I often get migraines near my right eye? Is this serious or something that can be rapidly cured?

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I'm a college student who gets these sometimes when I'm thinking and studying for some reason.

Answers:
I started to suffer from migranes when I was 18 years old. I am 38 now and over the past 20 years, I have suffered an average of 5 to 10 crippling migranes a year. All of those crippling migranes started with a pain behind my right eye - then a runny nose, sensitivity to light and noise, nausea and then the crippling, blinding pain in my head. All of these symptoms came on over the period of 30 to 40 minutes.

I went to a migrane & headache clinic several years ago and I was told that a pain in your head, usually on one side and usually behind your eye, is one of the most common symptoms of the onset of a migrane.

I take a prescription medication called Imatrex. It helps relieve the migranes but it still takes a good 24 hours before you feel yourself again. However, this year I found out quite by accident, how to prevent my migranes all together. I suffer from seasonal allergies (I live in southern Ontario, Canada) and this past spring I started to take a 24 hour allergy medication called Claritan - you can get this stuff off the shelf from any pharmacy.

I took the medication from the end of March to the end of June. As soon as I stopped taking it, I got a migrane almost immediately. So, I started to take the 24 hour Claritan again, and I am still taking it today. I haven't had a single migrane - not even a symptom of a migrane - while I have been taking the Claritan.

Coincidently, there was a story on my local Toronto evening news 2 weeks ago, about the fact that doctors are now studying the effect that sinus/allergy medication has on the prevention of migranes.

So, the pain behind your right eye is a perfectly normal symptom of a migrane and I think if you try the 24 hour, non-drowsy allergy medication, you might get lucky and get rid of them like I did.

I hope that answers your question and, good luck with my recommendation and good luck at college as well.

Sincerely,

Mike Falle
mikefalle@rogers.com
Courtice, Ontario, Canada

hiya, i get the same thing, it starts of with my right eye felling fuzzy then i get a headache and sick your best to goto this page
http://www.migraines.org it will help you deal with the pain and give you any ideas on how to combat them

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