Do not excede stated dosage

[davywavy]

Woke up with a migraine this morning. I've never done that before, and let me tell you it makes the never-pleasurable task of waking up on a work day into the real chore. In an attempt to see it off I guzzled 3 aspirin (recommended dosage 1-3 tablets for adults) and set off for work.

The aspirin had no noticable effect and the headache got worse to the extent that I was actually physically sick from the pain, and so in desperation I blagged another painkiller from one of my colleagues.
The fourth aspirin was the killer - within half-an-hour I was light-headed and felt faint. However, the pain had mostly gone.

Todays lesson is: if you take the stated dosage, it won't help. if you take more, you run the risk of passing out. Great.

Comments

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

A migrane is physiologically the opposite of a regular headache. Take stuff wot cures a regular headache and it will initially make the migrane worse. Then at 4 aspirin you've flooded out most of the receptors and done unspeakable things to your neurons... but it doesn't hurt any more.

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

So what's a good way of getting rid of a migraine (I've never had one, but...)

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Anti-migrane drugs. You need to go see a doc for those though.

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

The specifically anti-migrane tablets like Migraleve are a good start. A headache is a temporary constriciton of the blood vessels and what Aspirin and other SA-related painkillers do is relax the blood vessels and actually thin the blood a little as well as reducing blood pressure slightly. A migrane is when the vessels have dilated too much already. See what happens if you use regular anti-headache remedies?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Now that I didn't know. Thanks, o brain-wizz.

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

I have my uses.

[rms.livejournal.com]

Migraleve is mostly paracetamol and in my experience not that much more effective.

Imigran (prescription only and it cost the NHS £25 a tablet) works really well for me apart from it now clashes with other prescription medicine I'm on so I'm back on cocodomol for in case of migraine, which is just a case of knock me out until its over. I think is a "triptan", possibly sumatriptan but theres a whole family of them which affects certain chemical uptakes in the brain which has killed some of my migraines stone dead in about 45 mins. The doasge is one, perhaps two if its really bad, and possibly one the next day. I tried two once and got very very tired and sleepy.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

My favoured cure is the 'lying in a dark room and telling people to fuck off' method, but that wasn't possible this morning.

Yikes!

[applez.livejournal.com]

You over-the-counter druggie, you. ;-)

All in all a misadventure I'm pleased I didn't have to experience.

To your health.

[tzel.livejournal.com]

Asprin has never fazed one of my migraines. Ibuprofin is the only thing that does any good.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I only get one or two a year on average, so I've never really had the practise in dealing with them.