Migraines...
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I'm not a fish ;)
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A Lunatic?
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Indeed. Homer Simpson - poet. :thumbsup:
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A Lunatic?
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Oi! Cheeky bugger.
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To me it sounds like a severe case of phantom pain[^]. ;P Although seriously, you should see a doc about that. //L
Yeah Jim Crafton said the same. A little check up won't hurt. :thumbsup:
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Oi! Cheeky bugger.
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Heh, yeah that's good. I thought you were going to say I had the plague or something. And about driving, yeah I won't be driving anywhere today! Today is 'home day' - otherwise known as 'beer day'! :beer: cures all! :)
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
I thought you were going to say I had the plague or something.
I thought he would mention retinal detachment, but that doesn't give you headache. But I would check out the symptoms [^] just in case. Because that needs to be treated IMMEDIATELY.
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
I thought you were going to say I had the plague or something.
I thought he would mention retinal detachment, but that doesn't give you headache. But I would check out the symptoms [^] just in case. Because that needs to be treated IMMEDIATELY.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
Ooo err missus! Thanks, I checked out the symptoms and it doesn't seem appropriate. I've had these types of headaches since I were a nipper. Plus I were wear glasses and contacts, so have my eyes checked regularly, so you hope they would spot anything serious, although I'm not aware if they check for retinal detachment. Thanks anyways! :)
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modified on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:48 AM
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Anyone else get headaches with flashing lights in your eyes? I can't work out what triggers mine. Sometimes I think it's to do with light - if there's something bright in the corner of my eyes then it might set it off. I always get the flashing light in my left eye only, but it still leaves me unable to focus. I've been doing nothing for the last 10 minutes as I couldn't focus on the screen! Anyone got any tips/remedies for these type of headaches? TIA X|
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I suffer of migraines. Went to a doctor, MRI, nothing strange on my head. Some of the triggers of migraine is food, so to find out what triggered mine I had to take note of everything I ate. So far, this is the list of some triggers I found: Vinager, Wine, Pickles, Chocolate, Yellow Cheese. Every time I eat one of those, I have a free 3 days migraine. To release pain once I have it, is to cover my eyes and ears. No light and no sound. Boil some water and breath the hot vapour. Hope you can find your triggers fast... Good luck.
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I suffer of migraines. Went to a doctor, MRI, nothing strange on my head. Some of the triggers of migraine is food, so to find out what triggered mine I had to take note of everything I ate. So far, this is the list of some triggers I found: Vinager, Wine, Pickles, Chocolate, Yellow Cheese. Every time I eat one of those, I have a free 3 days migraine. To release pain once I have it, is to cover my eyes and ears. No light and no sound. Boil some water and breath the hot vapour. Hope you can find your triggers fast... Good luck.
Free your mind...
Hey thanks. I've tried to keep track of what I eat/drink. I have found excess coffee can trigger it, so now I have no more than 1-2 cups of tea a day. And even then I don't have tea everyday. Not sure what the food triggers could be. :thumbsup:
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Hey thanks. I've tried to keep track of what I eat/drink. I have found excess coffee can trigger it, so now I have no more than 1-2 cups of tea a day. And even then I don't have tea everyday. Not sure what the food triggers could be. :thumbsup:
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Yes, they say the coffee is a trigger, but haven't got any problem with coffee...
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Anyone else get headaches with flashing lights in your eyes? I can't work out what triggers mine. Sometimes I think it's to do with light - if there's something bright in the corner of my eyes then it might set it off. I always get the flashing light in my left eye only, but it still leaves me unable to focus. I've been doing nothing for the last 10 minutes as I couldn't focus on the screen! Anyone got any tips/remedies for these type of headaches? TIA X|
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I've never IDed a trigger; but I consistently have tense neck muscles as an aura[^]. Figuring out that's really helped me in dealing with them since the lag between the aura starting and pain starting is long enough for ibuprofen to kick in. I'm probably taking 2 or 3x as much as I used to since sometimes a stiff neck is just that but I've cut the frequency of migraines that make me miserable from one every few weeks to one every few months; and ones that actually make me leave work to hide in the dark from one every month or two to once or twice a year.
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I'm not a doctor but it sounds like you should see one. That doesn't sound normal at all.
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I've never IDed a trigger; but I consistently have tense neck muscles as an aura[^]. Figuring out that's really helped me in dealing with them since the lag between the aura starting and pain starting is long enough for ibuprofen to kick in. I'm probably taking 2 or 3x as much as I used to since sometimes a stiff neck is just that but I've cut the frequency of migraines that make me miserable from one every few weeks to one every few months; and ones that actually make me leave work to hide in the dark from one every month or two to once or twice a year.
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Ohhh, nice info, thanks! :thumbsup:
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Anyone else get headaches with flashing lights in your eyes? I can't work out what triggers mine. Sometimes I think it's to do with light - if there's something bright in the corner of my eyes then it might set it off. I always get the flashing light in my left eye only, but it still leaves me unable to focus. I've been doing nothing for the last 10 minutes as I couldn't focus on the screen! Anyone got any tips/remedies for these type of headaches? TIA X|
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
I had 2-3 of them a month for a while when I was in college. I had a few prescriptions which helped somewhat when I had the headache, but gave up on them and just took an over the counter pain killer and meditated in a cold dark room until I fell asleep. First, men tend to get them in their twenties and then the frequency drops off as they get older. That's what happened with me. As far as avoiding them, some of the big triggers are caffeine withdrawal, barometric pressure changes, aged cheese like cheddar, apples and all sorts of random foods, and lights like you mention. The best advice I ever got was from a doctor that had them himself. Keep a relatively level supply of caffeine through the day and don't sleep for more then eight hours. That helped get it under control and then figuring out my triggers got it down to 1-2 times a year and now it's been years since my last one.
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I had 2-3 of them a month for a while when I was in college. I had a few prescriptions which helped somewhat when I had the headache, but gave up on them and just took an over the counter pain killer and meditated in a cold dark room until I fell asleep. First, men tend to get them in their twenties and then the frequency drops off as they get older. That's what happened with me. As far as avoiding them, some of the big triggers are caffeine withdrawal, barometric pressure changes, aged cheese like cheddar, apples and all sorts of random foods, and lights like you mention. The best advice I ever got was from a doctor that had them himself. Keep a relatively level supply of caffeine through the day and don't sleep for more then eight hours. That helped get it under control and then figuring out my triggers got it down to 1-2 times a year and now it's been years since my last one.
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Andy Brummer wrote:
As far as avoiding them, some of the big triggers are caffeine withdrawal, barometric pressure changes, aged cheese like cheddar, apples and all sorts of random foods, and lights like you mention. The best advice I ever got was from a doctor that had them himself. Keep a relatively level supply of caffeine through the day and don't sleep for more then eight hours. That helped get it under control and then figuring out my triggers got it down to 1-2 times a year and now it's been years since my last one.
Interesting. I mean, the caffeine I can control, but lights? Sometimes it's too late before I realise there's something wrong so that I can stop it. It's a pain more than anything (excuse the pun). Thanks for the info! :thumbsup:
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Ooo err missus! Thanks, I checked out the symptoms and it doesn't seem appropriate. I've had these types of headaches since I were a nipper. Plus I were wear glasses and contacts, so have my eyes checked regularly, so you hope they would spot anything serious, although I'm not aware if they check for retinal detachment. Thanks anyways! :)
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Thanks, I checked out the symptoms and it doesn't seem appropriate.
Good! My wife had it and is all but blind on one eye, and have had the other eye lasered too, so we're a bit tense about it. The optician wouldn't see it, you need an eye doctor to have a look at the retina through an ophthalmoscope. Apparently the chance of getting it is 1/20 over the lifetime if you're near sighted with -5 dioptres or more. So it's good to keep the symptoms in mind as it needs to be addressed within a day to save your eyesight.
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Thanks, I checked out the symptoms and it doesn't seem appropriate.
Good! My wife had it and is all but blind on one eye, and have had the other eye lasered too, so we're a bit tense about it. The optician wouldn't see it, you need an eye doctor to have a look at the retina through an ophthalmoscope. Apparently the chance of getting it is 1/20 over the lifetime if you're near sighted with -5 dioptres or more. So it's good to keep the symptoms in mind as it needs to be addressed within a day to save your eyesight.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
Holy moly. Sorry to hear about your wife, I hope the other eye doesn't go the same way. Thanks for the heads up, I had never heard of it before now. :rose:
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Anyone else get headaches with flashing lights in your eyes? I can't work out what triggers mine. Sometimes I think it's to do with light - if there's something bright in the corner of my eyes then it might set it off. I always get the flashing light in my left eye only, but it still leaves me unable to focus. I've been doing nothing for the last 10 minutes as I couldn't focus on the screen! Anyone got any tips/remedies for these type of headaches? TIA X|
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I've had that sort of flashing light effect without a headache...I generally wait 10 minutes or so and it goes... But I get migraines as well (yes, I'm totally fscked up!). The giveaway that a migraine's coming, for me, is nausea - if I feel like I'm going to throw up for no reason and I have a headache, I take a couple of pink Migraleve[^] and (if I'm at home) take myself off to bed - sleeping it off works well....
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Andy Brummer wrote:
As far as avoiding them, some of the big triggers are caffeine withdrawal, barometric pressure changes, aged cheese like cheddar, apples and all sorts of random foods, and lights like you mention. The best advice I ever got was from a doctor that had them himself. Keep a relatively level supply of caffeine through the day and don't sleep for more then eight hours. That helped get it under control and then figuring out my triggers got it down to 1-2 times a year and now it's been years since my last one.
Interesting. I mean, the caffeine I can control, but lights? Sometimes it's too late before I realise there's something wrong so that I can stop it. It's a pain more than anything (excuse the pun). Thanks for the info! :thumbsup:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
I've found that the triggers compound, so if I managed some of my lower level triggers better, I was less sensitive to the major ones.
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Anyone else get headaches with flashing lights in your eyes? I can't work out what triggers mine. Sometimes I think it's to do with light - if there's something bright in the corner of my eyes then it might set it off. I always get the flashing light in my left eye only, but it still leaves me unable to focus. I've been doing nothing for the last 10 minutes as I couldn't focus on the screen! Anyone got any tips/remedies for these type of headaches? TIA X|
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
I've been getting migranes for about 15 years, they normally start in late teens, and the frequency drops off as you get older. The first attack I had, I thought it was a brain haemmorage, partly because you don't think clearly during an attack, partly because if felt like someone had buried an axe in my head(with attendant light-show and nausea). Descibing a normal headache as a migraine is like descibing a cold as the Spanish Flu. Migraines are horrible and totally debilitating, some people even throw up.
- See a doctor. espescially if there is no history of migraines in your family. The symptoms you describe are exactly like my mine, but the attack you are getting is not the most common type . This could be something else, but is most probably migraine. In my case the disorted crescent starts small, then grows, normally I first notice it when reading, if I take action quickly it doesn't usually progress
- A quater aspirin (the size used to thin the blood in heart patients) taken once a day prevent attacks really effectivley, but you have to watch out for the side effects, so speak to a doctor first.
- Migraleve Pink is highly effective at the start of an attack, Migraleve yellow (taken after the pink pills) doesn't me help in the least , but YMMV (as with all things migraine related).
- Keep a stock of Migraleve pink on you if it does work!
- During an attack, the best thing is rest, preferably in a dark room and preferably lying down.
As for triggers, for me tiredness is the main factor, though the culprits I've heard of are caffinated drinks, chocolate, cheese and strongly tasting food. Smints & greasy food quite often trigger mine. [Edit] I've read one of your previous posts, seeing as you have been getting these for a long while, its almost certainly migraine, but it is worth getting checked out by a quack. As you wear glasses/contacts, it is also worth getting your prescription checked out as I've heard incorrect lenses can make attacks more likely.
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