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 Horsey Gene Carrier
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | I get the 3 day migrains also, usually hormonal.
However, when I was in my early 30's, I cut my hair to above shoulder length (paige boy type cut). I went for almost a year without a bad migrain. Then as my hair got longer, they started to come back. Apparantly the weight of long hair was trigger.
I am in my later 40's now and have given up on ever having long hair, went with a boy style hair cut for ease of care. I also go to the chiropractor once a month to get adjusted. These 2 things have cut the migrains down to headaches and if I get the ibupofen taken as soon as it starts, then just a dull throb.
I have tried prescription medication, that only worked for awhile and then quit working. When I was actively trying to find a medication, the doc I was going to was very helpful. No I don't use her anymore.
My recommedations:
Make sure you are getting enough sleep, cut the stress, caffine, get a massage and see the chiropractor. If you have long hair, try cutting several inches or thin it to get the weight off.
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Location: Kansas | moapajetrider - 2015-12-09 1:13 PM Mine are triggered mostly by lack of sleep and stress. Ive not found anything all natural to help. I just try to catch it early.
that is what mine are triggered by. I get awful ones, like ones so bad I want to sit in a dark room and try to sleep cause my head hurts so bad....and the tunnel vision is horrible. |
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 Saint Stacey
| Gluten was a huge trigger for me and my daughter. We both suffered from migraines lasting as long as 3 weeks. I stopped eating gluten and rarely get them now. When I do get them, I can control them with BC Powder.
My daughter wasn't so lucky. Removing gluten helped but didn't stop them. She had one for 3 weeks and couldn't function. O read about piercing that ridge in the middle of your ear by the ear canal. There's an accupressure point there for migraines. Shemainly gets them oon the left side. The article said to pierce the side you get them on. She opted to do both. It is one of the more painful piercings. She did the right side first. No big deal and it really didn't jury. When she got the left side done, she thought she was going to die. It was extremely painful and it gushed blood. The bleeding wouldn't stop. They finally got it to stop and she came home.
That was a week ago. Her migraine went away. She had to bartend a party the other night with a loud band. She came home with a bad headache and went to bed. As soon as she laid down, it went away and was gone the next morning. That NEVER happens. When she gets one that had, it has always stayed for a solid week.
Sometimes you have to think outside the box with migraines and get creative to control them. |
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| find someone that is good at treating migraines and takes the time to do it.....its not easy and can take a lot of steps if they are frequent and bad.....don't go into it thinking they are gonna get rid of your headaches....they aren't....the goal is to make them less frequent and less severe.... |
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Cold hands and Warm Heart
Location: oklahoma | I've been getting them for almost 40 years. They're debilitating and are in no way shape or form, a headache. My triggers have changed now that I've gotten older. Nowadays, more than likely it's due to not enough sleep, and/ or hormones. I drink a gazillion liters of water a day, seems like and have started taking magnesium. There's also a pressure point in your ear that has been found to help and its a cute piercing. Allergies brought on by several consecutive days of wind can trigger one. Most of the time I sleep them off by taking 3 extra strength ecedrine for migraines and if that doesn't help, bc powder. Maxalt was the prescription drug for me but I can do the same thing at home and save 30$ a pill. Dark room, cold cloth on my forehead and I'll sleep it off. |
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| I didtched a lot of synthetic "foods" and sugar and mine have all but disappeared. I used to get: aura, then blindness, then vomiting, then a headache so bad that the wind in the trees would make me go insane. Then it progressed to bloody noses. also went OFF birth control and that helped. The waether seems to be a trigger, too. only had one this year.  |
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Location: California | I get migraines almost daily. I remember them starting in 4th grade and I am now almost 23. These last few years have been awful. My list of triggers is a mile long and very sporadic. First trigger is foods...all sorts of foods. (sugary, gummy textured, most herbs/teas, strong coffee...) The smell of them is enough to trigger one. I have tried gluten free, organic, ect. and have yet to find anything that works. Motion is another big one. Car rides (if I drive I am usually okay) airplanes, boats, can't do anything spinny or amusement park type ride. And then a lot of times I just wake up with one and they usually stay for days, weeks, even a month. I have ended up in the ER many times and they give me shots and tell me to go home. These shots don't even touch the pain in my head they just make me sleep. I had spoke to a few doctors and they all told me to take Motrin and drink more water. Even my own mother never took me seriously until the other day when we went shopping and by 11am I could no longer stand up on my own. Nothing touches my migraines except narcotics which I will only take if I am at my breaking point. Today I tried a Sumatriptan pill that my friend had prescribed and loves. I felt extremely drugged for the first hour or so and now my migraine is back in full force. I really don't want a solution for the pain so much as I want to get to the bottom of why I get them. They are based on both sides of my head from my temples running towards the back of my head. I tried a chiropracter 2-3 times a week for a few weeks straight and getting adjusted gives me a migraine so bad I have to go straight to bed for days and I never saw any improvement. I am to the point where I don't even know where to start when it comes to doctors. Hormone, neuro, allergist, ect. The only days I have noticed that I usually go without a migraine is if I wake up early, and go workout/ride horses outside all day long. If I sleep in or lay around or be lazy for any period of time I get one. Anyways I hope you get help! Maybe I will find something on this thread to help me too! |
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 Crazy Doggy Mommy
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Location: Where Governor's make the liscense plates | I've suffered from migraines since childhood. They are triggered by stress, skipping meals, and my period. For the last 6 months I started taking the lowest dose of a calcium channel blocker called Verapamil daily. It has cut the severity down and the frequency substantially!
I now now get maybe 2 migraines a month and they are triggered by my period. And instead of taking maxalt or imitrex I now take Midrin. Which has a sedative affect but help me much more.
It it took me years to go talk to a neurologist and wish I would've gone sooner- I feel like I've got my life back! |
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| My husband suffers from terrible headaches and migraines. He has trouble sleeping, can go to sleep but cannot stay asleep, I am sure the lack of sleep contributes. He also gets severe pain in the back of his neck when he lays down. He went to a dr a few years ago, the prescription they gave him made him naeusous. I have been pestering him to go see someone else. What new meds are out there?? |
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 Mature beyond Years
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Location: North of the 49th Parallel | I suffer from migraines big time. Mine are mostly weather and stress related. I do NOT suggest even asking your doctor this but I had a good solid migraine for 2 weeks and went to see my ENT surgeon on Monday. I've had tubes in my ear many times and after talking, he put a tube in my ear on Monday and haven't had a migraine yet. I also take Nortripitylene and Depakote. |
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Location: Florida | My sister tried cutting her hair, no luck. She tried every diet change you can do, every drug the doctors could come up with. She was actually looking into going to England for an experimental brain surgery when finally a doctor did the right tests. She has MS. Not what any of you want to hear, but there is treatment, look into it. |
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| I just completed a migraine study on using magnesium. I don't know for sure that I had the magnesium, but I went from 1-2 migraines a week to none. Since completing the study I started taking 2 magnesium pills a day and still have very few migraines. |
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| I too have suffered from migraines seems like forever. Mine were always on the right side. Then something happened about a couple of years ago. I noticed that I wasn't getting hardly any migraines at all. I kept racking my brain over and over trying to figure out what I was doing different but just couldn't figure it out. Then one day while I was at the doctor's office for a check up I told him that I was doing fine on the new blood pressure med that he had prescribed me. He said good and that it was the same one he used and also liked it because it helped with his migraines. At that moment I finally knew why my frequent migraines and decreased to hardly none. The med was Bystolic and has made a tremendous difference in my life. I rarely ever get migraines now and when I do they are nothing like before. I feel for anyone who gets migraines...my daughter gets really bad ones. I think some people just don't understand how painful a true migraine is. Many years ago I overheard a lady talking to another stating "I can't believe someone would go to the hospital for a headache!" Evidently, she never dealt with a true migraine. |
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 Oh excuse me!
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Location: S. California Beach | Saw a new neurologist today...I am 37 and know my triggers well (just found out intense workouts that I love are one). She is going to do medical botox on the occpiital area (back of head) when I go back next time. |
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 Ms. Elvis
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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | I use AcuLife/Lifewave patches when mine get really bad. |
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Location: Northern MN | margoannrodeo - 2015-12-10 2:29 AM Saw a new neurologist today...I am 37 and know my triggers well (just found out intense workouts that I love are one). She is going to do medical botox on the occpiital area (back of head) when I go back next time.
I have thought about that as well. Let us know how it goes!! Good Luck! |
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I Really Love Jeans
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Location: North Dakota | I suffered bad migraines for twenty years but have completely
Stopped having them! I did this by not drinking soda
Or coffee or anything with caffeine!! Don't eat or drink anything
With high fructose corn syrup in it at all!! Reduce your carb intake to just
A few days a week!!! I also try to avoid cookies, heavy breads etc... Essentially eat like a diabetic and you will change your life completely!!! |
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Location: Central Texas | zelma - 2015-12-10 8:48 AM margoannrodeo - 2015-12-10 2:29 AM Saw a new neurologist today...I am 37 and know my triggers well (just found out intense workouts that I love are one). She is going to do medical botox on the occpiital area (back of head) when I go back next time. I have thought about that as well. Let us know how it goes!! Good Luck!
One of my freinds had the medical botox done about 6 months ago. She is very happy with the results. The only thing she complained about was right after the injections she said it was like her whole forehead was frozen and she couldn't move her eyebrows. She did say that that went away after a few weeks. Her injection sights were right around her hairline.
I also suffer from migrains but I have figured out most of my triggers. The biggest one for me is I can't have anything with aspartame or any other fake sugar/ sweetener. Took me years to figure out the aspartame. Once I completely eliminated that from my life I now only get maybe one or two migrains a year.
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Location: Phoenix | A gal at work said her migraines diminished immensely once she started working out regularly. I would suggest a chiropractor, that's who I visit with I start getting frequent headaches. You ladies are TOUGH!!! |
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Location: So Cal | I've tried just about everything and what has finally gotten me down to a manageable number of migraines is the botox. It's around 30 small injections across my forehead, temples, and neck/shoulder area every 3 months. I'm also on Topamax but it alone didn't help much. When I get a migraine, I can usually take an Imitrex and at least make it tolerable, but can only get 9 of those per month and I was having way more migraines than that. I would wake up with them in the middle of the night or in the morning, not able to open my eyes it hurt so bad, I'd throw up, etc.. Now I only get probably 1-3 per month depending on what's going on. Mine are definitely triggered by stress, another big trigger for me is weather. When a storm comes in, the change in atmospheric pressure or something does it. Also I get them when we have bad winds. Also, for some reason, I can't drink Powerade? Gatorade is fine, I don't know what it is. Weird.
No fun... but for anyone who is a candidate for the Botox (supposed to be like 15 or more per month), definitely check into it! It has helped me a ton! Plus no forehead wrinkles. |
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