How are all the migraine stricken parents out there?

I've had a about three in the past five weeks, unfortunately, and been out for the count or with my head down the loo but as my daughter is no longer small I don't have to worry about her so much when I'm not functioning.

Still, that is a lot better than when she was little and I had to stagger about doing things.

LucindaE
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Whoops, managed to double post!

How are all the migraine stricken parents out there?

I've had a about three in the past five weeks, unfortunately, and been out for the count or with my head down the loo but as my daughter is no longer small I don't have to worry about her so much when I'm not functioning.

Still, that is a lot better than when she was little and I had to stagger about doing things.

LucindaE
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My migraines started in my 20s, about 6 months after i had started taking the pill.
it got to the point where i was getting a couple a week. (very depressing) i would worry that i had fogotten painkiller when i went out. Doctors were usuless and i just took syndol but they knocked me out. I moved and changed doctors what a difference where as i had been told there wasnt much i could take he kept trying different medication. i stopped taking any sort of contraception pill as they just messed me up completely.
medication would work for a while but then not so good.
When i got pregnant i had the worst mirgaine ever and one of the girls from work drove me home, after the head nurse said .. Go lie down for half an hour you'll feel better, (she never had a migraine!!) i was sick in the car afew time on the way home and was off work for a couple of days.

Pregnacy was hard as all i could take was paracetamol but some how it seemed to work and the migraines lessened.

With my second pregnancy i had another unusually bad migraine - (OH knew i was preg when he saw the migraine i had!) kept getting headaches up untill about 16 weeks then they went.

Robynis now 13month and i can't remember the last time i had a migraine..(touches wood!) paracetamol is enough to kill it now, though i still get nasty tension headaches.

I hate taking soluable paracetamol now and hate some of the 'melts' that i tried.
i also had sickness tables to put on my gums.. foul

I was being treated for a prolactinoma so i don't know if that had anything to do with the migraines.. we will see once i stop breast feeding.

anyway sorry for the missive! but people think you can carry on wokring with migraines... they've obviously never had one!

There is a migraine association i'll dig out the link for you.

http://www.migraine.org.uk/

Thanks, hypnorm, for the link. Sorry you had such foul migraines in pregnancy. Nice for you that they've gone, that's wonderful! You need to be healthy with small kids more than anything, particularly without much support.

Thanks for the link. They might be able to suggest something.

Do you know, I even had surgery to fill in a hole in the heart as part of an experiment done to see if there was a link between that and migraine as it worked for some people...didn't work for me. whinge, whinge...


LucindaE
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I've been suffering with migraines for the last year and a half.. I've been having alot of time off work due to them.. and only now are they sorting me out to see a specialist.

I live n fear that they might come back, so i am trying to avoid going on hormonal contraception, though i might try the mirena coil as its a lower dose rather than the pill.

I'm very lucky to have not had one since Theakston was born. Not sure why, I used to get them quite frequently. I get mine from hormones (like around my period), certain foods, stress, or blood pressure. I too have tried diet, standard migraine drugs, beta blockers, homeopathy etc. and I find if they come they come! Nurofen migraine pain are the best for helping me get to a stage where I can sleep it off though. They've changed too. When I was younger it was literally just the headache but as I got older I got more aura. Now I stumble over my words, lose my balance, get nausea, confusion, sometimes I just get the aura or the migraine shows up the next day. Can't say I miss them or looking forward to having them when looking after Theakston. Thankfully I don't get vomiting so I could just lie on the floor while he plays and sit while he nurses then go to sleep when he does.

At one point i could eat very little cheese, milk, chocolate, coffee, coke before giving my self a migraine.
Lived off Soya milk for a couple of years.

Not been able to get on the site for some days - I managed to get into difficulties logging in - accused of impersonating myself - that could only happen to me.

Gemlou, that is so frustrating that you have had to wait for so long for the migraines to be taken seriously.

Kitten -and hypnormThere does seem to be a huge link with hormones.

I didn't used to puke with mine until I had a run-in with Hyperemesis. That seemed to set it off! Horrible...

LucindaE
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