Do any of you also suffer from migranes?

Yes

Katie wrote on Jan 26^th, 2009 at 6:24pm:

Yes

:)

Thank God no.....my hats off to you lucky few who get both afflictions... :'(

Joe

Yes.

Had them at the same time as a cluster before, too. It ain't fun.

I envy everyone who can take triptans.

don't envy people who can use triptons.  The insurance Companies don't let you get enough triptans for the ch, much less the migraines also.

When I used kudzu, in a liquid form, for 14 months, it helped lower the ch and almost completely eliminated the migraines.

Charlotte

ps the reason I stopped using it was the company stopped making it and the other forms did not help.  Fortunately, around that time I tried verapamil again and this time it worked.

I used to.  In the last five years or so, though, I get "pain-free" migraines a few times a year.  I get the aura in my eyes really bad, and then the sensitivity to light and sound and terrible nausea, and then -- when before, the horrid pain would start up -- nothing.  It just goes away.  I take a shot of the Imitrex nasal spray when I'm getting one, but I'm not sure it's actually doing anything.  A guy I work with gets the same sort of thing - all migraine symptoms except the actual headache.  I'm not even really sure they're migraines anymore.

Wow AJ, I get the same damn thing (except sometimes with pain)...I've always been prone to migraines, too, but when this cycle started in July, it kicked the migraines into overdrive and I've had a pretty-much constant nauseous migraine ever since.

It's been going on so long, I don't even know what it is anymore, either.  I haven't had a real cluster in a couple of days, but the migraines are still keeping me so sensitive that I can't hardly work on the computer (not good for a graphic design major.  :P )

Nothing helps, either, except big doses of dramamine.  In fact, I'm about to throw up right now because this guy came in the lab who never bathes, and I can smell him from across the room....  :o

Hi guys
I get migraines aswel but not as often as CH. Funnily enough i get an aura migraine with no pain and 100% of the time within 5 minutes i get a hit so I can predict these ones and get to a place less embarrassing than the middle of a busy supermarket.  :-[ :D
I didn't know the aura was still classed as a migraine until my optician told me :o
sheena

Hm.. that seems pretty common amongst us.  Maybe the CH steals all the pain from our migraines, leaving just the left overs ;-)

I never thought of trying dramamine for those psuedomigraines tho.  I should pick some up.

Well I can say my migranes aren't zapped by my clusters. Definitely not as painful but definitely not "painfree"

Tophurious wrote on Jan 26^th, 2009 at 5:48pm:

Do any of you also suffer from migranes?

Like a couple others, I usually get either the pain or the halo.
Halo? I just sit back and enjoy the light show.  :D

I'll have to get some Dramamine for my GF though. What would constitute a "big dose"?

I was a M-Graine sufferer  for bout 20 years prior to CH say bout 5-7 times per year, once the CH started in the  M-Graine changed to  same symptoms somewhat less pain & this was before I started treatment for CH.  M-Graines now only appear when pain meds are given, example  last yr had surgery was given morphine, then ........ahh  surgical pain reduced by morphine, one hour later M-graine sets in, one hour later barfing ,  one hour later they are fighting to stop barfing control M-graine and keep my stiches in tact....lovely huh?  Needless to say the M-graine pain far outweighed the surgical  go figure????

Ooops!  I should clarify- to me, a "big dose" of Dramamine is one and a half pills...I say big dose because if I was just carsick, I could take a half pill and be okay and still be functional- but with a whole pill or a pill-and-a-half I will be loopy and in the "can't drive or operate heavy machinery" category.  I don't like to go there, because I have a toddler and I'm in school-two things I need to be "conscious" for!  :D

I've always gotten a couple of M's a month (no aura- only pain and nausea) and am easily carsick...since this cycle started, the M's have been kicked into overdrive- I'll have at least one every day.  I think my cycle ended (???) but I'm still getting the daily M's.   :P

Yes.

Several of us suffer from multiple headache types.