Jorge Garcia! Rock on.

Thanks for checking in, Connie. Glad to hear your husband is OK. Sorry about the night in the hospital, tho. Those never involve a good night's sleep.

Connie, glad your hubby has the more-or-less all-clear signal.

They now do angiograms through the wrist, not through the groin.

Wow, really? My dad hasn't had one through the wrist yet!

When we started with the heart adventures, angiograms involved heavy sandbags on the incision site in the groin to make sure everything stayed sealed. I have been amazed at the progression in technique.

Just the move away from the sandbags was a godsend.

I realize this is kind of laughable, given what some people have to go through, but does anyone have advice for getting rid of a migraine? I'm on day 3, and this is killing me.

Hmm don't know if this will work just because it handles the high end of my comparatively mild ones but:

Neilmed or something else get warm salt water going from one nostril to another.

2) normal does of ipubufrin plus normal does of tylenol. (No guarantees that this won't cause death or organ failure.)

3) lean back in comfortable chair - not lyiing down but one with your feet up . Cold wet cloth covering your sinuses eyes, forehead and everywhere on your head that hurts. Wait resting comfortable and see if that does not get rid of migrain. if it does not work within 4 hours ad Advil. (again not guaranteeing against causing death or organ failure.)

If none of this works, see doctor.

My cure. Don't know that it is yours.

normal does of ipubufrin plus normal does of tylenol. (No guarantees that this won't cause death or organ failure.)

It should be fine. I wouldn't say do it all the time without consulting your doctor or at least the pharmacist at CVS, but I take them together for migraines when I need to.

The other thing that can help is alternating heat and cold packs on your forhead and/or back of neck -- like, 10 minutes hot, 10 minutes cold, etc.

Also, if you aren't too sensitive to touch because of the pain (I know ita has said she is, for instance), try massaging the area indicated on the diagram at the top of this page: [link]

I've been trying Excedrin Migraine, which helped the first day, but hasn't done much since then. Maybe before bed I will take ibuprofen on top of that.

Is there any point in going to see a doctor? Can they do anything while it's in progress, rather than just giving me something to prevent one?

This trigger point is produced and perpetuated by keeping your shoulders up. Women who carry their purse on a shoulder strap are especially prone to having this trigger point and its symptoms.

Huh.

This trigger point is produced and perpetuated by keeping your shoulders up. Women who carry their purse on a shoulder strap are especially prone to having this trigger point and its symptoms.

I don't know that it's always true in migraines, but like I said, if it isn't too painful for you to be touched around your head/shoulders, gentle massage might help.

Is there any point in going to see a doctor? Can they do anything while it's in progress, rather than just giving me something to prevent one?

Oh yeah. There are abortive drugs, though I don't know how effective they are 3 days into a migraine. Even a stronger painkiller might help (sometimes percocet is the only thing that hammers down on my migraines).

Might be a trip to urgent care in my future, then.

I don't know that it's always true in migraines

Well, the reason it caught my attention is that I was lugging my backpack around D.C. for five days, which put a lot more strain than usual on my shoulder. But I also didn't eat regularly and I was short on sleep, so who knows.

It's like psychic predictions that are so vague that they apply to everything.

If you're up for a little more reading, here's a longer thing about muscle trigger points that can cause migraines: [link] Sometimes massaging the sternocleinomastoid muscle helps mine tremendously. Other times, though, the migraine just laughs at my attempts.

Good luck, Dana.