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The worst pain you’ve experienced
webny99:
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--- Quote from: webny99 on November 02, 2022, 10:05:06 AM ---I must confess to not knowing that migraines were different than really bad headaches. I used to get migraines, or at least what I called migraines, quite often in elementary and middle school. I still get them occasionally, but much less often. They usually develop in the afternoon or evening, so I don't usually treat it other than to sleep it off if it's really bad. Fortunately I've never fainted though, and never had one last for more than a day.
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Generally, besides the headache, other common migraine symptoms are nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and "auras" (which Mayo Clinic describes as "flashes of light, blind spots, and other vision changes or tingling in your hand or face").
My wife's migraines often last for a week or more at a time. Although it's really hard to tell when one stops and the next one starts. It's easier to count the days when she doesn't have a migraine rather than when she does.
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Yep, sensitivity to sound and especially light are symptoms I've had as well. There have been times when I felt nauseous as well, but fortunately that hasn't happened in several years.
I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully you're able to find some sort of treatment because that sounds like no fun at all.
kphoger:
Considering that the cause(s) of migraines isn't well understood, and that the definition of it is based more on symptoms than anything else, it's completely reasonable to think that what works to kick it for one person might make it worse for another person. My wife has to take Advil right away, at the first sign (which for her is shimmering in her peripheral vision), and then lie down in the dark.
Scott5114:
I checked with my wife, and she specified that what her doctor told her was that NSAIDs make rebound headaches more likely. That is, her doctor is worried that having too much of a NSAID in her system (i.e. the amount needed to make a severe headache to go away) will cause her body to react by giving her another headache. This, of course, would just lead to a spiral of more and more headaches.
I suppose if a person can take a small enough dose of a NSAID to avoid a rebound headache and still end the initial migraine, it's probably actually helpful. It's just that my wife's migraines are bad enough that's not possible, so she has to use non-NSAID medications like tryptans. And not all NSAIDs are equally likely to cause a rebound—naproxen (Aleve) is less likely to than ibuprofen (Advil) is.
kphoger:
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 02, 2022, 12:52:28 PM ---I checked with my wife, and she specified that what her doctor told her was that NSAIDs make rebound headaches more likely. That is, her doctor is worried that having too much of a NSAID in her system (i.e. the amount needed to make a severe headache to go away) will cause her body to react by giving her another headache. This, of course, would just lead to a spiral of more and more headaches.
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I believe that's in line with current medical understanding of migraines.
adventurernumber1:
Thankfully I've never had migraines, but my dad does occasionally. The migraines are usually the worst whenever we're at a high altitude (such as a trip to Colorado in the mountains). He avoids eating certain things such as chocolate because those have been triggers in the past, and is very diligent (my mom baked cookies for Halloween that were mainly chocolate chip but also made a batch of peanut butter cookies for my dad). Migraines are definitely an extra league than normal headaches and are surely not fun in the least.
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