what causes migraines and how come we haven’t developed a cure for them yet?
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There are many things that can cause migraines, it’s it’s not always easy to figure out what it is for any particular person.
Which is also why we don’t have a cure.
Why we’re not quite sure, but the blood vessels in your temples open up in a migraine. There are medications called triptans which help shrink them back down.
Getting lots of sleep, staying away from cheese, chocolate, coffee, red wine — anyway, a long list of things — can help prevent them.
There isn’t a cure, but my wife has frequent terrible debilitating migraines and her doctor gave her some samples of Nurtec (rimegepant), and BOOM, they disappear in a few minutes.
The problem is the pills are like $100 a pop! Her doctor was able to get her a small amount of extras, but she treats them as precious and decides if any particular migraine is “sponge worthy” to steal a phrase.
I have no idea if this works for all migraines or just the kind she gets, but she swears by it.
My wife and many of the people in her migraine monitoring group get them from atmospheric pressure changes. A storm rolls in, pressure drops and her migraine kicks in. When she would get really bad ones during business hours, we’d go to a local driving range that was inside a pressurized bubble and she’d get almost instantaneous relief as soon as we walked through the airlock. Unfortunately that place has closed so we’ve been working on the layout for a pressurized room in a former fruit cellar in our basement.
She gets medical botox injections in her scalp and hairline every 3 months which have helped lessen the severity and frequency of the migraines quite a bit but not enough to call it a cure.
She has also tried a self injectable, I believe it was called Ambivig or something like that. It seemed to really help at first as we had a few bad storms pass through with no migraines. After 3 or 4 months the drug didn’t seem as effective and became even less so the more time had passed.
This isn’t an endorsement or criticism of any of the treatments, simply a sharing of what we’ve experienced over the past 30 years. There isn’t a cure so you just have to find your own personal way of managing this. Be it laying down in a dark room, finding a golf dome or trying different medical treatments.
There isn’t a definite cause of migraines but there are several medicines that can help with and/or cure them. My girlfriend used to get them and took a medication for several years. Now they are completely gone several years after having come off of it.
Mine seem to be a combination of seasonal and anxiety caused, but a daily medication has solved the issue
magnesium .. and smoking cannabis .. heard one of those works for the worst, not the other if it does though .. cluster headaches for pot, magnesium for migraines.. is what i heard from a sufferer and another pot user
Sumatriptan is Imitrex. The side effects stink. Nausea, chest pain and kicks the headache up about 3 notches. My neurologist switched me from that to Amerge which is still a triptan but no side effects for me. I have chronic migraines.
There’s a migraine protocol that focuses on diet and electrolyte balance that supposedly works.
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