I get wicked migranes from time to time.Often enough that I have pills to take to reduce them.And these are super severe,your dizzy migranes.I personally take 4 advil to cure mine.What do you guys take to rid yourself of these nasty suckers? Tylenol,Advil,Excedrin?

I guess thats the American Market place for you.Thats like if you but Pepto Bismol and Brooks/Cvs brand pink stuff..its all the same.Your just paying for a name.

Migraines suck!...I have never had one, but my husband gets them a lot. When he gets one, he is done for the day. Sometimes they get so bad he vomits. He has to take prescription meds. He has tried Maxalt, but they didn't work well. Then he tried Zomig and they worked ok except they made him feel funky and it took about an hour to relieve the pain from the headache. Now he is on Relpax. Replax works the fastest with minimal side effects. Advil, Exedrin never worked for him.

I know I was clinically diagnosed with them because they get so bad that when I first got them my nuerologist though I might have a brain tumor and I had numerous MRI scans.Only to be told,you get migranes.I tell you one thing the first MRI I got I was like 13 I slid my way out of the thing because it scared the day lights out of me.I think I was the only person in the hospital's history to slide my way out of an MRI machine without hitting my head or anything else.Its kinda funny when I think about it.

I'm on the same diet!

Hi,

I too get real bad migraines, start with a blind spot thats kinda a fuzzy patch that blocks my vision, kinda like a tv with no signal. After that goes i get the bad headache dizziness, pain in my eye, nausea, i tend to take a couple paramol ( di hydrocodeiene / parcetamol ).

Lately however ive been using these gel pads call cool and soothe, which you place on the forehead and they cool your head, i swear by these things they work btter than any pill, a normal migraine will knock me bad for 2 days the day of the headache and the day after with a hangover feeling where any fast movement of the head hurts.

Try find these cool and soothe patches i really think they make a massive difference. Sympathies to all other sufferers too ive always said i wouldnt wish a migraine on my worst enemy literally one of the worst pains ive ever had to endre.

peace

Ben

yes, i have officially diagnosed migraines. my grandmother, her daughter, and i all had them.the worst are the ones where you go blind in one eye and see spots. i have had a heart attack, a stroke, and a herniated disk, and by far the migraines hurt the worst. if you have them you should recognize the words vicodin, staadol, loritab, esgic, toradol, midrin and imitrex. otc meds are like eating m and m's. and, i had an mri years ago and almost tore it up pulling myself out. i have to have the open ones and i have to have valium prescribed beforehand. since i have been on blood pressure meds i haven't had one, as these meds actually help stop them.and i had a pair of extremely dark   sunglasses just for migraines.

ah, the power of marketing. that's like all these old brands trying to reinvent themselves by flagging their products "low carb!"


are the ingredient concentrations also the same?


my dad's wife has debilitating migraines. she used to have me wrap a tie around her forehead and squeeze. said it relieved the pressure    course, when i started moving the tie closer down to her neck, she switched to meds

Pain is just bad...
 

No matter what form it appears.
meditation is my answer to the low dull pains including the mental ones - especially anxieties.

Never had a migrain thank heaven.

My wife used to get migraines a lot, and severe enough to require injections, that was after she came to from passing out because of them.  For her, the wonder drug of choice, prescribed by the first headache specialist she was able to get to see after decades of suffering with them- Sodium Naproxen.  You can find this over the counter, just ask any pharmacist, but not her level of medication.  It, like some of these other drugs tend to work only if taken at the onset of a headache, or only after one has become full blown (why wait till then?).  Since she has been on this medication, I can honestly say that in these past 5-10 years she may have experienced one or on occasion two a year that Naproxen wasn't able to deal successfully with.  And EVERY case the drug hasn't worked, it was when she woke up with one already in full throttle mode - or she didn't have the meds with her at the onset.  Now what tended to decrease the total frequency of the headaches was to quit taking tylenol 3 that other physicians were giving her.  Anything with Codeine amplified the condition of the headache from the squiggly worm for hair feeling with total intollerance to light and sound to "Where's a guillotine PLEASE".  BTW, guess what medication is known for its preponderance to INDUCE Cluster Migraines...
 
    TYLENOL 3

This is really bad stuff for her- it is FORBIDDEN in our hausehold- Oh, did I mention its tylenol 3 that has CODEINE in it?

Now T3 and Codeine may work for other people and yourself, but if you aren't having any success with these other drugs/ diet changes/ increased hydration (my wife back then was drinking on the average 60-80 oz. H2O and that was just what she'd drink at work.

I've never had a migraine before but I have seen the auras she has described.  Like the sparkling dots all around.  Actually had something in my line of sight once that looked like a microscopic sized lewtter "L" that kept growing larger and larger, after  a coupe hours it had filled my field of view top to bottom.  I could see normally on either side fo the "L" and it was just off center so I could see straight ahead but it was the uncanniest thing- doctors never could tell me what it was but it had this radiance to it- rainbow colors that moved in tight band patterns from top to end kind of like the scrolling marque light s of old movie houses and Vegas hotels/casinos.

I know- I'm just messed up in the head actually but there you have it and thankfully I haven't had it since.  I was under loads of stress, not drinking much water but in pretty decent shape and getting fairly good exercise- rabbit diet with a little meat, basically replaced the simple sugars and salts with fruits and veggies, all the while keeping the meats.