I tend to get the painless migraines – the optical ones where my vision gets progressively covered over by a slick of colour. I certainly feel less than well immediately after an attack, and if I’m out working, I turn tail and head for home. Definitely a fragile, other-worldly feeling. Folks who see me like that say my skin goes pale, and I look “grey”. Not a good scene. Usually okay the next day, though.
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All right, I’m going to go out on a limb - I’ve done poppers with strippers in Washington, D.C. and then again in Chicago.
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Oh, so you did them a couple of times with strippers and that makes you assume that I took a popper and that’s why I got a migraine? :rolleyes:
Again, just because you know something about a poster does NOT mean you get to interject that information into every thread they post, even ones completely unrelated such as this one.
To everyone else, thank you. I feel much better today.
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Yesterday I woke up with a bad headache that got much much worse when I tried to get up and moving. I ended up staying in my dark bedroom for approximately 22 hours, and slept for most of it. I had the light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, etc. all of the classic signs of a migraine.
The headache is gone today, but I feel very weird, like kinda dizzy and disoriented or something. This was only my second real migraine ever, and the last one was when I was 18, so I forget if I felt this way after that one. I feel so out of it that I don’t know if I’ll be able to go to work at 6:00 tonight.
So, migraine sufferers, do you feel weird the day after a migraine? If so, what symptoms do you experience?
Thanks in advance!
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That’s sounds exactly like what happens to me. Once I had a purely visual migraine and still had the next effects.
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Serious question, that you don’t have to answer: have you done amyl nitrate (poppers) recently? I know a lot of strippers get into using it to keep up during long shifts, and they can totally fuck with your blood pressure leading to migraine-like symptoms. Even worse, if most migraine medicines and amyl end up in your system at the same time, you could straight-up drop dead.
Be careful out there.
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Alternatively… many women get migraines around the time of their period.
Seems like a simpler explanation to me…
Yup, I’ve suffered from them since my early teens. Luckily over the years they’ve gotten much less frequent and after I had my son back in 91, they’ve gone to maybe once or twice a year instead of somewhere around 2 to 25 times a month (yes, as a teenager I could count on somewhere between 1 to 5 of them a week, sometimes one every single night by the time I got home from school)!
My mom was the same way, she had them frequently as a young teen, they disappeared almost entirely when she had me, and then came back after my little sister was born 4 and a half years later (IANAD, but I think I remember there being some correlation between the headaches and female hormone stuff). Now that she’s older, they’re pretty much gone.
I always felt sort of “washed out” like a pale paper version of myself with zero energy or ability to even halfway think straight. But that too has diminished as I’ve gotten older.
Another migraine and migraine hangover sufferer here. Not unusual at all in my experience.
I get opthalmic-only migraines, with hangover. The hangover includes fatigue and anxiety.
I think of as “the aftermath”, and I feel disconnected and dreamy. I sort of enjoy it, especially in comparison to how I felt during the migraine.
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I think of as “the aftermath”, and I feel disconnected and dreamy. I sort of enjoy it, especially in comparison to how I felt during the migraine.
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This is how I feel, too. It’s like a hangover, but more pleasant.
I’m so glad I found this page. My migraines have gotten worse since I started perimenopause and the fog the day after as well. I felt so alone with how I felt and trying to explain it to people I felt like they werd thinking I was lying. MIGRAINE HANGOVER, FUZZ, BLAHS, WHITE NOISE…SUCKS. I was laughing and crying reading everyone’s posts because here was how I was feeling!!! I’m not crazy! Well at least on this issue. Something I’ve found that has helped the fog is plenty of watr or Gaterade. I’M sorry we all have to deal with this. Take care!