The What's Annoyed You Today Thread

[TVC]

You don't mean the M6 do you? It doesn't go near Manchester airport. Do you mean the M56?

It is the M6, junctions 18 to 20 and the link road from the M56 J7. The whole lot is a mess. The M6 is close enough to the airport for me

 

[Sara_H]

I'm annoyed that I've woken up to day 3 of a more or less continuous migraine.

 

[Lullabelle]

The weather people said dry overnight and all day today so last night I put some washing out, it is pouring down today.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'm annoyed that I've woken up to day 3 of a more or less continuous migraine.

@Sara_H

That's a long time to be in pain. You have my sympathy. I get the damn things a few times a year and they only last several hours but they leave me post-dromal for up to a week afterwards.

Do you get these regularly? Have you been checked for Cluster Headaches (rare and way more painful than Migraines)?

My wife suffered for years until she was eventually diagnosed by a Neurology Consultant. Maybe worth checking out?

https://www.migrainetrust.org/about...ne/other-headache-disorders/cluster-headache/

 

[Sara_H]

@Sara_H

That's a long time to be in pain. You have my sympathy. I get the damn things a few times a year and they only last several hours but they leave me post-dromal for up to a week afterwards.

Do you get these regularly? Have you been checked for Cluster Headaches (rare and way more painful than Migraines)?

My wife suffered for years until she was eventually diagnosed by a Neurology Consultant. Maybe worth checking out?

https://www.migrainetrust.org/about...ne/other-headache-disorders/cluster-headache/

I thought about cluster headaches, but I don't think my headaches are that painful.

I only started having migraines last summer and was getting them quite frequently at first. Now I'm only getting one every few weeks, but it seems to last longer. Co-codamol and ibuprufen seem to help for a few hours, but waking up with the headache is a nuisance.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

F*@king useless PayPal.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I thought about cluster headaches, but I don't think my headaches are that painful.

I only started having migraines last summer and was getting them quite frequently at first. Now I'm only getting one every few weeks, but it seems to last longer. Co-codamol and ibuprufen seem to help for a few hours, but waking up with the headache is a nuisance.

@Sara_H

Sumatriptan may be your friend although (not being patronising) check with your GP first.

I use low dose tab's to brilliant effect - they stop the pain fast, although the visual disturbances continue. They do leave me feeling awful though.

My wife uses high dose injections with some success to control her CH's.

Hope you feel better soon.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I thought about cluster headaches, but I don't think my headaches are that painful.

I only started having migraines last summer and was getting them quite frequently at first. Now I'm only getting one every few weeks, but it seems to last longer. Co-codamol and ibuprufen seem to help for a few hours, but waking up with the headache is a nuisance.

hmm, don't discount clusters, consider you pain in context with other symptoms you may or may not be getting & if you feel any different in the run up to the hurt starting.

I suffer cluster headaches, getting that diagnosis has taken a hell of a time - they are rare and more so in blokes - , I have no point of reference but in the CH group at my towns walk in centre, one of the ladies is quite clear she'd rather give birth without drugs than have a cluster headache and they are unbelievably painful but not uniformly so to different people,.

CH's tend to occur as you describe, I wonder over 3 days if maybe you've had 3 individual headaches but the tail off of one doesn't go away before the lead into the flare up of another & just seamlessly blend into a magnificent wall of pain, this is my experience - it feels like a solid single thing.
The are generally not associated as much with auras, vision disturbances, nausea as a warning before the pain ramps up etc, it is quite often just a wall of pain that lands on you. Codeine etc will take the edge off but at a cost if you're overdosing to try and blitz the pain or taking them for longer periods than advised (got that t shirt, they are an horrible drug codeine-morphine-heroin = family tree).

Immigran is a migraine/cluster prophylactic to be taken as soon as you feel one coming on - over the counter ~£8 for 2 x tablets and the idea is that you take them at the start of an attack - it works better for classic migraines as you do tend to get those warning symptoms before the hurt really kicks in.

It may well be worth a try even now and even if it is a bang-bang-bang of cluster headaches, you could break the cycle and get a bit of respite.
You can also get it prescribed as nasal spray - its a lot quicker into your bloodstream and still works through nausea & your stomach shutting down. No cheaper, mine is still 2 shots for the cost of the prescription but luckily I prepay those as I'm a reet demic

There are numerous take every day migraine suppressants - whether you're having an attack that day or not, Propranolol and Sumatriptan (?sp) being 2 that they tried on me with varying effect.
The idea being you take them daily and largely forget you have migraines as they basically just build up a daily dosed resistance to their onset, but they are again more effective with the migraine not the cluster type (still if you do have irregular migraines, worth considering).
My gripe on those was that my headaches were a week+ of hell every 6-7 weeks and while those suppressants took the edge off they didn't stop them fully. Now they've finally agreed that mine are clusters not migraines, I'm prescribed Verapamil Hydrochloride, again its an every day suppressant but they are working better than the migraine specifics were and I've been through a couple of cluster cycles with far less bother.

 

[Sara_H]

hmm, don't discount clusters, consider you pain in context with other symptoms you may or may not be getting & if you feel any different in the run up to the hurt starting.

I suffer cluster headaches, getting that diagnosis has taken a hell of a time - they are rare and more so in blokes - , I have no point of reference but in the CH group at my towns walk in centre, one of the ladies is quite clear she'd rather give birth without drugs than have a cluster headache and they are unbelievably painful but not uniformly so to different people,.

CH's tend to occur as you describe, I wonder over 3 days if maybe you've had 3 individual headaches but the tail off of one doesn't go away before the lead into the flare up of another & just seamlessly blend into a magnificent wall of pain, this is my experience - it feels like a solid single thing.
The are generally not associated as much with auras, vision disturbances, nausea as a warning before the pain ramps up etc, it is quite often just a wall of pain that lands on you. Codeine etc will take the edge off but at a cost if you're overdosing to try and blitz the pain or taking them for longer periods than advised (got that t shirt, they are an horrible drug codeine-morphine-heroin = family tree).

Immigran is a migraine/cluster prophylactic to be taken as soon as you feel one coming on - over the counter ~£8 for 2 x tablets and the idea is that you take them at the start of an attack - it works better for classic migraines as you do tend to get those warning symptoms before the hurt really kicks in.

It may well be worth a try even now and even if it is a bang-bang-bang of cluster headaches, you could break the cycle and get a bit of respite.
You can also get it prescribed as nasal spray - its a lot quicker into your bloodstream and still works through nausea & your stomach shutting down. No cheaper, mine is still 2 shots for the cost of the prescription but luckily I prepay those as I'm a reet demic

There are numerous take every day migraine suppressants - whether you're having an attack that day or not, Propranolol and Sumatriptan (?sp) being 2 that they tried on me with varying effect.
The idea being you take them daily and largely forget you have migraines as they basically just build up a daily dosed resistance to their onset, but they are again more effective with the migraine not the cluster type (still if you do have irregular migraines, worth considering).
My gripe on those was that my headaches were a week+ of hell every 6-7 weeks and while those suppressants took the edge off they didn't stop them fully. Now they've finally agreed that mine are clusters not migraines, I'm prescribed Verapamil Hydrochloride, again its an every day suppressant but they are working better than the migraine specifics were and I've been through a couple of cluster cycles with far less bother.

See, the thing is, its a really bad headache. I can still function, but as an example, I need to write an essay for my course and I couldn't do that with the headache. But its not so bad that I need to go to bed in a darkened room. I get really bad nausea, but never actually vomit. I also have continuous "butterflies" in my lower abdomen. Not sure what that is.Then I feel spaced out for a few days.

Every time it happens I think that I must see my GP, but then forget about it until the next time!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

See, the thing is, its a really bad headache. I can still function, but as an example, I need to write an essay for my course and I couldn't do that with the headache. But its not so bad that I need to go to bed in a darkened room. I get really bad nausea, but never actually vomit. I also have continuous "butterflies" in my lower abdomen. Not sure what that is.Then I feel spaced out for a few days.

Every time it happens I think that I must see my GP, but then forget about it until the next time!

Go and see the GP regardless, you may well have another vascular thing going on that is causing the symptoms, constriction of the vessels and capillaries in your brain can play some funny tricks on the rest of you - I get nausea but it is after the event and down to the pain ramping up, My stomach also stops working to process food in & I know what you mean about the butterflies. Spacey is exactly the word I was going to put in my other post but didn't want to seem like I was leading you down hypochondriac road. I tend to feel 'clean' too after mine finish, like in the aftermath of a nice rain shower after a long muggy spell of weather.

you may well have a superb pain threshold too and just cope better than some (me) with degrees of discomfort and pain.

 

[Sara_H]

Go and see the GP regardless, you may well have another vascular thing going on that is causing the symptoms, constriction of the vessels and capillaries in your brain can play some funny tricks on the rest of you - I get nausea but it is after the event and down to the pain ramping up, My stomach also stops working to process food in & I know what you mean about the butterflies. Spacey is exactly the word I was going to put in my other post but didn't want to seem like I was leading you down hypochondriac road. I tend to feel 'clean' too after mine finish, like in the aftermath of a nice rain shower after a long muggy spell of weather.

you may well have a superb pain threshold too and just cope better than some (me) with degrees of discomfort and pain.

There maybe something in that. I've got a bit of a track record for having a high tolerance to "something being wrong"!

 

[PaulB]

It is the M6, junctions 18 to 20 and the link road from the M56 J7. The whole lot is a mess. The M6 is close enough to the airport for me

Was down that way on Wednesday about midday and never experienced any problems either going south or back north.

 

[gbb]

At risk of getting political, someones Facebook post annoyed me....
He's living in Europe and of course, quite rightly for him, is concerned about a possible exit. His FB page has a rant about his own family who it appears will vote OUT...and the repercussions this may have on him,
It continues.....'amazing how soon people forget how they (the EC i assume he means) gave us the quality of life and human rights we now enjoy.'

This somewhat annoyed me...not that our fathers and forefathers who fought in the First and Second World War had anything to do with it eh

Hes a young fella who apparently has no sense of history.

 

[summerdays]

My bath mat looks like someone took it in the shower with them....!!!!

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Trying to put a screen protector on a new tablet without getiing air bubbles in has slightly annoyed me today.