Any of you have migraines or chronic daily headaches?

I suffer from chronic daily migraines. Literally I always have head pain, I wake up with it I go to sleep with it, and more often than not the intensity of this pain is to migraine status.

This developed for me like 4-5 years ago. And I don't know why for sure it happened. I remember one summer I got a bad headache, and it went away, and it'd come back a few weeks later, go away, come back, go away at shorter and shorter intervals until eventually it never goes away now.

During the summer that this developed I had been consuming ALOT of caffeine and doing a really tedious job. I thought that might of been it, but I quit all caffeine for 2 years straight, did nothing.

There is one thing I've been wondering more and more. The year of that summer when the headaches started was really my biggest foray into psychedellics. During that year I had ecstacy maybe 4-5 times and LSD 3 times. It doesn't sound like alot. But I took some serious dosages a couple times.

One of the times I had LSD was a massive serious trip for me. Complete disintegration of ego, really I was into LSD psychosis I think you could say for 6 months. I really did not feel fully back to normal for 6 months and honestly I felt kind of like I was tripping for a week to a month. The whole experience was intensely enlightening, and truly an important experience to me. But it was tramautic, extremely tramautic.

I've read recent studies that said the vast majority of people who suffer from chronic daily headaches have some trauma in their past. I wonder if my extremely intense time on that LSD imparted a hard enough impact on my brain and psyche to cause this issue to develop.

The other thing is, one night I had 7 pills of ecstacy, bunch of weed, and I smoke crack, alot of crack. I got into stimulant psychosis. I seriously did some damage to myself. I had a serious hangover for like 1-2 weeks after and had vertigo for like 2 weeks following that. Really I felt like I didn't fully recover for a month. I've always wondered if perhaps I did some neurological damage that night which has now spawned into my chronic headpain because supposedly any kind of cranial injury or serious impact to the brain can also be a cause of chronic headpain. That night also could be described as 'somewhat' tramautic, but nothing compared to that one stint with LSD.

So I'm just wondering, have any of you developed chronic headpain, headaches or migraines? Do you think it could be potentially related to any of your drug experiences?

 

I used to have daily migraines. The only drugs that ever helped were Meloxicam (a strong NSAID) and either Oxycodone or Buprenorphine. Hydrocodone or Tramadol did nothing nor did Asprin or Naproxen.

However, for unrelated reasons, I was put on a blood pressure pill (an ACE inhibitor) and it miraculously caused the frequency of my headaches to go from every day to once a week. So clearly my blood pressure has to do with it.

 

It could have been caused by a million things rygoody, from genetics to some latent disease to just high BP. I don't think LSD would have caused such a condition, although 7 "ecstasy" pills + "a lot" of crack in the same night MIGHT have caused some blood vessel damage in your brain, but I'm not doctor. Those are two pretty neurotoxic things to consume in one night in such a high dose, it's definitely possible.

 

^ Good point. As is usual for me, since I have the attention span of a dog, I didn't read all of the OP's post. I didn't notice the part about the excessive use of potentially neurotoxic agents. Those all could contribute to real vascular changes in the brain which causes headaches. ALSO, it could cause real changes in your brain's serotonin system which, in part, is responsible for maintaining homeostasis, and is a culprit in migraines. That is why LSD (and things like Imitrex, which are 5-HT agonists) work on migraines for many people.

For me, the 5-HT agonists did NOT help my headaches, because clearly they were due to a vascular irregularity. Why? Because the fact that once my blood pressure was stabilized, my headaches became almost null. High BP runs in my family like crazy, so I am glad to have 'corrected' it at a young age so that I don't cut decades off my life span because of being at 155/95 all of the time.