what do you do when you have a migraine?

Question

I can't get my imitrex until I get paid and I have had a migraine for 2 days now. I have been taking excedrin and motrin, nothing is helping! Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Usually without a triptan like Imitrex the best management is relaxation therapy and taking a combination med like Excedrin migraine.

Try going to a darkened room, getting rid of all sound except maybe some soothing music and try relaxing. It works best if you think about relaxing your body slowly. Start by relaxing your toes, then feet and work your way up the body. Self guided imagery can help. Think about somewhere restful and relaxing, like a hammock on a beach, try to imagine the breeze, the sound of the waves, maybe even try to pick up the sound of the waves in the music you are listening to. If you can get relaxed, your pain may diminish. Then you can go to sleep, often when you awake the headache will be significantly reduced or gone.

Answer 2

Drink a strong cup of coffee with your pain med. Sometimes the extra caffeine helps with a migraine. It usually works best if you do this as soon as you feel the migraine coming on, so if you've had it for two days already, it may not work.

Answer 3

There is no medicine for H/A OR MIGRAINE. Not only these but for almost all painful diseases. Hence they become chronic.
Acidity, WORRY, excessive wind, cold , heat, sour food and sinusitis, constipation, intestinal inflammation;
Blockage in the flow of Vital Energy are their causes. None of them can be treated with medicine. Our 100% success in treating migraine &H/A confirms it.
Acupuncture is the best treatment. I can treat it with naturopathy and YOG, but how can you manage pl see.

Avoid late sleeping if possible;spicy, sour, stale bakery foods and alcohole.
Sweet foods, COCOANUT WATER,sweet fruits, milk, rice, SPROUTS, SALADS and good sleep will help you.
But you try one herbal remedy- two drops of drumstick leaves' juice in opposite nostril if one side pains and both nostrils if full H/A will give you rescue. Betel leaf helps but it isvery strong.
If it is acute pl search a painful point 3-6 mm behind your thumb nail and press it, H/A will disappear within 30 seconds.

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SHREE SWASTHYAYOG TREATMENT, TRAINING & RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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Answer 4

Excedrin migraine works well for me

Answer 5

caffeine drinks, darkened room, rest, and keep taking the Motrin.

Answer 6

rub your temples around five minutes.