miagrains

[infinite_monkey]

i am curious as to how many of the ethnobotony community suffer from miagrains, and what are the triggers for you and how often,

its just for a little conspiracy(theory) im plotting

[Rev]

negative.Never.

And i wouldnt now anyway, i have a good preventative

[DreamingNagual]

I get em about 3 times a week usually due to lack of sleep,stress and bright sunlight.

Low doses(around threshold)of p.sub helps ease them a lot and also does wonders for colds when used in a lemon and ginger tea,almost completely stops sinus effects and coughing

Regards,

Mojo.

[mescalito]

Only once the day I gave up Caffeine....never again!

[nabraxas]

i used to get them.

i also started to get them after high doses ov opiates.

now i don't get them.

[MrBumpy]

Used to get them quite a bit, but haven't had one for about 1 or 2 years now I think. I first started getting them when I was in about grade 6 or seven, got them about once a week, when i was that young I used to just get a pain behind one eye...as I got older the symptoms started to change, in high school I started to get numbness move through my body and my vision would go, and I'd end up being sick, Never found a trigger, but once I finished high school, they seemed to have stopped, so stress could have been a factor.

My sister who also suffered migraines found the chocolate would trigger a migraine for her.. she even ate a whole block of cabury dairy milk once to get out of an exam

-bumpy

[Plant Pimp]

Pain behind the eyes?

I had that from my early teens onward. I suffered for years (In random seasons, but mostly summer), trying all of the standard pain relief meds (acetaminophen and ibuprophen) with no luck. The doc put me on a migraine diet. No luck with that either. Finally, one day I read a box of 'Tylenol Sinus' and it listed most of my symptoms. It Worked!! It took me 6 years to find it, but it worked!! I was extatic!! :D

I think it might be an allergy thing, but antihistamines don't really help and make me tired and sick, and I don't know what I'd be allergic to. Whatever it was/is, it's ephedrine and pseudoephedrine for me from now on! I try not to buy the pills with acetaminophen in them, because it has little extra effect (except on the liver).

Good thing I found a vendor with 1 pound of ephedra for $20CAD!! Summer is coming soon! I wonder if it's still legal here?

[Guest electro]

dude pain behind the eyes is sinus...

migraine is elsewhere and is often accompanied by nausea, hallucenations, vomiting, vertigo and a host of other nasties ...

i used to get migraines caused by wisdom teeth comming through which would last for days with me feeling like i would throw up the whole time from the pain. not any more (since removal of those bastardly teeth).

My gf occasionally gets them.

We both always get sinus tho

[theobromos]

Cardamoms and stress.

I don't get them as I avoid cardamoms and stress as much as possible.

Any of the herbs containing berberine, such as barberry and oregon grape, will stop my migraine immediately after taking a tea of vitamin C and a half gramme of the bark. In emergencies the flowers of Mahonia and Berberis ornamentals have worked.

[psycho0]

i get them all the time i don't know what triggerds them tho:(

[Officer Steve]

Well, as You can read in the thread "drugs don't work", I used to get them almost constantly, maybe 4-6 relatively short episodes a day. However, I believe that now I've beat them :D . Part of it was simply determining the triggers (and there can be many), but I think it had more to do with learning to control and eventually cancel them out. Pain, vertigo, numbness, hallucinations, vomiting....yeah, I went through it all. Pretty much all I have left is the Visual effects, and they never really were harmful. All in all, I can say the worst part of it had to be the Drugs and uninformed doctors and specialists, not that I blame them, I'm sure it wasn't a simple case. The naseau certainly wasn't any fun, but I think the side effects and the toxic effects from the drugs they gave me were in many ways worse than the migraines. I eventualy improved after throwing away the drugs, and turning to the plant kingdom while eliminating the triggers....mmm "Narrow Leaf Maples"

Determining the triggers can be dificult, especially when it's a substance that is common or has to work through your digestive system. For me, cheeses can act as powerful temporary sedatives, personally I don't like cheese, but I discovered this one night after having a slice of swiss on a sandwhich, I actually used it as a sleep aid once. Thinking about it now...I'm not really sure that I know what caused them, perhaps I just "grew out of them", and maybe I've unconciously rid my life of the toxins responsible. Whatever the cause, the severe effects are basically behind me now, and I just have mild symptoms now. Regardless of the situation, I know it's not over, because I still experience some effects, but at least now they're generally ignorable. It only took 5 or 6 years

[Rev]

Plant Pimp:

Good thing I found a vendor with 1 pound of ephedra for $20CAD!! Summer is coming soon! I wonder if it's still legal here?

you can probably do better

I used to buy it here for $AU 20/kg

or $12 for 600g (1 jin)

Not anymore though - the TCM suppliers all of a sudden got cagey and wouldnt sell me more than 1 jin at a time :D and i havent been back in ages so they prob forgot my face and wont sell at all.