Migraines

[TeriJo]

I've just been going through a week of Ocular migraines. I've never had them like this. Usually I get one maybe once every six months.

For any not "in the know" about migraines Ocular Migraines are like getting the AURA of a migraine without the two day horrific headache. I do get a headache, but it usually lasts about an hour with naproxen.

Since I've changed nothing but vaping in the past 6 months I'm wondering if vaping could be contribuiting to it. I decided to smoke tonite (as little as I can managage) and not touch my Ego and see if it makes any difference.

For days I can't even deal with the computer screen without sunglasses. But the sunglasses didn't stop me from having one today, so although it may be lessening the TRIGGER it's still not the root cause.

I'm really hoping it isn't the ecig causing these because I like breathing! And if it is it could still be PG, VG, (more likely PG since I use that most) or hell even the blue foam. PG I've used 3 months....blue foam only a month. Tho I don't know what on earth in the FOAM could cause such a thing, I'd prefer it to something in the ecig itself that I can't change.

I originally thought perhaps I was dehydrated, dehydration can cause all kinds of things, so I drank water like crazy and got some gatorade, but I'm well hydrated NOW even if I wasn't early in the week when this started.

If any of you have any ideas what could be causing these, whether related to the ecigs or not, I'd love to hear them. The episodes don't last long, but life is beyond irritating when I can't even do up an invoice at my computer or something because I can't SEE through the "holes".

Thanks in advance ya'll.

[sensay]

Hey honey!!! I am not sure what is going on and I have not had any symptoms like yours. Just wanted to wish you well! I hope you find out what is going on and feel better really soon!!

[nana]

I feel for you, TeriJo. I know what you're talking about, but I've only had one in the almost six months I've been vaping. So, for me anyway, I'd say vaping isn't causing any for me. I also got some of the blue foam to try and have been using that for a couple of weeks now, so I don't think it's a problem for me either. But to be honest, I've never figured out what my triggers are for migraines. Okay, except for bright light or flashing lights. I know they can both do it, but bright light doesn't always do it. Flashing lights do most of the time. And I do have migraines other times that I have no clue what brought it on. As far as the ocular migraines, I don't get them very often at all any more, but I've never really known what brought them on either. And I've never had them like you are this week. I don't know that this is any help to you, but I sure do hope you find out it had nothing to do with vaping at all.

And most of all, I hope you get well really soon.

Edited April 1, 2010 by nana

[snubber]

I'm sorry to hear you're having problems. Hope you can find the cause and get it straightened out.

You know everybody here on the forum is wishing you well.

Good luck sweetie.

[TeriJo]

I knew ya'll would wish me well, just hopin someone has a clue. Since I've been vaping 3 months, it's really hard to say that it is the ecig either. The EGO I've only had a month, but I'm thinkin an atty is an atty. If they had something in them to cause such things the 901 shudda had it too.

It's really hard to say. Hubby says maybe I'm just "hotboxing" the ecig LOL.

I'm just trying to rule things out at the moment. The only other thing I've changed is laundry soap. I don't know how laundry soap could trigger a MIGRAINE either, but it seems more likely to me than an ecig after 3 months of constant use. LOL

I figure if I smoke a day or two and it goes away, I'll vape and see if it brings it back. If I smoke a day or two and there's no change, then the laundry soap. After that I gonna have to THINK lmao.

[Brian]

No clue here either, but lots of well wishes. I'll be keeping an eye here because my wife does get full blown migraines. She still doesn't vape much at all, but I've been wondering if this would have any impact on her. Actually, she gets them regularly, so I was hopeing quitting smoking may actually help.

[Vacker1229]

Hope you are feeling a little better now. A friend gets them but I don't know much about them. She says "her" triggers are stress (of course), chocolate and artificial sweeteners. Hmmm, the sweetness in the juice could be an artificial sweetener, don't know.

Hope you are well soon!! Get well wishes to you.

[kato07]

good luck TeriJo, you're such a cheerful person it's hard to imagine you not feeling well. hope you feel better soon.

Edited April 2, 2010 by kato07

[TeriJo]

Thank you for all the good wishes you sweet people. I adore sweet people. Migraines. . . not so much LOL

[Vacker1229]

Hopeing you are feeling better.

Since your post I have talked with 3-4 people who get migraines and what an education I got. Apparently there are tons of triggers, the one that stands out the most is stress then combined with something else. Something else seems to be foods and smells and light and sounds but everyone is different!! Wow!! overwhelming information. Good luck finding your trigger, and take care of yourself.

[TeriJo]

Hopeing you are feeling better.

Since your post I have talked with 3-4 people who get migraines and what an education I got. Apparently there are tons of triggers, the one that stands out the most is stress then combined with something else. Something else seems to be foods and smells and light and sounds but everyone is different!! Wow!! overwhelming information. Good luck finding your trigger, and take care of yourself.

Oh yes there are a zillion triggers, and then there's a root cause which folks may or may not ever figure out.

However, I've had back muscle type problems for nearly a year. From what I've been reading, it could actually ALSO be causing these migraine episodes. The trigger can still be light ...etc... but the root cause could be the pinched nerve I've been dealing with forever.

Usually it gives me a stiff neck, or I get the oh so nice arm going numb when putting it in certain positions, etc.

I might have to break down and go see the chiropractor. I generally don't like going because their aim always seems to be to keep you coming back forever. But sometimes an adjustment or two CAN help.

I've been putting it off too long. At the very least I get the old problem looked at and rule it out as the root of these brand spanking new migraines.

(wanders off grumbling bout doctors, chiropratctors and other ORS...)

[TeriJo]

Thank all of you again for your good wishes.

I've gone 2 days without a migraine, this is good. I have jury duty tomorrow, so I probably won't resume vaping til that is over.

I'm thinking this bout of migraines is NOT related to the vaping, but I'll start back slow and see. It's allergy season, and I have all the classic signs of a pinched nerve, so I'm hoping it isn't the vaping.

Some interesting notes since I cut the vaping though.

When you start smoking initially it's a slow process, you gradually increase your intake. When you GO BACK to smoking, it's not.

You know when you have an analog after vaping - even if you are vaping 0 nicotine., you get lightheaded and all that. I figured a day of smoking would probably set my body back to thinking it normal.

This is day 3, and every half a cig still gets me higher than a kite. LOL So the body is much more used to the lack of crap than I even thought it was.

So today I'm vaping 0 nic. I've found when I smoke analogs, I crave them even when vaping for a while, so I figure with the 0 nic vaping I will at least keep myself from ODing on nicotine.

The other reason is I'm interested in just how much my body wants that nicotine. We've discussed this before, how much or how little smoking has to do with the nicotine.

I believe THAT is as individual as we are. Obviously if the entire habit had to do with nicotine then all of us that had tried the patch would have been non smokers before we ever heard of ecigs.

So I am my own guinea pig. LOL. If I do get a migraine then I'll try the VG and see, but I don't know why I would suddenly react after 3 months. So one thing at a time. With luck, it is my pinched nerve that caused it.

Anyway, that's my thoughts on the experience thus far.

[TeriJo]

Even though I don't think vaping was the cause of the migraines, I've been going back to it slowly. I'm also being a huge wimp at the computer by wearing the sunglasses while staring at the screen.

I don't think it's worry that has me going back to vaping so slowly though, I think I'm once again getting myself off the OTHER stuff that analogs do or something. Or I'm just unbelievably lazy.

So because of the allergy symptoms that have been following it, I'm RELATIVELY sure vaping wasn't the cause. Which makes me happy. If I have reason to change my mind later, I'll be sure and say so, but even if my body had reacted in this odd way, obviously from the responses I've gotten from ya'll, it still wouldn't be a common reaction to anything that I could find in my searching different forums and all.

Thanks you darlin people. I am not like MS. Health queen at the moment, but now I'm just dealing with the yearly allergies. (and a bit of cowardice with the sunglasses hehe)

[Vacker1229]

Good to hear you are taking it slowly. Health is first and foremost.

[nana]

Glad to hear you're doing better, TeriJo. And I really and truly hope it is not the vaping causing you problems. Of course you'll still need to take care of whatever it is that is causing the problem, i.e. the pinched nerve. Doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but then I'm one who will not go to the doctor without throwing a huge fit, so I might not be the one to talk here. LOL

You take care and don't be a stranger. Even if you have to wear the sunglasses to stay in touch.

[TeriJo]

Glad to hear you're doing better, TeriJo. And I really and truly hope it is not the vaping causing you problems. Of course you'll still need to take care of whatever it is that is causing the problem, i.e. the pinched nerve. Doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but then I'm one who will not go to the doctor without throwing a huge fit, so I might not be the one to talk here. LOL

You take care and don't be a stranger. Even if you have to wear the sunglasses to stay in touch.

Yeah, not the fastest person to run to the doctor. I did find some stretches that should help. I just know that most of the time when I go to the doc for a pinched nerve, they don't actually DO anything. They give you pain killers and anti inflammatories and charge ya big bucks, and your body actually fixes itself.

However, in this case I may have to get off my high horse and go see about it because it's lasted longer than they usually do.

Keep smiling and stuff!!!!

[Dajamster]

Here's a question: did you change anything, vaping equipment or liquid, shortly before you started getting the migraines? If so, maybe you could try switching back to exactly the combination you started with and see if it helps.

I've had a few occular migraines too. Usually stress related, but one time I got one while running errands. I think it was due to it being an exceptionally bright day after a long, overcast winter/spring. When I realized I couldn't see anything in the middle of where I was looking (only peripherial), I went home, closed the curtains & took a naproxin.

Perhaps it would be a good thing to keep track of anything that's been changing. Food, stress levels, light levels, as well as your vaping supplies.

Hope you feel better soon!

[Uma]

Hope you're getting better TeriJo!! and that it's not vaping related. (sweetener flavorings? like was suggested.)

[DAYVAPE]

Oh yes there are a zillion triggers, and then there's a root cause which folks may or may not ever figure out.

However, I've had back muscle type problems for nearly a year. From what I've been reading, it could actually ALSO be causing these migraine episodes. The trigger can still be light ...etc... but the root cause could be the pinched nerve I've been dealing with forever.

Usually it gives me a stiff neck, or I get the oh so nice arm going numb when putting it in certain positions, etc.

I might have to break down and go see the chiropractor. I generally don't like going because their aim always seems to be to keep you coming back forever. But sometimes an adjustment or two CAN help.

I've been putting it off too long. At the very least I get the old problem looked at and rule it out as the root of these brand spanking new migraines.

(wanders off grumbling bout doctors, chiropratctors and other ORS...)

Migrains are a strange beast! All I know is that there is typically something else 'GOING ON' in the body that is the problem. Find that, fix it, and I bet you would live a much better life... migraine free. I hope you are able to pinpoint the problem here and fix it. Living like that is not fun... I live with low back pain on a daily basis too, so I know what you mean. I just refuse to let them FUSE my vertabrae together for fear I will have more problems. I guess we have to decide for ourselves just how much we can live with before doing something drastic. I'm just not a gamblin' man though. I think you are wise to see if a simple lifestyle change will help you. Good luck.