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-Sumatriptan side effects & other treatments
I was hoping to get some advice from someone who would have experienced something similar. I have always been a headache-prone person and within the last 6months, my headaches (Across my forehead and eyes, usually one eye or the other) have gradually become worse, especially since the new year. I contacted my doctor and initially, I was told it was probably my posture or my eyesight but did prescribe me 1000mg of naproxen a day because standard painkillers were not helping. The naproxen was not alleviating my headaches and after getting my eyes tested to find out that they are completely fine, I called my doctor back and he put me on 50g tablets of sumatriptan. my mum is also a migraine sufferer and has been taking sumatriptan for migraines for probably 20+ years, for her it makes her incredibly tired and drowsy. I sort of expected the same to happen to me, I read all of the potential side effects and fully understood what I was doing. I took 1 sumatriptan and within 10 minutes I was extremely unwell, it gave me a terrible headache(the whole back of my head felt like it was on fire) every single muscle in my body burned as if I had just done an extreme workout, I got muscle cramps all over my body and I had a terrible fever, after about 2 hours the symptoms subsided and I was completely headache free however I never expected to experience such severe side effect and have decided to return to naproxen as the sumatriptan is not going to work for me. Has anyone else had a similar reaction to sumatriptan, & does anyone know if I will react the same way to all triptans? if anyone has any other suggestions please let me know, I will be contacting my doctor to discuss my reaction to the medication however my doctor believes that I should attend physiotherapy in order to help my headache. Best wishes
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