Migraines

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Does anybody here regularly have migraines? I used to have some really painful migraines quite regularly when I was a kid. Right now, i have just taken aspirin for a really bad headache, but I don't seem to get them as much now..

At about 10 or so, I got headaches ONLY if I concentrated VERY hard! I can't even concentrate that had anymore, and I stopped trying like 12 or so I guess. I never got a real headache until about 18 or so, and I found that because of a lack of vitamin B and magnesium. You can try those. If you take too much vitamin B, your urine will simply be more yellow, and you can back off. Too much magnesium can give diarea, and you can back off. In either case, you can take WELL above the RDA and not even get the symptoms I described.

BTW headaches caused by EITHER will be exascerbated by stress, dehydration, sickness, exercise, etc... That is because they will cause you to lose wate(vitamin B is water soluable) and/or have your need increase(They are used for immunity and cell repair as well).

Steve

I had migraines for 20 years for reasons I'm pretty sure mine are different than yours. I was producing almost no Estrogen. A gyno finally figured it out after doctors had given me all kinds of bizarre drugs for years. My Gyno gave me Estrogen and they were gone. They never came back. I think many different things can cause them. I think we're safe to say that my AS was not reponsible.

Now I will get a horrible cluster migraine if I get extremely angry. Fortunately, that is very rare. Those are terrible.

Last edited by ZanneMarie on 18 Feb 2007, 5:59 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I get 2 different types of migraines...
1. Sinus related migraines - pollen, dust, and mold are the most common causes for my sinus related migraines
2. Menstrul migraines - I get these with my cycle.

If I take meds while I'm still in the aura phase, I can prevent the full onset of the migraine. But, if somehow i miss the aura I'll be down for days.
If I start seeing bright sparkly lights or if I start to smell nail polish remover (without a clear source) then I take my pain-relievers right away.

I take excedrin for them. When I last visited a doctor she says I should take migrane medication.

I get them on occasion, often if it's humid, or too little sleep, more than a glass of red wine, or my cycle. I had to switch brands of birth control pills, to one that doesn't trigger migraines. For me, right now Excedrine Migraine works, especially if I take it with a caffeinated drink, usually a nondiet soda. If they get to the point where that doesn't work, I'm going to my doctor for a prescription migraine medication. What works is if I take the Excedrine right when I get the aura, it seems to lessen the severity of the migraine.

i was having regular migraines the last few months and following a hunch (i was allergic to milk as a child but hed since re-introduced it to my diet) so i cut out all dairy again and not only have the migraines gone, but i am less foggy thinking and feel more allert and generally healthy.

so it's worth checking out the allergy angle.

i get stress related migraines and have these magical pills i take for when i get them... forget name- beings with an "I"

i never used to know that's what migraines were... but i started getting headaches that would last for 3-5 days. i tried every over the counter drug there was out there and none worked. went to see a doc got these pills and magically my migraine goes away within 2-3 hours of taking the pill.

the doc did also tell me to use excedrin migraine pills... which i had tried before with no effect I (i told the doctor)... but he told me that i should probably take more than the recommended dose (which is all i ever did) so now, if i feel a migraine coming, i pop 3 excedrin pills to see if that helps before taking my perscription migraine pills cause they cost like $60 for 3 of em...

becareful though with the excderin cause taking a lot of any kind of those pills isn't good for you... whihc is why i never tried taking 3 at once until the doctor told me to do so.

migraines are really painful though and are caused by some sort of chemical imbalance that can be stress/allergy-related... from the environment or your food or as some women know... due to wrong amounts of chemicals at certain times of the month.

Do you take Imitrex?

Exedrin Migraine didn't do a thing to my migraines, but it did keep me up all night. Imitrex worked for me for 2-3 hours and then they were back. So, I would get six hours of relief and heart palpitations, all for the low, low price of $150 because my insurance would only cover three doses (intranasal, pill or shots). Then, I was given Stadol nasal spray which is synthetic opiate (also used for anesthesia). I still had them althought I was hallucinating so I didn't really care whether I had them (something I think is the object of most medicines, make them not care whether it cures them or not). I would get enough Stadol to make it through my migraines before I needed another refill, but the stuff is highly addictive, I couldn't function at all while I took it (hallucinations and I couldn't get the coordination to walk) and it had this great little side effect called cessation of breathing. NICE. Pharmacist told me that, not the doctor. Oh, and I had to have my doctor's home address at the pharmacy because it's a controlled substance.


The only thing I ever found to get rid of them (I'm allergic to Demerol, Percodan and Codeine), was Darvon. I took that for years when I was a kid and it worked for me. Now, you'd be lucky to find a doctor to give it to you. Instead they gave me the Stadol. Just think of the irony of that! I never hallucinated on Darvon!



After all that, all they had to give me was Estrogen since I didn't make my own. So all of those painkillers were useless. There's a certain irony to that. This may be why I really am not too keen on going to the doctor for a diagnosis of AS. I'd probably come out of it catatonic.

The really nasty thing is women NEED estrogen. One side effect of too little is bone loss. You had periods and all? I thought you needed estrogen for all that.

I'm glad they found the problem!

Steve

Well not anymore I don't! It caused me to get fibroids so they took the whole mess out and put me on Estrogen. Progestrin is actually what sets off the PMS, period crap. Estrogen is the one that stops it. That is my ten year old understanding of it. I was on a high dose Estrogen birth control pill for years and no migraines. When I stopped, migraines back. That's how the Gyno figured out what had caused them. But, by then, I had the other problem.

Anyway, I'm sure that wasn't caused by my AS! LOL It's the one thing my poor brain will not get blamed for.

I had terrible migraines throughout my childhood, many to point of screaming. The intensity and frequency lessened once I left school, and now I only get them maybe once or twice a year. I truly believe florescent lighting had something to do with it...

yeah think that's it. sounds right




oh and the excedrin thing only works about 50% of the time for me... it's a crap shot... but it only takes like an hour to figure out if they're gonna work then i spend another 2-3 hours waiting on my mgic pills...

but i still think trying the excedrin is worth it... cause like i said... $60 bucks for three pills WITH insurance. i can wait an hour to see if the $5 bottle of excedrin will help.

Excedrin doesn't ALWAYS work for me... maybe I should look into the stuff.

My son is 11 and has been fighting migraines for awhile now. He was getting about 5 a week and vomiting due to the migraine. He had to wait 8 months before getting into a neuro at a children's hospital. He now has about 9 monthly. He takes medication everyday which includes : Nortriptylin, B-2, Co-Q10, Mag. and feverfew. He also takes Imitrex and phenergen at onset of migriane.