Migraines: discuss.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

I get headaches a lot. I have one now. I just smoked. I am trying to see if it will make me better or worse. So far, the headache part isn't gone, but at least I care a little less about it, but the photophobia and audiophobia is MUCH worse.

Anyone else... do you get migraines and use weed? or, does anyone use weed and then get migraines?

Discuss.

TheSmokingMonkey Reviewed by TheSmokingMonkey on 10-26-2006. Migraines: discuss. I get headaches a lot. I have one now. I just smoked. I am trying to see if it will make me better or worse. So far, the headache part isn't gone, but at least I care a little less about it, but the photophobia and audiophobia is MUCH worse. Anyone else... do you get migraines and use weed? or, does anyone use weed and then get migraines? Discuss. Rating: 5

[MrDank]

i have a pinched nerve in my shoulder and sometimes my muscles tense up in my neck shoulder area and most likely results in a painful migraine type headache. Even the dankest kush will not have any effect on it. i have to rely on a muscle relaxer to ease that pain.
sometimes i also get regular little headaches and i smoke a joint and end up feeling a little better. not every time.
when i get an actual throbbing migraine headache even the thought of weed makes it worse sometimes

[Neojedi]

I have had migranes for about 16 years.I have the type they call "cluster headaches".The problem is smoking and alcohol are the biggest triggers for these kind of headaches.I still use both,cigarettes for me are a bigger trigger,a drug called Imitrex gives me relief though.Hope this helps you a little.

[BigBlock]

I always smoke when I get a migraine. It doesn't really help the pain, but it makes it a lot easier to forget about it or just pass out.

[birdgirl73]

I've never gotten migraine headaches themselves, but I've had the visual "auras" that people get before them since I was a teenager. It's a strange flashing-light pattern that I can see, usually in my left field of vision, and it's very distracting. I have them maybe three or four times a year but never get the whammo headaches themselves, which I'm greatful for. Anyway, when I toked with my sister this past summer, I had the flashing-light pre-migraine aura one afternoon before I took a hit or two, and it went away like magic after I inhaled the weed. It was a great relief because usually that flashing lasts a couple of hours at least. I've read good things about migraine relief and weed here.

[BigBlock]

Here's some interesting info:
http://www.gwpharm.com/research_migraine_removed.asp

Cannabis was a mainstream medication for migraine between 1842 and 1942 in Europe and America

[harris7]

a buddy of mine gets migraines and he said weed is the only thing that helps him. but i understand that there are different kinds so maybe it only helps some. For sure try it tho. And as far as the distracting thing goes thats probaly a huge benifit.

Iv'e had a headache for the last 4 days and it's really annoying . i cant remember if weeed makes it go away, cuz i acctualy forget that i have a headache when i'm doing stuff.

[Storm Crow]

I get migraines and cluster headaches due to a head trauma as a child (a friend tried to kill me with a hammer- I was a brat at that time). Cannabis eliminates the migraines and almost eliminates the clusters. I don't exactly get auras, it's more like wearing someone else's glasses with a close prescription. Things just look "wrong". I found out that cannabis treated my headaches when I was in my early 20s (I started at 19). The only time I get migraines now is when I have been out of pot for a while. I'm "California" legal and I don't wish to find out whether or not I have "outgrown" my migraines or not; not with such a pleasant way to prevent them! I know I still had them a couple of years ago, but since I'm now allowed to grow, I haven't been without. The clusters are still there, but tamed by cannabis, so I am assuming that the migraines are still there, too. My migraines, being caused by a head trauma, are not typical, so make what you will of it. Hope that cannabis will help yours, too.

[Babr]

I get visual aura's too before a migraine. I see what looks like jagged silver pulsating lines that get bigger and then fill my field of vision. It almost looks like this ^^^^^^ only curved, silver and shimmering. Makes me sick.

I usually blast it with Ibuprofen and coffee. My Dr gave me this prescription for peope that have seizures. I hate taking anything that's not natural, so I stopped. I figured I'd take the path of least resistance and use an over the counter med rather than a prescription.

If the weed helps, then use it. IMO it's better to use something natural to get relief than something concocted in a pharmacy.

Hope you feel better

[Skrappie]

I've had em since about 3rd grade. flash foward 1x years and many pounds of weed later, I will still say weed does not help. Me at least. It makes it easier to chill out though, and most times i often just toke up and drift to sleep when i have one. It sucks when you have the multi-day headachs though.

On a side note, i get burned often at work, and toking does help with burns a shit ton.