Major headache!!! HELP????!
Question: I have a headache and whenever i sit down or lay down it gets worse. I already took some motrin, but it's not really helping. My mom insits I stay home from school. I need to stay active to make it hurt less, but I can't do that with all the sitting I do at school. So i'm staying home. What do you suggest I do?
Answers: I have a headache and whenever i sit down or lay down it gets worse. I already took some motrin, but it's not really helping. My mom insits I stay home from school. I need to stay active to make it hurt less, but I can't do that with all the sitting I do at school. So i'm staying home. What do you suggest I do?
As a migraine sufferer myself, I've never known activity to help a headache. Here is what I do;
lay in a cool dark room with a hot washcloth on my head
Take a real pain killer. Loratab, midrin etc
Get a neck and scalp massage
Good luck and I really feel your pain
drink water. lots of water. 90 percent of headaches are caused by dehydration.
Hello, I read the other answers and to me it does not sound like a migrain...usually the lay down in dark room helps lessen them.....however you said laying and sitting down is worse...makes me go to blood pressure...pressure is higher when active....it seems to me that your pressure could be too low....therefore the need to be up....how is your food intake...eating snacky stuff or meals...DO NOT TAKE MORE MEDS!!!!! Ask Mom to call for appointment for you OR go to walmart pharmacy dept....most of them have bp cuff there to use for free....check yours.....it gives all the instructions and #s range right there...God Bless!! Mary