I've found that applying an ice pack on my forehead and neck helps a little. Not much else by way of wacky treatments. The most effective one is my sumatriptan. It's a life saver for me!
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I think I'd be a lost cause for days at a time without the miracle of sumatriptan! :)
It feels illegal, but alcohol kinda helps. A slightly cooled beer works as a nice cooling pad and relief medicine in one. (That's really only an option when not taking pain killers!)
Otherwise energy drinks do the trick for me, probably because of sugar and caffeine.
You sold me at cooling pad! That does sound kind of logical in a "good at numbing and relaxing" way!
I'd love to see booze on the health guides!
I have migraines, they're bad, help.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I dunno, you tried getting hammered?
Not really soothing so much as minimizing but I try not to darken the room. I find that being in darkness actually makes the headache aspect much worse even though it is soothing in the short term.
I did a double-take when I re-read and saw the word "not"!
That's really interesting, I've always darkened or wore an eye mask, hmm I kind of want to try this for science now, but don't want a migraine - I've done my quota for the week!
Oh I need a dark room as well as silence - bright light as well as loud, especially high pitched sounds, not only make my migrains worse, but are also triggers by themselves.
I get you, especially with the triggers. Working with software, especially VR all day is a terrible health choice. :/
I often make myself purge. It is a temporary relief from the nausea.
I travel into the pain and see what emerges. I decided that once I spend the duration of the migraine in hell I can as well figure out what hell looks like and really focus on what thoughts emerge. Enjoying the migraine in this way usually uncovers lost feelings and suppressed emotions, and I guess that is what my migraines try to point at all along. I have less migraines now than when I tried to suppress them by physical means. I know now when I have to get some alone time or take a long walk before getting into migraine levels of hidden frustration.
Wow! Now that is a new one. I kind of can see that stress and such is part of it all, but your pain threshold must be off the charts!
I'm written off when I get a bad one, and you're able to use migraines as a chance to reflect... that's very cool, even if I might be too much of a baby to dare try it! 😅
I'm written off as well. Extreme nausea, where the bits of reflection happen between the repeated sessions of throwing up. It's like a really bad trip of the sort one would never ever want to repeat.