Migraine and flying

[Joyceito]

Does anyone else have flying as a trigger? After a flight I can be unwell for weeks. I'm not afraid of flying or anything, and it starts a couple of days after I fly.

[dharmabam144]

I have travel as a trigger - I don't feel nervous either but I think it causes me way more stress than I admit.

[alisha1989]

I will get migraine after travelling long periods in the car & also after flying. I have no issues flying as I travel overseas every three months but it is frustating, feel like rubbish in the days following.

[Moronkim]

Hi there, I don't have problems on short flights going through a few time zones. I just returned from a trip US to Asia on a 19 hr flights. I suffered for a week with daily migraines. I was a wreck. Next time I'm thinking South America to alleviate so many time zones!

[Hidden]

Hi, yes I have a terrible time with migraines and trael.

My trigger is movement any movement.

Diagnosed with a extreme sensitivity to movement, I have no other triggers.

My life if just horrible.

Any short distance involving movement gives me migraines.

This will not improve as I get older.

I am on my 3rd botox treatment and is not working as well as I thought.

Always looking for new meds and such.

Very depressing for me and my husband.

So yes travelling is the start for you and it is not stress.

That is how mine started with plane travel then it all went pear shaped.

[Camp28]

Yes I also take migraines with flying . It also takes me a long while to recover.

[Gambit62]

Several years ago but I had a migraine before I was flying back on a long haul and took some migraine medication before take-off. Have to say that it was the most productive flight I've ever had and I felt quite good at the end of it - I was using an ergotamine at the time - which works by constricted blood cells so suspect that even in a pressurised cabin there were changes which meant that blood cells were expanding a bit ...

[teadrinker]

I think it's the lighting in the airports that triggers mine. I've always felt a bit odd in certain artificial lighting & have had almost instant attacks in certain buildings, airports & otherwise.

I haven't flown for a few years (for other reasons) but took to carrying whatever emergency medications I might need in my pocket, plus whatever else I find helpful (I often find a biscuit helps).

I learnt the hard way to make sure I have water to hand to take tablets with, following a particularly unpleasant flight where no one, including the cabin crew, were allowed out of their seats & I couldn't get a drink!

[fatbadger]

flying always gives me a migraine. change in pressure and routine does it. I was lying on the floor of a U.S. airport toilet for two hours last time, retching. I hate migraines.