I didn’t sleep well last night, I don’t know why. Maybe it was the heat, maybe it was the sound of the fan.
I woke up, had breakfast, and turned on the computer.
Whil reading Opal’s new zit thread, my eyesight started going funny.
I haven’t had a migraine for a few weeks now. I thought I was over them for at least half a year.
sigh it sure makes reading SDMB difficult.
sux don’t it?
Those little bastards sneak up when you least expect it. Take an advil, (and a few tylenol threes if you feel like it 
) and go to sleep. By the time you wake up the worst should be over. Other than that theres little you can do. Good luck.
Wearia
See a doctor. Ttere are many meds you can take for migraines. I used to get them often, about 7 years ago. I was first put on Fiorinal, for the pain (which worked fantastically), then Inderal, a beta-blocker, which caused me to be a total zombie.
Apperntly, there’s a new med thath you can sniff to stop a migraine.
In any case, I’ve had nasty bouts of cluster headaches since I was 13 (do a Google search), but for some reason, being on an AD has always corretced them. I havne’t had one in three years, Still, than pain is hard to describe. It’s like someone’s shoved a pole through your eye out the back if your head. You can’t do anything but crawl around and beat your head on various surfaces, like the sink.
Good luck.
That’s Imitrex. It’s also available in pill and auto-injection form. I’ve tried both the pill and nasal spray, but I usually threw up both (side effect of the migraine), plus the nasal spray leaves a horrible metallic/chemical-y aftertaste in your mouth, which also makes me throw up.
I now use the auto-injection form. I’m a BIG wimp about needles, but it’s actually quite easy to use. You hold the thing against your thigh, push the button and it’s done.
Hurts a little, but it works great at making a migraine go away.
DH, who suffers from cluster migraine headaches, has been successfully treating his for years with Sansert as a preventative (taken only when the cluster is active). If a migraine breaks through, Imitrex and Zomig go a long way toward easing the headache without narcotics (no drug hangover).
This course of treatment has changed not just his life, but improved our family life as well. We no longer have to take the migraines into consideration when planning events. He also no longer misses work!
Thanks to the powers that be for the miracle of these relatively new medications.
My grandmother and brother have these so bad that they have to get some sort of shots for them
Can kids get these ? My brother used ot cry for hours on end when he was a baby and they now think he had them when he was a toddler
He used to get violent when he had them … to the point of banging his head on the wall so it wouldnt hurt
Now he just gets a shot and the next day hes fine
Zomig fan here, the quick dissolve ones take like baby aspirin. Of course, pregnant women can’t take those, so the last doozy I had, I went to the emergency room for morphine.
You have my sympathies, I know exactly what you are going through!
I get them once in a blue moon. The last one I got was in January, at work. Fortunately, I was still able to get a call in to the OB (one of my side effects is slurred speech), who told me that the triptan drugs (i.e. Imitrex and Zomig) were out, but that Sudafed might help. So, I popped a Sudafed and two Extra Strength Tylenol, and that helped vastly. I still had to wait for the aura to disappear, and I was still pretty light-sensitive for the rest of the day, but the Sudafed probably helped abort the pain.
Mine appear to be allergen-related, but there is really nothing I can do about it, since there are no good antihistamines that work with mold allergy.
Robin
I would assume that’s the auto-injection Imitrex that I mentioned. Or if they’re going to the ER, it could be a shot of Demerol.
Yes, kids can get them. I can remember getting bad headaches as a child and my mother telling me that kids didn’t get headaches. :rolleyes: Thanks, Mom, I love you, too.
I would go to the nurse’s office in school and throw up, sleep for awhile, and then feel better and go back to class.
They got progressively worse as I got older.
In junior high and high school, I carried around my own bottle of aspirin, which of course nowadays would get me expelled.
After my first child was born, they became excruciating.
I now take Topamax everyday, as a preventative, which seems to be working quite well. It’s an epilepsy drug, and it works on the electrical impulses in the brain. Use for preventing migraines is still new.
I tried the beta blockers and calcium channel blockers (Atenolol, Verapamil), but they made my blood pressure so low I was like a zombie.
I use the injection form of Imitrex for when I get migraines. My MF’ing insurance company won’t cover that form of it; only the pills and nasal spray. I throw up when I get migraines, so I just barf back up the pills, and the nasal spray drips down my throat and tastes so bad is makes me barf, too, so the injection form is all I can use. It’s quite pricey…$140 for 2 doses. :eek:
I am working to force them to cover it, but no luck so far.
Thanks for the advice, everyone.
Unfortunately, I’m a. pregnant, and b. in Japan, so there is a limit to what I can take and do.
I already had some meds from my ob/gyn, which worked pretty good actually. At least I didn’t need to go to bed for the day.
Its just scary when you don’t know when to expect the next one.
Interesting. I woke up last night a midnight with a migrane. The usual stuff didn’t work so I called an all night pharmacy and wound up taking about 150mg of Codene. Can you say Stoned, becasue I was! 
Try to take it easy. Sometimes a well placed ice-pack can do a world of good. 