Ow, Ow, Ow, Pain in my head at every heart beat
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Iron Dan posted 16 weeks ago.
As far as I know, there is no real way to prevent them. I personally don't suffer from them but my mother and sisters do. From what they tell me, the only thing you can really do for them is that when you get them, you have to take something for them. Some over the counter pain killers work ok on them, but there is persciption stuff whick works much better.
Once you get one, you are at its mercy until it runs its course. Good luck and feel better.
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JamieM posted 16 weeks ago.
Caffeine is a good remedy. It's actually one of the main ingredients in Excedrin Migraine, which I take for mine. I've always found the key is taking something as soon as you feel one coming on. Other than that, try to sleep and wait it out.
If you're new to migraines, I'd definitely talk to the doctor about them.
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kylie posted 16 weeks ago.
oh gosh! Caffeine sometimes makes mine worse! Luckily I might have grown out of them and haven't had any in years. Good luck finding something that works for you!
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Socket posted 16 weeks ago.
I haven't had them in a long time, but I used to get them pretty bad (like actual blindness bad, that's scary $#!t let me tell you). Excedrin Migraine was the first line of defense followed by the most caffeinated warm beverage I could get my hands on. My aunt gets them chronically and has a prescription that works within 20 minutes most of the time.
Mine were caused by a constriction of the blood vessels in my brain and the warm and caffeine help to open the blood vessels back up. A very few times it was caused by an allergic reaction to cashews. That would lay me up for about 6 hours and wasn't pretty (I won't go into details, very nasty)
I would definitely talk to your doctor about it. It may have been random, but it may be a symptom of a larger problem.
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TriSooner posted 15 weeks ago.
xc800runner wrote:
This is the first time I had what I suspect to be a migraine, and wish, for my sanity's sake not to get any more, especially while on the bike.
From someone who has had mig's before, what you had was a classic one: The nausea was a tip-off. My first? I thought I was having a stroke. Called 9-1-1. I went limp on one side of my face. Anyways, get a scrip for Imitrex. I have the nasal spray kind. Super-potent. Tastes nasty, and you still have a headache, but not a mig. And if you are prone to them, you may consider carrying one when you train long distance and/or race. Imagine training for months and having one crush your skull during a race.
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danpatgal posted 15 weeks ago.
I have had migraines, perhaps 1/month, but not severe, for 15 years or so. Oddly, I find that something salty helps me get over the nausea and aura and help lessens the pain when it does come on thereafter. I've tried caffeine and other pain medications with some sucess, as described by others above.
I tend to think I have alergic reactions not to a particular food, but to something that has spoiled or contaminated the thing I'm eating. Other times I think it's just stress plus some other trigger, like something funky I ate, that brings them on. If there is some pattern in your case, you'll best discover it by keeping a diary and noting what you ate, what you were doing before it came on, your general outlook at the time, etc. Then you'll know better how to avoid them or at least how to prepare to treat them before you go out on a 50 mile ride.
Good Luck!
Does anyone here get migraines and if so what do you do for training around it? Is there anything that causes them or ways to prevent it?
I was out on he bike today and 2 miles in, my head felt like it was hit by a sledgehammer. I nearly fell over with the pain. Thinking it was nothing major, I continued on, not wanting to waste the 55 deg weather in IL, and limped another mile before turning back home. I'm now laid up in bed, feeling nauseous and with a dull ache behind my temples.
I know these things tend to be inherited, and my father had them, along with his father, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to get one from time to time. But there must be some way to control it, right? This is the first time I had what I suspect to be a migraine, and wish, for my sanity's sake not to get any more, especially while on the bike.