I'll tell you what can feck off and all (Migraine)

[PaulB]

Migraine.

Was supposed to be going to my mate's 50th last night but started with the car-rayzy light show in my head which long history has shown to be the start of the bloody thing. Then it can vary in severity and last night's was about a medium. I didn't get the paralised arm and numb face but I did get the inability to read or think/talk straight. It's really strange too but it's like being 3 years old and unable to fathom out how to formulate the word out of the letters! I was on here for a while but gave up as it all seemed like gobbledegook. Good job I'd got my ride in earlier or it would have been a wasted day.

Anyone else suffer the delights of the jagged lighted thing?

 

[nigelnorris]

Yes, and if I can get down some migralieve the instant it starts it kills all the other symptoms stone dead withing minutes, but you really do have to be quick about it. I carry a pack about with me, keep them at work, in the glovebox etc so that they are instantly to hand. Highly recommended.

 

[PaulB]

Yes, and if I can get down some migralieve the instant it starts it kills all the other symptoms stone dead withing minutes, but you really do have to be quick about it. I carry a pack about with me, keep them at work, in the glovebox etc so that they are instantly to hand. Highly recommended.

They failed me last night, I have to say. I think I'm becoming immune to them.

 

[dan_bo]

Bloody hell I count myself lucky I don't suffer with shoot like that! (touches wood)

 

[John Ponting]

I get the jagglies as well Paul. 20 mins later the head pains start unless I get pills down asap. If I'm at work I just walk down the road and a couple of times around the lake. Worst experience is forgetting everybody elses names when I've been out. Sitting round a restaurant table and not being able to address people by name is scary. Again, walk around in the fresh air for 15 mins tinking of nothing and it comes back again.

Deeply envious of people who don't get migraine BUT it could be something much worse.

 

[Mr Pig]

Sympathy dude. I get them too. Different from yours, I feel very nauseous to the point of being unable to do anything and the only thing that gets rid of it is lying down in dark, quiet room. If I can't do that it just goes on, the record is three days.

None of the tablets I've tried have dented it. The dark room is the only thing I've found so far that helps. What really pisses you of is that most people think you're exaggerating and making a big deal out of a 'headache'.

 

[yello]

What really pisses you of is that most people think you're exaggerating and making a big deal out of a 'headache'.

I have a great deal of sympathy for genuine sufferers. I'm not one myself fortunately but I do appreciate just how debilitating it is.

What does piss me off is the headache sufferer than claims migraine.

 

[magnatom]

I've only ever had one. I think it was triggered by tiredness and dehydration. As it was my first (and hopefully my last) I didn't know what it was at first. Excruciating head pain, light sensitivity, and sickness which was cyclical (about 3 times). Horrible 24 hours and I was shattered the next day as well.

I have a huge amount of sympathy for anyone that suffers from this regularly.

 

[Keith Oates]

I've not had one, but a good friend used to suffer from them and I really felt sorry for her with the darkened rooms etc. Hope your next one is a long way off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry to hear that Paul. I hope you are feeling better today?

I'm still hoping to see you two weeks today for the Malham/Forest of Bowland ride?

I've only ever had one. I think it was triggered by tiredness and dehydration. As it was my first (and hopefully my last) I didn't know what it was at first. Excruciating head pain, light sensitivity, and sickness which was cyclical (about 3 times). Horrible 24 hours and I was shattered the next day as well.

I have a huge amount of sympathy for anyone that suffers from this regularly.

Ditto.

As a child, I thought that relatives complaining about 'getting a migraine' were just wimps with headaches, then I had one myself at school...

That zigzag thing is really weird - not very nice at all.

That was about 38 years ago and I've never had another one since, but I haven't forgotten how horrid it was. My sympathies to anybody who suffers from the damn things!

 

[PaulB]

Sorry to hear that Paul. I hope you are feeling better today?

I'm still hoping to see you two weeks today for the Malham/Forest of Bowland ride?

Thanks Colin. I shall be there, insh'allah. And doesn't that sound like a fanTAStic ride? Malham/Forest of Bowland! My two favourite slices of Northern England on one sandwich!

I do appreciate how lucky I am with the headaches though. I simply don't get them! It's just the extreme tiredness followed by the fireworks behind the lamps and then sometimes I can't read or make sense of anything for a while and then it goes leaving me right as rain. A surgeon friend of mine once kindly offered to implant a Goretex membrane in the septal defect in my heart that he's sure I've got and this will prevent the venous blood mixing with the arterial that medical science thinks is the root cause of these migraines. I telt him I'll just avoid caffeine, MSG and Whey powder, thanks.