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What is Migraine?
A migraine is a severe, painful headache that is often accompanied by sensory warning signs such as flashes of light, blind spots, tingling in the arms and legs, nausea, vomiting, and increased sensitivity to light and sound. The excruciating pain that migraines bring can last for hours or even days. serotonin agonists or aspirin should help with antiemetics.
Questions and answers on "Migraine"
Hi! I have got migraine with aura....... I use Maxsalt for them..... i recently observed that when ever i have a vivid dream or a night mare , I wake up in the mrg with a head spliting migraine....... Is it normal for a person suffering with migraine or should I get an appointment with the doc as soon as I can?
MD Hello,
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During migraine you must be knowing there is hypoxia to particular area of brain. When you suddenly wake up from deep sleep there is increased heart brake and blood pressure because of this you feel throbing migraine.
It is normal with migraine patients.
To...
please suggest best medicine for migraine without side effects
please tell me best medicine for migraine without side effects. Now I am taking vasogrine. In a week I am getting migraine 3 times. For the past 25 years I am suffering from migraine...Siva, Chennai
MD Hi Good afternoon
For acute control of headache you have to take pain killer, Tablet naprosyn is better choice
For prophylaxis you may take propranolol according to your blood pressure, or flunarizine or topiramate.
My opinion is you contact doctor near to you and after proper history taken by...
I m having migraine since twenty years. I experience cloudy spots and after that flashes of light in zigzag shape at the corners of eyes it lasts for about 20 to 30 mints then it goes away and I feel throbbing pain at one side of my head . I take pons ton forte or Brufen 400 mg but it is not so effective. Please recommend some medication. I have migraine once or twice a month.
MD Hello
It seems from the history that you are having migraine. Cloudy spots, flashes of light are the common prodromal symptoms of the migraine.
The treatment of the migraine in acute phase is by use of analgesics and by use of ergot alkaloids.
Since you are having recurrent attacks of migraine...
I am 43 and have suffered migraine with aura for several years. Iv recently read that low oestrogen can be a cause but can also be a risk of ovarian and breast cancer . Yet in another article migraine suffers are believed to be less at risk of breast cancer. Confused? I am!
MD Hi
Its still not established whether low estrogen really causes migraine. However you may stop worrying about the low estrogen because a history of migraine is a contraindication for the prescription of the same. You may continue with non hormone drugs for prophylaxis of migraine. hope that...
i m migraine problem since 1 year.and i m taking vesograine medicine so pls guide me what are the side effects of this medicine.and let me know the others tablets names and i have illergy in sunlight but it increase in witer also .pls tell what is the precaution for winter.
MD If migraine attacks are less than 3/month just take pain killers like vasograin or migranil or naxdom or tab riza sos. It frequency and duration of attacks increase you will need prophylaxis like propanolol, sibelium, topiramate etc. Ergotamine is effective in some patients, but it has many side...
my son suffers from major depression and has been suffering from migraines for a little over a year now. hes seen numerous doctor and they have not been able to get to find out what is causing them. now he has started suffering from severe nightmares almost nightly. any suggestions on what type of doctor to try to get him in with to address the nightmare issues because they are sevearly starting to interfer with his everyday life
MD Hi,
The nightmares may be related to major depressive disorder and if so, treatment of depression can provide relief in nightmares as well. In my opinion, you should discuss the issue of nightmares with the psychiatrist who is treating your son and not think of involving a new specialist without...
i lost the periphery vision in my right eye but when i ate it came back. my doctor has referred me to an opthamologist because he thinks i have migraine. my sugar levels keep dropping since my visit to the doctor. could that have something to do with the vision loss
MD do complete eye checkup. refraction, measurement of IOT. fundus examination. ocular muscle mov ment should be checked. are you diabetic? if so glycolated hemoglobin may be checked.
hi doctors, as my 15 yrs daughter diagnose with migraine, as family doctor suggested vasograine tablet, n also to see migraine specialist.she consume daily one tablet,my worry is, any side effect of vasograine tablets n second things is parmanent curable or no?
MD Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
I have noted your daughter's diagnosis and treatment plans.
Vasograin is a medicine for relieving the headache, and it should not be used daily. At the most, only four tablets of vasograin can be taken per week.
Since she has frequent headaches, she should be...
hello i am 44 years old female suffering from migraine pain i take rizaro with naxdom 250 it used to get relief within 2 hours but now its only little less but still pain right side whole morning to night?? what to eat during that time and how to cure..??? please HELP
MD You can go for migon tab 250 mg and a paracetamol for pain for one week and migon for 2 weeks.
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Recent questions on Migraine
MD Hi. I am 33. I ve astham, samters triad, overactive thyroid and ibs at present. Last year my thyroid was underactive and in November last year became borderline which led to overactive.Also have had migraines. Also had a hysterosocopy, coloscops, endoscopy done in last 2 years. Had ananphalytic shock once and asthma attack once. I also had a flare up just before last christmas. Have had palpitations up and down also. Suffer from high blood pressure and told i m too young for blood pressure tablets. I m 5 ft 5 and wegh 10 stone.Can you calculate my life expectancy please?
MD I m 26F n I m suffering from migraine n sinus past 10yrs. But wen evr I ve the attack max it last up to a day. From 4-5yrs I m having very less attacks. But from past 15days, I m having severe headache with vomiting. When i try to bend i get tremendous pain in head and will have giddiness with blurred vision and vomiting. Two days back i found a little blood while vomiting. I ve been treated by physician n also Ayurvedic doc from past 8 days n still no improvement n no results. From today morning while swallowing saliva I m getting terrible pain in ma left part of head also frm ystr night my left eye is kind of stretching n contracting.Pls help me with and let me know whether it is very serious and what action should be taken.
MD My 30 year old daughter still sucks her thumb and a pacifier. (Gave up smoking a few years ago). She lost her only sibling at age 14 yrs. to cancer. She is a child of divorced parents. Suffers from migraines, depression, anxiety and ADD. I find sucking a pacifier at her age extremely odd and wonder if something deeper is going on.
MD I have always produced a lot of ear wax. I have a build up in my ear and it is muffling my hearing. I have used over the counter ear drops in the past and they have given me migraine headaches after use. Is there any other, non-office-visit remedy that I could try?
MD Doctor, I have experienced some strangeness for two days now. I have had 2 TIA's in the past with slurred speech and numbness on the left side of my body. I awoke this AM with a numb arm on my right side. I have a headache now. I have symptoms of...
MD Recent visit 12-21 for headaches that I have for weeks they come and go for months at a time .they start in front and go around my head ,some nausea and ear pain or hot sensation around ears and floaters that make it hard to read or write .and...
MD We are wondering if my husband may have had a small stroke. Taken to the er with confusion loss of balance extremely high BP and migraine type headache. His BP meds have been adjusted but now his behavior has shifted. Very aggressive argumentative...