I am so very sorry. Migraines are just plain awful. I get them about once a month or so, triggered by stress. Do you have any vicodin in the house? That's what I was given by my doctor for them.

Vicodin is a blanket pain med. There are specific migraine meds, which one should always have in the mededine cabinet.

Nothing earth-shattering going on with me... just hoping you get to feeling better soon!

As a regular sufferer, you have my sympathies and lots of e-painkillers.

I get mild headaches VERY frequently, but an earth-shattering migraine like you speak of once a month or so. I get to the point where all I can do is turn off all of the lights and lie in a fetal position for the next 10 hours. It's REALLY bad, and hereditary, actually, but my mom also gave me her genes for my math and reading skills, so you have to take the good with the bad.

I forgot the entire point of the comment:

I sympathize with you, and hope you feel better. At least you can read, which is always a good thing.

I get migraines. I now always have migraine medication with me, and I get a refill whenever I am about to go short. A doc will give you something - could be Migwell, could be one of the newer Triptans, like Zomig. Take it at once. Wait in the dark for a while. The migraine will go away after an hour or two, which is a whole sight better than having it zap off several days of your life, as happened to me once in Munich and once in London.

It's hard to get too excited about getting a prescription when I get them so rarely that the meds would probably expire before I needed them again! I've promised myself that if I ever get as many as one a year I will definitely see a doctor.

I can't help from here, given my distance, but hope you feel better tomorrow.

Okay, I couldn't help if I lived next door, but still. I know how much it sucks.

I get migraines like that about once every 6 weeks - triggered by stress. (This past month, I had 6 in two weeks. Not fun.) I take Zomig for them, which is wonderful - I take it as soon as I get the warning signs, and the migraine dissipates within half an hour.

My migraines are hormonal, and tied in with my cycles. I know their 'timing', so I can start taking precautions like avoiding 'trigger' foods (which do not bother me at any other time, but kill me during Migraine Week), taking my prophyalactic meds, and laying low.

Light really bothers me during these bouts, and it is almost impossible to read screens or go into brightly lit places.

My gyno says that these migraines might be part of my perimenopausal period, that they should go away after I go through menopause. God knows when that will be.

Mine have no pattern and are extremely random, but at least distantly spaced.

I am moving back into the world of the living, however. Yay!

I've had debilitating migraines for the last 6 years. They started my freshman year of college and are induced by stress, being social, weight, and hormones. I tried regular doctors, homoepathic doctors, yoga, etc...but I still get them 1-2 a month. I don't take any meds, mainly due to not wanting to go through more testing/tweaking of meds and yeah, i learned to live with them. After a while you become a pro at working while your brain is pulsating and you see dots of light in front of you.

The one thing that helps when it's time to sleep (I normally can't sleep when i have a migraine because i feel the blood swooshing around) are these pads that have a cold-minty gel in them that you put on your forehead. They are pricey, but worth it.

Feel better!

Am starting to (feel better).

You poor thing. I really feel for you.

I have had headaches which my doctor says are migraines, but never to the level you describe. She says any headache that ends with nausea is migraine. You have my complete sympathy. Would sunglasses help reduce the effects of light?

Migraine can be a lot of things. I have ocular migraine syndrome more regularly, which causes great patches of one's vision to flutter and ripple like looking at the world through the surface of a breeze-tossed pond. But most of the time I only have the vision thing. The headaches are rare for me, thank the Maker.

Sunglasses probably would help. I am coming off the other end of it now, though, I think.

...at this link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5381403
...and funny thing happened yesterday a.m., I got the aura about 7 a.m. and started to feel the pain so I just went back to bed, relaxed, slept on & off, got up at 10 a.m. and no more headache.

I get the aura sometimes without the headache. Much more frequently than I get the headaches.

Ugh. Feel better! *hugs*

Still a teeny bit wobbly this morning, but mostly gone. And for a good long time, I sincerely hope!

As I have said elsewhere, I usually get the ocular effects without the headache. Here's hoping it's the same for you.

I get migraines once every few months. My 17 yr old had one last month that lasted for 10 days. The dr tried several different medicines. They all made her tired and the headache would come back when the meds wore off. The dr finally gave her a shot of imitrex? That stopped the headache. The insurance CO was being anal and said she can only have so many tablets of the current migraine medicine each month and if they run out before the next authorized refill date, we have to pay the $100+ out of pocket! My dr gave us several samples when she heard that.

I hope it was a limited event for her, poor thing! I'm still coming off the edge of this one. It was a bitch.