Never get Migraines, is this one? Why is it lasting A WEEK? What can I do?

Last Wednesday during The Incredible Hulk...I began to get a headache, I was thinking I was dehydrated so right after I drank 5 glasses of water (over a 3 hour period). But the pain grew instead of lessened. I began to be immobile and in severe pain, over the next two days I became cold feverish (but i think without an actual fever) and shakey. Sometimes when I would stand my vision would slowly fade for a second. It went away 80% saturday and returned sunday night, but Only the headache. Its Misery meds do almost nothing, i have a cooling gel pack on it now which does help some. I am of course trying 2 avoid screens and lights and noises, but u know.

Migraines can last that long.
That does sound like what it is. Exedrin Migraine does help me sometimes if I catch it early enough.
Sounds like you're pretty much doing everything right.
But if you have a headache that is lasting this long that otc meds aren't helping, I would make a apt. with your doctor and they will probably send you to a neurlogist who can offer some percription meds to help, and just make sure that is really whats going on.
I have had migraines last weeks, sometimes once they get in there they are hard to kick. Usually my neurologist will give me a medrol dose pack to help kick the cycle. Hope you feel better.

wow.. that guy who mentioned the brain tumor really has no idea what hes talking about.. I suffer from severe migraines.. I get them like you do.. only kinda worse, numbness, and blindness in one eye and stuff.. it doest feel good.. your right.. maybe check in with your doctor.. lay in a dark room, with no lights or sound.. and try to go to sleep.. try having a CT scan, some blood work taken.. and stuff like that. Sure enough, somethings wrong, maybe a head cold... nothing serious.. dont take the tumor to heart. its wrong.

This is not just a migraine if it is lasting more than one week. You need to go to an emergency room...#1 for pain relief and #2 to find out what is wrong. It could be serious. No migraine should last for a week. Please go to the emergency room.

Please head to your closest ER. They can run tests to find out what is going on and give you something to relieve the pain. It could be any number of things and honestly a headache should not last that long unless there is an underlying cause.

you need to go and see a doctor, this is not normal. Just go your local emergency room as soon as you can

Well i've been getting migraines for 4 years now and i've never had one last for a whole week. Something else must be wrong. You need to see a doctor asap.

well...have u tried takin ur temperature??? if u haven't u should cause u might just have a fever....or it could be a sinus headache from allergies.....

go see a doctor... and get some morphine (heroin if you don't have health insurance).... really though see a doctor... you might have a brain toomer

pl see what suits you.
If you are in cold country use all warm things.
Pl try cold water bath and observe if in hot country, if pain increases use warm.
If you have cough/cold body hot water bath will help.
Massage and exercise in front of morning sun is good thing, pl try.
Pl try simple acupressure given below for immediate relief.
If it fails you will have to go for Acupuncture.

There is hardly any medicine for H/A OR MIGRAINE. Not only these but for RA, OA, Back ache, Ear ache/ringing, Stomach ache and almost all painful diseases. Hence they become chronic.

Acidity, WORRY, sadness, excessive wind, cold , heat, sour food and sinusitis, constipation, intestinal inflammation; drug side effects, stress, bad smell, TV & COMPUTER SOMETIMES, Blockage in the flow of Vital Energy, BODY CONSTITUTION etc are their causes.
None of them can be treated with medicine.
Our 100% success in treating migraine &H/A confirms it.

Acupuncture is the best treatment.
I can treat it with naturopathy and YOG, but how can you manage pl see.

Pain killers don't treat the pain but we loose the sense of pain for some time; in that duration our body itself treats sometime and credit goes to meds.
The useless drugs have tremendous power of side effects like liver/kidney failures, ulcer, inflammation of intestines and lot more.

Avoid late sleeping if possible; worry, tension, spicy foods, sour fruits, stale bakery foods, SMOKING and alcohole.

Sweet foods, COCOANUT WATER,sweet fruits like dates, milk, rice, SPROUTS, SALADS and good sleep will help if cough is not there.

But you try one herbal remedy- two drops of drumstick leaves' juice in opposite nostril if one side pains and both nostrils if full H/A will give you rescue. Betel leaf helps but it is very strong.

If it is acute pl search a painful point (with round tipped pen/jimmy) 3-6 mm behind your thumb nail and press it, H/A will disappear within 30 seconds.

For forehead/eye pain the points are in front of nails on the finger tips or 3-7 mm below.

It may disappear naturally too.

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