Tin foil wear?
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Well...? dang. Placebo?
I went ahead and bought one of the hats. (Migraine folks will understand the willingness to try just about anything) So far this month my need for medication to stop a headache has dropped significantly. Sleeping heavier into the morning too.
Huh.
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Ron, that's great! I was skeptical of using clothing to block EMF radiation but it's definitely a real phenomenon and detrimental. I can tell you there are two benefits to having your RM ruin the electric account in your name and then one in his own. You have a respite from EMF radiation and silence in the form of appliances that can't be used. I wish you well with managing your migraines. I don't have them but hear they're awful.
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My favorite PCP used to reprimand me (gently) by saying, "You do what you need to do to get through life."
I've taken this advice to heart.
The older I get and the worse my health gets the more I find myself using it in ways I never could have imagined when I was 40.
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As a migraine struggler, I'll have to admit to looking into whether my headache frequency had any correlation with heightened solar activity. It's part of the whole "your brain is a meat computer" and may be influenced by outside energy sources type of thinking. So these hats did catch my interest...
Still, selling tin foil hats is a bold marketing move to go from silly joke to viable business plan!
@Rontuner wow! So you’ve just been wearing the hat? All day long or only outside?
I didn’t realize you were a migraine sufferer. What kinds of medicine do you use for them? I started having regular migraines probably around 2006. In late 2022 I switched the new class of migraine medicines (I now take qulipta daily and ubrelvy if I get a headache or migraine). These medicines have been life changing for me, so I always recommend to anyone who hasn’t changed their treatment protocol in a few years that they consult with a physician, because there are now many more migraine-specific treatments than ever before.
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So I wear the hat overnight - bonus, I can pull it over my eyes for darkness but it is cooler than the eye mask I had been using. (I also have that phenomenon that I didn't know was "a thing"- when I close my eyes, I don't see black - more a reddish static) Sometimes I also wear it at the computer or in the car between appointments.
Hey, I'm all for using the placebo effect if it continues working - or maybe there is something to this?
I've had sporadic headaches since high school, but they increased in frequency in the early 2000s. I started with a triptan only in the last 7 years or so to take when I sense one coming which has given me days back - almost always stops it with just one dose, though there is a limit to how many to use/month and I was going over some months. (I used to lose days going back to bed or just suffering through) Started Qulipta about a year ago, but that hasn't changed frequency significantly - also some of the meds are hard on heart, liver or kidneys so trying to keep those numbers in range. Moved on to Botox treatments - had to go through all the other options first. I just had one treatment which they said may not do much. Second treatment is scheduled for the end of the month and that seems to be when most patients notice a reduction in frequency. Migraines? Clusters? I get the sense no one really knows for sure and they just guess and see if something helps.
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So I wear the hat overnight - bonus, I can pull it over my eyes for darkness but it is cooler than the eye mask I had been using. (I also have that phenomenon that I didn't know was "a thing"- when I close my eyes, I don't see black - more a reddish static) Sometimes I also wear it at the computer or in the car between appointments.
Hey, I'm all for using the placebo effect if it continues working - or maybe there is something to this?
I've had sporadic headaches since high school, but they increased in frequency in the early 2000s. I started with a triptan only in the last 7 years or so to take when I sense one coming which has given me days back - almost always stops it with just one dose, though there is a limit to how many to use/month and I was going over some months. (I used to lose days going back to bed or just suffering through) Started Qulipta about a year ago, but that hasn't changed frequency significantly - also some of the meds are hard on heart, liver or kidneys so trying to keep those numbers in range. Moved on to Botox treatments - had to go through all the other options first. I just had one treatment which they said may not do much. Second treatment is scheduled for the end of the month and that seems to be when most patients notice a reduction in frequency. Migraines? Clusters? I get the sense no one really knows for sure and they just guess and see if something helps.
I also have that phenomenon that I didn't know was "a thing"- when I close my eyes, I don't see black - more a reddish static)
Oh wow, I didn't know that was thing. I see a dark reddish brown static too. Huh. I don't really think about it much, but it's redder when I have a headache, and darker/blacker when I don't.
Hey, I'm all for using the placebo effect if it continues working - or maybe there is something to this?
I have always been of the opinion that if the placebo means it works, then that's all to the good!
I've had sporadic headaches since high school, but they increased in frequency in the early 2000s. I started with a triptan only in the last 7 years or so to take when I sense one coming which has given me days back - almost always stops it with just one dose, though there is a limit to how many to use/month and I was going over some months. (I used to lose days going back to bed or just suffering through) Started Qulipta about a year ago, but that hasn't changed frequency significantly - also some of the meds are hard on heart, liver or kidneys so trying to keep those numbers in range. Moved on to Botox treatments - had to go through all the other options first. I just had one treatment which they said may not do much. Second treatment is scheduled for the end of the month and that seems to be when most patients notice a reduction in frequency.
Good luck with the botox! I know someone who finds they really help her. I'm sorry Qulipta didn't do it for you. Have you tried Nurtec or any of the other newer meds?
I used relpax (which I think is generic name eletriptan) and the side effects got progressively worse. I also took amitriptyline as a preventative daily for a little over 10 years, and that one also had awful side effects. Getting off of those two and onto my current meds was such a huge improvement for me. They were awful.
Migraines? Clusters? I get the sense no one really knows for sure and they just guess and see if something helps.
Yep, that's my impression too, and I think cluster headaches are even less understood than traditional migraines.
Anyway, I hope the hat keeps helping you!
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Sorry to hear you’re going through this.
The second Botox treatment helped my daughter quite a bit. Hope it works for you too!
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Migraines - uhg. I hope the hat continues to work for you! I’ve had more than usual this past 6 weeks or so. If I’m lucky, it’s just once a month, but it’s been every 2 weeks recently, and a couple of times, two days in a row. I am super sensitive to triggers - stress, salt, dehydration, and a big change in weather can bring them on. Alcohol as well, so I don’t drink. Light can do it - I got a bad one the last time I went to the get my eyes checked and my pupils got dilated. I’ve overdue for an appointment, and I keep putting it off… So far, I just take Rizatriptan - one dose takes them away, but I have to take it early on, or it takes a long time to work.
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