headache from lack of sleep

[Guest guest]

Does anyone get headaches when they don't get enough quality sleep? I

get neck pain and a pressing headpain when this happens on the

following day. I was wondering if there were any ways to alleviate it,

other than aspirin. It's hard to break the cycle because once the pain

starts, because it's harder to get quality sleep the following night.

I wonder if it is related to being hypothyroid but I am probably wrong

on that.

Jay

[Guest guest]

>

> Does anyone get headaches when they don't get enough quality sleep? I

> get neck pain and a pressing headpain when this happens on the

> following day. I was wondering if there were any ways to alleviate it,

> other than aspirin. It's hard to break the cycle because once the pain

> starts, because it's harder to get quality sleep the following night.

>

> I wonder if it is related to being hypothyroid but I am probably wrong

> on that.

>

> Jay

>

Dear Jay, I also had sever sleep problems. My docotor gave me Tamazapam

for a fortnight and then a found a preparation with Valerian worked

quite well. Also St JOhns Wort helps

[Guest guest]

Jay. I have serious migraines that develop whenever I overexert

myself. It could be lack of sleep or in other ways overdoing it. As I

mentioned in a just-previous post about sauna, I find that taking a lot

of electrolytes really really helps. If you onibasu Andy's posts on

electrolytes you'll find his formula. As he says, anyone with adrenals

problems will be adequately messed up if they don't replace

electrolytes. This is what I use:

1tsp Calcium ascorbate

1tsp Magnesium ascorbate

1/2tsp Sodium Chloride

(table salt - make sure it's sea salt, that morton stuff is crap!)

1/4tsp Baking Soda

1/8tsp Potassium Chloride

( " lite salt " - Now foods has a version)

I mix that into a quart jar, 3/4 filled with water and 1/4 filled with a

sweet juice. The juice helps not just with taste, but with the

osmolality, so that you don't get stomach upset.

Careful on the potassium chloride. Never more than 1/2tsp a day

(actually, I think Andy says 1tsp, but you should check) as overdose can

lead to serious heart arrhythmias.

If that causes any bowel looseness (both the magnesium and the ascorbate

can have a laxative effect) then I increase the calcium ascorbate and

decrease the magnesium; or, decrease the ascorbate dose altogether.

Andy uses epsom salts for the magnesium and sulfate. I'm high in

sulfate, so I don't want that, and found I needed more calcium. Also, I

can take a _lot_ of ascorbate. So, I modified the formula.

Also note that at the beginning, I found I needed much more salt (sodium

chloride). I believe Andy's formula has 1tsp salt. In the space of a

few days or a week, I found I wanted to decrease it.

Sometimes I take that as an emergency dose - whole quart at a time, if I

am just walking in the house with a bad headache.

Also, I can't really describe it here, but there are ways that I've

learned from yoga to use a strip of cloth to wrap the head in such a

way to relieve tension, which tends to come for me at the temples or at

the base of the skull in the back. You basically put a slight twist in

the cloth, so it puts a very slight increased pressure at the point of

pain. You also wrap the cloth with a slightly increased pressure on the

tight side of the head. Maybe you could find a decent yoga teacher in

your area?

I'll mention, by the way, that without yoga, I could never have survived

FM. I only realized I had it because I got sick for a period and

couldn't do yoga for a while. Then I realized what hell it could be. I

soon discovered that the electrolytes helped, particularly the calcium.

(I know Andy says to take magnesium, but that did not much. I think it

was the Mg/Ca balance that was off for me.)

Dave.

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Sat Mar 8, 2008 6:56 am (PST)

Does anyone get headaches when they don't get enough quality sleep? I

get neck pain and a pressing headpain when this happens on the

following day. I was wondering if there were any ways to alleviate it,

other than aspirin. It's hard to break the cycle because once the pain

starts, because it's harder to get quality sleep the following night.

I wonder if it is related to being hypothyroid but I am probably wrong

on that.

Jay