Migraine overview
A migraine is a headache that can purpose intense throbbing suffering or a pulsing sensation, typically on one facet of the head. It's often accompanied with the aid of nausea, vomiting, and excessive sensitivity to mild and sound. Migraine assaults can closing for hours to days, and the discomfort can be so excessive that it interferes with your each day activities. For some people, a warning symptom viewed as an air of secrecy takes location until now than or with the headache. An air of secrecy can consist of visible disturbances, such as flashes of mild or blind spots, or different disturbances, such as tingling on one thing of the face or in an arm or leg and concern speaking.
My experience-First post - My method for avoiding the PAIN!
I might be repeating stuff others have figured out, but put simply, I have had classic typical aura-prefaced migraines. I go partially blind in my left and slightly right eyes, then I get the zig-zag color 'strip that curves and undulates and describes a slow clockwise movement from about the seven o'clock position to about twelve o'clock. Then it (usually) disappears after 20-30mins. Recently, that cycle repeats once or twice over the course of an hour. My mom, who had migraines like these, sometimes would have repeating aura episodes over and over for hours without onset of severe headache pain.
Anyway, the first few migraines I ever had were so awful it's difficult to describe them properly. Nothing touched the pain. Shots of Imitrex, etc. at the ER made it worse, if anything. I would prop myself up in the corner of my bed, curl up, cry, dry heave, sweat, writhe in total agony for hours, usually 4-6 hours. The nausea was overwhelming. The 'aftershocks' from the pain would last days, from soreness when I sneezed, coughed or leaned down to sweating, bad pallor, general flu-like fatigue and malaise, etc.
That is, until I figured out a pretty simple formula. Doing this, I get very little 'migraine headache' phase, there's little to no nausea and the after-effects are also much less.
Again, apologies if some of you have already figured this out - it's been an ongoing process of learning since I first got one circa 1992 in my early 20's.
- At first onset of blindness symptoms, I cover my eyes with a shirt, towel, blanket, hoodie, whatever is handy.
- Find a dark, quiet place (my car has sufficed in a pinch). Try to be calm. That's not always easy when you're seeing visual disturbances, just remember this is the same thing millions of us deal with on a regular basis - you won't die, you are OK, it will pass.
- Lie or sit back, head at least somewhat elevated. Listening to audiobooks or music on low volume seems to be fine. NO LIGHT WHATSOEVER as much as possible. Even little gaps by my nose in the covering of my face, I make sure there's no way light can get to my eyes.
- Lie calmly for about two hours like this.
- After the two-hour mark, very slowly, over the course of about fifteen to twenty minutes, I reintroduce my eyes to normal light. I put on sunglasses/clip-ons or leave a thin t-shirt over my head for a little bit.
- That's pretty much it. Avoid loud sounds and bright light for the rest of the day. Turn the brightness on your computer, phone, etc. display down. Silence ringers and so forth.
I always meant to post this to more migraine resource communities over the years since I 'perfected' the process - but hopefully it helps some. We're definitely in this together.
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