Guest guest Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 I've skimmed the posts on headaches, and geez can I relate to many of you! After 20 years of tension headaches, and several years of monthly migraines, I have tried a lot. For me, the solution turns out to be a very simple one: Prevention. When I discovered my food and beverage triggers (anything with a high sulfite content) and eliminated those from my diet, my migraine incidents went down by about 80%. And I mean almost instantaneously! The remaining 20% of my headaches were really just due to stress and dehydration. In the last month, I've experienced a lot of stress, and yet not 1 headache of any kind. The reason is that I have been drinking a lot of water every day and, even more important for me, I am remembering to breathe. I discovered a few years ago that a lot of my stress- related illnesses were brought on not by the stressful events themselves but by my forgetting to breathe! I know it may sound too simplistic, but I swear by this formula for headache prevention: Breathing + Water = No Headache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Donna, my headaches are very bad, chronic if you will, and daily. Now that I am back in the full swing of life, I just try meditating and my head pain lessons, when super bad, I take a Loratab. Works for me and my Onc and neurologist felt that was best course for me as I have been intolerant to other methods of pain control. Chris ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Hi Donna, I’ve just had my first month of Glivec and since day 3 have had awful headaches. At times I get stabbing blinding pain over a particular eye, as well as general frontal headaches and my eyes very sensitive to light, blurry at times and of course wonderfully puffy – can’t see my upper eyelashes! I looked up Tylenol and it is based on paracetamol (acetaminophen in the US). I was surprised when my haem/t told me I could take up to 6 a day as it was less irritant to the liver than ibuprofen. The paracetamol was really doing nothing, so when I went to my GP last week, he said I could add codeine to it as it wouldn’t affect the liver and that certainly has helped a lot. I am taking tablets that have 500mg paracetamol and 10mg codeine phosphate – the codeine has helped for the diarrheoa and queasy tummy too. I know everyone is different in what they can take and allowed to take, but perhaps you could ask him/her about something with codeine in it? Regards, _____ From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of donnaberry99 Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:53 AM Subject: [ ] Headaches After being on Gleevec for 3 mos I have begun getting headaches, the Doctor said I couldn't take Tylenol as it was tough on the liver. Any suggestions? I have the puffy eyes too I read that may go away, how long does it normally take? I also have trouble with my eye watering??? other than that I feel great!!!!!!!!!! Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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