Migraines , who suffers from them here?

I get them on really sunny days, after working long hours on computer and sometimes in the mornings.

I usually take a couple of painkillers and sit with my head under the shower. The pain tends to die down pretty quick, then I just sit there an extra 15-30 mins to give the painkillers chance to do their job and stop the pain reoccurring straight away.
Has worked a treat for years.
 
I get migraines occasionally, i always know when i am due one and notice the warning signs in my eyes first.
After its past i feel worse, like having a major hangover for 3 days.
 
I used to get them quite often, although I would consider them to be very mild compared to some people. If it wasn't for the aura, it'd just be like having a bad headache.

Always starts with flashing lights, that continue to take over a good 95% of my vision so I can barely see. Followed by a seriously banging headache that normally lasts a couple of hours, then the feeling of being light headed/groggy for a few hours after that. No 3 day led up in bed job that you hear of thankfully.

First time it happened I thought I was having an aneurysm, I **** myself. Brain scan later and was diagnosed with migraines.
 
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Hikari Kisugi said:
Are you sitting at a PC for most of this. How often is your neck and shoulder region relaxed, are your arms overextended? Chair height, desk height, keyboard slung below level or desk, monitor height?
Extended static positions will cause issues.
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Most likely as I was updating my website pretty much all day for the last three days :eek:. I'm ok at my home pc but it might be the family mac that's causing it

Will take a rest day tomorrow and see if i get an improvement cheers
 
McBain said:
I used to get them quite often, although I would consider them to be very mild compared to some people. If it wasn't for the aura, it'd just be like having a bad headache.

Always starts with flashing lights, that continue to take over a good 95% of my vision so I can barely see. Followed by a seriously banging headache that normally lasts a couple of hours, then the feeling of being light headed/groggy for a few hours after that. No 3 day led up in bed job that you hear of thankfully.

First time it happened I thought I was having an aneurysm, I **** myself. Brain scan later and was diagnosed with migraines.
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Pretty similar to what I get, I feel like a heavy hangover though for the ~24 hours after my head has stopped banging. Just before the flashing lights I notice I can't seem to focus on what I'm looking at then a few minutes later the spiralling patterns of light start.
 
Used to get loads of them as a teenager- luckily I've pretty much grown out of them. Still get 1-2 a year, but that's better than every two or three weeks...

Always start behind my left eye. Not big on the aura for me, but my stomach usually goes crazy too.
Three Nurofen (technically an overdose, but with a miggy I don't care), and straight to bed, I can usually knobble them nowadays. If the pills stay down.
Usually not quite myself for 2-3 days even when the pain has gone...

I was one of the early guinea-pigs when Sumatriptan came out- £80 for six pills at the time! I was about 14, I think.
It did nothing for me- and worst thing was I couldn't take ANYTHING else for eight hours, as the interaction effects with other drugs were not fully documented.

While I miss my childhood, frequent migraines are one aspect I'm glad I've left behind.
 
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Yeah never found any of the mainstream migraine medicine works for me and I have them so infrequently (which is fortunate) I've not been able to experiment to find one that works.

Ibuprofen can sometimes be useful for mitigating the effects of it but its pretty hit and miss if it works, if I can get a couple of hours sleep in a dark room it usually gets rid of it and drops the recovery time after down to about 6-8 hours if I can't do that if will often drag on for hours and take the full 24 hours to feel back to normal again.
 
My start with like a bulb filament pattern, had one last year which was so bad i was spaced out and couldn't speak.
The doctor said it was Aphasia and having read up its exactly that.
Said the only treatment was basically a low dosage of amitriptyline but i've had that before for neuralgia and it proper dopes you up.
 
Eurofighter said:
Water, water, water. Lots of water!
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I get migraines and drinking water sometimes gets rid of them. Mine are odd I can feel it coming on and it always passes within about 1-2 hours. They are always in the evening and I usually just lie down till it passes.

When I get a bout of migraines its usually every night for about 4-5 weeks then it stops for a few months. I'm pretty sure its stress that brings it on.

Had them for 10-15 years, doctors were no help. Not actually that bothered about it anymore I've just learned to live with it. I try not to use pain killers either as that seems to make it worse the following night.
 
I get this multicoloured blur in my vision accompanied by a headache.

TThe blur usually starts small and I struggle to focus on things, it then grows steadily, usually in a crescent shape, heading out of my point of focus but to my peripheral, as time passes it moves out and out until it's on the edge before finally disappearing.

Then I'm left feeling crap for a while. :-(

Usually I find I get them more when moving in and out of buildings into bright sunlight
 
Been nice to find a post where people talk through their symptoms/meds/triggers and methods of dealing with them.

I have suffered from them since my teens, but only rarely until the past few months where I have been lucky to get a break in it. Was glad to find the post by 'drunkenmaster' who seems to have had similar to what I am experiencing at the moment.

At the moment the pain sits what feels like very centered and deep, then it begins to ramp up in pain before it settles on both sides of the head with the feeling of my eyes wanting to escape, also becomes tiring to think or speak. This makes it impossible to move and I cant lay down as it causes more pain so I have to sit in a dark room, painkillers and loads of water until it retreats making it possible to sleep. I will wake up with what I can only describe as residual pain lurking in the same place as previously described this can last for a while before it ramps back up. Along with this I just feel absolutely knackered and instantly loose all energy and just want to sleep at random periods during the day, also experienced new things with it as well such as going dizzy, almost blacking out, complete confusion and being sick.

£50+ now in prescriptions and still no break in the pain, migraines are hideous things :(
 
FinglisHobbit said:
I get this multicoloured blur in my vision accompanied by a headache.

TThe blur usually starts small and I struggle to focus on things, it then grows steadily, usually in a crescent shape, heading out of my point of focus but to my peripheral, as time passes it moves out and out until it's on the edge before finally disappearing.

Then I'm left feeling crap for a while. :-(

Usually I find I get them more when moving in and out of buildings into bright sunlight
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Pretty common way a classic migraine with auras develops - as per my posts earlier all I can really do is find somewhere dark to sleep it off - which usually means the pain is gone in a couple of hours tops instead of hanging around all day - still feel like a bad hangover for the next 8 - 24 hours though.

thelasttommy said:
Been nice to find a post where people talk through their symptoms/meds/triggers and methods of dealing with them.
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That sounds pretty bad - if it continues you might wanna see if the doctor will get an MRI done incase its something more serious.
 
I've been migraine free for a few years now, mine were pretty bad and caused me to pass out on a few occasions. I always got the auras messing up my vision then a headache behind my left eye and most of the right side of my head.

Mine were purely down to stress, I bottled everything up when my mum passed away, that coupled with the stress of exams and trying to hold down a job just destroyed me.

A few years taking it easy and working with friends has really benefited me and changed me into a much more relaxed person, I very much doubt that they will return with the way that I am now. My advice is just to take the time to relax and talk about things that are bothering you. It's crazy what happens to your body when you bottle everything up!
 
Rroff said:
Pretty common way a classic migraine with auras develops - as per my posts earlier all I can really do is find somewhere dark to sleep it off - which usually means the pain is gone in a couple of hours tops instead of hanging around all day - still feel like a bad hangover for the next 8 - 24 hours though.



That sounds pretty bad - if it continues you might wanna see if the doctor will get an MRI done incase its something more serious.
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Been to see the neurologist at the hospital but no scan which has left people I know a little dumb struck. currently on Propranolol (40mg) twice a day before increasing to 4 a day. No surprise to say its still present. Just have to see how things progress I guess
 
I get a migraine about every 6 months, almost always after I haven't eaten enough before playing football. I get a number of auras - blurred vision, inability to speak and half of my face and one arm go numb.

Oddly I rarely get much of a headache, but the morning after it feels like somebody has spent the night punching me in the temples.
 
FinglisHobbit said:
I get this multicoloured blur in my vision accompanied by a headache.

TThe blur usually starts small and I struggle to focus on things, it then grows steadily, usually in a crescent shape, heading out of my point of focus but to my peripheral, as time passes it moves out and out until it's on the edge before finally disappearing.

Then I'm left feeling crap for a while. :-(

Usually I find I get them more when moving in and out of buildings into bright sunlight
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I get these from time to time; optical migraines. Mine usually come after hard exercise. I'll 'see' a very small area in my vision that seems to be flashing but it will slowly grow, typically covering about half of my field of vision before expanding, as yours do, until it spreads out of sight, as it were.

They last about 40 minutes, and are not painful during the session, only afterwards, but luckily I've not had one whilst driving as I'm completely blind in the affected area :/

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/ocular-migraine.htm
 
I found out last week that my daughter also suffers from them in a very similar way to how I used to. Mine disappeared when I was about 23 to 25 I recall.
 
Suffered on and off since I was 12 (now 53!!), in fact had one earlier today. Completely random, I can go months or even a year or two but equally as happened last year went for a spell when I was getting an attack every 10 days or so. Never really sussed the trigger, through stress and fatigue probably high on the list, also just focusing or squinting at something the wrong way or even VDU's (though that doesn't explain the 70's and early 80's).

Reading some of the accounts on here my attacks are comparatively mild. Invariably starts with a little blind spot or silver dot for which there s no prior warning. That rapidly expands into the aura/sconecutter/diamond blurred and blocked vision which lasts about 30 mins. Luckily I haven't experienced numbness in the face or feet/hands for many years but I do get a slight loss of sensation, accompanied by an overall tingly feeling. Occasionally I feel a bit "out of body" when listening to others and have to really concentrate not to slur my speech.

Rarely get nauseous and the headache intensity varies, however after a few hours I just tend to feel washed out and that can last for several days.

I did read somewhere the occurrences are supposed to get less as you get older but doesn't seem the case with me. Not sure if migraine has ever been linked to stroke but that is my biggest worry (there's a history of stroke on both sides of the family) as I'm sure the symptoms are not dis-similar i.e. a milder version of what stroke victims experience.
 
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