1y ago

Anyone got any tips for knocking a migraine when medicine doesn’t seem to be enough?

Hey there!

So I’ve had a migraine that has been going for a couple days now. Nothing entirely new, but it’s frustrating. Dark room, low noise, tried sleeping it off, taken multiple medications for it including my Ubrelvy which normally knocks it. It took the edge off, but now I’m going on day 3 with the migraine with no perceivable end in sight.

Anyone got any tips that normally helps them to knock their migraine that’s worth considering? Normally I don’t care too much as I’ve put up with them for years, but this one has me all nauseous which makes it that much more miserable.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Sorry for not seeing the responses on this sooner. I went back to bed afterward and mostly stayed in bed and holy crap the responses blew up. I also called my neurologist and told them about it much like some of the advise that others have mentioned, and they started me on a round of prednisone to help. Fingers crossed it gets rid of it. Seems to be helping, but only time will tell. If it doesn't, I'll see about giving some of these a try. Thank you so much!

You're viewing a single thread.

112 comments

Tums. (If it is indigestion caused). Rose colored glasses
- I didn't take tums specifically for the nausea, but rather pepto bismol. Didn't really help though...might have to try tums next time though.
  As for rose colored glasses...do you mean positivity? Or do you mean literal rose colored glasses?
  
  Acid migraines are the worst if your family has a history of ulcers or acid reflux. Tums is 10x better that Pepto if that is the cause.
  https://www.theraspecs.com/
  Those are the rose colored glasses that my wife uses. They are a general light preventative. (She can "relax" in public). Also concert earplugs like "eargasm" are something that allow focusing through the pain.
  Sometimes nerve pain in the legs like sciatic can contribute as well. If you have weird "someone hit my funnybone" pain in your legs then you could look into neural flossing. Sometimes the pain in the legs cause tension all over which makes a migraine until everything resets.
  Good luck!
  
  Oh dang, I remember reading about those glasses a while back. Appreciate the reminder. I'll check them out. Technically my eyeglasses have blue light filtering, but given I work IT, improving the blue light limitation could prove beneficial so it's at least worth a shot.

112 comments