Thread: Is this a migraine?

I have similar headaches, but they're brought on by stress. My head will throb like someone's hitting me with a pan over and over, and I'll get extremely nauseous. I call them migraines simply because they're different than any others. I can't do anything and I'm REALLY irritable. I can't think, I can't talk. My only solution is to keep my stress down and sleep enough. Good luck with yours. Migraines suck and people don't know how to relate until they get them.

Sure sounds like a migraine, my aunty gets them so bad she does actually vomit, and needs to be in a dark room.
I had headaches all my life, bad ones would come after a cold, then I started getting weird ones right behind the eye, kinda like when you want to sneeze and get that terrible pain, only I didn't want to sneeze. Went to the doctor and found out they're cluster headaches. But my worst came in 2002, it was awful pain, I couldn't do anything, I lay in bed but the only way to make the pain disappear was to rest my head on a couple of ice packs. I have only had 2 and a half like that and I tell you its something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, well maybe you would.

Anyway didn't meant to just wanted to say, I know how you feel man.

EDIT: Don't ask me what the heck a cluster headache is coz I got no idea. Dr said thats what it is, so thats what it is

Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL

Sure sounds like a migraine, my aunty gets them so bad she does actually vomit, and needs to be in a dark room.
I had headaches all my life, bad ones would come after a cold, then I started getting weird ones right behind the eye, kinda like when you want to sneeze and get that terrible pain, only I didn't want to sneeze. Went to the doctor and found out they're cluster headaches. But my worst came in 2002, it was awful pain, I couldn't do anything, I lay in bed but the only way to make the pain disappear was to rest my head on a couple of ice packs. I have only had 2 and a half like that and I tell you its something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, well maybe you would.

Anyway didn't meant to just wanted to say, I know how you feel man.

Appreciate it ---- not a hijack at all ----

Like Old_School mentioned, Men actually get Cluster Headaches what the difference is I guess a real doc could tell you. I get those once every 2 months or so the really bad ones are the ones that I wake up with because there is no warning just a eye twitching throbbing that laughs at OTC pain relievers. There used to be an OTC called Orudis KT little tiny blue pills that worked for me but they took it off the market in the US I am close enough to Canada that I might go check up there...
I usually slam down a few Tylenol extra strength and suffer but the other thing that helps me is (I know this sounds stupid) any Chamomile tea...
Hope you can sort yours out, I can definitely sympathize

yup, same here. Bad ones will make me throw up, and the pain gets so bad I can't see - I mean I can see things, but my brain just doesn't recognize them. They will last for days sometimes - my worst one lasted nearly a week. Ice packs are a necessity in such cases - I can always tell when my brain is getting cold enough when I stop seeing in color...

Something else that seems to help are the nose hoses like this one. Used regularly it seems to help keep the sinuses open so the pressure doesn't build up.

The Claritin seems to keep them from happening very often, and the nose hose seems to reduce their intensity quite a bit. I do have to take the Claritin every day. It seems to build up in my system -- I had to take it for about a week before I really got the full effect.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

there is no warning just a eye twitching throbbing that laughs at OTC pain relievers.

LOL that sounds so funny, because it is so true. I've never been prescribed anything stronger than Ibuprofen which is OTC, it works sometimes. Regular old paracetamol stopped having an effect when I was a teen. I do get hayfever occasionally, which really, REALLY sucks big time coz they bring the cluster headaches on big time.

Reminds me of that episode of friends where the soap opera Joey was doing, killed him off with tiny clusters

One more thing, just don't get overly alarmed. The talk of cluster headaches made me think about a more serious reason for seeing a doctor. I hate to even mention it because I lost a nephew to a brain tumor, but I feel like it has to be brought up as a worst case scenario.

Some other things about medicine too:

Fexofenadine is the generic equivelant to Allegra and it costs me $7 for 30 days.

It sounds like allergies. Some OTC or prescription meds. should help.

Just have a doctor you trust look you over and be glad you don't get the debilitating kind.

Randy