complicated migraine sufferers ... do any homeopathic tricks work for you?

Here is a trick I learned a long time ago. As a matter of fact, my son still uses this trick when he feels a migraine coming on. Thankfully I haven't suffered a migraine in a long time, but mine, when I do get them, are the wake up in the middle of night with a full blown migraine (cue the non-stop vomiting every 15 minutes for about 6 hours straight) type.

Anyway, here's the trick: when you feel the beginning of a migraine at the onset of an aura or wavy lines, whichever indicates a migraine is imminent, grab a paper bag. Cover your mouth securely with the paper bag and slowly breathe 10 breaths in and out through your mouth. Yes, you're blowing your breath into the bag and breathing that same air back in. Take way the bag and take 10 slow breaths with fresh air. Repeat until the aura recedes or wavy lines stop. Usually when I've done that on the rare occasions a migraine came during the day, the worst I ended up with was a mild headache. My son swears by this method, unless of course if he wakes up with a fullblown migraine. It doesn't work then.

Instead of standing in cold water, I've had good luck with a flexible gel ice pack at the back of my head. It's sort of torture, but it works.

I take a couple of magnesium pills, advil with coke/coffee or excedrin with juice then grab the ice pack, stumble to my bed, put on a blackout blindfold and lie down with the ice pack. If I'm lucky, I'm unconscious for about 45 minutes to an hour, then wake up feeling better.

Migraines are heredity in my family, my grandma passed it to my mom, who passed it to me and my brother. I passed them to both my sons. My grandma had to take some kind of pill every day before she got out of bed because she woke up everyday with a headache and if she didn't take the pill it turned into a raging migraine.

When I developed celiac disease because of thyroid disease, I had to completely cut out gluten which resulted in my migraines being greatly reduced. I've maybe had two in the last 2+ years.

You can try Epsom salts baths. Epsom salts are magnesium chloride crystals and, if you are deficient in magnesium (many migraine sufferers are) you will absorb the magnesium chloride through your skin. You get the water as hot as you can stand it and add about two cups of Epsom salts (available at most pharmacies and also Walmart). A fifteen minute soak and you are ready to be poured into bed for the night--very, very relaxing (and much more pleasant that putting your feet in cold water).

No. Sorry. I have managed to get control of my migraines by finding and minimizing my triggers. I switched up my diet, and went from having 3 a week, (pretty much a constant headache) to having one every few months. The only thing I really can't control are the scent induced ones. Perfume, cigarettes smoke etc.

No prescription medication has ever worked for me either. I also stopped taking excedrin, as they caused me rebound headaches.

Migraines run in my family too. My 6 and 9 year old get them too. I hope it skips the baby.

i take a feverfew tablet every day and my migraines have waned (i have been hospitalized for them, so i know how you feel!). i also think that my diet and exercise lifestyle change has helped tons. peppermint tea, too!

I hate migraines. What I find that will help or at least keep my mind off the pain, is to sit in the tub and have the shower on my head. Do some breathing exercises and just relax. I also take an imitrex.

Have you heard of a Candida Cleanse? Googling it will give you more info than you could ever ask for but in short, it's an overgrowth of yeast in your digestive track. It can be responsible for a plethora of symptoms that often get blamed on something else. My husband suffered from chronic headaches (almost daily) and after just one Candida Cleanse his headaches are gone. It's been over a year now and he's never felt better. Hope you can find some relief!