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Do you get them? Why? What do you do to get rid of them?

I get them. Sometimes because of eye strain and other times I have no idea why. I used to get them 15 times more until I quit eating meat. Then I lessened them even more when I quit ingesting caffine. I went from having migranes several times a month to only a couple times a year. I have one now at work which I have had for two days now. Although it is diminishing somewhat. Barely got a wink of sleep last night until my fiancee remembered that she had one last vicodin left. Then I got some shut eye and had a dream that I was hanging out with Dave Chapelle and we were having fun by making up new ways to avoid the paparazzi.

Do you get them? Why? What do you do to get rid of them?

I get them. Sometimes because of eye strain and other times I have no idea why. I used to get them 15 times more until I quit eating meat. Then I lessened them even more when I quit ingesting caffine. I went from having migranes several times a month to only a couple times a year. I have one now at work which I have had for two days now. Although it is diminishing somewhat. Barely got a wink of sleep last night until my fiancee remembered that she had one last vicodin left. Then I got some shut eye and had a dream that I was hanging out with Dave Chapelle and we were having fun by making up new ways to avoid the paparazzi.


I had my first at an amusement park in England, came of a roller coaster spewing everywhere !

Then I used to get them all through high school and had to repeat 2 years because they were effecting me that much, I was on so many different medication eventually tried acupuncture and other herbal remedys.

Then I visited a specialist in London and he explained I should grow out of them It wrecked my education and the school never beleived me and threw me out before I could sit my highers even though I had a note from one of Britains best migraine specialists !!

I use migraleve pink and yellow tablets, pink stops you being sick and yellow is a very effective pain killer for them.

Bluestrips2']I had my first at an amusement park in England, came of a roller coaster spewing everywhere !

Then I used to get them all through high school and had to repeat 2 years because they were effecting me that much, I was on so many different medication eventually tried acupuncture and other herbal remedys.

Then I visited a specialist in London and he explained I should grow out of them It wrecked my education and the school never beleived me and threw me out before I could sit my highers even though I had a note from one of Britains best migraine specialists !!

I use migraleve pink and yellow tablets, pink stops you being sick and yellow is a very effective pain killer for them.

OMG And I thought I had bad luck! Need a hug? :fluffle:

I was just at a clients who said that he had migranes really bad and his neurologist said that many people get them from a lack of REM sleep and gave him some pills to help with that. He doesn't get them anymore. I get plenty of REM sleep though so I must have different issues.

OMG And I thought I had bad luck! Need a hug? :fluffle:

I was just at a clients who said that he had migranes really bad and his neurologist said that many people get them from a lack of REM sleep and gave him some pills to help with that. He doesn't get them anymore. I get plenty of REM sleep though so I must have different issues.


A thing to try would be use plenty of pillows in your sleep so your heads tilted more to allow your nasal tubes to be more open.

It has helped me a little and for a few friends it has worked perfectly.

( I had loads of nasal sprays at one point as they thought this was the cause )

Hope this helps ;)

I either wake up with them, which means I don't surface from my bed until about midnight, or have about an hour's warning due to the blindspots. Basically for me they feel as if someone is hammering a railway spike through the left front of my brain, I just lie there feeling like I'm going to die and panting and yowling like a dog. Not fun.

Causes for me? Stress, red wine, being unhappy and then not eating or sleeping properly for a couple of days. The weird thing with stress is that I am okay when I am stressed or worried about things, but once that worry is over and the things I was worried about are passed, then I'll get a migraine a day or two later.

Codeine does little for me, but migraleve do seem to be reasonably good.

Bluestrips2']A thing to try would be use plenty of pillows in your sleep so your heads tilted more to allow your nasal tubes to be more open.

It has helped me a little and for a few friends it has worked perfectly.

( I had loads of nasal sprays at one point as they thought this was the cause )

Hope this helps ;)

Thanks but I don't have trouble sleeping.