getting migraines all the time. I'm glad that's over now because it was almost unbearable, and I have a pretty good pain tolerance.

Since being diagnosed and on medication for hypertension I don't have them as often as I did. I still get the chocolate migraines though, so I don't eat much of that. The worst part about migraines is the nausea. I found that when I do get one the best thing for me is to take 1 five hundred ml Tylenol with 2 two hundred ml ibuprofen or I take 800 ml of the ibuprofen. Then I get in the tub as hot as I can handle it. I found it helps calm down the nausea.

Hi Tina...I feel you coz I have been suffering migraines for almost 15 years now... The worst was years ago when there are only 2 days in a week that i could get up from bed.it was summer.. my migraines are triggered by sudden weather change..lack of sleep and most often stress... i do take migraine medications though (ergots)... but i can sometimes relieve them with a combination of acetaminophen and ibuprofen and black coffee..

My mother still has migraines whom i still truly love. I don't live with her anymore but when i was a child, my mother use to get really frustrated when a migraine came. Sometimes she yelled and screamed for no apparent reason. She gets very temperamental when she gets one. She usually takes a pill i think. I am not sure what medication she takes or when she takes it. I am sure she takes it every night before going to sleep. I surely wish he migraine goes away after these 15 years.

Sometimes I do suffer from Migraines, not that often but it is very uncomfortable. I usually take an asprin, if you have them quite often maybe you should see a doctor.

I feel so lucky that I don't get them.....my youngest sister does. She is on meds for them though. I hardly get a headache. Since I quit drinking coffee and replaced it with drinking more water I have had sinus pressure but not a real headache.....hope your's disappear soon. A gal I work with after the change no longer has them....good luck!

I have been fortunate enough to never have had migraines...only regular headaches!!! My aunt used to suffer terribly a minimum of 4 days a week including throwing up. This was probably 25 years ago. There was a book her doctor recommended to her called The Yeast Connection After reading the book she began making changes in the way she cleaned her house & the food she ate. She would take foods she ate frequently & not touch it for a week. Then she'd add it back if she hadn't had a migraine while not eating it. If she had a migraine after adding it back, she'd not eat it for 2 weeks. Then adding it back to see if she got a migraine. This took a while for her to weed out the foods she was eating that triggered her migraines. Eventually, she did figure it out & she no longer has migraines. She also found several locations in her home where mold was prevalent & she cleaned that up as well. She thinks it was particular foods she was eating (or combination thereof). Today she is migraine free. I forget which foods she had to stop eating. I do remember a few were her favorites, but she decided they weren't favorite enough to put up with migraines!!!

Yes I do but very infrequently. The most I seem to get is about one or two a year, sometimes more sometimes less, but you do have my sympathy if you have them frequently. I find the best thing to do is when it first starts before it gets full-blown is to go lay down in a dark room with no stimulation and wait for it to pass which it will usually do in about an hour. If I do not and try and fight it seems to last about a half a day so I gain nothing. I understand some people like yourself can have migraines for days at a time which must be very debilitating.

I don't really have migraines that often. I rarely have migraines. They sure do feel painful. My head throbs and hurts. I don't really know how to stop it. I just wait a few moments and let it stop by itself. I don't know if taking Tylenol would help. I do get headaches sometimes too.

Hi there! for 12 years now and I can say that it's getting worse than before. Some of my attack lasted for two to three days and I definitely cannot word when I'm having it. For me, one thing that trigger it is exposure to sunlight. I really hate going out if the sun is bright for surely I will have an attack 100%. It it's too hot, the first indication is the throbbing in one eye and getting an aura before the ful blown migraine. I want to stay in a room without that is totally dark and airconditioning on. Also, red beans and shrimp contribute on my migraine attact that is why as much as possible, I avoid these foods. I already requested for a CT scan as sometimes I cannot bear the pain but the result shows normal. We've been consulting a neurosurgeon recently and I am now on a regular medication of nortriptylene and propanolol for months already. I am having zomig tablet once I am having the attack as normal paracetamol will not take away the pain. Hopefully all these medications treat this chronic migraine of mine as it is definitely affecting my work and lifestyle from day 1 of the attack.

I have to say that i get stress migraines sometimes and not even painkillers stop them most of the time. I know what you go through. Mine can be partly due to eyesight as well and the shapes of the eyes.

I also suffer from migraines and it can be a debilitating ailment. I have a bad eyesight, and Im thinking it can be related especially if Im on the computer for too long. My work requires me to be online pretty much 14 hours a day so I guess this triggers it. I usually just rest and get a nap if it strikes or it its really bad, I pop in Advil and goes away. But then again recurring migraine maybe a symptom of something else so if you can, a visit to the doctor would be advisable.

I too suffer from migraine and it can really ruin my day. I haven't reached that stage yet that I have to go to a doctor. I just take some pain killers OTC and the pain is relieved after a short time of resting. I understand that there are many forms and causes of migraines and it would good to identify them for better treatment. enjoy life tina!

I really do not think I have ever had a migraine before. I have had a really bad headache that was close to it though. It may have been a migraine. I feel so sorry for those of you who have them. I know alot of people who cannot even get out of bed because of them at times.

When I am under migraine attack, I will withdraw to my room and keep the room at pitch dark. In an hour or so the migraine will subside. Chocolate is another culprit that often cause my migraine. So I try to limit taking chocolates.

Hey Tina! I am so sorry to hear that you are having migranes. I suffer from them too! But, I honestly haven't had one in a very long time. I am on a medication called Tompamax. It was given to me for depression, but is also a medication for migranes and seizures. My girlfriend's daugter was given it for migranes and it is working for her. I haven't had a migrane since I have been on this medication. It is incredible! It calms me down so I don't have "anger issues" and I no longer have migranes either and neither does my friend's.

I have been fortunate and not suffered from a migraine in years. My sister still gets them usually twice a month when she ovulates and two weeks later when she gets her period. She has not found any medication that will work long term and she is now considering acupuncture which a friend of hers swears by. Her migraines have been so bad that she had to go to a doctor and have an injection to ease the pain; they make her sick as well so my poor sister is well only two week out of every month! I will let you know if the acupuncture is successful.

I've suffered through migraines a lot throughout childhood and as an adult it has fully weaned off to a point I don't even get them and that's a blessing. I don't know how it happened but a lot of what triggered it was stress and I am a firm believer that you can control that part of life just to be in a better position of receiving fewer and fewer attacks. Migraines are no joke.