Time of day?

[Onthemove1971]

Some days I can go all morning with no pain then about 1pm, wow the pain just hits me like a ton of bricks... I can't keep taking Tylenol with caffeine (migraine specific).. any thoughts, I have already eaten my lunch. I have started drinking so much more liquid to see if that helps.

This is really new and I am hoping it is becuase of the weather changing from summer ( over 100 degrees every day to 80 degrees) to fall.

But it is really hard to function, live life, work, keep up a house and try to stay happy when my head hurts so much.

Help..

[Frodo]

See if you can get triptans. Or if you can tolerate aspirin try that, but anything with caffeine as you're taking at present is likely to cause withdrawal or rebound headache.

Re the time of day, yes, I can wake feeling fine and then get slow or fast onset of headache later in the day, worse than that I can wake up with one well established which is harder to get rid of or impossible, strangest of all I had a period of about a year when the migraine would last exactly 12 hours as if a switch was turned on and off, eg start at 7am - wake up, fine, then bang - head pain - and stop exactly at 7pm. NO idea why, that was the weirdest manifestation so far.

[Onthemove1971 in reply to Frodo]

Thanks for the help with this "new" migraine pattern. Yes any that I wake up that are established are almost impossible to get rid of.

I am unable to take aspirin and my imitrix which cures most of my attacks mid day, just laughs at it.

I am going to try increasing all of my supplements and doubling my liquid until my teeth are floating, ha ha..

I will see where I get..

[Slim66 in reply to Onthemove1971]

Hi, did you know that when you have migraine your digest system shuts down, that is why tablets do not work in migraines that you have woken up with (they are too advanced) When this happens to me I use a Sumitriptan injection which works. I did have a spell where I needed sleeping tablets and I didn’t wake with a migraine once whilst taking these but obviously you can’t rely on those continuously. I too was getting migraine at the same time every morning and found that it was artificial sweeteners in my toothpaste which was a trigger. All the best!