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Posted 6/19/2015 10:43 AM (GMT 0)
I know this post is quite long but I also suffer really badly from migraine. I was told by a friend that if the body makes a lot of bile then the tummy has a lot of acid inside which goes to the head. Once a person throws up he feels better because he has got rid of the acid...well most of it..usually my migraines are so bad I can't even get up. I usually stay in a dark room with a bucket and lots of tissue to make myself feel sick. This is really a bad experience for those who suffer from such pain. It's not pleasant and I know talking from experience.
My mum suffered from the same problem for a long time and now I guess it's my turn.
I don't feel dizzy but I feel weak and usually certain foods I have had a day before tigers this off. Now I've started Cambridge diet and hoping spreading the extra weight and exercising might help.
All I can say is don't eat anything after 6 pm and just have a glass of water to help fill the stomach up with water other than bile.
Usually the sick is yellow or green sand it tastes like someone like bleach or something rotten. Ewe yuck thinking about it makes me want to feel sick too. All I will say stay away from carbs...just have a few eat veg but avoid cucumber and also avoid chocolates as those bring on headaches too.
Posted 6/19/2015 10:45 AM (GMT 0)
Lol this post of mine makes me want to laugh my socks off... I mean shredding the extra weight..not spreading lol
Posted 11/30/2015 3:00 PM (GMT 0)
I get terrible migraines & I also feel that making myself throw up definitely relieves the pain. However, it usually is only a temporary fix and works best when you have something in your stomach. If there isn't anything in my stomach, then I just throw up bile & this white foam stuff - once I get to that point, it just gets worse and I can't stop vomiting.

However, I did find a somewhat "miracle," cure in applesauce for the nausea portion of it. I've found that if I take half a spoonful of applesauce (the non-chunky kind) at a time that it will settle my stomach to the point where I can keep food down.

Also, squeezing the pressure point between your thumb and your index finger helps as well sometimes.

Caffeine helps sometimes - if you usually drink it and then don't have it your body goes into caffeine withdrawl, which can cause headaches and contribute to migraines.
Posted 5/3/2017 5:42 PM (GMT 0)
I feel everyones pain. I have had migrains since a young boy. I spent many years just dealing with it then sleping it off. I have always had a strong stomach so i typically dont throw up even when i have a sickness where all others will throw up.

However, as i got older my migrains seemed to change or maybe my resistance to throwing up changed.

My migrains as an adult seem to be triggered often by stress. They seem to begin with muscle tension in the neck and gradually turns into a severe migrain... sometimes it is a quick transition. Finally, when i was about 40 i got nauseous and eventually vomited. My migrain subsised immediately. I have been perplexed as to why ever since.

Still cannot bring myself to voluntarily make myself vomit. But, when i get to the point of vomiting, it eliminates the migrain almost always. Once in a while, it will return later the same day.

For those of you who throw up and your headache gets worse... i am guessing you may not be experiencing a migrain... just a severe headache from other causes. I have had headaches in the past associated with something like the flew. Vomiting made it worse.

One of the comments speculated that vascular constriction is eliminated by vomiting. Sounds logical to me. However, i hane tried to mimic tne muscular constriction during vomiting (like pretending to vomit) but it yeilded no results like vomiting.

Wish i could learn to force myself to vomit. I could save myself a lot of pain. Most times i endure the pain until it finally subsides. Only, my worst migrains do i make it to the nausea stage and even then i often fight it off.
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