Migraine Headaches Support Group

Are migraines just long and intense headaches or something more?

Hi, I've never done this before but I'm desperate. I'm 19 and I have chronic migraines. I've had them since I was 16 and it's kind of thrown everything off. I barely graduated high school. It's been a year since I've graduated and I don't have a job, no prospects of going to college anytime soon. As it is there's no plan for pain management and every preventative we've tried hasn't had any...

Has anyone been awarded disability due to their migraines?

I have always used Relax as my drug of choice to get rid of a migraine. Lately, it either takes a long time to be effective or the migrane comes back within 24 hours.I used a Maxalt tablet and was very surprised how quickly it relieved my migraine.I just got a prescription for Zomig. I haven't even used samples of that drug. I don't know what to expect.Can anyone compare your experience with...

I see we have new people in the group, and a bunch of others I haven't seen around for a while. So even if you're just a lurker, let us know who's here.Yvette

Hi everyone! I suffer from migraines as well as fibromyalgia. I have tried all the Fibro meds with bad side effects, so I only take Norco for the pain. For my migraines, I started taking Topamax last November (25mg up to 50mg now). I never wanted to be on it, but I was on a chronic migraine last Sept-Nov and was at my wits end. It worked GREAT for a month and then stopped working. I went up to...

After suffering years with migraines and frequent elevated blood pressure, I got on medication and it dramatically reduced any headaches. 

I am very puzzled by a horrid circumstance that presented to my wife 3 1/2 years ago, after open Nissen Fundoplication surgery to correct severe GERD. Within a week or two after this surgery, she also had an attack of severe pain in her back that proved with two more visits to the ER that she had a giant kidney stone. Thus within a month, she had to have relief on a Sunday with a ureter stent to...

Does anyone here notice low body temp with migraines? Mine is 96.3.

Hi there, I'm new to this but I've just been feeling so down lately because of chronic migraines. I've had occaisonal migraines since  I was 14, but for almost 8 months now I've had chronic, almost daily headaches/migraines that severely impact my ability to do work and keep up with classes (I'm a college senior about to graduate). I have a top neurologist, take medications, have made lifestyle...

I haven't had to take my Migraine medicine in about 3 days. That doesn't mean I haven't had migraines, they just haven't reached the point where I take the medicine. I've had migraines for years, but I only started getting prescription medicine for them in 2011. My migraines increased significantly in 2014 and I was finally diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder that contributed to them.  I...

Hi everyone! I have just joined this site and I am really excited to have a group to connect with. I am 21 and realized my freshman year of college I was suffering from migraines. I feel like I only know a bit about migraines and want to learn how to magage or prevent them if possible. I've have very debilitating episodes causing a great disrutption to my college classes, missing work meetings,...

hello everyone. I'm new to the whole site, this is my first post. I'm 27 and have been suffering from migraines since I was 10. I've tried everything to prevent them, treat them. Every quick fix, to full on medical treatments. Recently my doc suggested stress may be one of my biggest triggers, and suggested I just talk things out. So if anyone here is willing to listen, I'd love someone to talk...

Im 34 and 2 years ago I had a seizure and was diagnosed with epilepsy. Last year I started having all kinds of odd symptoms and I was told I could have ms and to go see a specialist. Went and saw the ms doc on Thursday and was told that it's not ms or epilepsy, but a whole body migraine. Has anyone ever heard of this or does anyone else have this on here. I'm having trouble understanding how a...

Hey I am a 16 year old girl and this is my story for the past year and a half I have suffered from a daily migraine and since may I have been on at least 8 different medications 1 MRI and have 5 er visits. I have been seen by the same doctor the whole time and don't think she is effective even though my mother says she is she has never asked to see my migraine log within the year I have seen her...