I have a migrane (sp?) and need some tips on how to stop it. It's kinda bad, not the worst. Also, is there any way to make the font bigger on some of these posts from other people, it's kinda hard to read a wall of 8 pt. font.
ctrl + increases font size in most forums. If you have a migraine, staring at your comp is probably a bad idea. From what I've heard, bright lights make them worse.
Yes. Working with a computer while having a migraine is bad. Quiet and dark areas where you can rest are what you need. An ice pack maybe. Take painkiller at the first signs of a headache. Going through Tylenol fast is better than having a migraine. If you get the real severe, see a doctor. There's prescription painkillers that are quite good at taking it away.
Learned from my grandmother that if you have any veins pulsing hard in your neck and head, putting a little pressure on them can ease the pain. This is actually quite effective.
Types of Headaches 101:
Tension headache = a band-like, vice-grip, pulling sensation with or without contracting neck muscles.
Migraine = started as dull pain and became throbbing like pain that last at least 4hrs. With auditory, visual, disturbances before the migraine.
Cluster headache = you feel like killing yourself, because the pain is sooo bad, but it last only about an hour.
Or the worst case scenario, need to go to ER = "worst headache of your life that doesn’t go away" with a brief lost consciousness = berry aneurysm with nuchal rigidity.
Are you sure you have a migraine or just a headache (quite possible cause by straining your eyes to read the small font)? Have you had a migraine before?
If you have a migraine, I doubt you would be sitting at your PC, because that just aggravates it.
I've had 2 migraines before, and both times all I could do was lie on my bed in the dark and dead quite. They subsided after a few hours of rest, NO PC.
Btw, cluster headaches tend focus in an area in your head, especially behind the eyes and the pain is pretty extreme.
people only have one or two migraines.. it's that rare? I have constant migraines on a daily basis...
gets so bad that I have to go bury myself under the pillows to drown out the starlight! lol
but the priscription migraine meds docs can give you are EXPENSIVE. My doc tried to give me this prescription but I turned it down because it was gonna cost me $50 for 6 pills. HELL NO.
The best you can do is take Excedrin, you don't want to take too many tylnols as that would destroy your liver. Take some Excedirin migraine, get off the computer, place a warm towel over your eyes and lay down. No music, no light, just take a nap.
@MishYu: Some people never get them, other people like me will experience them once or twice in a lifetime which is once or twice too many for my liking , and then other unfortunate people get them on a regular basis.
Did you try the perscription pills? My friend suffers with regular migraines and it was interfering with his work and social life, the perscription pills helped him tremendously.
I tried a sample of those perscriptions, it ended up doubling the pain of my migraines.
I'm pretty sure that stress is a factor for some of us who get migraines, but my mother (she was a nurse) also believed that some folks like us more or less outgrew them--which might mean having grown up enough not to stress out so often.
The best thing I ever got by way of migraine advice was to learn your personal onset signals (mine was almost like a 'flavor' that an ordinary headache would start with). When you get a feel for your onset process, you need to figure out a good strategy for avoiding the migraine--much nicer than doping up with heavy meds after the fact.
I eventually got to a little ritual: 3 regular ibuprofen (not good to take often, but its what worked for me here), a big dose of caffeine (an early migraine med, Cafergot, was partly Jolt in a pill), emptying my hot water heater onto my head and shoulders, and going to bed even if I'd only recently gotten up. What would have been hours of migraine not-napping turned into a fairly short nap and at most I had a bit of regular headache for a while. But the whole thing depended on getting in bed *before* the real thing hit.
My migraine med is $70 for 9 pills. However, I wasn't any more expensive for the double-dose pills, so now I just use a pill cutter. Still, when I get a migraine, I can't think properly. The real severe ones basically end the day. I get nauseous and my vision becomes poor. Those will last at least until the end of the day, and still take a max dose of any over-the-counter and prescription meds to get rid of. During that time, I can't do anything at all.
I was having regular migraines even with visual anomalies before and they disappeared when I started to take Ginkgo Biloba. Try it, its natural, with no side effects and my migraines are gone.
hmm.. good advices for my own use here.
I didn't realize how rare migraines are for some people.. lucky people. lol
Stress does have a lot to do with migraines. I get my worse migraines at work usually, esp when a cust starts bitching at me, then I can just feel the tension build up behind my eyes, and the jackhammer starts going in my head. ugh.
I get migraines on a fairly regular basis, although they've been less frequent the last year or so. Before, I use to get them at least once a week. Now I only get them maybe once every month or every other month.
Generally speaking, eating something and then taking 2-3 ibuprofen (Advil) does the trick for me -- this is especially true if I do this when the migraine is still in its early stages. If I don't do anything until the migraine has reached full strength, however, it becomes much harder to knock it down; toughing it out is often my only option at that point.
Speaking as a chronic migraine suffer and one whom endured the added "joy" of a brain tumor for several years and one who really does not like to take pills but often resorts to them when the pain and nausea gets to extreme "I want to kill myself" levels. In general do the following:
If things get intolerable for functioning, I lay down in a cold dark room with the pack and towels and very light music to focus on. If I have the option I prefer to a bathtub with several inches of cool water and total darkness.
Additionally if there is a friend present then a deep tissue upper back, neck and leg massage is highly recommended. On a side note biting aggressively on your lower lip also helps to add to ones endurance capacity.
If it gets very bad, I just squint my eyes and silently sell my soul to the devil.
You called?
muahahaha
*hides*
You're safe if you didn't sign the contract with the blood of a virgin (of either gender). Pain pills don't work on me and haven't for a long time. And I don't want to get a prescription (would probably need morpheine before something works ).
So I just sit through mine. Don't get them too often, thankfully. Fresh air for 20-30 minutes, eating, taking a shower, or napping for a few hours tend to help in various degrees.
why are you not in the chat room annatar?
I'm at work
Today, I had a migraine attack in school and then a friend offered me some weed. So we went to smoke it and immediatelly after first few minutes the migraine was gone. Marijuana cure FTW!
virgin? where?!
I quit taking painkillers for my headaches/migraines because they never work. My doctor is doing the typical throw pills at them and hope they go away. For me I noticed the hot/cold temperature stuff (warm wash cloth, ice pack, etc.) a lot of people prescribe makes mine worse.
As a constant headache sufferer with migraines thrown in that can last upwards of a week, I've found what helps me to get through the best (by no means does it stop the pain) is to turn on some heavy music, turn off the lights, and go play a FPS.
turn ON heavy music? ..... what kind of migraine do you have? That's agonizing!
I can't even listen to silence sometimes my migraines get so bad. Plus, since I wear glasses, a lot of times that makes my migraines even worse.
It doesn't help with the pain, but instead gives me an outlet of sorts for keeping it together. After 6 years with constant headaches keeping it together is all I can do, dealing with pain is secondary because otherwise I can't keep up with life.
No doubt. Sound and light cause more torment and the more "heavy" they are the more the agony. When I tell people light hurts me - like getting hit in the face with a hammer they look at me strangly. I tell them it is true since I was nailed in the face with a bat once and it feels just like that did except this time no stiches, cracked bones or lost teeth.
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