I was wondering if anyone else suffers from migraines.

Here's my dilema - I get about one or two of these little bastard headaches a month. I have a prescription of Relpax which gets rid of them, but for the past 5 days I've woken up with a headache everyday. I'm SO frustrated! I'm not sure if I should just let the headache win and get me, which would mean 48 hours of eye popping pain, and a dozen or more trips to the sink to dry heave. Or, if I should keep pumping my body with this Relpax crap. Sometimes I can prevent them with a really strict diet, but not always. Ugh! This is the unsexiest post EVER!

Anyway, TIA for any suggestions.

My wife suffers form them as well. A few things that work 'sometimes' are: shrimp with cocktail sauce, spicy peppers, caffeinated soda, a hot bath. Preventative wise, in addition to watching the diet, sometimes, trying to get consistent sleep times... that is far too rare. Hope there may be something new here for you.

I get the "Classic migraine" about once or twice per year. When I had my first one, I ran to the doctor thinking it was a detached retina, because I get the visual disturbance thingy ("aura") before the headache hits.

I find Dr. Pepper works best for me. I don't know why, but it seems to work better than just the usual caffeinated soda. Probably just me.

You have my sympathies. I find my one/two times per year attacks bad enough (basically out for the day). I can't imagine what 5x/week is like.

Thanks guys! I decided to go the Relpax route again today and I feel better. Who knows, maybe it'll stay gone this time. If anyone has anymore suggestions though, I'd love to hear them. Shrimp is definitely a new one to me.

Actually, I think she just likes the shrimp, its the cocktail sauce that has something spicy in it that seems to help, but let's face it, you can't just have the sauce, gotta have the shrimp to go with it ... not a bad way to go.

Migraines, ugh, I know something of it.

While now it is a rather rare occurrence there was a period just before moving out of my parents´ home when it was a nearly everyday problem. It´s enough to make you feel like suiciding.

Sometimes shiazu "massage" was a consistent help to take away the worse for some hours. It was not the classical pleasant back kneading one thinks of as massage, but a sharp pressure in a precise point of the hand. No shiazu should be attempted without professional training however, because the kind of pressure that it´s needed, if misdirected, can make more damage than good.

Today it turned into a migraine day. Everybody knows vibrators are good for soothing a migraine, but at least for me it only works as long as the vibrator sits squarely on top of my head. Well today I ended up doing my things around the house wearing a wolen sky hat with a buzzing layaspot inside. Not very serious, you can´t really walk into society like that (it certainly raised much amusement in my husband and utterly spooked perplexity in my cats), but it worked great.

Snowflake, that's quite an image of you padding around the house with a Layaspot on your head! Hope you feel better!

Oh, Snowflake. Hope you are feeling better soon! Glad your layaspot is good at multitasking.

Hope you feel better, Snowflake! Maybe a good night's rest will help, tomorrow's another day!

(It is funny to think of you walking around in a vibrating hat, though )

As good as new! Thanks for the positive thoughts.

Yes, I thought the picture of the vibrating hat was worth sharing. And yes I keep repeating how versatile the layaspot is, and now you know what I mean!

Snowflake, the Master Cleanse is probably the best way to end your migranes for good on earth!

Of course, Layaspots are miracle workers as well. Fukuoku finger vibes were actually invented originally for migranes as well.

Talk to your Doctor about Imitrex. My wife gets migraines and it works for her.

I get migraines. I've tried prescriptions and none of them have worked for me. Prevention is the best thing I've found. My migraines usually start in the middle of the night. I get up right away and pop some advil and 9 times out of 10 it stops the migraine. I also purchased a salt lamp that I leave on all the time. I don't know why but it since I've gotten it my migraines have decreased from 5-10 a month to 1 or 2 a month. A hot bath also helps me. I'm allergic to caffeine so I can't drink a pop or have chocolate to help my migraines go away.

You might consider stopping the application of perfume to your skin (if you do it) It has been the cause of headaches for many women we know. And.. it's a very cheap cure!
The chemicals in modern perfumes will be right through your system 20 mintes after application. A perfume can contain well over 100 chemicals.
Well worth a try....