Bubbles said: They seem to be occurring at 2:30 AM, fairly regularly now. And if he naps, he'll get one within half an hour after waking up. It's frustrating... for both of us.
I am not a doctor and you would not even want me to play one on TV, but that 2:30 AM part sounds real familiar.
Two weeks ago, out of nowhere, about that time of morning I would start to feel that there was one coming on, which is when they usually hit nowadays.
Plain pain killers, lots, sometimes make a full on hit take longer but by 4 AM I pretty much knew that for the nest two to four hours sleep would be optional.
I do not, partly because taking a pain killer that does not work does not increase the pain but is so annoying it psychologically makes it worse, take pills unless it goes on for several days.
It is too warm to turn on the furnace, but I have found that sleeping on the kitchen floor with my face right over the vent for God only knows what reason really helps, so I could not do that.
I did finally take two Vicodin pills that were left over from my late Aunts tooth pain. I used to use them to fall asleep years ago from surgery but hers must be different as they did not put me to sleep but I was VERY comfortable and felt the headache fade away.
That ended that spell.
I hope his problems are fairly easy to home fix like mine, although I dealt with this for years, in winter sometimes I was thankful for bitter cold weather and snow as I would go outside to shovel, actually just move it around as it did not really need shoveling and the cold air would numb it.
I tried every trick in the book, and while it is now just a occasional annoyance some tricks worked more regularly than others but when I thought I had it beat and it would kick me in the head making my new cure bs, I would try some thing new.
I honestly think my altered, not necessarily healthy diet, had the biggest positive effect, as allergies are one of the worst causes of headaches for me.
