Migraines

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Been having migraines off and on since Friday. This is not, in the least, fun.

Dark rooms and silence are my friends right now.

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Migraines are hell

I suffered from migraines for nearly 30 years. I never compared mine to anyone else's, but I can empathize with you. I'm praying that they will go away soon!

Sincerely,

Voldy

Hugs Rose

I also emphasise as an ex sufferer, mine stopped once I was diagnosed with high blood pressure.

Huggs
Sammi

The odd migraine still arrives

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but I don't get the with anywhere near the frequency or severity as I once did. I take a precautionary dosage of Lisinopril to protect my kidneys as a Type II Diabetic. But the medication is also prescribed for high blood pressure. Before things got better around twelve years ago, the nausea was so intense as to leave me violently ill. I can imagine how horrible it is for you because I've bee there all too frequently. Hope you find relief really soon, sweetie!

  

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

I had them when I was in

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I had them when I was in college as well. I remember heading into my dorm room (which was right by the stairwell) and trying to close off all noise and sound (try closing off sound when you're in a dorm with 100 college guys -- especially right by the stairwell!)

Anyway, I think I might have figured out the cause. I've taken the occasional nap without my CPAP the past few days. I guess being oxygen-deprived (or should that be depraved?) it took me a bit to put 2 and 2 together.

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Rosemary

I'll vote 'sleep' ...

I have >visual only< migraines, which are "not even a patch' on what you folks get ....

My 'trigger' seems to be messing up both sleep and food for about two days running.
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Please be 'good' about using the CPAP. Untreated sleep apnea can cause both acute and long-term problems.

Good luck to all!

Ahhh the Curse of the Female Half

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The majority of migraines are the curse of being a woman. The migraines also differ in kind and severity. Oh foolish woman, you thought a migraine was a migraine? Contare' my love. Some people have the worse kind with noise, light, movement, virtually everything makes it more severe. It's totally debilitating for the poor soul. Call a time out because horizontal, bed, no movement, nothing. Bliss is if they can doze off. It's the only relief. Well, other than the drugs that will knock out a horse. It seems most medicine loses effect when these kind of migraines happen.
On the other end of the spectrum is the throbbing headache, the hard to focus. She can stand light but not bright lights. She can stand sound but soft sounds. Nausea or vertigo may or may not be associated with the low end. Aspirin or Excedrin in normal dose won't touch it. Loaded with a mild tranquilizer and quadruple the amount of Aspirin or Excedrin will give relief on the mild migraines. If there is such a thing as mile migraine. Some people have them in clusters, one right after another over a period of days. Others have them infrequently.
As much as medical science knows, migraines are still a mystery. I strongly suspect it is like looking at a forest and thinking they are all the same kind of tree. A tree is a tree, right? And so it is with migraines, they aren't the same and they aren't triggered by the same problem.
Hugs People
Barb
Life is a gift, treasure it.
PS:
Net has been down for three days so I couldn't harass anyone. Life is cold and cruel.

Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl

The ones I got in college

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The ones I got in college were the kind where it literally felt the only relief would be to hit the damned spot in my head with a knitting needle. Any light or noise would make things much, much worse. I had to lay down with my head buried in my pillow, for as long as my pillow was cooler than my skin. They were horrible, but when they were over, they were gone completely. I've had giant headaches since before I was ten years old, some of which combined with Tourettes to cause havoc with my teachers (while Tourettes isn't well understood now, it was even less so when I was a kid).

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Rosemary

Banning Perfume

One of my employees suffered from migraines. At that time I had about forty employees in that particular office.

She came to me and told me that she felt allergic to scent.

If you read my stories you may have detected my love of perfume. It was a sad day for me when I had to ban all perfume and colognes from our office. But it worked.

I hope your solution works. By the way -- all my employees work from home now so I can wear perfume every day.

Jill

Angela Rasch (Jill M I)

I can understand. Being a

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I can understand. Being a music director, I understand how perfumes and colognes can affect people. When I direct a choir at a church, many women are not appreciative when I request that they not wear perfumes in the choir. Sunday is a day for people to dress up, and even more so when the choir is doing a cantata or program for Easter or Christmas.

But it is a necessity. Some people simply don't react well to perfumes, and when you're trying to sing or play a wind instrument, you like to breathe. Seems silly, I know.

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Honestly, I enjoy perfume very much myself. One of my kids has absolutely no sense of smell, and I've had to get on his case over and over about showering and deodorant. I hate doing that, but I cannot handle bad smells at all. I start to retch. When I drove truck, I also smoked, and the smell of diesel and cigarette smoke has a horrible effect on me. I believe when I quite smoking, my sense of smell came back in spades.

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Rosemary

Ouch...

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I know the feeling. Been waking up with migraines a lot lately. Excedrin is my BEST friend now.

I remember the Tylenol scare

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I remember the Tylenol scare from when I was a teen. Someone was injecting cyanide I believe it was, into Tylenol bottles. I'm so glad that we don't have that problem now. Tylenol has been very kind lately.

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Rosemary