Sweet Irony of Life

[Horus_Kol]

Okay, so I bashed my head in a fall a couple of weeks ago - not badly, I wasn't knocked out or concussed - but I've been getting a dull ache there since.

So I went to see my doctor yesterday to find out if that was normal - she went on and asked about all sorts, include whether I get migraines. I answered "yes, but not often, and it's been about a year".

Then I wake up this morning straight into a migraine so powerful that I end up doubled over the toilet bowl.

Me and my big mouth....

[Pegasus]

(((hugs))) Go lay down, Horus. It may not make you feel any better, but at least you won't have quite so far to fall down.

Peg

[kemikalfire]

awww...yeah I get migranes every now and then that pretty much put me out of commission for the whole day. my solution - tylenol and sleep. that mixture is the only thing I find that will make it stop. I hope you fell better soon stuart...now you just have to convice yourself that a million pounds would be the worst thing that could ever happen to you.

kate!

[lost_panda]

I like a good cup of tea when my head hurts. I guess that says a lot about me, really. Which is really irritating, 'cause I'm all agiainst that english stereotype, and there's me in an arm chair with a cup of tea... I may aswell smoke a pipe *shakes head*...

the non smoking,
panda

[angelSakura]

i hate it when migraines attack...i usually rub some mint on my head and some mefenamic acid

[Horus_Kol]

well, i stayed in bed until about 4pm (i was asleep until just short of 2)... painkillers don't seem to do anything with my migraines...

to make matters worse - I recovered from the migraine, only to head into the dehydrated zone, followed by the caffeine comedown... so more headaches through the day...

[tinkerbell]

This is worse.. carpal tunnel syndrome is inevitable... aaarrrgghh!

[mapia]

migraines sucks.. i can't concentrate when my mingraines attack

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

well, i stayed in bed until about 4pm (i was asleep until just short of 2)... painkillers don't seem to do anything with my migraines...

to make matters worse - I recovered from the migraine, only to head into the dehydrated zone, followed by the caffeine comedown... so more headaches through the day...
I stay in bed till about 1 or 2pm everyday when I don't have class. Its a bit ironic, how I don't like to sleep only because I think its a waste of time but when I do sleep, I spend a lot of time doing it. I'm not one who gets sick often. I don't get very many headaches maybe because I'm relaxed most of the time.

[bendman]

the only thing that gives me migranes is too much sleep :S if I sleep past about 11, the whole rest of the day I'll be drowsey and have a migrane, and my sleeping pattern is out of wack for days

[Horus_Kol]

migraines aren't about stress - although it could be a factor - migraines are woefully under-understood (not a word, I know)...

triggers can be food - cheese sets my Dad off almost everytime now...

for me, I think it's a seasonal thing - they tend to cluster in certain months - although this one I just had is a little earlier than usual.

[Juparis]

I can't say I've had the full migraine experience. Perhaps I have, but if I ever have any head-pains, people say it's just a headache. If it's bad enough, I'll just sleep until I can wake up without any pain. :D
Sometime last year, I got hit on the head with a rock (long story about that). I didn't get the usual headaches or any of that, but if I were to press down on that exact spot, I could feel my finger on a different part of my head, and the sensitive area throbs.. That was pretty weird, but I never got to a doctor about it--the effect has disappeared a few months later..

I hope you recover in less than a few months!

[tinkerbell]

migraines aren't about stress - although it could be a factor - migraines are woefully under-understood (not a word, I know)...

triggers can be food - cheese sets my Dad off almost everytime now...

for me, I think it's a seasonal thing - they tend to cluster in certain months - although this one I just had is a little earlier than usual.

yes I beleive so too.. ususally i get really tough days dealing with it.
It seems I can't ignore it... my treshold pain is quite cool and I never get bothered easily. something tells me i need to see an opthalmologist this couls be the cause of all these headaches.. and yeah blood pressure sometimes!

[Pegasus]

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I rarely get either headaches or migraines. I'll have muscles cramp up on me from stress, but I've learned how to deal with that. *g* Gives me an excuse to drag out the old hot water bottle and use it for a neck pillow or put it at my feet. Makes me feel like a kid again.

Peg

[Horus_Kol]

migraines are nothing like headaches... they are very focussed - somewhere in the front of the brain... and somewhat akin to having a hot needle lancing your brain... sensitivity to light... nausea (to the point of actually throwing up)... and (for me at least) painkillers have next to no effect...

they can last anywhere from an hour to a couple of days.

sometimes you get a warning - in the form of flashes or spots in your eyes - the oddest effect I had was when the upper left half of my left eye could not see anything but pure white - that was really weird...

the light effects usually hit a couple of hours before th migraine - but other pre-effects can start a couple of days ahead - sleepiness and change of mood... but this doesn't really give much of a warning, because you could just be tired.

[Juparis]

Interesting--I guess I've had migraines after all, thought I just thought of them as bad headaches.. That sensitivity to light is what caught my attention. I've had those at the worst of times, but luckily none while I was driving at night...

[Pegasus]

<sigh> I never have any fun. I just get the odd headache, never migraines. <shrug> Oh, well. I'll just have to try harder then. ;)

Peg

[mandelbrot]

My partner suffers from migraines now and again. She tends to go to bed and put a dark damp face cloth over her brow and eyes, shut the curtains and lie on top of the covers. They tend to reduce her to tears. She does avoid certain dairy products like cheese and full cream milk etc, and can't usually predict when she'll get one.

Horus, I feel for you if you get in the same state as my partner. Chin up, mate, and stay away from the cheese! ;)

I tend to suffer from eye strain (usually from long spans goggling at a screen) which causes intensley painful headaches in the top of my head just off centre to either side. They may only last a couple of seconds but the pain is usually quite nasty. The doc says it's a symptom of eye strain, the optician says I've got perfect vision and shouldn't get pains like this for eye strain, anyway - see the doctor! LOL! Professionals agreeing to disagree!

It is quite a while since I've had a pain like that (touch wood), but I'll just blame the doc and optician if my head explodes!

[Horus_Kol]

I've had arguments with opticians before...

i've since discovered why...

when I was 15 or 16, i started getting small headaches and was getting tired eyes from reading and such - so my folks took me to the optician.
he diagnosed me as being slightly long-sighted, and in need of minor correction (about a quarter diopter, which is the weakest correction going) - so I started wearing glasses.
Every year, I've gone for my checkup, and about every other one, my prescription has gotten stronger by another quarter diopter.
not every check has been with the same optician.

About 5 or 6 years after i'd first started wearing glasses, one optician said "oh yeah, it's a slight condition, and doesn't need correction". Excuse me? I'd had three different opticians in the past prescribe me correction.... "oh, they were wrong"... I countered with the symptons i experienced when i was absent-minded enough to forget my glasses (it really does wear you down), and she tried to pass it off as "simply overuse" - but then why were the symptons not as severe as when I wore glasses.
I demanded that I would take my prescription, and get correction, and she acquiesced...
several more opticians have since vindicated my stance.

since then, I discovered that there is a slightly worrying belief amongst some opticians that you shouldn't correct weak offsets (less than a diopter), as it is thought that this would merely weaken the muscles which control the lens, and therefore worsen the condition.
The majority of opticians realise that this may be true in a small number of cases, but the majority of weak offsets are the beginnings of the progressive degeneration in focus that most people suffer through their lives, and not correcting causes eye-strain and in fact will speed the worsening of the problem...

Still - like all fields - it is impossible for any one person to really know everything there is to know about opthalmogy, and so they only know what they have been taught at school/college/university, and from reading journals...