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Fucking migraines.
- Have you looked into psychedelic mushrooms?Nairn
- Yeah, they suck. I take preventative drugs and botox injections. Both help, but don't cure anything.formed
- Midrin/Fioricet are the only 2 abortive drugs that work for me and only in massive quantities at once. Woohoo.formed
- Ibu+lysine usually does takes care of the worst of it. I've been getting them for 20 years now, but fewer and fewer each year.i_monk
- Started out 5 a week, now maybe 5 a year around the turns of the seasons.i_monk
- I see that nine-letter word and my skin fucking crawls. Thankfully I've only had three this year, and typing this means I'll probably have one tomorrow.garbage
- I'm assuming you're dodging screens right now, but questions for after the episode:garbage
- Do you get the aura and know shit is coming? I feel/see it coming an hour or two out, and I'm dropping everything before the doom hits.garbage
- My cousin once gave me the sage advice of "get into a cold bath as soon as you feel them coming on, works a charm".garbage
- Tried it. Thanks cuz, now I'm fucking freezing and there's still an earthquake above my neck.garbage
- A glint/blur is first, making it impossible to focus. Then the aura comes. Aura lasts 30 mins or so, then the pain spikes. 95% of time the pain is on the left,i_monk
- but that 5% on the right is usually so much worse. Lasts 4–8 hours, which I used to just sleep through before discovering the ibu+lysine combo at Asda.i_monk
- I've never experienced this myself though my recent bout with insufferable pain leaves me empathizing with you in a profound way, hang tight, embrace the suck!whatthefunk
- Monk, does it hit you the same time every day? If so, wondering if they’re cluster headaches? https://en.m.wikiped…_niko
- No, definitely migraines. Usually triggered by atmospheric conditions or lights.i_monk
- High five from another miserable member of the Left Side Migraine Mob. They hit me on the left, and then when that is gone..garbage
- ..massive echo of pain starts hanging out just behind my right eye.garbage
- @niko definitely not a cluster. I did some medical modules with studies where people who have them, and have also had broken femurs and natural birth.garbage
- And in the studies they ranked clusters as exponentially more painful. If monk was having a cluster and making a post, we should be very afraid of him lol.garbage
- Me too, sometimes they get so bad I spew. Sometimes I think it's on days when I don't drink coffee, but maybe it's just being out of a routine.PhanLo
- I get them triggered by bright light occasionally. Usually just sleeping and paracetemol. But if it's lingering then I find going out for a walk helps clear it.microkorg
- worth a try https://www.ncbi.nlm…neverscared
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- good for you! Sounds like a chill job!milfhunter
- Coffee can be a killer. I was getting 5+ a week and my neuro said reduce coffee. I cut 50% of my coffee ad 75% of the migraines vanished.formed
- I really like coffeePhanLo
- @phan I puke every time. I lay myself down on a cold stone floor at the foot of the throne and wait for the ol' upguttery to happen.garbage
- @formed 5 a week? I would kill myself. How often do you get them now?garbage
- yeah garbage, I would get cluster headaches for years and I don't wish them on anyone. Every single day for about a month. Exact same time. then gone for_niko
- a few months and then they'd return, Again, like clockwork same time of day, excruciating pain over my left eye and temple for about an hour or two_niko
- then gone... until the next day, same bat time. Thankfully it's been about 8 years since my last attack so hopefully that was it._niko
- Woah guys, I'm sorry for you... I usually have phases of intense pain on the left side (after an eye operation) but I think it's nothing compared to yoursOBBTKN
- If you're puking it may be gastric stasis. If I've eaten within an hour of a migraine I chew gum to keep my gut from shutting down.i_monk
- If you've got food in your stomach when a migraine hits it can't get into your intestine bc of gastric stasis, your body triggers vomiting.i_monk
- if you suffer from cluster headaches, *definitely* look into fungal psychedelics. An employee we had came from that angle and we sold to a lot of sufferersNairn
- i get non-painful but utterly debilitating and nauseating migraines. they seem to be tied to a specific type of contrasting lighting situation. Maybe 1 ev 18mo.Nairn
- DIdn't have one 'til I was about 27. Boy was that a fun afternoon, given I had absolutely no context for what was suddenly happening to me.Nairn
- Yeah, the first one is loaded with confusion.garbage
- @niko God damn. I'm sure your doctor used the "alarm clock headache" analogy. I can't imagine putting your head down on a pillow..garbage
- ..and not bothering to set an alarm because you know when you'll be waking up.garbage
- lol yeah, except it was always at 3 in the morning lol_niko
- Good god. Glad for you that shit has ceased.garbage