donnajean

So true! My headaches got much better when I retired from teaching & was able to start drinking more water. Many don't realize teachers can't take bathroom breaks whenever they want.

0tis

Usually I try the hot showers, hot packs on my eyes - excedrin migraine (otc) and keep quiet in a dark room lying down. Mine usually last 3 days - if I am lucky they last less. One doc told me that stress - working with my hands etc - causes the muscles to tighten up and they come from your shoulders and wind around to the front of your head and cause these pains - well I have been working non stop on 3 quilts for the last week - I don't know - I have always been prone to headaches - thought after I had sinus surgery (about 10yrs ago) that they would go away. Nope. I don't work right now (semi-retired) that doesn't seem to make a difference. No more monthly visits (hysterectomy - 5 yrs ago) perhaps the Doc could cut off my head. Just kidding but I am tired of these headaches.

Connie in CO

I'm so sorry for everyone who has that much pain.Once in a great while i have a headache.

QuiltMania

My mom, my youngest son and I all have migraines. We each have one of the 3 kinds of migraines -- mom has complex migraines, I have classic migraines and DS has common migraines. It is very important to keep a headache log -- every day you need to write down what you eat and drink, how much sleep you get, what the weather is like and whether you have a headache. You also need to write down what symptoms you are experiencing. Then take all that information to a good neurologist who specializes in migraines. DS never got any real relief until we went to the Michigan Neurological and Head Pain Clinic in Ann Arbor.

sueisallaboutquilts

Same here. I have great sympathy for those of you who get them. I've been very lucky. My Mom and sis had wicked ones but I never did.

plainpat

Migranes started when I had a hysterectomy....in fact they started in the hospital..My medical file says "hormone related".They'd wake me at 4am, last exactly 24hrs,then start redceding. From beginning to end it was about 3 days wasted.They put me in bed & what terrible things they are. No wonder they're called sick headaches!

Nothing worked until the Dr prescribed pills that dissolve under the tongue at 1st sign.Mine would come in bunches, every day for a wk was the worst.Now, it's mostly one at a time.I tried for yrs to find the triggers, keeping records.The thing that helped the most was avoiding all artificial sweetners.That is the only thing that works for me.

Sadiemae

I had terrible migraines until I had my hysterectomy. I very rarely get them now, maybe one a month. I have tried some of the drugs and many home remedies, but for some strange reason the thing that works best for me is Excedrin Migraine and a regular Coke. It has to be Coke, no other brand will work for me. I try to keep a Coca Cola in the refrigerator so it is there when I need it.

NCquilter

I get terrible migraines. It seems to run in the family. I get them so bad that I usually end up vomitting and then that makes my head hurt even worse. I've tried different migraine meds, but nothing seems to knock them out. Normally I just have to get away from light and sound.

Ramona Byrd

.The thing that helped the most was avoiding all artificial sweetners.That is the only thing that works for me.[/quote]
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Very few people really believe that the artificial sweeteners are as bad as they really are. Aspartame is the worst, and there's new ones coming out every so often, as well as the worst ones being renamed. Aspartame is being re named Amino Sweet...doesn't that sound delicious? And High Fructose Corn Syrup is being renamed, they are removing the High Fructose part of it. Too many people getting ideas about how bad it is.

My migraines ran in our family, most of our large family had or has them. And my Mother remarked that her father would come walking home from plowing, with his hands over his eyes and throwing up as he came home to lie down in a dark room.

I generally carry a codeine type of prescription with me when I travel, but now can stop it in the very early stages with aspirin or willow bark, but sometimes I wake up with one and that is hard to get rid of. I try to vary the over the counter pain killers because of their own damages when over done.

plainpat

I seldom drink soda, but even then, it's never diet soda or any food with artificial sweetners.
So far as I could find out, I am the only one in my family with migranes.They are rare as I get older.Probably have no hormones left :)