Migraine headaches-what to look out for

lots of things can do it
my dad used to get them something bad, always on a Saturday
until one day he sat down and looked at his calendar monday through friday he would get up at 6, have breakfast, two cups of coffee and go to work
by 8 he would be at the office, having coffee #3

saturdays, he would wake up at 8ish , 3 cups of coffee shy and with a splitting headache

he adjusted those 3 cups down to 1 cup and 2 decafs and hasnt had a problem since


i get them myself too but sporadically, and i havent been able to pinpoint a trigger
(used to be, heavy drinking the night before tended to precede headaches)

one thing i have noticed is when i feel it coming (bad ones come with the lights, not sure how to explain it, but light sources gets halos, like looking into oncoming headlights through a rainy windshield) i can take regular meijers store brand migraine pills and things stay bearable

but i got to get to it quickly



one time, i got one so bad, i decided to self medicate
i took 3 vicodines i had left over from a root canal
that didnt help, so i took 800 ibuprofin
when that didnt touch it i figured i would at least sleep through the worst of it and took a handful of niquils
that whole combination did NOTHING for me...except for several bouts of projectile vomiting