Have you ever been to the ER with a migraine?

[Bertha Venation]

[Posteritatis]

1. I parsed this as "been to FR with a migraine"

(No, but I've left with one.)

[Bertha Venation]

3. LOL

I would, too, if I ever went there anymore. Can't take it.

[vadawg]

2. nope but my wife has been a few times,

they pump her full of narcos for a few hours and then she comes home to bitch at me :)

[Bertha Venation]

6. I didn't know narcotics would do that to a person

Glad I didn't get any. But I can't remember what they gave me (besides Reglan for the nausea).

[vadawg]

11. oh no she just bitched at me last time because i couldnt get home to take her

she had to get a neighbour to take her to the ER and another to watch the kids, whilst i stayed at work...

[BuelahWitch]

4. No but my mother had

She had terrible migraines for over 15 years. Then she had an operation on her jaw and they went away.

[Bertha Venation]

7. Wow.

I'm sorry she suffered for that long. :(

[kedrys]

5. No

I usually nuke it with some Tylenol Migraine, sleep it off in a dark, quiet place, and wake up ravenously hungry. I can't imagine they'd do much of anything else in the ER, plus it would hurt just to be mobile to get there.

[Bertha Venation]

8. the traveling was extremely painful

and there were screaming children in the waiting room. I would've :banghead: if it didn't already hurt

[hunter]

9. A long time ago, before I knew what a migrane was.

Then for a long time I'd just crash curled up blind on the bathroom floor with a pillow wrapped around my head praying I wouldn't throw up any more, or maybe just wishing I was dead...

God Bless all the people who discovered and produce modern migraine meds!!!

[Bertha Venation]

10. "God Bless all the people . . . "

Hear, hear!

Good to see you, my friend :hug:

[madinmaryland]

12. My wife did once. She was pregnant at the time and could not take much of anything.

It was more or less to rehydrate her.

[Bertha Venation]

13. damn, she must've been miserable

:(

[Minimus]

14. Mine are so bad that the thought of having to sit in a waiting room

with noise and light has always kept me from going to the ER. I actually have migraines and cluster headaches. The cluster headaches make me want to cut my head off. I wake up with them and am convinced I am going to die from the pain. I have some pretty strong drugs to take when I get a cluster - but they do not work fast enough!!

[livetohike]

15. Too many times to count

:-(. I would receive a shot of Tuinal for the pain and Phergan for the nausea and then be on my way home. Until 1995 when an ER trip resulted in trying a new drug - Imitrex injections. No more ER trips since then.

Haven't had a migraine in nearly three years now. They were definitely hormonal and I'm 57 and beyond all of that stuff now. Thank God.

[femmocrat]

16. Thank God for Imitrex. It changed my life.

I know I would never be able to work (I'm a teacher) without Imitrex. Plus-- it's out in generic now, so with my co-pay, it's only $10. I remember when it was $10.00 a pill.

Unfortunately, mine didn't go away with the passing decades, but I get them less frequently now. I've never been able to identify the trigger.

[livetohike]

18. Sorry you never found the trigger

I tried everything - no red wine, no chocolate, no aged cheeses...it took me a while to connect the migraines with my monthly cycle. I never wrote it down on a calendar until it was suggested to me in the ER one time.

I also taught school for seven years and would miss at least once a month due to my migraines. 90% of the time I would wake up with them, so there was no preventing it since I didn't get any warning. I couldn't take anything by mouth by then because the nausea was so severe it wouldn't stay down. That's why I had to go to the ER for the Tuinal shot.

I have a stash of 8 Imitrex injections - just in case.

[momto3]

25. If you don't mind me asking, when did your migraines start?

I think mine are also hormonal. I started having horrible migraines about a year ago, as many as 2 a week. I have been put on Topamax daily to control them, which has cut them down to 2-3 a month and have been put on Treximet, which is the "new" version of Imitrex, but is not out in generic yet. So I am paying $10 a pill.

I cannot figure out my trigger. I am 40 and believe that I am premenopausal. My husband thinks I am crazy, says I am too young, but things are definitely starting to change! I am hoping that this is not something I will have to deal with the rest of my life, since they started so late in life for me.

Thanks!

[livetohike]

26. Mine started when I turned 15

and I had them until I entered menopause (age 54). Premenopause can last for years, so if you are noticing changes then you are probably premenopausal. Try to mark on a calendar on the days you have migraines and see how that corresponds to your monthly cycle.

My migraines slowed down in frequency when I entered my 40's and then I was down to 1-2 times per year when I turned 48.

Maybe once you see a pattern, you can relay that to your doctor and there might be something else you can do. I hope so - it's the worst pain I ever experienced - undescribable to people who never had a migraine.

[momto3]

27. Thank you.

I have not been able to find a pattern yet. But I did start to notice the hormone changes around the same time the migraines started. I am glad yours have decreased in frequency. I know I am pretty useless for 2-3 days when I get one.

[Heidi]

17. Nope. But I've been to the ER with a sulfa allergy and, another time, a perfume allergy.

If you or someone you love/know has been to the ER for a medical emergency, you have every bit of my sympathy. It can be a very scary thing. :hug: :hug:

[Kali]

20. yikes a perfume allergy that bad?

it bothers me and some give me a real headache, but so many idiots douche themselves with too much fake stench it must be really dangerous for you!

[Heidi]

23. It was an isolated thing, I'm convinced.

I'm sensitive to strong chemical odors and rarely wear perfume, but that was the first time I'd ever had a genuine allergic reaction to a perfume. I was sprayed in a department store and within a few minutes, I had couldn't catch my breath, was nauseous and couldn't catch my breath. Kinda frightening. I don't even remember what they did for me in the ER, but I think I got a shot or something.

[REP]

19. Not for a migraine; they blind me in one eye and make it hard to drive

I have been for what turned out to be a partial blockage in the small intestine (I have mild Crohn's) and a ruptured ovarian cyst; both times I thought I had appendicitis.

I take Topamax for the migraines now and have far fewer of them; I used to have about 3 migraine-free days a month before I started it. I have to have my dose adjusted up once in a while, but no side effects I've noticed.

[Kali]

21. no, never been treated at all (no ins. and I don't think I could handle waiting in ER)

I get them a few times a year and all I can do is go to sleep for a few hours, nothing OTC seems to help.

[darkstar3]

22. Once,

and I'll never do it again.

I waited HOURS to see anyone, and then they shot me up with some medicine I'd never heard of before that caused me to have a short mini-seizure and then fall asleep for 3 hours. When I woke up, I still had a headache. It wasn't debilitating, but it was still a headache, and after all the trouble and time I would have expected a bit more of a "cure".

[old mark]

24. My wife used to get them so badly she was taken in an ambulance

to the ER several times, placed on IV pain meds.

What works for her now is aspirin and coffee.

mark

[dysfunctional press]

28. i use my cats to treat my migraines.

i've found that if i get my tabby into a major purrrrr when i have a migraine, i can bury my head into it's belly, and the migraine pain goes away. if i catch it while the migraine is just starting, and do it for 5 minutes or so, i can ward off the headache. if i'm already in full-on migraine, it can still make the pain go away- but as soon as the cat leaves, the migraine comes back.