Community article – getting to sleep with migraine
To give you an idea how it all works, I posted some of your comments on getting to sleep with migraine. This is our first community article, still in progress but already very helpful. Thanks to so many of you from all over the world who stopped by to leave your comments! More of you are welcome to come by and comment.
For those of you who don’t know what this is all about, Community articles are a new feature here at the website. I ask the question, and you give your advice for all our visitors to read. Together, we can fight migraine, cluster, tension, and all those headaches out there – too many to mention.
For more information, or to leave your own comments, visit the Community articles section.
30 July 2006 @ 9:51 pm
I have suffered w/ migraines most of my life. The past two and 1/2 years I have suffered w/ chronic status daily migraines.
*When I cannot stop a fullblown attack my non-drug and prescribed drug methods.
– I have tried the icepacks. I now have a stainless steel round bucket that I will fill w/ ice and then water and stick my head in as long as I can stand it. I will pull my head out and deal with the pain.
However, this seems to shock my head
and after a few times it helps me to start controlling the pain so I can keep whatever drugs I’m trying to keep in my stomach. I only do this when I have a full blown closet migraine that nothing is going to stop.
– Needless to say my life has changed dramatically and I no longer work as I have become disabled.
I have good and bad days with all the symptoms of migraines w/ aura.
– My tolerance for pain has increased tenfold but I am always fatigued and extremely light and sound sensitive.
– My home is extremely migraine friendly.
– Practicing Yoga and meditation, and controlled breathing have been my lifesavers.
Just another migraine sufferer.
9 August 2006 @ 2:37 pm
A friend of mine told me she thought that I got migraine headaches just before a storm came in. I went out and bought a good barometer for $120 and a blank log book. In the last year I have had 14 major migraines, all of the headaches started approximately 30 hours before the storms actually hit. and would leave me within several hours of the storms passing. I thought I was losing my mind when I was recording this information and seeing the results, so today, when I did a Google Search for “Storm Related Head-Aches” I guess I could say I was releived to find out I’m not crazy.
I have not found anything that could help the pain. Now, with renewed hope after finding this information, I am very eager to see if anyone knows of any-way to get relief.