Here's some good information on headaches. I get debilitating migraines and am allergic to "triptans" which cuts out a lot of medications available. Finding triggers can be as important as anything else. OTC medications never help me but some actually make the pain worse.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/000709.htm

I hope this helps with at least trying to tell what type of headache she has. If she goes to sleep and wakes up with her headache, you probably need to talk to your doctor. Prolonged migraines are very debilitating and can really interfere with her daily life.

She needs to see a specialist. For a headache to be that severe she needs pain management. There are new treatments and meds available. A general MD, or GYN are not Drs. to go to about migraines, they know enough to refer you to a a Dr. that does.

I take a propranolol every day to help prevent migraines. Take her to the doctor people do not realize that migraines are not just a headache!!

These kinds of headaches are horrible. Years ago when I first started having them, DH said he wouldn't let a little thing like a headache stop him. I told him I hoped he never had to experience one, if he did he'd understand. It wasn't long afterward that he started getting cluster migraines. Granted, I've been told they are even worse and once the cycle begins it is hard to stop. But, they weren't such a little thing anymore once he experienced them.

I too take propanolol and haven't had one in a long long time. I feel for your daughter, hope she feels better soon.

My wife just started having migraines again after a 30 year break from them. I cant remember what the medication he gave is called but they are $32.41 a pill!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

The Neurologist told her to take one if she feels on coming on and if it does not go away then take another one. They melt in your mouth and work in less than 10 minutes my wife said. But they tend to make her sleepy.

If you want me to get the name of the medication I will.

Billy

Propanolol is a beta-blocker used for high blood pressure. Not everyone can take it and it really depends a lot on blood pressure. When my blood pressure was really high I took the stuff and it did nothing for the headaches. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at this one, I lost 100 pounds in a year, the blood pressure went down but my dosage wasn't adjusted with the weight loss. I was on the floor with almost no blood pressure. I actually have fewer headaches without it.

I now see a neurologist who specializes in headaches. I mostly manage by knowing what are and aren't triggers. The headache diary was illuminating. I never realized what I was doing before I would get a really bad one.

Some people are trying ergotamine deratives with some success.

I used to get them really bad years ago, but i hardly ever get them now. I discovered msg, and anything to do with soy gave them to me. Tried dif pain killers, but what worked for me is this. A glass of coke and two plain, uncoated aspirin. The caffeine in the coke, and the blood thinning in the aspirin gets the blood flowing through the head again. I've tried coffee, and it doesn't work as good as coke.

tylenol dose not work for migrains my doc put me on asperin when i have migrains it thions the bloos and really helps

Sometimes migrains can be caused but odd things. Years ago I got a flu shot. For the next year and a half I got a migrain if I ate anything with a lot of eggs in it or if I ate an egg. Mine were so bad that I kept a heavy quilt on my curtain rod, pulled back when I didn't need it, and a bucket by the bed. After the flu shot wore off I haven't had a migrain since and can once again eat eggs. Has anything changed in her life lately? New meds? Flu or Pnumonia shots? Stress levels? No matter what it is, she should see a doctor.

I use to get migranes and nothing would help them. But then I went to a chiropractor when I was having one and after an adjustment and 10 minutes of quite in his office with the lights off it was gone. Had a few more after that and immediately went to him again with the same results. I swear by them. But thank heaven I haven't had one in years.