Migraine any ideas

hanadr

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I've suffered with migraine all my adult life. I used to have headaches so severe I couldn't move. It got better at menopause, but recently I've been having a lot of "visual fizzies", without headache, but sometimes with nausea.
Anyone got any ideas?
paracetamol seems to fix it, even if I don't have any pain.
Hana
 

lovinglife

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Hi Hana,

Sue is right see your doc - but just to say I have been having something similar - only way I can describe it is like a crack forming in a pane of glass - it gets bigger then joins up in a circle then goes away - no headache - asked my optitian and doc and they both said the same - a type of eye migraine - said it was nothing to do with the diabetes - I get it when I have been concentrating on something for a while or out in the cold.

I know it may not be the same but its just an idea :)

Lovinglife

P.S. I have never suffered migraines though
 

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I have exactly the same symptoms, like a pulsating star, not exactly in full vision but just off center. Sometimes feel nausea and sometimes follows a headache.
For me, my cure is wearing a pair of sunglasses for half an hour and it then goes.

Went to my opthalmist last week to check for retinopathy, all clear so maybe it is the same as lovinglife.

Allan
 

sandymaynard

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Hi Hanadr,
I have suffered with sever migraines since a child! Because of my eye condition! Sunglasses really help!
I have been given new pills to try and they are working a treat! They are maxalat wafers! They disolve on your tongue! I was given them by a migraine specialist being on so many pills for other reasons they said these are the safest!
In bad times it takes 2 of them! You would need to see Gp or specialist for them! I have found them very helpful! My heads get so bad that i can feel my heart beat in my temples that is after it feels like someone has stuck a pickaxe in my head! As strange as that might sound!
The pain is awful!
I feel for you!
Sandy
 

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I had my first classical migraine at the age of ten or so, so I've more than plenty practice in dealing with them. After years of diet watching, it occurred to me that the common scenarios were for me to be extremely anxious about something, very, very tired, especially emotionally, or to be very short of sleep.

The current wave of migraine meds in the shops does nothing for me except scare the whatsit out of me <the -triptan family, now, I gather available over the counter> One pill would stop the attack within fifteen minutes during which I ran through all stages of the attack like I was on fast forward. And eight hours later it started up again.

I'll get the pro-drome feeling, where I know a migraine is going to happen within a few days. During that phase I consciously try to take things easy, get shopping and cooking out of the way and so on. That way I'm pretty relaxed when the aura itself comes (for me it's like a patch of my vision is looking through running water, always below and left of where the focus of my vision is but soon expanding to take up about 50% of vision. It's at this stage I'm most like to feel most anxious, so I tend to have a valium, and if there's some in the house, <I am not a doctor and cannot advise this as a medical treatment> a large gin or whisky helps. I lie down and wait for the aura to end, which it usually does within the hour.

At this point I've got about an hour free of pain, just feeling a bit icky, so I fit in all the things like walking B'Elana, cancelling dinner with the Queen and so on. Then comes the pain - I try to be asleep for this, or at least severely anaesthetised. Twelve or sixteen hours later comes the aftermath which can last up to five days, and the only way I've found to deal with it is to warn people I meet that I 'm coming out of a severe migraine and feel a little confused. Sometimes I even tell them that I've had to take extra valium to deal with it, as people tend to more accepting of prescription drug haziness than they do of innate haziness...

Hope there are some ideas in all this that work for you...

Steve