Things that sh*t me the seventeenth

[Cuzz09]

Yeah I get these random headaches which I've decided (after Googling) are called "hypnic headaches"

Basically I go to bed feeling fine but wake up around 2hrs after , every night, with a headache around the back of eyes back of head/neck.

It's almost clockwork around 2am most nights and apparently has something about sleep stages that turn on sections of your brain at certain points.

One of the things that can help is caffeine just before bed which I've tried this week and haven't had a headache.

Feels weird having an espresso before bed but it has been working so that's good.

Also a coke/nurofen was helping but I found I had to have it before any symptoms... once I had the headache I had to ride it out.

Did heaps of trial and error, thought it was lookingbat my phone before bed but eliminated that and still got it so not sure


Very odd.

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[MrsEddieBetts]

Yeah I get these random headaches which I've decided (after Googling) are called "hypnic headaches"

Basically I go to bed feeling fine but wake up around 2hrs after , every night, with a headache around the back of eyes back of head/neck.

It's almost clockwork around 2am most nights and apparently has something about sleep stages that turn on sections of your brain at certain points.

One of the things that can help is caffeine just before bed which I've tried this week and haven't had a headache.

Feels weird having an espresso before bed but it has been working so that's good.

Also a coke/nurofen was helping but I found I had to have it before any symptoms... once I had the headache I had to ride it out.

Did heaps of trial and error, thought it was lookingbat my phone before bed but eliminated that and still got it so not sure


Very odd.

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I usually have an ice cold coke as well to help but as you say, it has to be right on the onset. I've found the panadol + caffeine tablets useful.

 

[peternorth]

Yeh I gotta admit seeing little scratches and such healing almost overnight is amazing but burns are another bag. Reports saying he needs some pretty extensive skin grafts are really worrying.

He likely won’t remember it but I think it’s almost certain he’ll have some lasting physical scars.

The perpetrator should cop a lengthy custodial sentence with extensive mental health rehabilitation. The choice to attack some random in a park with boiling water, let alone a mother and baby, is ****ing evil.

One simply cannot fathom......

certainly this morning i complained about getting up so early. then remembered little luka and told myself to harden up

 

[Cuzz09]

I usually have an ice cold coke as well to help but as you say, it has to be right on the onset. I've found the panadol + caffeine tablets useful.

Are caffeine tablets like "no doze" ?

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[MrsEddieBetts]

Are caffeine tablets like "no doze" ?

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Nah I like these lil baddies:

Panadol Extra Caplets

Panadol Extra Caplets with Optizorb combines paracetamol and caffeine to provide fast and effective temporary relief from aches and pains. Read more now.

www.panadol.com

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Why the **** do air pumps never work at fuel stations. Fix them you lazy campaigners.

Just drove to 3 fuel stations all didnt work

 

[bresker]

Yeah I get these random headaches which I've decided (after Googling) are called "hypnic headaches"

Basically I go to bed feeling fine but wake up around 2hrs after , every night, with a headache around the back of eyes back of head/neck.

It's almost clockwork around 2am most nights and apparently has something about sleep stages that turn on sections of your brain at certain points.

One of the things that can help is caffeine just before bed which I've tried this week and haven't had a headache.

Feels weird having an espresso before bed but it has been working so that's good.

Also a coke/nurofen was helping but I found I had to have it before any symptoms... once I had the headache I had to ride it out.

Did heaps of trial and error, thought it was lookingbat my phone before bed but eliminated that and still got it so not sure


Very odd.

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I get them too, I wake up at 2am feeling very energetic but the headache gets steadily worse. Annoyingly when I stand up it improves but when I lie down it throbs.

I reckon the change in weather affects mine. I've noticed I've got an intolerance to orange coloured foods - orange cordial. Sunkist, carrots sweet potato etc. If I cut them out it helps but not always .

Luckily I've got a mental illness (bi polar) so my doctor gives me sleeping pills of various sorts. It's hard to get up for work if I neck them at 3am though.

Codeine was the best cure but it's banned OTC. Caffeine definitely helps.


I stopped having headaches for years & in the last two they've returned.

 

[Over The Post]

I ended up going to the pharmacy yesterday and they sold me high strength aspirin (500mg) and told me to take two, then panadol with caffeine and nurofen 4 hours later. It worked.

From the "things that shit me the thirteenth" thread:


I used to frequently have crippling migraines and had to lie in the dark with a puke bucket my friend and only comfort. When I went to the States in '98 I came down with one and staggered into a Walgreens, the chemist grabbed a bottle of Excedrin, gave me two and had me sit down in the back. Less than half an hour later I was cured. Cured! I immediately bought the miracle product. Of course it isn't available in NZ or Australia, so each time I went back to the US I brought some back just in case. I don't get them more than once every couple of years now, and the Excedrin is long gone.

So I looked up the ingredients, quick trip to Chemist Warehouse and I'm a happy and migraine-free bunny.

2 x Excedrin Migraine == 500mg paracetamol, 500mg aspirin, 130mg caffeine (I did not tell you this)

 

[Over The Post]

Are caffeine tablets like "no doze" ?

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Yes.

 

[bresker]

People who drive black or dark grey cars & don't put on their lights on, on a dark, rainy 7:30am Warrnambool morning. Lowbeams would do.

Not only are they hard to see, but its difficult to gauge how far behind you they are. It messes with my depth perception.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Forgot my book so now I gotta sit outside my kids’ dance class just scrolling the same 3 apps I usually do wahhh

 

[bresker]

Forgot my book so now I gotta sit outside my kids’ dance class just scrolling the same 3 apps I usually do wahhh

I feel the same way when my daughter is at gymnastics. I forget my tin whistle, book or both

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

I feel the same way when my daughter is at gymnastics. I forget my tin whistle, book or both

Suuuuucks

 

[Gralin]

I'll get "warnings" that a headache is coming, my vision goes, get spots and can't see properly
Sometimes a couple of Panadol heads it off sometimes its lie in the dark and try and sleep and hope tomorrow is better

For the last week I've had on and off headaches from pulling muscles in my back when sneezing so that's been great

 

[Cuzz09]

Annoyingly when I stand up it improves but when I lie down it throbs.

Yes! Same!

I lay on bed and it won't go away but I get up and pace around it feels better, doesn't go away but helps.

I thought it may have been a sinus type thing coz when I pop my ears it feels better for a second

Getting old I guess lol


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[Cuzz09]

and I'm always 100% fine on arvo shift racing around at work.

Reckon when you stop and settle your blood vessels n stuff all relax and blood just goes nuts

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[swingdog]

Yes! Same!

I lay on bed and it won't go away but I get up and pace around it feels better, doesn't go away but helps.

I thought it may have been a sinus type thing coz when I pop my ears it feels better for a second

Getting old I guess lol


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90% of this thread is getting old complaints.

 

[Chief]

I’ve had a dull headache now for about 4 days - it’s not intense but I know it’s there. I’m thinking it’s some kind of virus

Blood pressure?

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Anyone get headaches Saturday morning upon waking up ?

 

[Gralin]

Anyone get headaches Saturday morning upon waking up ?

You mean like a hangover?

 

[the_interloper]

Anyone get headaches Saturday morning upon waking up ?

I had one this morning, I did have a lot of cans last night though, might be related.

 

[Pistol Night]

Nah I like these lil baddies:

Panadol Extra Caplets

Panadol Extra Caplets with Optizorb combines paracetamol and caffeine to provide fast and effective temporary relief from aches and pains. Read more now.

www.panadol.com

Imigran if all else fails

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I'll get "warnings" that a headache is coming, my vision goes, get spots and can't see properly
Sometimes a couple of Panadol heads it off sometimes its lie in the dark and try and sleep and hope tomorrow is better

For the last week I've had on and off headaches from pulling muscles in my back when sneezing so that's been great

For a couple of decades, every few months, say twice a year, I get the zigzag vision. It lasts maybe 20 minutes, no other ill effects. But last time it happened just as I was about to go to sleep and I got a headache. Not super bad but seemed to travel around the left side of my head from just above my eye over to the back. A couple of Panadols did the trick. Hope it doesn't happen next time.

I found this picture of what the zigzags look like, they are hard to describe.

Painted by a sufferer, it's close. Mine always come from the right side and they kind of sparkle and pulsate.

 

[Over The Post]

Yup. I got those too. Might also be blood pressure related, I've had the disturbances recently but without the impending migraine.

"The area where vision is disrupted is known as a 'scotoma' and the whole episode is often referred to as an 'aura. '"

 

[Off The Couch]

Blood pressure?

No all good with that
Seems all good today, so I’m hoping it was a virus