I never would have thought watermelon would be one of my migraine triggers. I ate a bunch of it on Friday, and woke up on Saturday with an aura that progressed to a full on migraine. Does watermelon trigger anyone else’s migraines?
I've been getting a lot more migraines recently, my doctor and I are trying to figure out new meds for me, I was previously on Topimax but it interferes with my birth control.
I've always been pretty active, I swim and lift weights. Lately with the increase of migraines it's been more difficult to work out. My migraines don't usually last for longer than 48 hours but the day after a migraine I'm often just a lump, making sure I don't cause a rebound migraine.
If I'm getting even just one migraine a week, that's three days gone.
My Instagram algorithm pushes a lot of fitness influencers at me and they all say "you gotta be going to the gym 3-5 times a week if you want to see progress" but I literally can't.
I just find it frustrating that I don't really see anyone talking about how hard it is to stay properly active when you have migraines.
I’m at the end of my rope here. I’m 14 weeks pregnant with my second baby and experiencing debilitating migraines lasting around 3 days. I previously used Nurtec and it worked perfectly for me. My neuro advised not to take it during pregnancy. I am taking magnesium supplements daily and also prescribed/take zofran and reglan (because I also have hyperemesis… lucky me). I did an occipital nerve block around 20 days ago and have experienced 2 migraines since so I’m really not sure that it worked. After a miserable night of my second migraine I researched all day and caved and took my Nurtec against my drs advice. It worked like a charm and I was pain free. I’ve read so many accounts of people who took Nurtec while pregnant and even some neuros approving them but I’m still so nervous. I’m in another migraine cycle and dying to reach for my Nurtec again but trying to tough it out. Anyone else in the same boat? Ugh
I can see my upcoming promotion slipping away from my fingers as I battle brain fog and 24/7 grogginess and make mistakes that my supervisor has to catch 2x a day ahhhhhhhhhh
Already messaged my neurologist to try another preventative 💀 I told her I’d rather have the migraines than these side effects (gasp!)
Anyone else smell cigarettes when in migraine mode? I absolutely hate it. Non smoking house. Neighbors dont smoke. Just the smell of cigarettes to enhance my migraines.
meds. I went on a road trip about 17 days ago at this point but symptoms didn’t start till 12 days ago. It was a 13 hour road trip and I slept like this and in other strange ways too about half of it on and off. It started with this numb scalp feeling, then a bad headache and since then has been in and off headaches, tingling numbness in scalp, pressure begging eyes, weird numbness in my forehead and pressure in my forehead, tension headaches, it seems like in some ways I have always been in pain since then. The headaches come and go but I have bad neck pain that is pretty persistent. , my temples hurt to push on and that comes and goes, and there is a spot on my neck, mainly on the left that hurts quite bad to the touch. The day before all of this started I also had teeth pain, which was not normal for me and I’m wondering if it’s connected? I attached a photo of my neck pain area that hurts very bad to press on and a photo of how I slept for the heck of it
Hey everyone, just curious- what are you currently taking for migraines (both prevention and when an attack hits), and what’s actually helping you?
Would love to hear what’s worked, what hasn’t and anything you had to stop because of side effects.
Ok so literally have nowhere else to ask lol but my fellow long hair people, how the heck are we styling it w/o giving ourselves migraines? It makes me SOO sad that I have all this beautiful hair and I can't ever have it up in any cute styles longer than 30 minutes before my head starts hurting. 😢
So if anyone here has any ideas please send them my way!!
Tried several apps and they all want lots of information. I just want to mark that I had a migraine and nothing else.
I get why people want to track more details, but I just want a simple app that I can then use to let my doctor know how many migraines I had.
Thanks
I’ve been battling migraines for a while, and this week have been utter hell.
Suddenly remembered some articles I read last year (before getting the migraines) about magic mushrooms doing wonders on people with migraine.
Painkillers don’t do shit, sumatriptan from my doc is not that effective either, so I took a gamble, found my old stash and took about 1/20 of a regular dose (0.15 gram psilocybe cubensis, _way_ below a dose for a trip), and in 45 minutes, the migraines that lasted 2.5 days dissolved away.
Here a week later, when I returned, I just did the same, and it totally vanished again.
Whether it’s something other should do, I’ll leave to them to chose, but I just want to put out there that this little mushroom has amazing anti-migeaines properties, in doses way below what you would take to trip.
Maybe someone can use the info.
Adding some sources, so you can see this ain’t just the rambling of a mad hippie.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10561985/
https://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/psilocybin-migraines-treatment-research
I’m a side sleeper with chronic migraines (4–5 days a week at-least ), and I’m also a very light sleeper. I’m super sensitive to both sound and any kind of discomfort, and once my sleep gets disrupted, it takes me a long time to fall back asleep.
I’m trying to find earplugs that are comfortable enough for side sleeping (no pressure/pain) but still block enough noise to prevent wake-ups.
If anyone here has a similar situation (especially migraines + sensitivity), what earplugs have worked best for you? Please suggest me, I am in desperate need!
From what I can tell, there is some evidence on quercetin, copper, magnesium and calcium. All three are good at stabilizing mast cell membranes. Calcium, copper and magnesium have helped me a lot. Some have suggested bee pollen supplements can help but that seems very experimental.
I have all the classic signs of mast cell sensitivities but all of my blood tests come back normal. Foods high in tyramine usually give me slow forming dull headaches with neck pain. Heat, hair gel, alcohol, chocolate are all triggers. They are very mild headaches and not very painful but they also mess up my focus and cause temperature changes, fatigue and naps. My mother also has this and I have had it for like 30 years.
I hate it. It makes me feel awful and it didnt even help reduce the ‘graines. I have them multiple times a day. I dont even know what to do at this point. I had to withdraw from a college course because i just could not show up. It makes me feel like a loser 🫠 sigh!
I went to the store and couldn’t find a single one that didn’t have sucralose, stevia, monk fruit, or anything for sweetness OTHER than cane sugar. These are migraine triggers for me.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I’m desperate!!!
SO super fun times. I've had a headache nonstop for over a year that waxes and wanes into migraines of varying severity.
I've been gaining lots of fun new symptoms lately (yay woohoo) but this one is the WORST. Three weeks ago I went to bed with a migraine and woke up in the middle of the night, sat bolt upright, and did a lore accurate impression of that kid in The Exorcist.
Been dealing with frequent nausea, often severe, I have odansetron but it doesn't even help. Sometimes dissolving it in my mouth actually brings on the puke.
And now tonight, just now, I went from "kind of snackish ate some sweet potato fries" to "hm I feel a bit odd" to "Exorcist 2" in ten seconds flat. I thought "oh I might puke" and was puking one second later. No warning.
I'm afraid to leave the house. I'm worried I'll be at the store and throw up in the aisle, or in front of people, or on the ground. I don't have enough time to do anything, it's just 1-100 in seconds.
(note: my doctor knows they're back)
I (28F) had migraines that followed my hormonal cycle from ages 13-19. Like, call out of school for a week every month bad. I got an IUD at 19 and they stopped. I got a hysterectomy at 25 and they didn't come back, despite no longer being on a continuous birth control. I hit my head back in November, and the migraines have come back, but worse. I'm on leave from work because of it. I've been to urgent care three time since November because I couldn't stop vomiting from a headache, I had such bad vertigo. I can't take any NSAIDs which sucks a lot. Sumatriptan makes me black out at 25mg and it's scary. I take Depakote and Lithium for bipolar. I can't sleep from the pain which isn't helping. I don't even know where to start and everyone IRL is brushing me off.
Things I've tried:
thanks if you've read this long.
How long was your longest migraine ?
As the title suggests, I've been in recovery from chronic, daily migraines for a few years now. Something I genuinely never thought would happen to me, but it did. I am incredibly grateful to be here, I love it here, but it has also shown me what an almost lifetime (14 - 30 years old) of chronic pain has done to me mentally and physically.
I lived with migraine almost every single day, the severity would range between totally manageable to its time to go to the emergency department because nothing else is working.
I didn't just live with pain though, I lived with unmet expectations, suspicion over foods, drinks, clothes, you name it, anything could be a potential trigger. I lived with letting family and friends down through cancelled plans last minute. I lived with failed medical treatments, some that also scarred me mentally. I lived with severe depression and anxiety. Every movement , every decision, made to hopefully ease my pain or manage a trigger.
Now I live a life where I am unravelling all that damage, leaving the house for plans I am excited for, to see people I love, is almost impossible.
My body is expecting pain, it's expecting something to derail plans, whether the plans are social, or something simple like what I planned to cook for dinner. So when pain doesn't come, it throws crippling panic attacks my way. I cannot express enough how many things my body thinks is a threat, because of what used to be a threat, and how often I am left dealing with panic attacks and dissociations.
I lack connection to self, even simple things like my fashion style, as comfort was always paramount. Who has time for values, beliefs and identifying personal strengths when you're bed bound a majority of then time with disabling pain?
However, I would not trade. I am so insanely thankful that I am in a position to tackle these new issues, the hidden side effects. I am excited to live my life, even if it's hard.
So I want you all to know, if you're ever in doubt, what you are going through is a huge, huge deal. You deserve to be taken seriously, to have a medical team fighting hard for you, not just for the migraine treatment, but treating the co-morbidities.
And to anyone who is in recovery, it's okay for recovery to be hard, too. It's okay to be angry at the scars constant pain and fear of pain has left behind.