Anyone else suffer from migraines?

[Kaitie09]

Just feeling a little guilty today. I started a new job a little over a month ago and had to call off today because of a migraine. I was in bed all day yesterday (my day off), and woke up this morning still suffering. I feel guilty because I called in just an hour before I was supposed to be at work (5am). I'm over the throbbing, light sensitive part, but not my whole body is sore, sensitive, and I'm dizzy. I guess I just feel bad because I don't think my boss believed me when I said I could not get out of bed without getting sick this morning.

I'm on Propranolol for chronic headaches, and have Sumatriptan if I feel a migraine coming, but I don't get the normal symptoms (auras, black spots, etc.) I just get a headache that get progressively worse. By the time I realize it is a migraine, the Sumatriptan does not work.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

I have them. Taking the same Meds you are too. The way I do it is by taking two excedrin. If in an hour my headache hadn't eased, I take an imitrex. I've already been told its something I have to live with, and eventually the Meds will stop being effective. Hope you feel better today.

 

[Mattemma]

I had them and cluster headaches for about 8-10 years constant.It all eased up after having kids.Must have been the hormone change.Now when I get a bad one the only thing that helps is sleep.If I wake up with a headache I konw I will be having it all day despite the pain pills.

Hopefully your work will understand.Mine did not.

 

[verity]

the sumatriptan injection usually works for me --- dosage is one injection, wait two hours and another one ---

migraines are one of those things that unless you have them you don't 'get it' --- since migraines don't 'show' some people think they are 'imaginary' ----

when I have had a series of migraines, I am left feeling as if recovering from the flu --- ick ---

if you haven't tried the injections you may want to give it a shot (pun intended)

 

[RHRanch]

Don't feel guilty - people who don't believe you are just ignorant of the facts about migraines. They are absolutely similar to having a disorder like seizures, which is how I explain it to people. In fact, its no co-incidence that many meds for migraines are used for seizure disorders. Normal people have "headaches" and so they tend to think that a person with migraines gets "headaches" and so they really do not understand the severity of a migraine event. When I had my last severe migraine and I went to the hospital, they could see it occurring in the cat scan and said I was having a stroke. The strange thing about some migraine sufferers, (like me) is there is an ability for the migraine brain to recover physically (in some people, my mother had lesions on her brain from hers) and in my case, despite chronic migraines since before preschool, I do not sustain lesions and I seem to be able to "recover" physically from the incident.

 

[RHRanch]

I'm on Propranolol for chronic headaches, and have Sumatriptan if I feel a migraine coming, but I don't get the normal symptoms (auras, black spots, etc.) I just get a headache that get progressively worse. By the time I realize it is a migraine, the Sumatriptan does not work.

I don't know about your medication, but my doctor told me: 1. I don't get "normal" headaches, so any headache is a migraine, and I need to medicate it as soon as I am aware of a headache. 2. Take my meds immediately when I feel a headache, and stop what I am doing and do self care until I am sure I have stopped the migraine, then take it easy for a few days.

I also do not have auras or spots. What I have is a sudden slight headache out of nowhere that become debillitating in 15 to 30 minutes if I can't stop it. Then I vomit for hours while my head feels like someone is filling it up with a water balloon.

 

[Kaitie09]

I also do not have auras or spots. What I have is a sudden slight headache out of nowhere that become debilitating in 15 to 30 minutes if I can't stop it. Then I vomit for hours while my head feels like someone is filling it up with a water balloon.

That is what happens to me. If I do not get it stopped, I will vomit almost like clockwork every 25-30 minutes until I fall asleep. I can't tell that I have a migraine until I do start getting sick, other than that I just think that I have a bad headache. I will try to eat something first, then drink something, and then normally take a pain reliever. Tylenol and Advil do not work for me, so all I ever use is Alieve or Excedrin Migraine.

 

[twentynine]

Yes! I get them and have been getting them since childhood.

Last year, my migraines were totally out of control 100+ for the year.

Saw a new neurologist in January. Elavil at 25mgs/day, inderol ( I think that is the same as propranolol) at 120mgs/ day, depakote at 1000mgs/day. Plus, sumatriptan nose spray for rescue.

One (that's 1) migraine since January. What a relief.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Dont feel guilty its not your fualt its not like you were out till 3 parting and are to hung over to go to work your sick you cant help that.
I Have nerological headaches all the time. I mean every minute of every day I have had a day without a headache 2 times in the past 3 years pretty much though alot of the time they are not dibilitateing to the point of not being able to get out of bed though I do have plenty of days that I cant get out of bed . You cant feel guilty for what your body does cuase I dont know about yours but mine has a mind of its own.

 

[erinszoo]

I've had them since I was a child. I'm on Imitrex which works well if I catch it before I start throwing up. I get auras, black spots, light sensitivity, the whole gambit of symptoms. I went for about two years without one but I had pnuemonia five times during that period. Now I seem to get them five or six in a row over a couple of months and then none for four or five months and then another cluster of them. Bizarre ... but then so are migraines to begin with. Sometimes I just get the auras and light sensitivity and black spots but the headache never comes. Guess that's a good thing.