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Title: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Unorthodox on April 21, 2016, 07:56:28 PM

2 days in a row.   ;brainhurts

I don't even have my most useful drugs on me right now...3 hours till I can get home to those. 

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Unorthodox on April 21, 2016, 08:02:04 PM

Oh. [fuddle-duddle]. No. 

dude's be quiet for months, and he picks NOW to break out the 50's radio station again?

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 21, 2016, 08:28:46 PM

I had them for a few years around the end of high school, and the only thing I ever found that did any good was to sleep it off - drugs probably involved.  Women's craps medication, like Midol and muscle relaxants seemed best w/o going prescription.

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Unorthodox on April 21, 2016, 09:05:30 PM

Aspirin usually takes the worst off for me, actually.  I only had 1/2 a dose on me today.  Coupled with tylenol it's doing an ok job.  I had to walk away from music man, but he's been silenced in my absence. 

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: ColdWizard on April 21, 2016, 10:12:43 PM

Acetaminophen doesn't do anything for me. Luckily I don't get migraines, they sound rather awful.

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: gwillybj on April 21, 2016, 10:15:59 PM

I've had them for about 40 years.
Depakote twice every day as a preventative (also for seizures).
Zomig as a remedy when aspirin doesn't cut it.

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Lorizael on April 22, 2016, 12:22:54 AM

Painkillers, darkness, silence, sleep.

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Rusty Edge on April 22, 2016, 12:51:00 AM

I'm a sinus headache guy.

My wife gets migraines. The best answer is Sumatriptin.

As a head nurse once said to me, "It's easier to stay ahead of pain than play catch-up"

It works better to get her to take the drug when she gets a headache with light sensitivity, than wait for it to get debilitating,

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 22, 2016, 12:54:51 AM

Man, they're more than just a headache - I don't really see how drugs could head them off...

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Lorizael on April 22, 2016, 12:57:16 AM

Quote from: Lorizael on April 22, 2016, 12:22:54 AM

Painkillers, darkness, silence, sleep.

This post could be interpreted waaaay differently in another thread.

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 22, 2016, 01:08:28 AM

Please don't say that in another thread.

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Lorizael on April 22, 2016, 01:23:40 AM

No need to worry about that. Life's rad.

Title: Re: How do you deal with migraines?
Post by: Rusty Edge on April 22, 2016, 01:29:34 AM

From Wikipedia- 

Sumatriptan is structurally similar to serotonin (5HT), and is a 5-HT receptor (types 5-HT1D and 5-HT1B[6]) agonist. The specific receptor subtypes it activates are present on the cranial arteries and veins. Acting as an agonist at these receptors, sumatriptan reduces the vascular inflammation associated with migraines.

The specific receptor subtype it activates is present in the cranial and basilar arteries. Activation of these receptors causes vasoconstriction of those dilated arteries. Sumatriptan is also shown to decrease the activity of the trigeminal nerve, which, it is presumed, accounts for sumatriptan's efficacy in treating cluster headaches. The injectable form of the drug has been shown to abort a cluster headache within fifteen minutes in 96% of cases.[7]

So, that's how it works. My wife takes pills, but there is nasal spray and injections, too, apparently.