Any ideas for what to do for nausea caused by extremely severe headaches?

Massive nausea is something that I lived with for quite a while, sometimes accompanied by a headache or migraine, sometimes not.

Migraine meds work wonders once you find the one that's right for you! I couldn't get along and would have a lot of days that would be lost to migraines if I didn't use migraine meds.

Yes, you can buy (or make your own) ginger caps. I do this all the time and take them daily. I only use the tea when I need more. I also sweeten it with stevia.

The headaches could also be from tension in your neck/upper back as well. If you are dealing with this, you can start using something like Tension Tamer by Celestial Seasonings, or Yogi brand teas has a tension relieving tea as well (I just don't remember the name of it).

A strong cup of caffeinated coffee and/or excedrin migraine has helped immensely.

Patty

I have migraines and have had them for years prior to lyme. I take meds for them. But the migraine headache from lyme was so different for me and my migraine meds did not work on it. Neither did narcotics.

As for the nausea, have you tried papaya? They make these wonderful chew-able papaya pills. They are my go-to for tummy issues.

I could not get the headache to go away. Beyond Balance is what made mine go away, which is herbs. But I did the cold water, cold gel packs and they gave me some relief. Actually laying on the side of the head that hurt and applying that pressure relieved it somewhat too.

yes, that reminds me - lavender is supposed to work wonders for headaches. it never helped me though. what helped me when i was sick was figuring out the cause. it was either due to my body rejecting something i was taking or my body needing something i wasn't taking. a headache to me is a symptom of another problem - not the problem itself. whenever i had migraines it was mostly due to hormones. i would get them once every couple of months at the start of my period. But - it wasn't all due to hormones, it was due to other factors affecting my hormones. Since i started my diet, and have been eating clean, I haven't had any headaches at all since the start of the year! And when I was sick with lyme, i also did not have any headaches during most of my treatment. I only got headaches if I couldn't tolerate something or if i was lacking something, as I said earlier. Just something to think about.

Thank you all for the ideas. I'll look into all of them.

Unfortunately, I've had the headaches since I was 16 and at times went two or three years without even a day off. My original diagnosis was "tension headaches". They had subsided or at least were only off and on.

Strong smells actually trigger bad headaches too. Lavender smells too strong for me and possibly the other essential oils but I'll give them a try. Peppermint is probably ok.

I hadn't thought about excedrin, so that's something I can easily try. I don't actually have any caffeine in my diet. I'm not either a coffee or tea drinker. Strong tastes bother me too.

Barometric pressure has been going up and down like a yo-yo so that may be part of it.

Actually, I'm a hot mess. I've been running on will power for about 10 months and have finally reached a point where I'm not under constant pressure. So it may be everything catching up to me.

I have not ever taken any migraine meds, so that is another thing I can follow up on.

Thanks all. I hope everyone has a good day.
Kim

Traveler said...

summer16 said...
A strong cup of caffeinated coffee and/or excedrin migraine has helped immensely.

Patty

I used to do these two together, which would work wonderfully at times, but for anyone with adrenal issues this is not a good option - not even for one time because it will send your adrenals backwards quite a ways.


That's interesting, PeteZa. I wonder if it was a headache from the meningitis type effect that we can get. Migraine meds never touched that pain for me either. That required lots of anti-inflammatories and ice packs on my neck/bottom of my skull or forehead and a few days time.

Maybe that's what is happening for Gkamom too???

Traveler after doing the circuit of all the well known lyme doctors ( too much $$$ wasted ) most of them agreed that my neck pain associated with headaches is actually encephalitis. Most of the LLMDs didn't really want to say this because as soon as a patient hears "encephalitis" they think they are dying. This is not the case. Encephalitis is defined as brain inflammation and ALOT of people even in the general public get this without really understanding it. It doesn't mean you are dying with lyme and co's ( I can't speak of others I dont have knowledge of ).

Do you notice you are worse with migrane meds? I am much worse. I have learned migraines specifically are opposite of what bartonella does to your brain. Migraines dilate veins. Bartonella constricts veins.

In the short term I am taking a asprin caffeine brain pain combo that keeps encephalitis tolerable. It helps with blood circulation which is my big issue. Coffee is also my friend. I hate big pharm but what are you going to do.

Herbs like ginko and kudzu do much the same for some people.

Kim if you have to try meds for migraines you will more than likely be given Imitrex and that drug ONLY works if you do it at the immediate first sign of a migraine.

I did not want to miss work and I needed to drive and the only drug that cured my migraine and allowed me to drive was Maxalt. I absolutely love this drug. You can take it at anytime during your migraine. Non sleepiness. and the only side effect I had was achy joints. My doctor looked up the side effects and said I was way off base. So who knows. I did not care, my headache was gone and I could drive and not be arrested for a substance in me.

PeteZa, unfortunately for me its not as easy as hormones. I'm post menopausal and have been for at least 8 years. My headaches predate that.

I don't have any issue with pharmaceuticals. Everything has its place. I agree with the hammer but weapon of choice would be a machete. I just my head to go away. My husband was on Imitrex 20 years ago.

All the doctors I have seen have put the headaches down to tension or stress. I once had a doctor say "just get rid of the stress in your life and the headaches will go away". I wanted to commit murder.

I'll look into everything you guys have suggested. Thanks, Kim

gkamom said...
PeteZa, unfortunately for me its not as easy as hormones. I'm post menopausal and have been for at least 8 years. My headaches predate that.

Oh I so agree. Just wait and once those ovaries totally shrivel up you might just find no headaches. If you do, then you know!

Mine are almost all gone. Yippee finally a benefit of oldness.

I use ginger tea and the tincture-I didn't like it at first but now do.
I really hate having nausea and ginger seems to work its also a natural antibiotic-try concentrating in that

good luck