Migraine? What to do?
I am 13 years old and I suffer from migraines. I get 3-5 a week. I have been getting migraines since I was five. I even went to the hospital once. I h...
I am 13 years old and I suffer from migraines. I get 3-5 a week. I have been getting migraines since I was five. I even went to the hospital once. I have a neurologist, but he isn't helping. Advil and all other pain relievers do not work for me 
taking naps, hot showers and baths, listening to calming music and getting a massage, putting a cold towel or patch on my head don't work either. I tried meditation, Accupuncture, biofeedback, and everything else but my headaches just continue. Will I suffer from these forever? Is there any hope I will get better? They rule my whole life! And I am only 13! Please help
I feel very, very sorry for you. I had them from the time I was 8 until I was 29 and they suddenly just stopped. I went to numerous dr’s and neurologists, was even hospitalized a few times for them. Not all medication works the same for everyone and it is a matter of your dr finding what helps you.
I did find that as soon as I felt one coming on, IF I immediately put my feet in cold water it would some times stop the migraine. Migraines are caused when blood vessels swell and too much blood flows, too fast to the brain. By putting your feet in ice cold water, it slows the flow of blood down.
Hope this helps and I truly wish you the best and hope your dr finds a medication that helps you.
Good Luck!
There might be some other undiagnosed medical condition causing migrane! ??
just for fun.
try metta/loving kindness meditation
taught a specific way.
one of the stages is releasing the tension in the head and body.
below is a short video instruction
if you think it might be useful
then you might want to watch the longer teaching video on metta
and might read the eight page metta meditation manual on his site
may you be happy
may you be peaceful
may you be be free from suffering
I too had migraine from my little days. I could not play in the sun as I will get a headache. At the beginning I will notice some lights blinking in front of my eyes and then the headache sets in. An Ayurvedic Doctor gave me some medicinal herbal oil to be applied on the head and I found that it was helpful. From the age of about 10 my mom bought this oil specially for me.
But when I was about 16 it was getting worse. When I get an attack I would vomit (some yellowy stuff whch I now know as Bile) and then sleep. After I wake up I have noticed that my thinking is not clear for a few days. Mom says that even the words that I talked were not coherent. Then I went back to the same Ayurvedic Doctor he listened to the history and decided that all these happen when I eat something oily after I wake up from an afternoon nap. It was Bile that breaks down the oil – maybe my Bile was not good enough. Any way I stopped eating oily stuff after an afternoon nap and the problem stopped.
It was at this stage that I started Meditating. I reached a stage where most of the thoughts slowed down. I also had read that the mind burn a lot of Body Energy to process the thousands of thoughts that churn in the mind. When the thoughts are stopped the body energy acts on its own and move into all corners of the body and cure problems and diseases in the body. Many meditators have found Rashes surfacing on their skin. It had been found that the body energy had released some bad stuf from inside the body that has surfaced onto the skin.
So the next time I started to see the blinking lights I go to a corner , keep my mind blank and concentrate that all my body energy go to my eyes and my brain and stop the blinking lights and cure all causes of headaches. The first time I did it I kept my eyes closed for about five minutes. Whne I opened my eyes I found that the blinking had stopped and I had no headache.
Now this is my defence whenever I get a migraine problem. I have been practising meditation for nearly 8 years and I am now able make my mind empty whenever it is needed.
You can get some guidance from,
http://www.meditationexpert.com/health-relaxation/index.htm
Wish you the best of health and peace.