been having migraines

sda2mike

yeah..they will f/u your day...so the dr right away says, 'it's your neck!'..i thought..i've got a healthy neck.whatever...so i do the mri..sure enough! i've got herniated discs, bulging discs and some kinda mis-alignment..they said it looks like you broke your neck recently!:eek: i had a car accident 27 years ago..i had whiplash among other things..jeez! now that my brain knows what my neck looks like, the neck muscles have clamped down, trying to protect!
i'll start phys therapy on wed..hopefully, they can 'straighten me out':)

through all of this, my sda's still sound great! pushed too! everything else, every other sound, just makes me think violent thoughts! not my polks;)

sorry for the ventalation
mike

thuffman03

I get them every once in a while. I used to get them all the time. They could not find anything wrong with me.

I think it was stress related. I changed jobs a little while later and they seemed to have all but gone away. I will get one a year or so but I also know that is when I am really busy and don't have time to relax and the stress builds up and I get one.

sda2mike

yeah...i can't go too long without eating and i can't take too much direct sun...i used to get them alot. then i started with daily meds. they got down to about 2 a year..recently, i've been having headaches all the time. with migraines as the extreme...no idea what was causing them! coulda knocked me over!

teekay0007

Doesn't sound like migraines to me, Mike. Migraine headaches are caused by vascular issues, not neuro/musculoskeletal issues. If you were told that, "it's your neck", it is likely a pinched nerve issue secondary to a traumatic jarring of some sort or, dare I say it, secondary to bone/cartilage degeneration because of age - eg. "It's all part of getting older". From the sound of it - your history of a car accident resulting in whiplash 27 years ago - it could very likely be a combination of both the trauma you were subjected to as well as age-related degeneration.

You really should have a neurologist as your primary on this, to follow your progress from PT, but I'd also suggest that a neurosurgeon or an orthopedic surgeon be brought into the loop.

sda2mike

teekay0007 wrote: »

Doesn't sound like migraines to me, Mike. Migraine headaches are caused by vascular issues, not neuro/musculoskeletal issues. If you were told that, "it's your neck", it is likely a pinched nerve issue secondary to a traumatic jarring of some sort or, dare I say it, secondary to bone/cartilage degeneration because of age - eg. "It's all part of getting older". From the sound of it - your history of a car accident resulting in whiplash 27 years ago - it could very likely be a combination of both the trauma you were subjected to as well as age-related degeneration.

You really should have a neurologist as your primary on this, to follow your progress from PT, but I'd also suggest that a neurosurgeon or an orthopedic surgeon be brought into the loop.

thats good advice...abt 13 yrs ago, when the migraines started, i had an mri on my head..the concluded that i had 'a prominent draining vein in my brain' really..either way, i will consult higher up the food chain

thanks
mike

gdb

Only another migraine sufferer can know what it's like. (Sucks Bigtime !) I am very fortunate to only get them once in a great while nowadays and also that 750mg. of vicodin does the trick for mine.

teekay0007

sda2mike wrote: »

thats good advice...abt 13 yrs ago, when the migraines started, i had an mri on my head..the concluded that i had 'a prominent draining vein in my brain' really..either way, i will consult higher up the food chain

thanks
mike

Invoice will be sent via PM.

It might also be a good idea to get some "fresh" input on the migraine issue - if that is actually what you are experiencing. Lots has been changed in the diagnosis/management arenas of migraine headaches in the past 13 years.

Good luck with it.

Disc Jockey

Migraines and cervicogenic headaches used to be thought of as discreet entities but are more commonly thought of these days as different points on the same continuum.

The cervical spine, especially in the region of C1-C3, can be causitive for migraines as the spinal nerves from this area intersect with the trigeminal nerve, which influences blood flow to the anterior 2/3 of the brain.

Migraines are classified based on symptoms rather than etiology and sometimes tracking down the causitive factor can be tricky as it can be food related, serotonin deficiency, vascular, musculoskeletal, etc. Good luck!

gdb

Get your Vitamin D levels checked !!! I found out that mine were in the basement, was prescribed 50,000 units/day for two weeks and then 50,000 once a week thereafter..........WoW, big difference in a lot of things!:eek::)

HHStuart

My sympathies. Imitrex works for me. I found out mine were food related. Can't eat chocolate or anything with caffeine any more. I miss chocolate and coffee but the pain just wasn't worth it. Only have them rarely now. The hard part of figuring it out was that it didn't happen right away. The pain showed up a day later.

snow

gdb wrote: »

Only another migraine sufferer can know what it's like. (Sucks Bigtime !) I am very fortunate to only get them once in a great while nowadays and also that 750mg. of vicodin does the trick for mine.

750mg of Vicodin/Hydrocodone would kill you, that is if you didnt throw them up first. That would work out to 150 standard 5mg tablets.



REGARDS SNOW

WilliamM2

snow wrote: »

750mg of Vicodin/Hydrocodone would kill you, that is if you didnt throw them up first. That would work out to 150 standard 5mg tablets.



REGARDS SNOW

Not to mention the 750,000mg of acetaphetamine, liver failure should be instant. I'm sure he meant one and a half 5/500's.

Mike Kozak

Go see your Doctor/ER and have it checked out. Could be something serious.

halo71

I have battled with migraines since I was a kid. As I got older they lessened. Then for years went away almost completely. Maybe 1 or 2 a year. In the last few years I have started getting, ocasionally, what I call ocular migraines. I get the blinking/blurry vision, can't focus, light hurts my eyes symptoms. But with really little to no pain. They last about 20-30 minutes then go away and later my head aches for a few hours.

I have found that visiting a massage therapist once a month helps me tremendously. I think these may be tension headaches perhaps?!? And I tried all the herbal and vitamin recommendations with no help. Stayed away from caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, chocalate, nuts....etc etc. None of that changed things. Been to the eye doctor numerous times. I think staring at 5 different computer monitors 12 hours a day at work has something to do with it! lol


Yeah, no happy endings either!

sda2mike

thanks for all the input!:) tomorrow i start phys therapy on my neck..and if approved by my ins:mad:, i'll have an mri of my brain...gotta figure this out once and for all

vc69

Good luck Mike. teekay0007 gave you the best advice. I hope you can get this resolved with PT.

gdb

The bottle say's 7.5-750 Maybe it did kill me, and that's why the headache stopped!:)

vc69

gdb wrote: »

The bottle say's 7.5-750 Maybe it did kill me, and that's why the headache stopped!:)

That is:

7.5 mg hydrocodone

&

750 mg acetaminophen (Tylenol) although if memory serves, it's usually 500mg

voila'! Lortab!

gdb

Yup, I've also got 5-500's (Watson):D

billbillw

I had a few years where I was getting migraines on a fairly regular basis (1 or 2 per week). They are certainly debilitating. Can't do anything except sit in a dark, quiet room and wait for it to pass. I mean, you can't even focus your eyes and forget about standing.

I never pinpointed a cause, but thankfully they went away because the various medicines they prescribed never really worked to alleviate the migraine symptoms.

Luckily now I can't remember the last time I had a full on attack.

TORI3

Believe it or not, eating avocado is said to cause migraines as well.

sda2mike

depends on the sufferer, i guess..