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I must spread the word!

This is lengthy, but a worthy read for people with migraines.

Some people might have read this from me on other posts I've made, but I decided to make a general post of my own and hope everyone reads it. Mind you, what I have discovered might not help everyone but anything is worth a try. I get awful migraines. I get all the classic symptoms: aura, tingling and numbness, huge head ache, sickness and vomiting, sensitivity to light and sound. I even lose my grip on reality, which is not a classic sign I have ever heard of and possibly something I should get checked out. I sometimes can't even remember who I am it gets so bad. Well, around a year ago they got even worse, or I guess I should say more frequent. I was getting them several times a week and sometimes I would get them several times a day. By that I mean I would get the aura, the numbness, etc and then the head ache. When I get the head ache the aura leaves. Well, after a few hours of just the head ache the aura would come back and the cycle would start again before it had ever finished! With what it does to my mind, and all the pain, you can imagine how desperate I was. Someone suggested trying alchohol and I did, which didn't work.

Well, finally someone suggested taking Aleve, one in the morning and one at night. I don't know if any of you have heard of Aleve or seen the commercials, but it is simply an over the counter pain medicine, I think mostly for head aches but I believe it is an all around aches and pains thing. Well, at first I took them one in the morning and one at night. It worked! And instantly, all those migraines I was having every day disappeard. Now, I still get migraines once in awhile, but it is so rare and such a relief at how rare it is, I can't even describe it. Unfortunately the Aleve does NOTHING once I have the migraine, not even take some of the pain away, but prevention is just as valuable. Nowadays I am only taking the Aleve at night before I go to sleep, but it is working just as well. Hope this helps at least someone out there! May we all be migraine free!
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Hi- I'm glad Aleve worked for you...I have always been weary of over the counter stuff for migraines...I had a migraine one night that I got at a friends house and I took Excederin, which I had never taken before, because I didn't have anything ewith me and thats all she had.  Not only did it make my migraine worse, I hsd horrible stomach pains which just seemed to intesify...
Ever since then, I decided to just stick with the regular migraine meds!
But I will consider giving Aleve a try now that you mentioned it- thanks!
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Ohhh, I didn't know that it was a proven fact, I thought it was just some weird thing that worked for some random reason for me, and I hoped it would work for others hehe. That is nice to know.
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Hi, sharing your views with other members is good and do continue to post your comments, may be somone may benefit also.
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Hi.

Thank you very much for sharing this information. I feel happy for you.

The fact that Aleve (Naproxen) is useful in acute migraine headeches, is not know to many. Some researchers have infact put together the results of several studies and have come to the conclusion that Aleve is infact a good medicine. It reduces the recurrance of Migraine.

When taken with Imitrex (Sumatriptan), Aleve works best to reduce the recurrance of migraine headaches.

I wish you all the best for future.

Regards

DrAbhijeetMD
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