Migraines Sites and Remedies
This migraine diary is not a personal experience driven diary as my prior ones. This diary I hope will become an information center for migraines. Below will be a brief descriptions of sites with migraine information.This diary I hope will have a wide contribution by everyone. In other words, if you run across an article on migraines that you might feel helpful please go ahead and type a description, add the link, and you just added to the community knowledge. Also, if you have a remedy or way of treating your migraines that works for you, please feel free to share.I’ll keep adding links and remedies as I hope you will.
POSSIBLE FOOD TRIGGERS FOR MIGRAINES.
ALTERNATE TREATMENTS
Alternative Migraine Medicine
CLINICAL TRIAL STUDIES. Thanks katiebird for the link.
Clinical Trials.
It works best if the headache is caught at that pre-migraine stage (my dad stops whatever he’s doing to take a treatment when he feels those early symptoms), but it will make all headache pain more bearable even if caught in the later.
OLIVIA:
I tried all the special migraine meds but they didn’t work, so as a last resort my doc told me to take muscle relaxants … and they worked! If I catch it early enough then I’ll only get a mild headache.
Please add your Remedies and Sites in the Comments.
Whoa, family Man, you are building a great resource with this! I hope people who read it will be able to find something that gives them relief, from your story and what little else I know of this disorder, there does not seem to be a one size fits all solution.
I have seen commercials for several over the counter medications, such as Excedrin Migraine and Head-On, a strange new headache medicine in “roll-on” form, it comes in several flavors, sinus, nighttime, migraine, etc.
Having read of the hell that Family Man goes through, and other accounts of people who suffer with migraines, all the various prescription drugs that do not work for so many people, I can’t help but wonder what the purpose of these over the counter things is, I mean is their target market people who THINK that their headaches are migraines, the term to them meaning “really bad headache?”
It just seems so unlikely that anyone who really has migraines would buy a bottle of Excedrin Migraine, or the roll-on thing.
Incidentally, I read somewhere on the internets that those roll on ones contain some chemical that may be harmful, carcinogen or something…
Ductape, mister was just talking about that roll-on migraine remedy a couple of hours ago. We were wondering how it worked. But, don’t even really know how they are called (for research purposes). If we’re collecting conversational coincidences. And, I guess, if they involve carcinogen — I’m probably not really interested.
Well I don’t knwow if they do or don’t, I just remember seeing something to that effect by an internet commenter, and I would certainly look into it further than that before trying the product, or deciding not to.
I was looking it up out of curiosity, because you know the far east has used things like camphor and menthol rubbed on the forehead for thousands of years, I mean they have used it for thousands of years, the actual rubbing process is shorter. These remedies are still popular today, sold under names like Tiger Balm, etc.
And indigenous people of the Americas have also for thousands of years, used dried ginger ground into a fine powder and mixed with water to form a paste which is then put onto the forehead, for sinus headaches. I can attest that that one works, at least for me, and better than the Tiger Balm, although Tiger Balm on the upper lip does help to de-stuff a stuffy nose.
If the nose is exceptionally stuffy, and the sinuses are clogged, you can put Tiger Balm or whatever your favorite menthol/camphor product is in a spoon, hold it over the fire until it melts, and inhale the vapors, holding one notril closed and inhaling hard, then repeating with all other affected nostrils.
Anyway, all of that was to say thatI wondered if it was just a menthol roll on. And from what little I could find at the time, it’s not. What it is however, I am not sure. Maybe if there is a lurker who has used it they could tell us about it.
FamilyMan, I was sad to learn that my dad’s treatment wasn’t helpful for you.
Hello everybody. I was asleep most of yesterday. KB thanks for putting this up for me.
Ductape thanks for the suggestons. I saw the roll on thing on TV and I never understood why putting something on your forehead would help when the pain is on the side of your head. The only thing I could figure is it puts cold on your forehead and I could do it cheaper with ice.
Thanks everyone for your input.
I hope you’re feeling a little better today FamilyMan.
I’m feeling fine today KB. Thanks for asking. You did an excellent job with the boxes. I just couldn’t figure them out. How are you today?
I’m fine — I’m about to leave to meet my mother for breakfast.
My dad’s staying home to research cancer treatments and where they’re being done for someone. Which is something he’s had to do too many times for too many people. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it’s just better than doing nothing.
I agree on the research. I know he’s probably been to the site, but tell him to look up M.C. Anderson in Texas. I think I got the name right. They’re supposed to be the best in the U.S.
I’ve got to start getting breakfast ready here too. Enjoy your breakfast with your Mom.
FamilyMan — I’ve gotta run, but I’ll tell the story of how dad got this hobby later today.
I’ve had migraines since my teen years and have tried several prescription medications, none of which worked and all of which made me sick. Mostly I just wait it out in a dark room with an ice-pack on my head.
About half of my migraines respond well to Excedrin, which is exactly the same as Excedrin Migraine, minus the marketing campaign. Nothing else, acetaminophen, aspirin, Aleve, ibuprofen etc., has any effect whatsoever.
I also assumed Head On was some sort of camphor or similar product. My mother said that her doctor rubbed camphor oil on her lower back while she was having back labor during childbirth. I think it was more of a distraction from the pain inside as the skin outside was burning!
Laura I agree with you on the taking the mind of the pain. Some people are able to do that, but I never have been able to. A doctor tried to teach me self-hypnosis once to help with the migraines, but once it got to a certain point, I couldn’t do it. The funny thing is when I had bypass surgery I thought how bad my chest hurt, but I had a migraine during the recovery and I didn’t even notice my chest.
It’s as you hear everybody is different and certain treatments help certain people. The thing is finding something that works for you and then sharing it with other in the hope it helps them.