How do you determine migraine from other head pain?
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How do you determine migraine from other head pain?
I never know what I have until it's too late.
I do have a permanent head pain which I can live with if it stays below a 5.
But it can hit really fast and get very bad in moments.
Today I have had it all day, but I havent taken anything.
I didnt know what to take.
I only have Triptans and OTC.
The OTC I took last night when it came on so fast, didnt help.
If anything helped it was eating.....
So when got up this morning with it still there, I decided not to take more medication.
But to wait a while and see if I need a triptan. Had too many of them this month as well.
So its almost 4pm and I have been on this couch all day, at time going mad with it, but sometimes it eases.
My migraines dont ease. So this is probably not one, BUT as I get no other symptoms...no nausea etc, how can I tell?
Do others wrestle with what pain they have, and what to take?
I could use some advice...
Thanks
Pen
PS: in the time I have been writing this it has gone from easier to awful (had to stop typing) to unpleasant....
I do have a permanent head pain which I can live with if it stays below a 5.
But it can hit really fast and get very bad in moments.
Today I have had it all day, but I havent taken anything.
I didnt know what to take.
I only have Triptans and OTC.
The OTC I took last night when it came on so fast, didnt help.
If anything helped it was eating.....
So when got up this morning with it still there, I decided not to take more medication.
But to wait a while and see if I need a triptan. Had too many of them this month as well.
So its almost 4pm and I have been on this couch all day, at time going mad with it, but sometimes it eases.
My migraines dont ease. So this is probably not one, BUT as I get no other symptoms...no nausea etc, how can I tell?
Do others wrestle with what pain they have, and what to take?
I could use some advice...
Thanks
Pen
PS: in the time I have been writing this it has gone from easier to awful (had to stop typing) to unpleasant....
Re: How do you determine migraine from other head pain?
Pen, This is an issue for me as well.
I think I said in another thread that, besides definite migraine episodes, I always have a one sided headache of some sort with various other symptoms sometimes present.
I agree that, when it's a migraine they don't come and go. For me, a migraine tapers off slightly then reaches a point where I suddenly realise it has gone.
My other headaches, although still referred to as migraine by my neurologist, are of a different level and can ease or get worse as the day wears on. Just bending down can change my day completely. Sometimes it is difficult to know what to do. I can have a bad headache and then the aura for a migraine comes on top of that suggesting they are two different things. Then on other occasions one of these "lesser" headaches can progress into a full blown migraine attack without an aura. I'm lucky that triptans do help in both these situations.
I don't take any meds at all for the "lesser" headaches and just "poke up with them". However, they are the main reason I find it difficult to concentrate these days.
What OTC meds do you take? I avoid aspirin and paracetamol as they agravate my tinitus. Also I don't want to give anyone an opportunity to suggest rebound headaches when I know that's not the case. I know you struggle with this as well.
I think I said in another thread that, besides definite migraine episodes, I always have a one sided headache of some sort with various other symptoms sometimes present.
I agree that, when it's a migraine they don't come and go. For me, a migraine tapers off slightly then reaches a point where I suddenly realise it has gone.
My other headaches, although still referred to as migraine by my neurologist, are of a different level and can ease or get worse as the day wears on. Just bending down can change my day completely. Sometimes it is difficult to know what to do. I can have a bad headache and then the aura for a migraine comes on top of that suggesting they are two different things. Then on other occasions one of these "lesser" headaches can progress into a full blown migraine attack without an aura. I'm lucky that triptans do help in both these situations.
I don't take any meds at all for the "lesser" headaches and just "poke up with them". However, they are the main reason I find it difficult to concentrate these days.
What OTC meds do you take? I avoid aspirin and paracetamol as they agravate my tinitus. Also I don't want to give anyone an opportunity to suggest rebound headaches when I know that's not the case. I know you struggle with this as well.
Johnfd- Join date : 2011-01-18
Age : 67
Location : West Wales
Re: How do you determine migraine from other head pain?
Hi John.
Well we do seem to have quite a few similarities dont we.
Maybe its the wonderful British weather....
I dont get any aura, never have. Just pain, so I dont get that warning either...
I dont always take anyting for the othr pain, but sometimes I just cant stand it. It can be as painful as migraine and, as I cant waste Triptans, and am already overdoing them, I try the OTC.
I have been given Naproxen, and Diclofen, but neither seem to have any more effect than Anadin Extra, so that's what I take.
I have tinitus too, but dont find the tablets make any difference. It seems to be linked to the pain, rather than the remedy.
MOH. Hmm. I am so sick of hearing about it. I have asked the GP and the Neuro and their view is, some might get it, most dont.
If you do its a problem needs dealing with, if you dont, you probably just have chronic pain...
They both say it is totally overblown. I dont know what to think, but as they are the people looking after me, I guess I will go with that. I asked Migraine Action as well and they said I dont fit the criteria. So I just muddle through now...Its hard...
Well we do seem to have quite a few similarities dont we.
Maybe its the wonderful British weather....
I dont get any aura, never have. Just pain, so I dont get that warning either...
I dont always take anyting for the othr pain, but sometimes I just cant stand it. It can be as painful as migraine and, as I cant waste Triptans, and am already overdoing them, I try the OTC.
I have been given Naproxen, and Diclofen, but neither seem to have any more effect than Anadin Extra, so that's what I take.
I have tinitus too, but dont find the tablets make any difference. It seems to be linked to the pain, rather than the remedy.
MOH. Hmm. I am so sick of hearing about it. I have asked the GP and the Neuro and their view is, some might get it, most dont.
If you do its a problem needs dealing with, if you dont, you probably just have chronic pain...
They both say it is totally overblown. I dont know what to think, but as they are the people looking after me, I guess I will go with that. I asked Migraine Action as well and they said I dont fit the criteria. So I just muddle through now...Its hard...
Re: How do you determine migraine from other head pain?
Migraine or Sinus?
This is the Question!
For me it's sometimes difficult to understand but - maybe - I have found the big difference: migraine can make me feel so depressed and sad like no other type of pain.
So, the affection on the humor may be the difference on my case
This is the Question!
For me it's sometimes difficult to understand but - maybe - I have found the big difference: migraine can make me feel so depressed and sad like no other type of pain.
So, the affection on the humor may be the difference on my case
Antonella- Join date : 2011-01-19
Re: How do you determine migraine from other head pain?
You have a good point there Anto.
I find the depression hits with the migraine, but they usually hit in the night, so I cant be sure exactly when. I wake up scared and low.
With this other constant wavering pain, it can make me feel depressed, and scares me, because I dont know when it might stop, but do find it difficult to determine...
I find the depression hits with the migraine, but they usually hit in the night, so I cant be sure exactly when. I wake up scared and low.
With this other constant wavering pain, it can make me feel depressed, and scares me, because I dont know when it might stop, but do find it difficult to determine...
Re: How do you determine migraine from other head pain?
I rarely get anything but migraines but last weekend was the exception. I think it was a tension headache. I felt it on both sides of my head equally, unlike the one-sided migraine. It felt like my head was in a vise, being squeezed. It didn't throb and pound like my migraines. Instead it had a constant, even pressure pain.
I didn't even try a triptan on it. I took a pain pill ( Vicodin) and that knocked it out.
Chris
I didn't even try a triptan on it. I took a pain pill ( Vicodin) and that knocked it out.
Chris
crt- Join date : 2011-01-16
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