I am having a bad day (page 3)

Barbie Doll

I am sorry that you are suffering with Migrains. My Husband PEC gets them.

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I just wanted to thank you all for the responses and also for the tips here and in PM (will respond better later). Right now i have been able to stop crying but naturally I have induced myself into a more intenser headache - so I am off to bed as sleep is still the most effective remedy, and I hope tomorrow will be better.

Boo, that's just horrible

Odrade, I understand what you are saying. I have had many tests over the years. Last year the doctors found that my nose-bone (translation??) was pressing on a nerve cluster under my left eye - thus possibly causing the pain. I had surgery and afterwards the headaches did lessen. I did see a pain-specialist after months of surgery and he told me that the pain has been stored in my brain - and thus will never leave. I was not too happy with that one. As I do react with inteser headaches to stress e.g. the therapy does make sense to me. I'm just not sure, and am losing hope that it will cure me completelyof them. But as responses here showed me, there are also still some options I have not tried ...

Thank you all, your words do me good.

sammielee24

I had migraines and then ended up with tic-deleroux (sp?) for many, many years. Agonizing, mind numbing pain for years. I found that although stress didn't cause the pain it made the pain feel even worse. At one point I recall laying on the bathroom floor, my head pounding but feeling so sick because of the pain meds that I foggily wondered if this was a stroke and how would I even know the difference at that point..It was horrible. Then came more drugs - one that slowed my heartrate down so low that I almost died. I do know that my neurologist told me that the more pain medication that is taken, the more the pain will exist because one fuels the other. I feel for you - sammieswife.

momzcrazy

(((((Viv))))) Don't berate your own pain. Others have it worse, yes. But that doesn't make your pain any less important. Don't give up looking for help. I had migraines for years, about 5 I think. When I moved accross the country and away from the stress I was under, it helped alot. It's horrible pain, and I'm sorry.

momz

Black Sheep

Sorry to hear about your plight Viv.

Many years ago I was getting frequent migraines, but they weren't as bad as yours.

I did a ten day fast. Nothing but water.

I didn't get another migraine for about five years. It might have just been a coincidence, I don't know. I wasn't doing the fast to cure my migraines.

Cheers

Chris

PEC

((((((Vivamus & Sparkplug & Princess Daisy Boo))))))

I feel your pain, without medication, I have migraines everyday.

In March 2007, after losing 60 lbs and my blood pressure well under control, I came up with the bright idea that could stop taking Nifedipine and the doctor agreed as long as I monitored my BP. Nifedipine is a calcium channel blocker, used to control BP, it also helps prevent migraines, I wish I had known that at the time.

After a couple of weeks I started have migraines. I hadn't had a migraine in more than three years and had stopped carrying the abortive drug Imitrex. I was at a conference 350 miles from home, with no meds, when I the first of this series, I went back to the hotel room, took 1600 mgs of Ibuprofen and 2000 mgs of Acetaminophen and went to bed, four hours later took more of both, I woke up the next day still in pain, it takes me 2 to 5 days for the pain to leave. The next day, just 24 hours later, I had another one, this time it was worse. I had Barbara start driving us back home, when she had to pull over on the side of the freeway is I could puke.

After suffering 3 to 5 migraines a week for four more months, I finally put it together that the migraines started after stopping the Nifedipine. I started taking Nifedipine again and have only had three migraines in the last 5 months.

There are many preventive and abortive drugs available, find a doctor that will work with you to get the migraines under control.

Philip

Snoozy

I too suffered from bad headaches. So bad I had to lay in the dark and not move my head. If I moved I would get sick.

I finally went to the Dr because one day I got dizzy and it wouldn't go away. He said I had High blood pressure. it was 140/90.

Now that didn't seem real high to me but he prescribed Atenenol for me plus a water pill.

It was supposed to be for the high blood pressure but I had no more headaches. I believe Atenenol expands the veins so more blood can get through.

Years later I was watching TV and all of a sudden I saw what was like looking through a kaleidoscope. That was all I could see..I panicked and went to see a eye specialist.He said it was a migraine without the pain!...He said itf I ever had a headache with the kaleidoscope vision to get to a Dr right away..that was over 20 years ago..no more problem.

I might add that my triglycerides were over 1000 when I first went to the Dr with the headaches.I managed to bring them down with diet and excercise.The point is that you really need a complete blood workup and possibly stress management.You seem quite young so it could even be a hormone imbalance. If one Dr can't find it..see another!. I was lucky I found a good Dr right away.

I feel for you...Snoozy

edited to add and correct spellingI wanted to add that my daughter has bad headaches..her Dr put her on Amitriptyline and it helps her. She also has high blood pressure in the Dr office but it goes up and down which is hard to treat.Last time she went in it was normal..so they won't put her on blood pressure meds yet. But it could be going up when she has her headaches..next time she gets a headache I am going to have her take her blood pressure.

Double Edge

Viv,

so sorry to hear about your 'plight'.... I have an elderly relative who has had weekly migrains for most of her life. it wasn't until she started taking a medical 'cocktail' of several heart medications that the migraines mysteriously vanished.

Here's a website that I think you will find valuable. This particular link will take you to the forum where people with life-long migraines are discussing what works and doesn't for them... http://www.curezone.com/forums/f.asp?f=68&p=1

take care...

D.E.

Abandoned

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I'm sorry you're having a bad day. I don't know what migraines are so I can't sympathize with you there, but I do know what bad days are like. I'm smack dab in the middle of one myself. I hope things get better for you.

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