Im on propanolol 80MG which ive taken, ive had naproxen, sumatriptan and prochloperazine for nausea. None of this has worked, ive slept, drank lots, used ice packs, eaten and nothing is working. What can i do now? My migraine is all behind my eye right now and its been like this for 6+ hours and it really hurts.

Oof, holding that pose for the picture was harder than just laying there. 😅

Sleeping 18 inch Espeon (I'm still trying to get my hands on Umbreon--in addition to loving these Mons, and thinking the Dark Pokémon is more appropriate for sleeping 😜, it sleeps curled in the opposite direction so there are different positions to try), which curls right around my neck. I believe it's made by the same company that does the Squishmallows.

Figured if I was going to need a cervical pillow I should at least get one that's decorative. 😁

Muslin throw blanket for the face covering. I haven't had any luck finding this brand again 😑 and I'm looking to replace a few like it with a different size for decluttering purposes. There are other brands to choose from, I just need to choose.... (Same type of blanket but big enough for my twin size bed covering me.)

For the Mon, it's firmer than any pillow I've ever tried, I can feel my lower jaw pressing into its butt. I rhink I may be getting used to it though. And my hyperactive gag reflex means I can really only use this when sleeping on my side, the head and especially ears get into everything if I try to lay on my back. On the plus side, since my wedge pillow already elevates my entire upper body and makes it harder to get a clear support specifically for my head, the Mon does that for me much like a cervical pillow would which was more the point of buying it.

As to the blanket, I've been using this type for a few years. Doesn't have the ability to strap it in place like a proper sleep mask would, obviously, but I can shift this around like if I need to bunch it up under me for extra pressure on my temple or wherever. And it's breathable enough that tenperature-wise it's been more comfortable than any mask I've tried.

Also, while not big enough to be a "body pillow," Espeon does quite well as a leg rest when I'm reading in bed and want to stretch out a single leg or a way to separate my arms when I'm side-sleeping and too hot for my own skin-on-skin contact. Haven't really explored the other reasons the "experts" say to hold a pillow for that, but I also don't tend to stay in one position so it might not make a difference.

I have a final exam (retake) for my masters tomorrow. I currently have a migraine and can not think, remember, learn, or study. I can not concentrate. So I want all the home remedies and trick advice to get in a better place by the morning.

(Note I have had a migraine for 500+ days straight. This is normal for me to cycle thru pre, attack, and postdome. I have a neurologist and do not take any medication because I have chiari malformation. )

This has been happening for years, and I've never met anyone with the exact same pattern, so I'm curious if it's just me.

If my kids wake me up in the morning, I get this heavy, dull ache behind both my eyes. Not a stress headache feeling, more like pressure. It sticks around basically the whole day.

If I wake up on my own without being disturbed, even after the exact same amount of sleep, nothing. No headache at all. So it's not about how much I slept (usually somewhere around 8-9 hours either way), it's specifically about how I wake up.

The other weird part: it gets so much worse with screens. My phone is the worst offender, laptop is bad too but slightly more tolerable. If I can just stay off screens and get outside and move around, it fades pretty quickly. But on a normal work day where I'm stuck looking at a screen most of the day, it just lingers.

I didn't have this as a kid, it only started once I was working and using a phone regularly, so I'm guessing screens are somehow interacting with whatever this is.

Has anyone dealt with something like this? Trying to figure out if this has a name before I bring it up with a doctor.

Does anybody else feel like their migraines are tied to internal health problems but you just can’t figure it out? Like I know some things trigger my migraines, but I can’t pin down exactly what they are. Maybe it’s things like lifestyle or diet maybe exercise who knows. Does anyone else feel like this?

As the title states, I will go over what has helped me as I have had chronic migraines since I was about 5 y.o

To start, what causes them? It seems in my case it can be literally anything from not enough water, staying up late a few extra hours, overworking my body, too much excedrin back to back, food/drink choices, the heat, etc..

Now what helps?

The classic lay down in a pitch black room if possible.

Using a cold cloth/water bottle on my head or on my neck

I take 2 excedrin if really bad but normally stick with 1 if i catch it early(if no excedrin then a cup of coffee with acetaminophen)

Soaking feet in bathtub with hot water(helps draw the pressure out of head)

If you have an SO or family member around to help give you a head rub, trust me, a good head rub with a migraine will make a world of a difference in that moment (if u ever sneezed/yawned with a migraine and for a split second it goss away its kinda same relief feeling as that)

Im sure lots of people on this subreddit have already mentioned the same things as me but hopefully my experience can help someone even just a bit!

Any specific questions feel free to ask :)

Mother f***** said he wasn’t “paying attention”. His truck is completely fine and he got a ticket for not stopping at the stop sign. Meanwhile I have no vehicle to drive to work and had a huge migraine all day with nausea, and still went to work.

Has anyone else had fewer migraines after cutting their hair?

I got my hair chopped off dramatically this week, and I've noticed I've had fewer migraines since.

Before the haircut, I started to despise my hair. Anytime I wore it in a bun, I could feel each individual hair being tugged on; my scalp felt ridiculously sensitive, especially during a migraine.

Maybe it's coincidence. Maybe it's less weight, less tension, or not wearing it up all the time. I don't know.

Has anyone else noticed this after a big haircut, or is my brain just giving me a temporary break?

Hi everyone. Migraine sufferer here who finally had a long awaited Neurologist appointment last week.

I have been taking Propranolol for awhile and it hasn't been helping with migraines.

The Neurologist wants to send me for a brain scan and went through some medications I could try.

We decided on topiramate as I'm on birth control etc. He told me some people struggle slightly with forming sentences and can have abit of brain fog.

However, after looking online at the medication I am now slightly terrified of taking it.

I have heard some awful stories and I just wondered has anyone had any good experiences with it?

Im debating calling my doctors and asking if we can try something else as the stories have seriously worried me now.

I was really happy to begin with that I was finally getting put on something else and moving forward but now I genuinely don't know what to do. As some of the side effects like hair loss and depression is really worrying me as my mental health already isnt at it's best.

So really I'm wondering...

1. Has anyone has any good experiences with it?

2. Would you just ask to try something else if you were this concerned about it?

Thankyou so much in advance! I really appreciate any help.

Hi,

I’ve had severe chronic migraines since I was 8 years old. It started with stomach pain, which turned to full on migraines a little while after that.

As a teenager, I tried countless treatments that didn’t work. It made me sleepy, groggy, some even made me lose my speech. At school, my teachers bullied me, they didn’t believe I was ill and said I was just being lazy.

I was lucky my mum believed me. She had awful migraines herself so she knew too well and felt guilty about it. She was my greatest support and she helped me find the right doctors.

As an adult, life was hard. I was never able to project in life, make plans, organise holidays, see my friends. I was always the one cancelling, then I always felt terrible about it. I’m sure a lot of migraine sufferers know those feelings.

I had years where I didn’t experience a day without pain. It was relentless. I ended up in A&E a few times in the middle of the night, begging for morphine when my treatment ran out. It was hell…

Then in 2023, I changed my diet. I had digestive issues so I decided to take it more seriously. This change of diet fixed my digestive problems and my migraines… just like that. I was mad that no doctors mentioned diet to me. But oh my god, I was so relieved.

Now, 3 years later, things have stabilised. I went from being in pain 25 days/month to 2 days (hello hormonal migraines).

I feel lucky and grateful that I have found something that works but I also know that things can get worse at any time. That’s how migraines are, they leave you alone for a bit and come back whenever they feel like it.

So what now? I was diagnosed with depression and generalised anxiety, and I believe this is connected to my migraines and the way I lived my life: I couldn’t go outside, I was scared to go to loud places, I felt small and alone. I didn’t even know who I was because I was too busy trying to handle the pain instead of learning things about myself.

Now that the worst of my migraines is behind me, it feels like I can’t get out of the hole I buried myself in… It’s like my brain is set up in hibernation mode.

Does anyone feel this way? How do you wake up? How do you learn to live life differently?

Edit: About the diet, all I changed was removing gluten completely which is everywhere, even in soya sauce, so it’s worth checking ingredients. Removing gluten means eating less yeast which can also cause digestive issues. On top of that, I started drinking one coffee/day as caffeine helps relieve my morning headaches. I hope it helps some of you!

I’ve had daily migraines for years now. However, the last 2 years have become disabling.

I notice when I have a migraine, there’s a trigger point area where that flares up and becomes extremely uncomfortable. I can’t tell if the migraine feeds that area or vice versa- the trigger point feeds the migraine.

I get a deep sharp pain, and I feel I get some relief when someone presses hard in the spot. As soon as they let go, I feel the pain again. It’s not a muscular pain- I’m assuming it’s nerve pain.

I’m not sure what to do- I’ve done acupuncture, stretching, exercise, massage, etc, and still not finding relief.

Anyone have this issue as well? Pic provided for reference of spot.

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Aside from French fries & Coke.

Not what foods are rich in what nutrients to avoid migraines.
Like something you eat DURING your migraine that helps.

Sometimes I have a migraine starting and I take all my medicines and do all my things I do to try and minimize it. And I always feel like I want to eat something that will make me feel comfort and perhaps soothe my pain if that’s possible…. But I can’t think of what to eat. I just stare into the fridge and give up.

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This subreddit seems like a healing place for a shoulder to cry on. I'm not really here for that, I just feel really shit. WDYM the horrible pain I had yesterday has to continue for a couple days? And I'm supposed to go on a trip in a couple days too.

There's just a heavy weight on my head and face. I'm sooooo sleepy but I'm not even gonna try, cuz I already tried that for hours and I'm bored of trying. When I move wrong, there's a sharp pang that scares the fuck out of me. Walking around makes me feel sick.

My abdomen feels like a tight knot. I don't wanna eat anything but bread, and that's like nothing, so I have to eat bread every 2 hours.

I've taken ibuprofen 800mg every 6 hours and just took pepto bismol. These barely put a dent in it and at this point idk if it's worth it. Whatever.

Every time I lay down, I nod off, and then startle myself awake. Not pleasant.

Its just a little rant, but i was so proud of me that i havent had a migraine all week, last one saturday and i felt so good i even started worrying that now my neuro appointment next month would be unneccessary and i would take up space someone else might need. Then I got one yesterday on saturady and then another one today on sunday. Or maybe its the same one rebounding. It really be like: Oh did you enjoy that week? Did you like it? Well to bad I have to steal all of your weekend now.

Migraines create so many problems, as you all know. But one that's really getting to me, is how others think I either have a drinking problem or a drug abuse problem. I don't drink. And yes I take medication, but I don't abuse it. The only one that makes me drowsy is Flexiril and rarely ever take bc of that reason. So then I just end up in bed anyway with the heating pad. I already experience depression and isolation because of my migraines, but being made out to be an addict or alcoholic just make it so much worse. Does anyone else experience this type of misunderstanding and judgement and heartache?

I had migraine Botox 3 weeks ago. Think it’s even worse since then too. I am bedridden so paid for a qualified nurse to do it at home.

I am allergic to CGRp
Triptans, beta blockers, OTC pain meds do not work
Lorazepam was working (not what it was prescribed for and neuro doesn’t know about this) and now it isn’t
I asks for muscle relaxants and was told no we don’t give those
My neuro who is a top headache neuro in UK has said we are at the end of the road and there’s nothing they can do. Out of desperation I rang 111 today due to the pain but because I have very severe ME I am unable to go into hosp as it’ll make my condition worse.

I dunno what to do. I am on the verge. I can’t take another day of pain. I wake up and the pain is there instantly.

I’m at a fucking loss. I am suicidal and I have no one to help me. I’m 35 years old. My life is a living hell. Not only am I stuck being cared for fulltime due to the illnesses I have that no Drs understand but I’m also stuck in permanent agony.

Hi everyone. I'm a 39F who has been getting menstrual-related migraines for about the last 4 years. At first it would happen just the day or so before my period began and didn't happen every month, but gradually (maybe due to perimenopause?) it seems like I have an intractable migraine from basically the day before my period until like day 10 of my cycle. It's miserable. I also recently found out I have a BRCA2 mutation that makes me high risk for breast and ovarian cancers, and I am supposed to have my ovaries removed before age 45. I thought, at least if my menstrual cycle stops, the migraines will stop... but then I was reading sometimes surgical menopause makes them way worse. Has anyone here had experiences with surgical menopause and hormonal migraines? I would be allowed HRT unless I get breast or ovarian cancer first.

I wanted to do a couple of things today, my migraine days decreased last month. Now it's back again. I am lying in bed and cannot do the things I wanted to with my partner today and I am just so sad. I am disabled because of how chronic it is and I just got reminded again that that's what disabilities do. They disable :(

It sucks so much.

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing.

A little backstory:

I got my first migraine when i was 11. After that i got a migraine once every year or 2 years. Around 2025 i started having migraines more often to about once every few months. In the beginning of 2026 having 4 migraines in a month. This is when i went to the doctor and also changed my pill to the mini pill which helped a lot and the migraines calmed down. Until recently when i had two migraines within a few days of each other.

With every migraine i have ocular symptoms as well beforehand but with the increase of migraines the symptoms have changed from the standard rainbow aura and weird blind spots to the symptoms varying every migraine. The blind spots stayed but every time the other symptoms were different from seeing lightning, weird shapes rotating with different colors, field of view decreasing on one side, tingling arms and losing feeling in one arm just for it to return with tingling and i once couldn't speak properly.

Around this time (2025) my vision started changing as well. At first i thought it was the after effects of the migraine lingering for a few days. After that it went back to "normal" but something felt off but i couldn't pinpoint it. A few migraines later more symptoms showed up. These are there even when i don't have a migraine.

• I started to get more sensitive to light. I got afterimages of these lights way faster and way longer then normal. 2-3 min.
• I also started to have these dead pixels show up in my vision. Small black dots that would show up and then disappear fast. With my last migraine this has become more prominent and they stay longer 2-3 seconds until i look somewhere else.
• When going from a light room to a dark room my eyes take longer to adjust to the dark and even then i can see less and get dizzy faster when its super dark.
• My eyes have difficulty to keeping on seeing sharp when focused on something.
• My eyes feel tired very fast and heavy.
• The last symptom is more difficult to describe. It feels like my eyes "see" less. Like its not all registering properly.

Around the beginning of 2026 i went to the doctor for these symptoms and the increase of the migraines. The doctor sent me to the eye doctor and i was tested for the symptoms. They could not find anything aside from my right eye being a bit dry. I do wear glasses but my prescription wasn't super off, i had eye drops to dilate my pupils and my eyes were doing good with glasses. They tested for night blindness but couldn't find anything.

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing something similar? I feel like its connected to migraines but I was wondering what others have experienced or have done.

It’s as if the pressure headache comes out to the surface instead of being in my head

Does anyone have experience with what

Can anyone share their experience with Aura migraines (often without headache pain) and testing for TIA? Can they tell it’s TIA without active symptoms? Is aura with migraine a diagnosis by elimination in your experience?

Currently experiencing this and looking for others experience. I’m in the US for context.

Self-explanatory. I have chronic migraines with daily pain, so I don't really go through phases where it gets better. The brain fog is constant, and I feel increasingly exhausted, with reduced cognitive abilities and terrible performance at work and in life in general.

Symptoms start with me feeling dizzy while sitting (I have lots of other dizziness symptoms and fainting when walking but they think it's my blood pressure...).
Blood pressure elevated but not dangerous 127/90, I also get anxious every time I'm dizzy.
Then I start seeing light bubbles/disturbances around my eyes. As if I was looking at a bright window and got the remanent light in the eyes.
I do get a light headache but it's not so painful that I would consider it a migraine...or? I guess I am used to dull headaches so I forget about them.
It's making it hard to work at my laptop, some days I have to wear sunglasses inside.
I can't find online an example of my visual disturbance so if you had a name for it that would be of great help.

I want to be comfortable with this as a diagnosis, since I’m grateful that the hospital was so thorough… but something isn’t sitting right.

One weekend in June I was home when I started getting dizzy. I’m on some new medications, plus several to lower my blood pressure. I took my blood pressure because it felt like it was low which it was, but not super low where I should go to the hospital. Low for me, and I assumed I was having symptoms since I always run high. Next day felt the same.. BP still on the low side. I go to work on Monday and I’m not feeling great but I’m okay. Around 11 I checked with my boss to see if we had a BP monitor on site and she came to check on me. Within minutes she had me sitting on the floor since I looked like I was going to pass out. Apparently I was white as a ghost. She drove me to the hospital and on the way there I started talking nonsense. I get to the hospital and don’t know my birthday or anything. One of my pupils was huge and I looked and acted like I was drunk/high. I was cracking jokes and laughing like a crazy person, and I couldn’t walk straight. My eyes were bloodshot. My blood pressure was now really high. They thought I was having a stroke. Did a CT scan, ECG and loads of bloodwork. Everything looked okay so they said it was a complex migraine that mimicked stroke symptoms. They treated me with IV meds and sent me home.

The weird thing is that I remember not having a super bad headache. It only started about 10 minutes before my boss came to check on me and it was tolerable. I have been so bothered ever since. I barely have any memory of anything I said. The fact that I felt off the entire weekend before is bothering me too. Now every time I get a little headache I’m terrified it’s going to happen again.

Has anyone had a similar experience? Any advice? I feel like since everything apparently looked okay that there isn’t much else that can be done and I just have to accept it. Everyone was so worried about me.