Need advice with Tension/Migraine Headaches

[rainplace]

Biofeedback. I had a client whose daughter did her phd on the effects of thermal biofeedback on migraines. The gist is to learn how gain some control of your circulatory system and increase the warmth in your hands. This decongests the blood in the head and redirects it through the body. There is a lot of information on the web on how to do this as well as tons of scholarly papers from prestigious universities that have done tests to prove its value.

My mom suffered from migraines for many years. After a few biofeedback sessions she's been almost migraine free for years.

 

[Krysstyllanthrox]

I just got back from my GP with a scrip for Imitrex.

Mine are stress related.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Home grown

Gets rid of the nausea you get with migraines too. Maybe someday it will be legal.

 

[SarahFair]

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It is in Cali mannnn....

 

[cluckychick]

I use a cocktail of Benadryl and Excedrin Migraine relief for my really bad headaches. A dark room and sleep.

I take Excedrin Migraine breakfast, lunch and dinner and sometimes late at night for a dessert. I would say I'm addicted to them. My doc told me to switch one out with a regular tylenol and then work the other one out a couple weeks later. It didn't work, headaches just got worse. Whether from the knowledge of knowing they weren't excedrin or from no caffiene in them. Either way my doc said their were worse things I could be addicted to.

 

[19Dawn76]

Percogesic. I know Walgreens and USA Drugs carries it. Pharmacist recommended it when I used to have migraines.

 

[Fudgie]

Can you find triggers for the migraines. I know with mine cheese and milk trigger them. If I eat a bowl of cereal with milk in it, WHAMMO by noon I am on the ground and under the weather for a whole day. Same with cheeses. Whales crackers OMG don't even go there. I love em and they don't love me! Stress makes them worse. I have YET to find anything that gets rid of them.

Funny the doc said, using this medicine, do you feel normal....I said what the heck IS normal. I have lived with these so long I don't KNOW normal!

 

[ChooksChick]

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I have had a few different massage therapists, and the one who is fairly brutal, practically a rolfer, is the one whose work seems to have the most immediate, long-lasting effect. It's an hour and a half, too, whereas most are about an hour around here, so it's a bit more intensive.

My wacky little Chinese doc who does the acupuncture and chiropractic adjustments is about the same effectiveness, and I like to alternate between the two types of treatment when I'm getting bad.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Excellent advice. When I worked at the chiro office, a man came in that had suffered from migraines for 35 years. After a few short weeks of adjustments, he was pain free. He said we had no idea what it meant to be able to wake up pain free. He was on very powerful presciptions, and was able to stop them all. I just thought that was miraculous.

 

[Boyd]

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It is in Cali mannnn....

In Michigan too. But with the kids I take in, there's no way I could go that route