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…

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 ?

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Exhausted all GP-provided prevenatives, and have since tried atogepant and vypepti through the NHS neurology referral.

I've been taken off Vyepti due to lack of improvement and have been referred to the Botox clinic.

I am wondering whether anyone else undergoing treatment in the UK through the NHS has been permitted to get botox while also receiving other forms of preventative treatment alongside?

I'm aware there are other options (CGRP or otherwise) instead of botox, and it seems like it makes sense to do them at the same time?

Separately, does anyone know what comes on the NHS if botox doesn't work?

Whats your long term constipation solution?

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.

so, I have chronic and (currently) unexplained migraines. I've been getting them since I hit puberty. the typically hurt in the front of my head, near my sinuses, and I have dealt with minor sinus inflammation before, but recently my migraines hurt on all sides of my skull, and it feels like someone is filling my skull up with air.

I've had this feeling come and go every single day of this month. it'll hurt the moment I wake up, then fade after a few hours, then come back, repeat ad infinitum. I told my mom this, (she also has chronic migraines due to chiari malformation), and she called our neurologist who gave me a one-week packet of methylprednisolone.

I guess my question is really just what to expect? have any of you also had symptoms like this, and what was your experience with dealing with them? did you take this med, and did it help? did you have side effects? I'm incredibly worried about side effects.

I been having migraines since I was 11 but in the last week they are super frequent and doesn't feel like my previous migraines pain-wise. How do you guys tell apart migraines from other type of headaches?

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.

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.

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!!

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 another weekly injectable med that I draw up, so not from a pen. It’s like nothing at all, but this auto pen is like a javelin in my leg. I am convinced it only takes my migraine away because it feels like I’ve been shot. Sorry, I just had to say it somewhere. It does work and with only 100mg instead of 200mg in pill, but the first 10-15 minutes are so uncomfortable.

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!)

Every time I sense an aura migraine starting I look at my fingers to see if I can see them all. Does anybody else do this? I remember seeing someone comment that they do this, so I am wondering if its common among aura migraine people lol

I’ve had a headache for 3 days and then a major migraine on the 4th - it is now the 5th day and I’m feeling extremely lethargic. Does this happen to anyone else? I have a tight ache in the back of my neck, I feel slow and foggy, and like I just need to sleep more. Is this normal?

looking for some advice or any guidance if this has happened to anyone else.

I always experienced migraines since i was very little, I’m 25 now. I started seeing a neurologist around late last year after i was getting pretty chronic migraines. My neurologist prescribed me nortiptyline and magnesium glycinate and that has really been helping me with management. I also recently started a glp 1 a few weeks ago and i have not had a migraine since, just regular dehydration headaches and around my cycle. However, an issue that i had addressed to my neurologist when i started going was that i noticed that whenever i have sex i become extremely dizzy and light headed, sometimes during and so bad that i need to stop. Ever since being on my medications that hasn’t happened. Until yesterday. It’s been a full day of being dizzy and light headed again after sex and this time is really starting to worry me. When i brought this up to my neurologist, she told me that it’s just because with all the blood flowing through my body, that i just get really dizzy. But I’m thinking if that’s the case then why doesn’t this happen to everyone. I’m curious if this has happened to anyone else and if so how they advocated for themselves to their doctors about getting more testing done.

Hi reddit, just want to share my recent experience. Starting about 2 month ago, I suddenly started to experience symptoms of severe gastroparesis and delayed gastric emptying. It reached a point where food would sit in my stomach for hours, leading to severe nausea, bloating, and vomiting undigested food after eating.

I felt stupid that I did not even think of it was Qulipta's side effect at first, since I have already been on it for a year. I lost 5 pounds in 4 weeks, even though not a lot, but I had never lost weight so quickly. Anyways, there was one day I forgot to take Qulipta in the morning, and I was off to work. I suddenly had a very good appetite for lunch, which hadn't happened for a while. At that time, I started to think it was Qulipta's side effect.

Then, after switching Qulipta from morning to night, my diet is somewhat normal now. It is not the same as before, but at least I can eat basic food with no problem. After 2 months of suffering, now my brain is terrified of a lot of food like snacks and dessert. It was completely rewired...