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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Intractable means non of those things work.  [/quote]

They don't cure the migraine. But they can make you more comfortable and lessen intensity so that you can function.

Have you never had a migraine so bad you could not see or stand up, and needed to do something to lessen its severity so you could at least leave the house to go to the doctor or the hospital? These are the things I do in that situation. None of this stuff will get rid of a migraine on its own.[/quote]

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