I have a killer migraine at the moment; I’m waiting for my Darling Marcie to return with my prescription codeine based pills; if my last few posts have been snarky, that’s the reason and I ask your pardon.
This is one of those where I wish I could be transported to whatever waits beyond.
Be well.
Migraines suck worse than just about anything.
I hope you feel better soon.
Robin
“That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.” Joan Didion
Hang in there, LouisB, help is coming and it will pass.
That quote is pretty near perfect. I hope you are feeling better LouisB.
I take Imetrex for my magraines. But I have found that if I don’t have an Imetrex with me, Excedrin Migraine works really well. Otherwise, have some caffine.
Likewise Goody’s Powders - and those hit your system in about ten minutes.
Imitrex, gotta love it. Got a really really really really really really bad Migrane, the light hurts, sound hurts, and heaven forbid you move or cough and your head wants to explode, puking every hour. Shot of Imitrex and it’s gone in 10 minutes.
(BTW Imitrex works for hangovers too!)
I feel your pain, no pun intended. Migraines suck.
Imitrex is wonderful. Better than narcotics when you feel like you’re going to die from the pain. (And you almost wish you would die, because at least then your damn head wouldn’t hurt anymore!)
I used to take codeine for my migraines, but it seemed curiously to make them better in the short term and then worse after a couple of hours. Now, it’s Imitrex all the way.
Oh, and migraines suck ginormous donkey balls.
I had codeine for a knee injury once, but now it makes me sick. Vicodin stays down about half the time, but my neurologist wants me to try to take it. The thing is, if I could keep the Vicodin down, I could keep the Imitrex down. The Imitrex injections are the only sure thing with me.
If it’s just a little incipient baby migraine, sometimes Excedrin Migraine and a long hot shower can nip in in the bud. But not too often.
I feel for you. I don’t get them often but when I do it’s horrible. Since I don’t feel I get them enough to get a prescription medication for them I just use Excedrin Migraine and try to sleep or at least lay down in a dark room.
I can’t take codeine either, it gives me severe stomach cramps and then pukage ensues.
Hope you feel better. I no longer get them, thanks to over-the-counter ibuprofen. Three of 'em at the first hint of an aura and the migraine doesn’t happen.
I’ve heard wonderful things about Imitrex and I’ve tried it. For whatever reason, it just doesn’t do anything for me. I wish it did.*
Ibuprofen prescription grade is sort of like eating salted peanuts so far as pain relief goes; it works wonders for my Darling Marcie but not for me.
I have a large bottle of Excedrin Migraine pills on my desk; I use it as a paper weight since it doesn’t have an effect on migraine headaches.
Does Imitrex work on full blown migraines or does one have to catch them before they completely develop? I seldom get any warning; I simply wake up with one that is full blown before I know it.
I don’t get an aura, so I never know when they’re coming, and Imitrex works on 99% of mine. I get the debilitating ones and it works on them and I get the “Geez, I’ve had this headache for two hours/two days/a week and tylenol/advil aren’t working” and it works on those too.
There are several other meds out there, you might want to give some of them a try as well.
How often do you get migraines? I was getting them 3 or 4 times a month, and my doctor put me on beta-blockers for the migraines and high blood pressure. That was back in September and since then, I’ve only had one.
For the record, none of the other meds I tried for the pain worked, even if I could keep it down. One of the main symptoms of my migraines is intense nausea, to the point that if I think about food I gag, much less seeing or smelling it. I’ve often thought that I want to buy a sensory-deprivation tank for those times I’m hurting…nice and warm, soft, quiet, dark, no smells, nothing but floating nothingness. That and a sharp spoon I can use to carve out the spot behind my left eye that is hurting so badly!
My husband bless-his-heart (and aching head) has suffered since he was 14 years old. Imitrex has saved him. He also wakes with a full blown attack - up to 4 or 5 times a week and Imitrex will take a while to work - but it does work for him - most of the time. He has the okay to take two when necessary - and it has been necessary at times.
He has the puking, drooping eyelid, sheer unadulterated pain variety. He used to be in throes 14+ hours prior to the wonderous development of Imitrex. His response to the quote?? “Ambiguous at best”.
I hope you feel better soon LouisB.
I swore off caffeine (for the 50th time) 6 months or so ago and have been blissfully migraine free since.
Good luck to you. I hope you find the root of it.
Glad you’re feeling better, LouisB.
FWIW, Imitrex didn’t work for me the first time I tired it, either (though I do take it now, but at a higher dose). What did work in spades was Zomig. Ask your doc for samples, there are several new(ish) migraine abortives out there and one of them might work for you, too. I get migraines for 5-14 days in a row and without these drugs I couldn’t live a normal life.
…oh, and Imitrex is now available as a generic. An expensive generic, but still.
When I get one, which is maybe once every other month or so, I want one of those old-fashioned hand drills.
As to caffeine, I find that getting some into my system quickly tends to help, but that may just be my wishful thinking.
Robin