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Migraine headaches are not normally mild. They're normally debilitating. They start as a dull throb, and become a mind-numbing sharp crack in your skull, expanding down your neck, between your shoulder blades, around your head to your eyes, giving you palpitations, causing nausea and sometimes temporary blindness, sensitivity to light and sound, and can last anywhere from a couple of hours to a few days.
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Well...many of us have what are often referred to as "mini-migraines" where we experience the aura and then get very mild headaches. I've actually talked to as many people who experience this than who experience full-blown migraines. My after-headaches are so minor that I don't even take Tylenol, and usually forget the headache is there.
Just to clear one thing up, I am generally not a fan of "Googling my symptoms" to diagnose myself, as one poster mentioned upthread, as I know the hazards of that sort of "research." What I did this week was simply read a couple of websites about migraines after my doctor mentioned it as a possibility. In doing so, I saw that a few of the common symptoms listed matched my recent experiences.
Common symptoms, as mentioned by some of you here, include discomfort on one side of the head only and increased sensitivity to light, both of which I'm experiencing. Also, the symptoms are said to typically subside when sleeping, which mine do. On Thursday, I felt absolutely fine all day until the eye doctor shined bright lights in my eye, and the symptoms came right back.
It's entirely possible this has nothing to do with my new glasses and just happened to start around the same time. I have no way of knowing. I do plan to get another professional opinion fairly soon.
Several of my female friends and I all had monthly migraines. Now that we have no hormones, we don’t have migraines either. Not sure if migraines are hormone related in males.
Several of my female friends and I all had monthly migraines. Now that we have no hormones, we don’t have migraines either. Not sure if migraines are hormone related in males.
Well, hormones in men also fluctuate during their lives but obviously not to the degree they do in women. Seem to have read somewhere that testosterone/estrogen fluctuation does contribute to migraines in men.
Last edited by Parnassia; 11-04-2023 at 03:28 PM..
Those are the same symptoms I’ve suffered from since the onset of puberty, initially debilitating to the point of having to remain in bed for days. Over the years they’ve decreased from monthly to occasionally now with milder symptoms. Medication does help along with rest in a dark environment. Mine seemed to be triggered by stress or bright lights. It doesn’t sound like what michael917 is experiencing is a migraine.
I'm not a doctor, but I'd imagine that a headache caused by eye strain from a new prescription is in the tension headache category.
My wife used to get about two migraines a month. They were totally debilitating. The pain was so bad it usually led to vomiting, which led to dehydration, which led to worsening of the migraine. Several times I had to take her to the ER for fluids and medicine. She had all the tests. A cat scan, later an MRI. Blood work. One time she got a spinal tap.
Long story short, she went on a carnivore diet and hasn't had a migraine since.
Has anybody here experienced migraines? That is a working theory of what I'm currently dealing with. Two months ago, I got new glasses with special lenses and I had a hard time adjusting to them. Some days the constant adjusting of my eyes was leading to headaches.
I had a lengthy visit with my eye doctor yesterday, during which we determined that the prescription I'd been given was slightly off. He also suggested migraines as a possible explanation for my recent symptoms. Based on basic internet research, it seems like a credible suggestion, but I'm a chronic worrier so who knows?
I have switched back to my old glasses until my prescription can be modified, but my symptoms persist, at least today they do. Very mild, but still there.
Can anybody else who has dealt with migraines share your experience so I can compare?
Well...in my experience, migraines aren't mild. I haven't had a migraine since I had babies, but migraines are bad. They make you want to go in a dark room, and not move, once you lay down. Sometimes, you'll have auras to go with the migraines, and you might throw up. Often, throwing up will actually make you feel better.
One time, I woke up, and I couldn't see out of one eye. I went to the doctor, and he asked if I ever got migraines. I answered yes, and he suggested what I was experiencing was a kind of migraine event, minus any pain. (It was many years ago...there are details I'm not remembering, I'm sure.)
Several of my female friends and I all had monthly migraines. Now that we have no hormones, we don’t have migraines either. Not sure if migraines are hormone related in males.
Same with me, although I’ll still get an occasional migraine maybe once every 3, 4 months or so. I find that if I get a mild headache and I can’t wipe it out with a couple of Tylenol then about half of the time it will progress to a migraine.
When I was younger, and having migraines about 3, 4 times a month, being under the care of a neurologist was a godsend. He tried different meds, and I went to him regularly to see what worked.
Not migraines, just a real bad headache that lasted three months...I was referred to a neurologist who prescribed a med that worked great.
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Propranolol is one of the most common and effective medications for preventing migraines – although it only reduces how often you get them, not their duration or severity. Because it is a preventive treatment, it needs to be taken regularly for an effect, and it may take up to 12 weeks before an effect is seen. The usual starting dose is 40 mg/day, but this can be increased to 320mg daily.
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