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I don't mean a bad headache but serious migraine, that is crippling.

I don't have it myself but mt misses had quite a bad attack last night and it has just been diagnosed. From what I can gather from google their is no real treatment for it, although coffee helps.

Doe's anybody else on here suffer from migraine that might be able to offer some tips.

Cheers.

Probably decapitated is best.

i suffer from them and nothing helps, i just dose myself up on co-codamol and ibuprofen. otherwise lying down in a darkened room.

a lot of the over the counter stuff like migraleve only contain anti-nausea drugs in addition to your run of the mill painkillers, so generally aren't worth trying IMO

What a wuss.

I have sympathy for anybody who suffers actually, afetr seeing my misses with it last night it is clearly extremely painful and no laughing matter.

SY, do you suffer from this "Aura" thingy as well: bad stomach, mis-conception of shape and size, distorted lines ect?

bangkok red,

a friend of mine gets a similar problem when he eats chinese food.

apparently it's the msg, and too much of it sets him off.

it's bloody funny when it happens because he can't see anything and has to be carried about.

i appreciate that my little story is of no use to you whatsoever though.

sorry.

i don't get the aura thing, just splitting pain right through my head. a lot of people get nausea and other symptoms, i just get a loss of appettite - which is a big deal for me  :D

Doe's help actually, cos it confirm's something that wikipedia said.

Cheers.

I get them now and again, used to get them frequently but not so much these days. Only thing that really worked with me was to sleep them off  and to drink lots of water. I also had some medicine called Sanomigrannelixa (something like that) but it made very tired.

ooh yeah, shitloads of water does wonders for me whenever i have headaches in general...which is most of the time to be fair

You have been more than helpful Gent's and Ladies,

Although I now realise that there is no cure/treatment for it, at least I have a better understanding of what is going on.

BR

it's also hereditary, apparently!

If the pain is on one side of the head you should lie with that side of your head face down on a pillow and that will help ask your docotr for the tablets that disslove under your tougne they work wonders also they have certain triggers mine is choclate if i eat choclate i get a migrain i also found that running your head under a cold tap helpd of a really cold press ice cubes wrapped in a tea towel.

one thing you should never do isto drop an e that just makes your head exploxed

Gazza Fat Mate in a nearly serious post!

When I get them I plac a freezing cold flannel on my head and try to sleep in the dark

Cheers GFM, I will stress to my misses that she cannot drop an E when she has a migraine!

Leaves one more for me. WAHEY!!!!

Zomig works for me (prescribed by the GP)... it dissolves on/under the tongue ... seems to work within an hour or so for me ...... oh and like others have said .... shed loads of water .. cos dehydration is often a feature in bad migraine

Been suffering form them for years, even get them so bad I can get paralysed down one side.

The first thing to do is figure out what triggers them (mine are from not eating regularly and having low sugar in the blood - as a result I eat regularly (some might say too regularly!) and ensure I get enough energy if I'm playing football, for example).

Second get something from the Doc.  I now have Migramax which works really well.  I've been out of action for four days with migraines before, but last time Igot one (on a Sunday lunchtime) I was in work the next day.

I also drink Lucazade, eat chocolate and go to sleep.

But, most important is to find the trigger.

Hope that is of some use.

It is of use, as are all the other posts.

Thanks again all.

i get bright white spots in my eyes, usually in one first and then the other, before there's even any pain. if i take nurofen at that point it goes away, if i don't then i get it proper. not had one in about two years now thank fuck.

Thought that you might wanna know:

My misses had another migraine attack this morning, and after reading many items on the net saying that coffee helps she tried a cup.

It worked a treat, and almost instantly.

try to sleep in the dark???? do you normally have to have a night light on when you go to bed then??

If you have a migraine the light can really hurt your eyes an head when you look at it, this is why I think he said it.