Migraines are a mystery to me also. I had them as a child of 5-12 years...always the day after a stressful event. I would have to lie down just suffering enormous pain around my right eye and temple, and my mother would give me bread and butter to bring on the vomiting which led to 12 hours unconscious sleep, and the next day I'd be ok. There was nothing back then but aspirin, and that wouldn't touch my migraines. At puberty they disappeared completely, and came back sporadically in my late 20s.
But these were monsters, and I would have to go into the hospital to get the vomiting stopped and get rehydrated. Now there doesn't seem to be any one thing that causes them. They can start as a tension or sinus headache that lasts 2-3 days, then morphs into a migraine. The things I link them with are superstress, (I had one the day after an operation, but I was already in the hospital with an IV, and my Dr was able to stop it immediately) and consumption of nitrates, and excess sodium. I have less and less tolerance for salt as time goes by.
However, for me, Imitrex is the wonder drug-it will stop my migraine in its tracks-even if it is well under way, and since the prescription comes in packets of 9, I sometimes have only half a dose available-and even that works like magic.
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