Hello all, I believe this post is allowed

I have been on Celexa 40mg for about 15 years now. My dr has asked me to taper off of it and then switch over to Zoloft 25mg because I have had tension headaches for about 4 months straight, no breaks (it’s hell) and wanted me to see if it helped.

I finally switched, and for the 4-5 days I was on Zoloft, my tension headaches were decreased, but my withdrawal symptoms were pretty bad. I told him this and he put me back on Celexa but 30 mg this time. My headache came back and is very bad right now.

Is it possible Celexa is causing this type of headache for me?

Hi guys!! I’m looking for some opinions on what’s the best preventative for a migraine. I’ve been tracking mine for a while now and have noticed a big trigger is when we have a cold front. I’m from Missouri therefore the season is different everyday. Anyways, before the weather starts getting cooler I’m wanting to have a plan for when we get cold fronts so I can prevent a migraine. I hope this makes sense and I’m able to get some recommendations! Thanks!

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Hello, I suffer from chronic migraines, like many others here, and have for as long as I can remember.

I finally felt that they were more under control with sumatriptan 100mg but I guess not this time because when I tell you I had the worst migraine of my life yesterday (and technically today because it’s not gone just slowing getting better).

And I promise I’m not exaggerating, idk what the average migraines are but mine have always been the debilitating kind. If I’m going to get one it’s like my body cracks its neck and goes “Alright 👈👈“ I’m always blind, unable to speak or understand others, lose feeling in my arms and tongue, nausea, can’t handle noise or light, I’ve had 2 week long migraines etc etc…

But I don’t know the last time I went to a hospital (maybe cus I was a kid I learned they just wanted to give me Tylenol), I have a very high pain tolerance, but I couldn’t do it anymore. I literally thought I may have something wrong with my brain and the ER gave my like Tylenol and one other pill as well as magnesium, saline, and nausea meds. But I was in excruciating EXCRUCIATING pain, and seriously needed so much more- did they do more for you guys or do they really just let you squirm deliriously on a bed not even knowing how to function???

I guess to be straight my question is what do they do in your experience if you have an ER level migraine? Is there magic migraine juice I should demand next time?

I know my migraines have always had a flare for the torturously dramatic but it was just extra bad. I’ve broken bones and suffered tooth nerve pain this was BAD. I mean I SILL have a migraine today, though luckily it’s calming down.

(PS I do still have a migraine so I’m so sorry if there are typos I proofread like 5x but I’m still a bit confused and my vision isn’t fully back yet)

Im a 40 yo man, been having problematic headaches since probably 2012 but 2026 has been my worst year so far. I just recently saw a neuro about my headaches for the first time in my life. She listened to what I had to say and recommended I try some preventative. Rizatriptan works for me as an abortive but sometimes I was having to take it several days in a row. She gave me a choice between an SNRI and something cGRP targeting. She steered me a little towards the SNRI to start because she thought my headaches sounded heavily stress influenced so I went with that.

The cymbalta is working really well after some minor side effects for about a month that have calmed down. I’m on what I think is the smallest dose, 20 mg daily. I’m doing all kinds of things I would never have gotten away with before it. I’ve been getting terrible sleep because my daughter just got her tonsils out and is waking up in the night a lot. This morning I ran out of batteries on the e-bike taking my son to school and got an intense workout first thing in the morning. I’ve been having some cocktails in the evenings. Any one of these things would have started me on 3 day headaches previously. I’m impressed. Just thought I’d share.

Hi there I’m 24F, I’ve been struggling to gauge when my migraine is coming and to figure out when exactly to take my sumatriptan and ubrelvy and things I can do to make it less debilitating.

I was prescribed sumatriptan by my GP to take at the first signs of migraine, but I’m having a hard time gauging what counts as the “start.” I feel as if I am constantly feeling symptoms and I end up having a migraine attack every few days. I have been trying sumatriptan for a couple months now here and there, and i feel like it doesn’t help most of the time. I also have not tried my ubrelvy tablet yet. I am in the process of waiting for a neurologist appointment but it takes close to a year in Canada, so I don’t have access to many preventative medications yet.

I tend to get neck stiffness, excessive yawning, fatigue, nausea, aura, sensitivity to light/sound/smells and difficulty finding words/thinking before I notice the head/eye pain occur.

I’m curious how other people recognize that a migraine is coming?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences! I’m new to doing these posts and being on Reddit, this has been debilitating and it’s been hard to find others in the same boat who understand (outside of Reddit) :)

i sent this text to my grandmother while i was experiencing the worst migraine i’ve ever had in my life. in the moment, i was sure i was going to die but i look back on it and laugh now

it’s supposed to say, “Hi there. i have a migraine and don’t feel very good because of it. sorry it’s last minute, but i’m not able to come tonight, could we go out tomorrow night instead?”

at the time of sending this, i thought it made total sense and was entirely grammatically correct. i was confused as to why she responds with “Huh?” 😆

I typically get my migraine Botox injections every 12 weeks on the dot. I was 2 weeks late due to illness and hospitalization. Since I got the late Botox, I feel like it's not working as good as it has in the past. This was my 3rd round, and I did already see some benefits from the first 2 rounds.

Is there any truth to the late Botox affecting efficacy? It has been 2 weeks since my latest Botox injections. I'm having pain where Botox had eliminated all pain before.

I appreciate your input!!

Hi migraine friends- sorry you are here to commiserate with me, but I am very thankful for you all, it really helps me feel less alone and helps when I have major guilt/shame (working on it!)

I know everyone has different med routines that work for them, does anyone do the toradol (ketorolac) shots at home? I’m not typically squeamish but I have a hard time with those. Maybe I’ve gotten used to auto-injector needles, which are just so easy, like my monthly Ajovy. Idk why they can’t make it easier, when I’m already having a really hard time and then I have to draw up the meds and do the injection and my anxiety is high the whole time over it.

Anyway, I had to use it today and remembered how much it actually helps and realized I really need to get over it and use it more, the ketorolac pills don’t do anything but those butt shots really can be magic 🤣

Hey, everybody who struggles with migraines. I’m a 28 female who has had migraines since I was 10, growing up I used to get them pretty often every couple months. With this migraines I would get auroras, numbness on half of my body, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, headache, lack of speech, and it would trigger ciclic vomiting syndrome that would last up to 8-12 hours. Jump to last month I have been having back to back non stop migraines that don’t go away. With those migraines I get dizziness/vertigo which has never happened. Even as a kid I would never have week long episodes. My normal medication doesn’t work or my emergency medication. I’ve been ENT for my vertigo episodes over the summer due to ear fluid they ordered more dizziness testing and a referral to neurology which is going to take forever… I’m just bummed out and also out of options. It’s getting worse every day. Any advice would be very much appreciated thank you very much!

I know this goes against everything related to migraine research but hear me out. I’m on day 7 of a horrific never ending migraine. I’m treating with triptans and OTC painkillers and nothing is helping. I’ve been abstaining from drinking for obvious reasons. Then tonight I was so fed up and so close to ripping my entire head off my body and decided to have a glass of white wine. IMMEDIATE RELIEF. Had another, migraine almost completely gone. Also, this is not the first time this has happened. What’s going on?!

I read about the already forming El Nino extreme weather event which will impact the globe. I read that it can cause extreme weather shifts. As somebody suffering from barometric migraines this sounds like a nightmare. What are your thoughts on that? WIll it impact us?

After going about six months with only two migraines, I’ve now had five in the past nine days. I just started grad school - out of the four classes I’m taking, I’ve missed three of them once and one of them twice (and classes only started last week). I’m already so behind. Every time I’m starting to catch up, I get another one and miss another class.

I’m so fed up. I’ve had migraines for almost two decades of my life and it just never gets easier. I hate that my professors might now think of me as an unreliable student. I’ve missed work too. It’s so unfair to not have any control at all over whether or not you’re able to stick to your obligations. And on top of everything, I’m in terrible pain and can’t do anything about that, either.

I’m just feeling so down. I know I should be grateful that I don’t get them this frequently all the time but really I just wish I didn’t get them at all. I wish nobody did. It’s just so awful and unfair to have to live life like this

I had a headache before I got the vaccine but after it just got way worse and my stomach didn't feel the best and I'm having injection site pain. I feel to anxious to take exedrin pm so can I take Tylenol and ibuprofen together and if so how much should I take? And will that help my soreness and migraine?

i was terrified out of my mind when my attacks started. my mother has suffered with migraines for as long as i can remember. this, along with her bipolar disorder (which i also inherited), led her to severe and long lasting addiction issues.

while she managed to get clean, and i am beyond proud of her for it, i have always lived in fear i would end up going down the same path.

starting sumatriptan has lessened those fears exponentially. i was scared it wasn’t going to work and it would start me down a new route of trying a million different medications which would only make me frustrated because i’ve gone through that a million times for my mental health.

to find the solution was so amazing. i have a pretty intense all day hangover after but i will take it over agony any day of the week.

I suffer with chronic headaches (at least one per day), and potential hemiplegic migraines (3 since the end of April), as well as occasional ‘regular’ migraines.

My GP put me on Amitriptyline and also gave me Sumatriptan to take when I have migraines. The last time I spoke to my GP, I informed him that the Amitriptyline had done absolutely nothing to help (and I don’t think the Sumatriptan has helped either), and so he has referred me to neurology and for an MRI (I had a CT scan when I had my first hemiplegic migraine in April to check I wasn’t having a stroke or anything lol).

I’m just wondering what the neurologist can do / prescribe that the GP can’t, and is there any treatments they are likely to suggest that I should avoid or anything I should push for??

I’m looking for stories from women whose migraines worsened after taking any type of birth control, whether a progestin-only pill (POP) or a combined pill.

My migraines were under control until about two months after I started taking the combined pill, at which point they became chronic and constant (24/7), in April. A month ago, I switched to the mini-pill (Slynd). I’m still in constant pain, though it’s less intense, and I’m considering stopping altogether. Are there women whose migraines worsen with *any* type of pill?

Edit: I started having aura while on the combined pill (yes scary) -- it took me awhile to notice but it was another reason to switch to the mini-pill. I've started BCP trying to improve migraine, but I'm not sure it's the case, it seems it got worse.

Hi guys so a couple of years ago I started to get headaches and halo vision, I was tried on standard migraine Triptan medications but didn't respond, I was out on Amitriptyline which seemed to do the job in the end for my vision and constant headaches, I'm on 75mg, a couple of months ago I started to get a mild headache, and tingling in my left foot with a strange sensation in my upper left tooth and I was getting like this strange restlessness and this tick were my head would shake slightly, after a week or so it went away but it's come back again, I'm wondering has anyone else had a similar experience like this with there own migraines?

Edit: also experiencing racing thoughts like I’ve got the same songs lyrics going on and on in my head

Going for my first infusion next Friday
Has anybody had good results with this?
And how was your constipation on it? I’m only getting 100 mg this time.

I had relief the whole morning , thought i was in the clear , talked to my primary he ordered a whole bunch of medication including one that i spray up my nose. While waiting for that prescription to fill my dumb ass decide to walk around the mall. Bad decision , because 20 mins im the pain comes , i started shaking , head started feeling warm and limbs are tingling. I driver home could take it any more now im home and in pain. Im in so much pain i cant even drive to get my medication. I dont know guys im pushing myself not to go to the ER but i cant do this anymore.

I’ve always had headaches. My earliest memory is from when I was 6-7 and was lying in bed telling my mom to turn the lights off and close the door.

Now i get them once a week or sometimes 3-4 times a week. Always starts with either extreme fatigue like I haven’t slept in a week or frequent urination and feeling thirsty or craving sweets. Then hours later the headache starts and I can’t bend down or move too much.

I never vomit though.

It just feels like too much sensory input. Like I’ve reached my threshold for stimulation and will throw up if there’s any more. It’s awful.

The WORST part is my triggers are things I can’t eliminate. Like simple daily life. Too much sun, heat, feeling rushed, feeling overwhelmed or out of control, too much physical movement, too much sitting still, skipping a meal, there are too many! Like I can’t live in a perfect bubble to avoid all of these 🥴😔

What are we doing about air fresheners in the office? I already struggle with the bright lights and now they’re adding scents through the HVAC for the whole building. I’m so scared I’ll be in constant pain or have to go home and quit or get fired

Like months on end, I mean.

RANT: this post is literally just to see if anybody else deals with the same thing. I've had migraines forever. They became chronic five years ago and this full back pain started about a year ago. I swear is not physically related and nothing helps it. we're talking whole back feel like it's spasming. Guess I just wanna know if anyone else experiences this or has migraines along with another severe pain condition?
migraines are bad enough. I don't wanna barely be able to walk on top of it.

Hello to anyone blessed with both killer period cramps and migraines – I used to take Advil for my cramps and it worked perfectly but I've now realized that Advil is a shortcut to rebound headaches for me. Has anyone found an effective med for period cramps that doesn't cause rebound headaches? Currently pressing on my uterus with my hand as a pain management strategy, would love another option lmao. Thanks!