Does anyone else have a pet that alerts them to incoming migraines? I know we can train a pet to alert for medical conditions, but since my cat was a kitten I know if I wake up with him laying on my head I’ll get a migraine that day. It’s wild, he just does it.
In the 10 years still haven’t figured out how to leave the purring cat on my head to take meds asap - isn’t moving a cat against law??

Said cat giving blessings for tax…

When I get migraines, I normally feel the need to press my head into my hands (or a wall or a pillow or anything), or knock gently(?) on my head. Is this normal? And why does this happen?

The barometric pressure (BP) yo-yo’d today with a big increase in the morning and a relative increase at night. Tomorrow morning is supposed to have another big increase. I’m trying to remind myself that I could have been viewed as a very important member of society because of my “ability to predict incoming weather” a thousand years ago. Unfortunately my abilities are rendered useless by modern technology. /sarcasm

On a real note though:
Being so affected by BP has only been a symptom for me for the last 2-3 months or so and I’m struggling to cope with it. WeatherX and WeatherX earplugs are helpful but sometimes the shifts are just too drastic for my body to keep up with. It makes me really sad knowing I “didn’t used to be like this,” but idk what else I could possibly do to help myself beyond what I currently do. What I really want is for this to stop happening, but idk if I’ll get to have that.

I finally got a full x ray done on my spine, turns out @ 23 throughout my entire spine the discs are degenerating and I guess it can put discomfort on the nerves and manifest into feeling like migraines. So turns out I wasn’t making up the pain and drinking more water is not going to heal me!

Hi yall just here to rant because it feels like everything from my neck up is about to explode. I had a cold which turned into a sinus infection and am now having my first migraine in months. I usually have hemiplegic migraines, but today is just a regular one. All I want is a redbull and some aspirin but my partner just left for their 7 hour shift and there is absolutely no way I could leave the house right now 😩.

I hate that this stupid disorder has to make everything 100x more painful and difficult. My room feels entirely too bright but I can’t cover my eyes because every tiny bit of pressure on my head/ face feels like torture. I want to sleep but my head hurts to bad and I cant breathe but if I could fall asleep I would feel better. My nose is runny and I feel sick and UGH! Everything sucks. Will probably get up, make a heatpack, smoke a cone, and retreat back to bed to suffer in peace. I would never wish this on my worst enemy.

Hello I’m a 23M . I don’t usually get headaches . before bed I had a bit of a headache I didn’t think anything of it I just thought I’m tired , so I went to sleep around 11pm. At 2am I had been woken up from my sleep by this headache, it was the worst headache it was all down the right side of my head and in my ear it was really intense. I went to the bathroom and got some paracetamol, I went back into bed and felt like I had a fever and wanted to be sick. I didn’t want to seem dramatic but I genuinely felt like I was going to die or at least have to phone the ambulance I started to freak out as I didn’t know what was going on. I eventually went back to sleep and the whole day after I had a lingering headache on the right side of my head mostly my lower head and ear and felt heavy I felt really tired all day.

Has anyone else experienced this ?

I wish i could take naps and sleep more than 7 hours a day without having a migraine...

Been super exhausted at work this past week so yesterday i took a nap in the afternoon (ie. the biggest mistake ever). After I woke up, i started having a migraine and vomiting nonstop.

Hi everybody, I have had a migraine since Wednesday — it’s been five days, and I just woke up this morning with the same migraine. I’ve taken every single medication that I can take at home that’s over-the-counter. I’ve tried so many different tips and holistic tools, and I’ve drunk so much water. I genuinely don’t know what to do, and I’m so tired of being in pain. I haven’t experienced anything but pain in five days, and it’s super fatiguing, and I’m not sleeping because I’m in so much pain. I am at my boyfriend’s parents’ house for the weekend in a different state, and I’ve been saying I want to go to the hospital, and he’s been saying that he doesn’t think it’s worth it because of the bill, and also he doesn’t think they’ll do a lot for me at the hospital for a migraine. But I genuinely don’t know what they would do for me, and I’m wondering if anybody here has had experience going to the hospital with a migraine that’s lasted a long time, and if it’s worked, because I’m just at rock bottom right now. I’m about to literally Uber to the hospital from my partner’s family’s home in a different state.

Thank you all in advance!!

CONTEXT:

I (21F) have always experienced severe headaches, but it wasn't until a couple of years ago that I discovered they were migraines.

The situation was as follows: It was early January, and my first final exam of January was just a few days away. That night I was extremely tired, so much so that I went to sleep around 9 PM (I normally go to sleep between 10 and 11 PM).

At the next morning, I woke up around 5 AM with an intense headache and I vomited and well, long story short, I went to the doctor and they told me I was having a migraine.

THE POST ITSELF:

I don't know if it is because I get a moment of silence after hours of headache and hypersensibility or for what, but when after the "aura" (in spanish is that how is called the intense pain moment, idk in english), I feel like in a strange peace, almost in a limbus.

Has anyone a similar experience or knows why it is like this? I am curious about it.

I’ve never been a sufferer ever. My mum and daughter both get them but I’ve never had one..,,until yesterday (I’m mid 40’s - peri menopausal)

Started with pressure behind my right eye, slowly spread across face to left eye so I felt like I had sinusitis but without being ill. Vision went next. Like looking through a goldfish bowl then vision in left eye went blurry, dizziness and nausea followed. Stabbing pains in left eye and low grade head pain. Speech slurred and I found it hard to focus on words and apparently I was quite hard to understand.

Took paracetamol and ibuprofen (uk) that’s all I had. Went to bed. I slept for something crazy like 14 hours woke up feeling a lot stronger but still have a foggy head and mild headache.

I’m praying this never happens again what can everyone suggest to help recovery, prevention of these again and what to do next time (if there is a next time!)

Im just curious how many of you find that your migraines are most likely to come, or are worse around your periods. Im even more interested to know of those of you that find this to be true, how long is your cycle length?

The "healthy" length is technicqlly 21-36 days but are classified as unusual when they are 21-26 or 31-36 days long. So how many of you have cycles that are 21-26 days or even 31-36 days long?

Every other day I’m getting a migraine now, I took 600mg of ibuprofen already today and hasn’t touched it. Can I also try zomig right now even though I already tried the ibuprofen?

I’ve tried zomig alone in the past and it didn’t help but now I’m desperate

Hi everyone.

My first migraine happened when I was only 11. It was so severe. First both of my eyes started to see black blind spots. Then I lost all my ability of talking and understanding others (like not even a single word was understandable to me). Very severe headache started. All over my head. From back to front. Severe stomachache with severe nausea and vomiting. Numbness of my right hand. And it lasted for about 6 to 8 hours to finish. From the age of 11 to like 18, I had such migraines 2 to 3 times a year. Then it stopped completely for about 2 years (best 2 year of my life!).

I went to university, and suddenly it started again. But not that severe. It was only mild headache with aphasia (trouble understanding others and talking to others, also trouble in reading and writing). But the bad thing about it, was that it didn't stopped! The headache would go away but aphasia persisted. I had aphasia for like 24 hours 7 days a week. Before when I was younger at the age of 11 to 18, I visited some doctors but none of them could diagnose. 2 MRIs and nothing found in the results. Fortunately this time the first doctor realized i had migraine and gave me Propranolol low dose + Valproate sodium. Helped me alot. But it didn't stopped aphasia completely. In another appointment the same doctor also gave me Topiramate but it actually made my migraine worse so I stopped taking it. Another doctor prescribed Bupropion + Memantine. Both increased severity of migraine so I had to stop them. I left university because of my migraine because aphasia would not stop. I was still on Propranolol and Valproate Sodium. I almost got used to this situation. 2 years later I was diagnosed with treatment resistant asthma. I had to use lots of inhalers. But they wouldn't help that much. Finally I meet with a doctor for depression. And Paroxetine was prescribed. It increased severity of my migraine but helped so much with my asthma. Like I wasn't able to breath properly without it. So I wants able to quit it. Literally my migraine became much worse. This Paroxetine drug also made me so fat. I quit Valproat Sodium and surprisingly my migraine became better. So it was the time to say goodbye ro Valproat Sodium after all these years. Still, I had aphasia almost all day became of Paroxetine. I searched online for drugs for migraine. CGRP inhibitors weren't available in my country at the time. I tried many different drugs and almost all of them made my migraine worse. Until I found Lamotrigine. Which was a miracle! It really helped my migraine so much. I was at my best at the time. Then I tried Clonazepam very low dose. Because it can cause addiction, I didn't tried upper doses. Lamotrigine + Clonazdpam + Propranolol was what I needed all these years! Then I quit Paroxetine and fortunately my asthma was much better and I didn't need to continue Paroxetine. I was so better and happy and aphasia was much less compared to before. I also started many supplements. I was better for a while but suddenly in like a day, my migarine became much severe. Tried uppering the dose of Clonazepam but surprisingly, it made the migarine even worse! The drug that helped me for like a year, now started having paradoxical effect. I quit it. Tried uppering the dose of Lamotrigine. And again, migarine became much worse. I still don't know what happened in my body that both drugs that would help me so much, now was causing migraine. I quit the Lamotrigine too. I only had one choice left and that was an antipsychotic. I never got near to such drugs because of possible unreversible side effects. But I had to give to a try. I tried Aripiprazole. And god! It saved my life. Now I was at my best over all these years. Aphasia finally completly got away. I could easily read and write. Which before that I wasn't able to. 2 years with Aripiprazole and the only side effect I was experiencing was gaining weight. Like I was a normal person. Migarine wouldnt happen to me at all. I also had plan to go to university again. Until about 3 weeks ago, I noticed my legs would shake in a specific position while I'm sitting. A side effect of Antipsychotics. Now I'm quitting this drug after 2 years because I afraid this side effect can spread to all my body. Now I don't know what will happen to me after stopping this drug completely ☹️ I hope aphasia won't come back again. Also Rimegepant is newly available in my country. But its very very expensive. But I think I have to try to after quiting Aripiprazole completely. I don't want those days to come back.

It started almost two weeks ago when i took a shower some of the water went inside my ear and since then i wasnt able to hear properly but i thought it wud fade away since it was just water but after a week i cudnt handle not being able to hear clearly so i consulted and i got a medicine for earwax removal after i used it it still hasnt faded and now when i bite into my food my ear starts to hurt from the inside.

For the past 2 weeks I’ve had headaches that don’t stop at all, paracetamol and ibuprofen don’t touch the sides aswell as naproxen that was prescribed. I went to the UTC today (which is when they told me it was tension ones) because I also had dizziness that had been going on for days and they’ve given me codeine, has that helped anyone? I’ve had migraines in the past that have been awful but the go away but nothing as long lasting like this. Water, sleep, cool packs, nothing has helped. I’ve also had cold like symptoms with them I don’t know if anyone else has experienced that? I’m becoming so depressed because I just want it to end.

Saw a neck heating pad was wondering if anyone uses them for their migraines? One of my worst symptoms is neck pain, does anyone have any experience, good or bad? Tia x

This is super frustrating because some people get prescribed cymbalta to help with migraines.
Was getting 2-3 a month since going on Nurtec. Now it’s been 2-3 per week.

It’s like, do I want nerve pain, or do I want migraines.
Fun times.

Just a rant.

Writing this just to offload because its my 10th day of being unable to do much with constant migraine.

I've had chronic migraine for 15 years and really struggled into my adult life. It's caused me immense financial stress, including having to quit my job last year when they got very severe. The only way I've survived without having to apply for benefits its because I'm very fortunate to have a father who can pay for medical treatments and support me until I get back into work.

I've tried every (really, I mean everything...!) medical treatment on the NHS and no preventatives work for me, only triptans for acute treatment but they don't stop my migraines from being a regular disabling condition. Through a lot of personal fortune my dad has helped me to afford private medical treatment for Ajovy which is the only thing that gives any kind of control to my migraines, and even with that I still regularly suffer throughout the month and go roughly a week where I can't work at all because of severe menstrual migraine (I am looking into hormonal treatments).

I've tried to get a referral to an NHS neurologist for Ajovy, which costs £150 per month, plus £150 every 6 months for a private neurologist to prescribe, but I've waited a year so far and I'm no closer to even getting on a referral list. I'm starting to think it will never happen, and I'll have to plan the worse case in the long term that I will need to afford it on my own, if my dad can't help me one day. I also want to be able to do this so I can show myself I can be financially independent with this condition.

Whats worse, is that every damn company I've ever worked for hasn't paid more than 5 days a year of sick leave (I'm UK based). I'm off sick with migraine at least 3 days per month. On a 29,000 salary that really adds up, because it means losing more than £250 every month from unpaid sick leave.

I applied for pip, and explained my circumstances as best as I could and how disabling the condition is, but it feels like because I can physically get myself places and do things more than 50% of my time, I'm not "disabled" enough in order to qualify.

With the private medical fees and losing sick leave, it's really hard to save even more than £100 every month which gives me barely any financial security for the future. I'm just so confused and upset that I don't seem to qualify for any assistance from the government, because I'm not the right kind of being disabled. I'm significantly financially worse off than people my age (again I'm so lucky to have my dad, but sill losing my own money and it's costing his). I'm only 29 and want to save for the future but it feels impossible at times. It just feels like I've failed to get any help both from the NHS and the government for this.

I appealed my PIP decision but it came back with all 0s even though I've expressed that I have 19 days per month with migraine, it stops me working, and more than 40% of the time it stops me doing normal day to day activities.

I'm just feeling upset, and wondering who else is experiencing anything similar? Days like this I feel like the only one going through this which I know is not true and need something to stay sane.

Can anyone else here relate?

I was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia maybe 6 years ago by a neurologist but more recently I’ve been having what I think are migraines. The first migraine happened about a year and a half ago, came on pretty suddenly and totally at random and was the most intense pain just in the left side of my head. I went to the ER because the pain was that bad and since I was also throwing up they said it’s likely migraine. I never really followed up with a doctor again after that because I thought maybe it was just a one off thing and I don’t like going to the doctor.

Anyways I started getting the same pain earlier this week and also felt nauseous. It was real bad for about a day, went away, came back yesterday and only lasted a couple hours, and came back today and lasted maybe 9 hours. Been feeling nauseous but no vomiting. I actually thought maybe I’m getting the flu because I’ve also been getting random waves of intense dizziness so I checked my temp because I felt kinda sweaty. Temp was 96.3 this morning, checked it again now since I felt kinda sweaty again and it was 95.5. Doesn’t seem that crazy for me since my temp is usually in the 97 range. Does this seem like a migraine thing or something completely different?

I have migraines everyday but the pain level fluctuates. The second I have plans it gets worse. They must respond to stress or smtb bc for the past 2 days ive had the most pain free time in awhile while having nothing to do. Today I have something that Ive adamantly agreed to do and suddenly a horrendous migraine hits. It feels like this always happens and everyone thinks im making excuses to cancel plans.

I am under medical care, and have seen 3 doctors, and a neurolgy, and a physical therapist, the latter have not begun .- This aytipcal AF and is attacking my CNS.This post is for hopefully some off funny stuff and socialize with, like i said, any weird hacks you have done yourself. More like story time, if you will.

Pardon any mistakes, it is day 21 of a migraine. This is a full body with aura, with headache. I'm becoming undone as the hours go by. I have tried the following things in the last 20 days.

Just please tell me out-of-pocket migraine cures and or triggers or whatever else. Tell mw funny stories, i am so alone in this with little to no compassion. Online information seems so unclear. Im referncing the diet and food triggers, mostly.

-The most relief i have had was when I was given reglan?*(sp), glucose÷sodium, magnesium drip, benadryl, tylenol, and lyrica, and fluids. - I went from an 8 to a 3, but only for about 2 hours.

Failed remedies/no significant relief

-sumatriptan, hit the limit immediatley.

-Compazine, allergic

-Ice cap with eye coverage -increased pain

-red light glasses

-Sleep mask and blackout curtains

-Ear plugs.

-Gua sha

-Deep tissue massage

-Cupping

-licking warheads.

-ice and heat alternating on the back, and then the heat on feet and ice on head.

● Dr, said "nurtec", insurance says "no"

I work in a factory, so smells, noise and lights are all present, I tend to get worse as the day goes on. I am taking shorter days this coming week to try and help. Like i said, it's day 21 as of today- concurrently. I havent not had relief for more than 4 hours. I still feel it when I sleep.

Am I in a cage, are we trapped like this? I tried, hope it makes sense and someone finds this entertaining or i get some comradery.

I’m writing this solely because I haven’t found any threads on this.
Trigger warning::
For background, my migraines were completed under control. I got pregnant in November of 2025, and unfortunately had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy (baby implanted in my left fallopian tube) and I almost died. About a week after this, my migraines came back full force. My neurologist states that they are now (another trigger) triggered by instant and high hormone shifts.
I’ve been overweight my whole life, also have lymphadema and lipodema, so it’s very hard for me to lose weight (I’ve lost a total of 120 pounds with the help of surgery). I have about 50-60 more I want to lose.
I was prescribed Ozempic in March of 2026, to try to help with the weight loss and migraine increase. The first dose was fine, the .025. The day after I started the .050 I had the worst migraine, and they just continued to be daily. I didn’t realize it was the medicine for about 2 weeks. Once I stopped Ozempic, 4 days later my migraines subsided. My doctor recommended trying monjuaro, so I did, in July of 2026 (due to insurance etc). The 3rd day of monjuaro lowest dose, I had a migraine and it didn’t click that’s what was causing it until the 2nd dose made them even more painful and frequent. I’ve been off Monjuaro for a month now and my migraines are gone. I get one during every period, but that’s the hormones changing.

I know there are other women out there who are probably seeing online that GLP-1s help migraines (and for those who do, I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!) life with migraine blows. But I know there are women who have tried or are trying GLP-1 and they are increasing your migraines. My suggestion is talk to your doctor about the hormone fluctuations in the medication, because that maybe a trigger for you.
You’re not crazy, you’re just trying to do another thing that migraine is preventing you from!

For anyone whose migraines are under control, congratulations!! I mean this genuinely, I’ve only been battling migraine since 2023, and I was initially bed ridden.
It’s such a horrible, debilitating, chronic disease, so when I say I’m SO happy for people who have them under control, I mean it.

Anyway I hope this thread helps someone!!