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fuuuuucccckkkkkkk
it's better now than it was this afternoon when i was using frozen berries as an ice pack over my eye, but still.
― get bent, Thursday, 26 July 2007 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone here get classical migraines, the kind with visual auras? I had an awful headache last night that had me barfing at 11pm, but it wasn't near migraine-strength. My wife gets classical (vomitatious, light-sensitive, worst-pain-ever) migraines, but she can stop them with ibuprofen within 10-20 minutes of aura onset. The aura seems like just such a peculiar thing, I think. Wifey says that it's like a portion of her visual field is blank, nothing at all, not a distortion of other stuff or anything. How would other aura-experiencers describe it?
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I got that visual aura every day for a week straight last month! (I hadn't had one for around five years.) The blankness is weird and distracting because it seems like the stuff you should normally see must be behind it somehow, so I'd keep trying to focus on it and see past. It was really intriguing and interesting the first day, but then I realized that it would be followed by a horrible headache 15 minutes later.
Mine weren't "classical migraines" though, there was no nausea and they were pretty obviously a sinus problem. A week of constant ibuprofen & sudafed on top of my allergy medicine made them disappear. Only I forgot to take the allergy medicine yesterday and today I've got a bit of a sinus headache...dun dun dun!
― Maria, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 08:21 (fifteen years ago) link
(vomitatious, light-sensitive, worst-pain-ever)
this is me. i do get auras too but the light sensitivity is worse because it hurts even to keep my eyes open.
― get bent, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I have coloured "spots". Usually a sign of impending attack. :-(
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't realize my sensitivity to light was in connection with my migraines. Just thought I was sensitive cause i had blue eyes.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I believe that what separates a non-classical migraine from a classical migraine is the aura. The other symptoms, like light-sensitivity, are what makes it a migraine instead of a bad headache. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Just had the most horrible one: nausea, chills, sweating, and of course MAJOR headache.Lots of fun if you also have to breastfeed: This means not being able to sleep 24 hrs straight and no chance of popping pills. :-(
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
ok now i have been having soft headaches to fullblown attacks. on top of that i am sometimes close to FAINTING and also seem to have a numb feeling in my face. granted it is on one side. hurrah.... i guess. urgh
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 5 March 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
this has been going on for a few weeks. really fun with screaming kids around you.
Get to the doc's Nathalie, unless you already have been.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 5 March 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 01:41 (8 months ago) Bookmark
^^^can you pill up these days? because a doc should be able to sort you out pretty easily (talking from my simple but limited experience of suffering these horrible fuckers, going to the doctor, being given something to take whenever i get the slightest flinch of a headache before full on migraines kick in and then i be safe.)
― eboue died for somebody's sins but not mines (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 5 March 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
ayo bad day for me today
― s1ocki, Thursday, 5 March 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i've been getting mild migraines for the last few days while i titrate to a new medication. the msg boards say this is normal.
― the pelvis of a mammoth (get bent), Thursday, 5 March 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
nope havent been to the doc. i tend to take migracaps. these are pills concocted by the local pharmacy. guess i shld visit the doctor. off to barf (half joking)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 5 March 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been to the headache clinic at the neurology dept. of a big university hospital (UZ Leuven), told them all about my 20+ years of pain (every first day of any holiday and every Saturday I was guaranteed almost banging my head against the wall from The Claw - some sort of unbearable force that pushed my eye and teeth and temple (alternating sides), even saw and heard less clearly during one of the attacks), and after listening for a while they said "try this beta blocker, it'll soften the walls of your facial veins (or something), and they gave me a prescription (first Emconcor Mitis and later the cheaper but identical Bisoprolol Teva) and I've got my life back! I don't care if I have to take one of these pills every day for the rest of my life and go to the doc every half year for a new prescription, I'm not waking up in the middle of the night from the headaches anymore! Haven't had any since! Woohoo!
So, in short: if you give up and accept (like I had before I'd had enough), you won't find someone who can help you.
― StanM, Thursday, 5 March 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
(they couldn't actually tell me if what I had was migraines or cluster headaches, I had symptoms of both and also symptoms that pointed away from both)
― StanM, Thursday, 5 March 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Ophthalmic migraines, yuck yuck yuck. What on earth can be done? They're so invasive, it's like someone dropped LSD in just one of your eyes, hardcore hallucinations that slowly spread across your visual field.
Third one this year, they are definitely getting more frequent.
It's a good thing I don't drive, because I would definitely cause an accident if I were on the road and one of those things happened.
Is there anything that can be done except lie down in a darkened room and wait for them to clear? I've just dosed myself with a load of codeine so now I'm feeling sleepy as well as visually fuX0red.
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Monday, 15 June 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
man, today has been crazy. i'm not the only one iether.
― s1ocki, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm finding that I'm getting less warning, and the migraines are more severe. And they've gone from sometimes having aura to always having aura. I don't know about "LSD in one eye", but mine look like huge flashy neon lightshows in both eyes. But they don't last longer than a couple of hours. Oh, also sometimes accompanied by urge to throw up.
― snoball, Monday, 15 June 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, like, totally trippy and multicoloured and flashing and neon. This time it has an actual headache with it - not a severe one, but annoying enough. First time it's come with a headache, usually I just get the hallucinations.
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually this is a pretty good approximation...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucQK4ve7_4ger, without Estelle and the Ting Tings fortunately.Coincidentally I was in the middle of a migraine while I was watching the Brits 2009, and had to check later that their performance actually looked like that.
― snoball, Monday, 15 June 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Mine look like this - but FLASHING and glowing
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3180/2527795092_b7023934c8_o.jpg
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
So I have been battling nausea and headaches for about a week now. So bad I literally cry. I thought I had sinus infection but after checking up on the internet (yeah yeah yeah shut the fuck up), I read an article that said a lot of people are misdiagnosed. Apparently this is a NEW TYPE of migraine attack I have! HURRAH! It's the same but not really. Maybe I should check the headache clinic like Stan cause this shit is really bothering me.
What do you guys who are not self-employed do? Do yuo stay home? I mean, I do of course but that's cause, well, I can because I don't have to tell my *boss* (who's my mum, she's the one who passed it on, hurrah).
― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
It's great fun waking up all the time.
On top of that hjaving two kids+migraines -> SO NOT FUN. I gotta help out my husband a little in the morning and that's sheer hell. Try ding that when the kids are SCREAMING!1!!! Urgh. I am not angry at'em but there have been moments where I nearly cried begging them to be quiet.
― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i've had one for the past week; pretty sure it's hormonal in nature. it keeps returning at night while i'm trying to sleep.
― butch vigoda (get bent), Saturday, 27 June 2009 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah. There used to be a time, I'd just sleep through it. Not anymore. I continuously wake up because of it (and nausea). I still don't feel that well. Hopefully just hormonal and it'll go away in a few days. :-( I really don't know what to do. On the one hand I do not wanna take heavy meds but a life of this?
― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Saturday, 27 June 2009 12:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hey i just learned that imitrex has gone generic now, so if you were avoiding it because of the cost, you may find relief. it's also easier to break in half, as the 100mg are way too much for me. this is pretty much the only drug/thing that helps my migraines.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
oh stevie that sounds like the worst kind of waking hell.
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I talked with the doctor. As usual I give a really fuzzy description of my symptoms. I can't help it, I'm stupid and I forget how migraines feel like as soon as they are gone. So he gave me Ibuprofen 600 (?) and something against the nausea. Now I understand why painkillers do not work if I have a really bad attack: your stomach apparently just clenches up! WTF.
― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Of course it doesn't help that I have a fucked up sleeping pattern. :-(
I also discovered that migraine attacks, depression, anxiety and panic attacks are connected. Sadly no way I can connect it with my stupidity. heehee
― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
huh. for me they are almost totally hormonal or triggered by food/drink. for instance, i drink red wine all the time, usually a glass with dinner every night. this doesn't cause me any trouble. i decided to buy a bottle of chianti because it was on sale and looked fancy. i drank 1/2 glass, less than i normally drink, and was seized with a world class migraine the next day (yesterday, hence my post). i could sort of feel it coming on, but didn't recognize what it was because it was unexpected.
maybe i'm just not very well educated about migraine triggers, but i didn't know that different kinds of grapes can have different effects. i feel better now, but i had to rest for the first half of yesterday because i thought i was seriously gonna barf.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Now I discovered something I have been suffering from which is related to migraines: VERTIGO. Apparently the extreme dizzy spells I have, are in fact a part of my migraines. This morning I was literally swimming in my head. I would get up but it would feel as though my body kept swing to the otehr side. Ek. Does anyone suffer from this as well and if so what do you do against it?
I have also cut back from Coke Light. Hopefully it'll help with the migraines.
― Unregistered Googler (stevienixed), Monday, 13 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually this kind of indicates I have more migraine related eps than in the past. :-(((((((((( Time to call a specialist? My mum thinks that I'm popping meds like crazy and has suggested I contact one. But I'm only taking a Ibuprofen now and again.
― Unregistered Googler (stevienixed), Monday, 13 July 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
yep :/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
Change in pattern does give me migraine attacks. So days off: lots of migraine. Go on a day trip? Migraine. It's not food but stress that gives me migraines. :-(
― nathom, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
Hmm. Had a nerve block in the hope of seeing off Cluster Headaches for the next 8 weeks or so (the rest of the episode) ... and it worked ... for 36 hours.
― djh, Saturday, 9 February 2019 10:42 (five years ago) link
:-(((((
― nathom, Saturday, 9 February 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link
today's my day for complaining on ilx. migraines suck. i've had this one about 24 hours, which means i've got at least 12 to go.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 19 September 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
I get them very rarely, and when I do they are largely silent - I've only ever had one full-blown migraine, so at least I do know what's it's like to have a real one, but I had an intermediate one on Wednesday for the first time in maybe 3 years and it fucking sucked. It started off as a silent migraine with my right eye just completely aura-ed out couldn't see anything but shimmering then that wore off and I felt like someone was stabbing me in my eye for a few hours til it stopped hurting enough I could go to bed. I had some cocodamol and weed and turned all the lights off which may or may not have helped at all. Woke up the next day with a sore eye but it was gone by lunchtime thank fuck.
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 19 September 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
I get them once every week or two. i used to take imitrex but it made me have them three or four times a week so now i take nothing. it's not really sustainable, i need to start on something to prevent them.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 19 September 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
Having a quick scroll through this thread ... Plasmon is a hero!
― djh, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
UK question: are Sumatriptan injections and Oxygen cylinders available? Bit worried about Brexit and the Covid world breaking me during the next cluster ...
― djh, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
What is plasmon? is that Aimovig?
― Lily Dale, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
Plasmon is a contributor to this thread. A neurologist, if I recall correctly? But genuinely appreciated.
― djh, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
Oh, I see. I should have checked the thread instead of googling "migraine plasmon" - everything that came up was aimovig-related, so I was hoping you'd found a miracle cure.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
Might be worth saying what is going on for you and seeing if others have ideas? Equally, understandable to not say.
― djh, Friday, 8 January 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
(Apologies if you have done and I've not clocked that).
― djh, Friday, 8 January 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
I get migraines without aura every 1-2 weeks. Up until I was 20 or so, I'd get them mostly on weekends, then I got put on imitrex and they fairly quickly went up to 2 a week, which gradually increased to 3-4 on bad weeks. I was fairly sure the imitrex was to blame, but if I tried to go off imitrex the migraines would be so bad I'd end up taking it eventually. Finally went to a headache clinic, where they diagnosed medication overuse headache and helped me get off the imitrex. They also gave me some supplements - SAM-E and boswellia mostly. So now I'm back down to a migraine every week or two, and I don't take anything for them, just wait them out. They last about 36 hours usually. It's better than it was, but it's not sustainable and I need to take something to prevent them.
Other things I've tried - birth control, which decreased the headaches but made me intensely anxious, also I'm getting to the age where it's not that safe to take it. Beta blockers - made me feel weird and didn't work. Magnesium - makes my heart skip.
Things I don't want to take - Topomax. I teach English and French for a living; the last thing I want is a heavy-duty drug that makes you forget words.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 8 January 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
That sounds rough Lily. I really hope you find something that works.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 January 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
Hello. Can understand not wanting to use Topomax (Topiramate). Hope someone here has ideas ...
― djh, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
Thanks! Honestly I'm still so grateful not to have them several times a week anymore, and the actual migraines could be a lot worse - they don't make me throw up or give me a lot of weird side effects; they're mostly just pain. But it does make it hard to hold down a full-time job.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
Highly niche question: is there an optimum place for injecting Sumatriptan for Cluster Headaches? I'm thinking in terms of speed, effectiveness and lack of injecting pain. The instructions suggest the thigh (and the illustration shows the right thigh ... which I realise I have always used).
― djh, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
i don't know but i got prescribed sumatriptan pills a few weeks ago, and today i felt one coming on, i took a pill, pottered around a little, took a 15-minute nap, woke up, and.... it was gone?! could have been a number of factors (was it really a proper migraine coming on; was it the paracetemol i took; was it a mild one; has the fact i haven't been drinking coffee for two weeks helped) but i'm going to take the W
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 February 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
The Sumatriptan pills are still working for me, pretty much like clockwork. it's astonishing. the only problem is that they take almost exactly two hours to have any effect. so that's a big part of my day still fucked up.
My doc has now recommended I try taking Propranolol (lol) prophylactically, every day. Which I am doing. Sadly in the first 10 days of taking it I have had 3 migraines, more than my usual average :(
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 August 2023 14:00 (nine months ago) link
That’s good to hear. Sumatriptan has been working well for my partner too. Also: quarterly Botox shots have really reduced even the onset of migraines.
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 August 2023 17:03 (nine months ago) link
!! I will ask about this. Also about the nasal doses and/or injections of Sumatriptan. Also about the O2. And apparently there are other prophylactics. Though maybe Propranolol takes a while to build up? Not sure about this.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 August 2023 17:43 (nine months ago) link
I find Sumatriptan injections incredibly effective for Cluster Headaches, although can't always take as frequently as needed. They work in a few minutes rather than an hour or so. Oxygen can also be useful though I've sometimes wondered whether it's sometimes just delaying the inevitable rather than aborting the headache completely.
If migraine rather than Cluster Headache there is a new medication in the UK - I think you have to have kept a headache diary to be evidence your need.
― djh, Monday, 7 August 2023 09:19 (nine months ago) link
I have never really understood the difference. My GP has never introduced the concept of “cluster headaches” to me. I don’t get auras but I do get congestion, light sensitivity and occasionally nausea.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 August 2023 11:52 (nine months ago) link
I need to try and fail Topomax before I can get approved for Botox. I have been putting it off because I'm scared of all the Topomax side effects, which include brain fog, forgetting words, and kidney stones.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 7 August 2023 14:31 (nine months ago) link
Tracer - might be worth looking here, if you haven't already: https://ouchuk.org/
― djh, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:47 (nine months ago) link
Lily - those side-effects always sounded too scary for me and (rightly or wrongly and not a medical professional) I've always turned it down and I've always had that decision respected.
― djh, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:55 (nine months ago) link
Thanks djh. I took the quiz and it says it thinks mine are more migraines.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 August 2023 19:01 (nine months ago) link
It's not that the decision isn't respected, it's that you don't qualify to have certain medications covered by insurance until you've tried and failed a certain number of types of medication that are cheaper and more common. I haven't tried enough preventive meds yet to qualify for Botox or aimovig, so my reluctance to try topomax is really what's standing in my way.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 7 August 2023 19:26 (nine months ago) link
That sounds hard-going. Was writing from a UK perspective where there was a bit of pressure to take it but managed to argue against it, as the symptoms would feel intolerable re work.
― djh, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:45 (nine months ago) link
Well I'm on Propranolol (lol?) and no migraines for three weeks. So that's pretty good. The problem is that they're beta-blockers, and they are making me very... tired. When I go for a run my legs feel soooooo heavvvvvy. And I gotta get at least 8 hours of sleep, my normal quickie sleeps are not cutting it. So I'm kinda not really happy about that! Also not happy with literally taking a pill every day for the rest of my life? I was hoping I'd be in my 60s or 70s before that stuff kicked in
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 August 2023 11:23 (nine months ago) link
Would tolerate taking a pill everyday but would struggle with something that made me feel sluggish.
― djh, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 20:49 (eight months ago) link
well i shelled out for a private appointment from the National Migraine Centre. they are going to put me on a different triptan - Eletriptan, which last longer and works faster. They are also recommending that whenever I take a triptan I also take 900mg of aspirin, two paracetemol and 10mg of Metaclopramide , which will act to flush the triptan away from my stomach and into my bloodstream more quickly. I am excited!
They are also going to wean me off the Propranolol, which as far as I can tell does nothing for me apart from make my legs feel heavier when I go for a run. However they do say I need something preventative, which they say for me will be something called Candesartan, which is apparently safer than some of the alternatives which can also make you groggy. idk man
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 14:06 (two months ago) link
They also said my previous dosage for Sumatriptan was too low, that I was taking an amount that would be prescribed for a teenager ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 14:08 (two months ago) link
I'm not a fan of triptans myself. I took sumatriptan for years and it gave me rebound headaches and made me feel super weird whenever I took it. Hope the new one works for you though.
Now they've got me on Ubrelvy, which is new and expensive and also seems to trigger rebounds, though apparently that's very rare and I'm just unlucky. It doesn't act as instantly as sumatriptan, but it also doesn't have any noticeable side effects, which is really nice.
That said, I'm home from work today because my migraines don't seem to want to respond to meds this week. It's been a relatively good couple of months so I was due for it.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:45 (two months ago) link
sumatriptan has never worked instantly for me, at least not in pill form. i can usually time it to like 2.5 hours on the dot. no side effects, really magic, but day still half ruined.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:58 (two months ago) link
Sumatriptan started out being pretty instant for me, but as my body got used to it, it got much slower and sometimes wouldn't work at all. At one point I had the injectable kind in case I needed it to be fast-acting. But whether it worked or not, it always made me feel slightly poisoned. Glad to hear there are people it doesn't have side effects for.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:28 (two months ago) link
I've got Sumatriptan injections for Cluster Headaches and they really work (unless I have more than two headaches in a day and so can't take).
I've an acquaintance who takes Eletriptan (Relpax) for migraine and it seems effective at treating pain. They recently tried a new injection (not sure of the name) which reduced the headaches but had loads of side effects on their stomach. In the UK and they had to previously have tried 3 different treatments before they could try the injection.
― djh, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 19:50 (two months ago) link
yeah there’s also something called like… anti-CRG? something like that? that you can only have if you’ve tried all the other shit.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:13 (two months ago) link
https://www.nationalmigrainecentre.org.uk/understanding-migraine/factsheets-and-resources/anti-cgrp-treatment-for-migraine/
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:14 (two months ago) link
It depends, at least in the US. Ubrelvy is an anti-CGRP medication, and I didn't need to fail all the others to be prescribed it, but if I want one of the preventive ones like the aimovig shot, then I will have to try topomax and an antidepressant first.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 21:04 (two months ago) link
what was it like?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 21:36 (two months ago) link
My new migraine doc has also suggested some or all of the following, as preventative, in addition to the Candesartan
- Magnesium supplements. Magnesium citrate, glysinate, oil spray or epsom salts
- Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) - 1 400mg tablet once a day
- Co-enzyme Q 10 - 100mg THREE times a day for a minimum of 3 months
- Vitamin D - 3000-5000iu daily
- Migraea probiotic
Needless to say I hate my migraines and want them gone but I am a little reluctant to start a regimen of like many pills every day
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:43 (three weeks ago) link
Eletriptan, which last longer and works faster. They are also recommending that whenever I take a triptan I also take 900mg of aspirin, two paracetemol and 10mg of Metaclopramide , which will act to flush the triptan away from my stomach and into my bloodstream more quickly. I am excited!
I got a chance to try this new regime and it worked great - headache gone in about 40 minutes
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:37 (two weeks ago) link
My migraine doc also put me on a lot of supplements - mainly Sam-E, Boswellia, and B-12 - but I'm really bad at taking any except the Sam-E regularly. It also turns out I'm sensitive to magnesium and it makes my heart skip, which is frustrating as it's in a lot of supplements in trace amounts, so if I take too many assorted supplements at once I start to feel it. So the many supplements approach is not for me, but I understand it works for a lot of people. My uncle swears by riboflavin.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 10 May 2024 13:45 (two weeks ago) link
I've decided that I'm only going to take one supplement at a time so that I can tell if any of them have any effects. I've started with the riboflavin and it has turned my pee EXTREMELY yellow.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2024 14:03 (two weeks ago) link
(No other effects noted...)
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2024 14:07 (two weeks ago) link