Ramblings, rumblings, grumblings, and rambling grumbly rumblings.

Ugh. Well, if you're one of the large number of people for whom migranes respond to heat, then I recommend our favored migrane obliterator. Fill the tub with the hottest water your skin can stand -- and close the curtain, so the steam is trapped. Sit in there, curled forward, and with a bowl or something like that, keep pouring the hot water over the back of your head, neck and shoulders (or better yet, get someone to do it for you, so you can fully relax your body.) This usually makes the migrane crest (without feeling it) and break like a fever -- usually takes either of us about 5-15 minutes, before the migrane dissolves, leaving only a slight, normal, tension headache. At that point I usually take pain killers (if I was too naucious to get them down and keep them down, before) and let my upper body submerge as much as it can in the tub, until the water cools (and before my neck stiffens from the position)...that pretty much clears the rest of the headache out, to the point where it's not going to re-escalate unless something happens which would've created a new headache anyway. This has worked on both of us -- even those times when I have a migrane so bad that Keainid has to CARRY me to the tub, because I cannot move.