Migraine sufferers

[sharkeeper]

Just feel a little light headed now, the pain hasn't begun. Well I take that back as I'm typing this it is starting! I don't remember seeing an aurora like this in a really long time. This sucks too because the only thing I have available is oxycodone and ibuprofen!

 

[Kalvin00]

Yes. I get auroras which make me feel sick for about 15 mins before a migraine...then about 15 mins no symptoms...then BAM, pain, nausea, etc..

 

[rh71]

yes for auras here. Take your pills right when you get them and it minimizes suffering. I use Zomig and it works wonders for me.

What caused it for you ? Did you have any MSG foods ?

 

[olds]

Sometimes

 

[grrl]

No, only nauseousness and photosensitivity for me.

 

[cjgallen]

Yes

 

[James3shin]

i don't get migraines, but I have experienced some pretty painful headaches focused near the back of my head slightly to the left. Its probably a tumor but hey whatever.

 

[sharkeeper]

What caused it for you ? Did you have any MSG foods ?

Good question on the cause. I haven't had this happen in a really long time.

Don't even get me started on food!

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper

What caused it for you ? Did you have any MSG foods ?

Good question on the cause. I haven't had this happen in a really long time.

Don't even get me started on food!

after you start getting killer ones (almost literally) multiple times a year, you'll want to figure out why. Took me over a year.

 

[sharkeeper]

after you start getting killer ones (almost literally) multiple times a year, you'll want to figure out why. Took me over a year.

Had that happen nearly six years ago. Walking along then all in a sudden BAM! Felt like someone jabbed me in the back of my head with an icepick. Next thing I remember was waking up in a hospital bed. After a CT, MRI and a spinal tap nothing was found. A few months later and the problem went away although I still on occasion get much more typical headaches perhaps once a month if that.

The auroras are gone and the pain is dull but here I wait for the thunder to come! Hopefully it does not.

 

[Whitecloak]

never

 

[cirthix]

no, i don't

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Yes. I get auroras which make me feel sick for about 15 mins before a migraine...then about 15 mins no symptoms...then BAM, pain, nausea, etc..

Identical. I guess if auroras are eye swirls etc in the eye, definitely. Sometimes that eye would completely black out as well and my arm may go numb. Within 1/2 hour of them starting, a boulder would seem to land on my head. Once I vomitted tho, it stopped getting worse.

 

[gabemcg]

I thought it said "Margarine Sufferers..."

 

[dug777]

when i used to get them i did. At that stage i'd take as much painkiller as possible, then go to bed.

 

[dr150]

Wow. I never knew migraines could cause aurora effect.

I get headaches regularly. Sometimes really bad ones (which until reading this thread thought were migraines).

I kill it with Excedrine.

 

[cherrytwist]

I'm having one right now.

I've had visual migrainse since I was a child. I had no idea what was going on until I was about 20 or so and was able to find info online about them. (Yes I had told doctors about them as a kid, except I thought it was a vision problem).

Generally mine do not cause significant pain. But I do have painful migraines, too.

I can barely read the screeen atm.

 

[rh71]

I was about to go into my whole migraine-experience schpiel (sp?) and noticed it was an old thread (to which I've already replied)... but I'll add this - I find it funny that the process is so alike in so many of us yet they (the doctors) have yet to figure out the real cause for migraines.

 

[cherrytwist]

Originally posted by: rh71
I was about to go into my whole migraine-experience schpiel (sp?) and noticed it was an old thread (to which I've already replied)... but I'll add this - I find it funny that the process is so alike in so many of us yet they (the doctors) have yet to figure out the real cause for migraines.

yeah I actually used the search button

Aurora (or is it aura?) is pretty much gone now within the last couple of minutes.

Unfortunately, visual migraines are the least of my health concerns. But they are fascinating.