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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of these comments are for intractable migraines.  Just bad ones.  Talk to your neurologist and maybe consider hospitalization but hospitalization never worked for me.  [/quote]

No one is suggesting these for curing an intractable migraine. Some of these are things I have to do simply to become functional enough to make an appointment with my neurologist, or to do an urgent task that I HAVE to do, migraine or no. Like I had a migraine recently that was making it impossible for me to sleep. But if did a certain routine post dinner (where I avoided certain foods) I could sometimes get a short period of relief in which I could fall asleep. I'd still wake up at 3am with the migraine resurging, but a few hours of sleep is better than none. That's how I survived while waiting for my MRI appointment, which took three days. I've also used some of these methods to gain a little relief so that I could do something like take my kid to school or drive myself to the doctor.

I personally think every migraine sufferer needs at least a few home remedy options in their back pocket because it's such an unpredictable ailment. I've been in situations where I've been hit with a migraine while traveling in a foreign country and my meds won't work, and had to navigate a foreign health service while also dealing with normal travel issues. If I didn't have my little bag of tricks that would have been much worse. Stuff like always carrying a blackout sleep mask with me, knowing how to make a cold compress in a pinch, or knowing that taking a bath or shower in a dark bathroom will sometimes relax me enough to get some relief and make me functional for at least a few hours.[/quote]

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