Help Migraines with 'aura'

[russell]

Any one get these?
Haven't had one for ages, so I forget the freaky symptoms.

This one started last Thursday with the aura symptoms. I always get the same thing...

Tingling/ weakness in right last 2 fingers, right last 2 toes, right eye, right side of mouth, tongue. Then I get a strange metallic taste and I feel wierd ( ok wierder) and my brain feels jumbled/ delayed –words mix, bring on the sensitivity to light and sound and the worst bit that really freaks me out is theVertigo which causes the dizziness,leading to nausea.Then finally the headache always hits in same place over right eye and side of head

The headache bit I can cope with- its the aura stuff which does my head in -when I first saw the neurologist I thought I had had a minor stroke or MS etc -it can be quite frightening.
The worst I have ever had is the aura for 10 days and then the migraine hit to clear it.I went to bed Thursday when I got in, was fine Friday, it came back Saturday with a vengence, I was fine yesterday and now today I am back in bed with the vertigo crap again!!!
Anyone know anything about them -cures? drugs? prevention?

 

[ford prefect]

Serotonin Agonists are usually the way to do, they do need to be taken as quickly as possible when symptoms start. Generally Naratriptan hydrochloride (brand name Naramig i think) are considered the most affective, they can leave you a little drowsy after use though and you should only use one in any 24 hour period and no more than three in a week. Talk to your GP about it, also try to work out what your triggers are, and how to avoid them.

 

[Moriath]

i was recommended feverfew which seemed to help me .. think i mentioned it to trem and it helped him some too .. its a herbal remedy you can get it from mostly anywhere i think

Maybe worth a try

I used to get the migraines with auras quite a lot

 

[Wij]

i was recommended feverfew which seemed to help me .. think i mentioned it to trem and it helped him some too .. its a herbal remedy you can get it from mostly anywhere i think

Maybe worth a try

I used to get the migraines with auras quite a lot

Cochrane on Feverfew

Feverfew for preventing migraine

Standard bumf at the end that no significant effects above placebo were found and that further investigation is needed is usually best interpreted as "doesn't work."

 

[Trem]

i was recommended feverfew which seemed to help me .. think i mentioned it to trem and it helped him some too .. its a herbal remedy you can get it from mostly anywhere i think

Maybe worth a try

I used to get the migraines with auras quite a lot

Cochrane on Feverfew

Feverfew for preventing migraine

Standard bumf at the end that no significant effects above placebo were found and that further investigation is needed is usually best interpreted as "doesn't work."

Feverfew 100% helped me, I have gone from 1 migraine a week to maybe 1 a month. Nothing else has changed apart from me taking 1 Feverfew a day. Well worth a try Russbacon.

My symptoms with migraine are just.....erm....leave me the fuck alone until its gone!

 

[Wij]

Feverfew 100% helped me, I have gone from 1 migraine a week to maybe 1 a month. Nothing else has changed apart from me taking 1 Feverfew a day. Well worth a try Russbacon.

Just because you felt better after taking it doesn't prove that the two events are linked and/or that it's anything other than a placebo.

 

[rynnor]

Just because you felt better after taking it doesn't prove that the two events are linked and/or that it's anything other than a placebo.

Placebo's a wonderful thing - if it works for people why knock it?

I am highly susceptible to placebo and its great - its surely working along the lines of self hypnosis but it can have real physical effects.

I've never understood why it's not further studied - the applications are endless?

 

[MYstIC G]

Just because you felt better after taking it doesn't prove that the two events are linked and/or that it's anything other than a placebo.

Grumpy trem is not wanted, let him have is bloody herbs!

 

[old.Tohtori]

That size change got me blinking like a wanking badger

 

[Will]

I've never understood why it's not further studied - the applications are endless?

Placebo has been studied quite a lot.

 

[rynnor]

Placebo has been studied quite a lot.

Thats not lots and I mean specifically the mechanism that it works by. The power of the mind to deaden pain etc. etc.

But then medical research is the search for patents that can be exploited so its probably not that suprising...

 

[old.Tohtori]

Thats not lots and I mean specifically the mechanism that it works by. The power of the mind to deaden pain etc. etc.

But then medical research is the search for patents that can be exploited so its probably not that suprising...

Quite a good point. There's no money in placebo research as the main goal of it is to eliminate pain(or more) with no drugs at all.

As such, not funded.

 

[rynnor]

Quite a good point. There's no money in placebo research as the main goal of it is to eliminate pain(or more) with no drugs at all.

As such, not funded.

The other reason is that if we really understood how placebo's work we might be able to create drug trials that were free from the effect at which point a lot of marginal medicines might be shown up as useless.

 

[Trem]

Just because you felt better after taking it doesn't prove that the two events are linked and/or that it's anything other than a placebo.

I didn't feel better after taking it, I don't take it when I feel a migraine coming on, I take it every morning without fail and the frequency of my migraines has dropped greatly. Like I said, I was getting about 1 a week before Feverfew and I now get at the most 1 per month.

I am the first to knock herbal remedies but this one defintely works, well, it does for me anyway.

 

[Moriath]

did for me too

like you say its not a makes the pain less placebo but reduces the frequency

 

[Scouse]

Cochrane on Feverfew

Feverfew for preventing migraine

Standard bumf at the end that no significant effects above placebo were found and that further investigation is needed is usually best interpreted as "doesn't work."

Thing about placebo's Wij, is that they need mental buy-in to work. By posting that you've just stolen Moriath's migrane "cure".

To be fair. You've also made a good argument for "get up, there's nothing wrong with ya" too

Placebo's a wonderful thing - if it works for people why knock it?

I've never understood why it's not further studied - the applications are endless?

The placebo effect is one of the most studied things evah m8. Huge amounts of study in all areas - and it's ongoing. (Well, if New Scientist is to be believed anyway).

All medical scientific studies (proper ones) are also painstakingly designed to account for the effects of placebo.

A medicine cannot be shown to have a real effect unless it can beat placebo. It's how we can show asprin works but homeopathy doesn't.

 

[Will]

Thing about placebo's Wij, is that they need mental buy-in to work. By posting that you've just stolen Moriath's migrane "cure".

Not true.