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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Does anyone take specific medication for migraines? I've been prescribed a low dose epilepsy medication to try and control them and a nasal spray to top these up if need be. Is this the ideal combination? Thanks x L x

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By * n zCouple
over a year ago

leamington spa

Will be interested in replies as I get bad ones sometimes which can make me throw up........at the mo I just take anadin extra which takes the edge off.

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

our family suffer with migraine ..doctor can give you an injection to prevent them if theyre frequent ..hope you find a solution

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"our family suffer with migraine ..doctor can give you an injection to prevent them if theyre frequent ..hope you find a solution "

I was offered the injections you can do yourself at home but sometimes I black out so I really didn't think it was a good idea. Thank you x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Migralieve. I get them prescribed from my doctor. They are good,, work good for my headaches.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Will be interested in replies as I get bad ones sometimes which can make me throw up........at the mo I just take anadin extra which takes the edge off.

If you're throwing up I'd definitely go and see your doctor x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Migralieve. I get them prescribed from my doctor. They are good,, work good for my headaches. "

That's the same as over the counter medicine, does nothing for acute migraines

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I suffer from them.

The current medication types from the gp are either tabs for high blood pressure (beta blockers), tabs for epilepsy, or antidepressants.

Apparently one from either of these categories can be taken as a preventative.

Alternatively the current thinking is when a migraine is starting take 3 asprin 300mg each. It can stop it before it goes full blown.

However this is a high dose of asprin, and I am fit and well and dont take any other medication.

Best to chat to your gp first.

Good luck x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I suffer from them.

The current medication types from the gp are either tabs for high blood pressure (beta blockers), tabs for epilepsy, or antidepressants.

Apparently one from either of these categories can be taken as a preventative.

Alternatively the current thinking is when a migraine is starting take 3 asprin 300mg each. It can stop it before it goes full blown.

However this is a high dose of asprin, and I am fit and well and dont take any other medication.

Best to chat to your gp first.

Good luck x"

Thanks that's really helpful, I've actually been to the docs today about it, she said beta blockers weren't the best idea so I've been prescribed the epilepsy tablets and the nasal spray so I will see how they go. I think I will have a read up about any side effects too

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By *ngieandMrManCouple
over a year ago

hereford

My sister suffered from Migraine all her life, did know a day without, just that some days were worse than others.

About 10 years ago she went to the doc for something and it was a new doctor. He asked about the migraines and she pretty much rebuffed the question thinking, as was true up to that point there was nothing they could do.

Anyway, the doctor gave her a prescription and said try these, and so she did.

WOW... for the first time in her life no migraine, no headache. On a revisit to the doctor she asked, "what did you give me? It worked like magic" - 'beta-blockers'.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

They are obviously different for different people but it can help if you can identify the trigger points. At one point I used to get one every week which would also involve being sick. I was prescribed all sorts of medication which had no effect. The only thing that would shift them was to go to sleep in a dark room.

Years later I worked out that my trigger was blood sugar levels. If I feel one coming on now and i catch it early, a few mars bars stops it in its tracks

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"They are obviously different for different people but it can help if you can identify the trigger points. At one point I used to get one every week which would also involve being sick. I was prescribed all sorts of medication which had no effect. The only thing that would shift them was to go to sleep in a dark room.

Years later I worked out that my trigger was blood sugar levels. If I feel one coming on now and i catch it early, a few mars bars stops it in its tracks"

I'm thinking about totally cutting out cheese and chocolate as I think it could be linked so better to cut them out now and see how it goes, plus they're not the healthiest foods either so it can only be a good thing

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By * n zCouple
over a year ago

leamington spa

Years later I worked out that my trigger was blood sugar levels. If I feel one coming on now and i catch it early, a few mars bars stops it in its tracks"

I wish I could work out mine but they seem pretty random, but I have had one come on through not eating enough in the day but that's rarely a problem as I like my food!!!!

Sometimes I think hormones are a factor, other times the weather ( change in pressure) sometimes I don't bloody know, but my mum suffered so did her mum ........

Thankfully its usually just once or twice a month for me and I'm only sick very occasionaly, so I've always just put up with it xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

It can often be linked to your periods too x

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I get stress migraines so tend not to try and get stressed but with my job that is hard to do... I just try and not get stressed to a point I am ill with it..

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By * n zCouple
over a year ago

leamington spa

"It can often be linked to your periods too x"

Yes on these occasions I find its just before a period.

The worst ones for me are the ones that are there when you wake up in the morning, its a crap start to the day!!!

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By *lirty and dirtyCouple
over a year ago

ashford

I take imigran, which is probably what you have in the spray. I had the spray but the taste made me feel more sick than the migraine. The reason for the nasal spray is that if you are sick it doesnt come back up as a tablet would.

In all honesty there was a time when i was having them a lot. I started to cut things out my diet one by one and it . I stopped drinking it and have had two in about 2 and half years and i think both were due to tiredness.

Mine are strange as i dont always have a headache but i get flashing lights then numbness up one side of the body and cant think or talk properly. The doc said to try to nip them in the bud as they can leave leasions on the brain.

Hope you find somthing to help xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My mother went through a phase of blinding migraines.... She was given "Paramax" and now, as then, when she has an attack she blacks out all light, pops a Paramax and 10 minutes later it's all over...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use sumitriptan 6mg subcut injections and frovatriptan 2.5mg tablets for milder migraines. Before I went onto the injections I tried nasal sprays and wafers, sumitriptan and rizatriptan respectively. I take cyclizine 50mg with this and 2 paracetamol. Never any codeine or tramadol for headaches - it doesnt work long term.

An alternative is naproxen 500 - 750mg at the start of the headache. This is like taking 900 asprin, but a stronger anti inflammatory.

Have tried ergots but they made me throw up. I take topamax as a preventative. Triptans are the best abortive medicine for me.... ")

I keep a headache diary and go to a charity headache clinic.

Migraine is one headache I can do without.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thank you everyone you've been really helpful xxx

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By *adja_lazloCouple
over a year ago

Solihull

"Does anyone take specific medication for migraines? I've been prescribed a low dose epilepsy medication to try and control them and a nasal spray to top these up if need be. Is this the ideal combination? Thanks x L x"

any medication we are prescribed only works IF we take them in time, as soon as eyes blur, eye strains etc, if we miss the window they don't make any difference x

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I started getting migraines when i was pregnant then suffered terrible afterwards for years. About 7 years ago started on anti epylepsy medication for something else and not had a migraine since

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

as it happens I was going to put a thread up on this today but couldnt be bothered.

Syndol I have found is extremely good but they have stopped making it now so you can only get it online.

Like you I have just been prescribed an anti epliepsy thing. Gabapentin took my first dose yesterday.

I have been told that Migraleve (sp) is good and Sumatriptan is also good but im a little anti pill so havent tried them.

Syndol was working very well for me - I only took it when it was bad and it was very fast acting.

Be aware taking any paracetamol consistently for a 2 week period has been proved to induce headaches not relieve them.

Best of luck

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had beta blockers for mine (10 years)and injections if I ever had a breakthrough migraine.

I sort of grew out of them and rarely get them now

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

Triptans for me to but a little warning, what they sometimes do is whizz you through your migraine so you get the pain and the nausea but very quickly and then it's done. I always wake up with mine.

About once every two years its a trip to A&E for IV meds as that's the only thing that works.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I was on sumitriptan and that's exactly what happened, I felt like I'd gone from 0 to 100 in moments, actually felt like I was having some sort of breakdown. The worst thing was that S was on nights and I was home alone with the baby

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

i had migraines til i had a collapsed lung... my sympathies

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

Apparently, they lessen as we get older but I'm 52 and they are still as bad as they've always been.

Ho Hum...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had my first one last week! /-( never befor have I felt something so bad. Was sent home from work as vomited and also passed out. Praying I never get one again.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

could be stress related

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By *pecifically1Woman
over a year ago

Hull

I have been prescribed tablets called sumatriptan...they are wonderful

I go numb down one side, lose the power of speech, throw up and tunnel vision..and that's before the headache kicks in. These symptoms can appear within a few minutes

I have tried all sorts of meds but a doctor gave me these years ago and they are superb. They halt the symptoms in their tracks. It means I can wait 10 minutes for them to kick in and then I can get home safely.

sleep is the best medicine once I am home....but the after effects of the migraine can last for days...

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By *ushykebab69Couple
over a year ago

maidstone

I've suffered with migraines for about 20 years now but have them virtually under control, prescribed from the doctor I take beta blockers,(was told that they don't prescribe them now for migraines)also take Zomig (Zolmitriptan) which I take on the first sign of a migraine, I also take 3 ibuprofen at the first sign of a migraine.

I now tend to make food from scratch, if I buy anything from the supermarket I make sure it has no additives and preservatives, nearly all of Tesco's foods are no additives and preservatives now, food additives are a trigger for me, tend to steer clear of processed food.

For information, migraleve yellow is exactly the same as co-codamol which can be purchased over the counter for a fraction of what they charge for migraleve!

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