sleep and ha's

You know what - sometimes before I get migraine episode my ear hurts really bad. So bad a few times I went to the dr 'cos I was sure I have an infection but I haven't!
But during cold- no, not always, rarely, rather.

Fuzzy

when I get one of my rare migraines, the light will be hurting my eyes and only later will sounds hurt so I have to take off my CI. I have to shut myself in a totally dark room till it's over.

when I've a cold, my ears rarely hurt but I've had fluid in my ears and when that happens it makes my eardrums hurt. I had that when I had my CI done on me. It cleared up in a week.
 
when I get one of my rare migraines, the light will be hurting my eyes and only later will sounds hurt so I have to take off my CI. I have to shut myself in a totally dark room till it's over.
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isn't it awful, eh? I have to take off my HAs, too.

While I don't have an migraine aura as some do, I do have a warning symptoms like sensitivity to light and sounds and smells before the pain. During pain, man.... it's aggravated again gadzillions times more.. even touching my hair hurts..

Fuzzy
 
My aura is smell. When everything around me gives a smell. (It's hard to describe the smell) I know one is coming. If I get the Maxalt taken in time, I might be okay. It not then it is at least 24 hours until I am able to function again. Then I am exhausted for a week.

I can tell which type of headache it will be by the side that starts hurting first. My left side goes numb and that is the one that I have to leave work right away and lock myself in that dark room and take off my hearing aids(before CI). A right side migraine gets tingling and I can just take meds and go on the day.
 
I would say do whatever works well for you, although personally I never have slept with Has or CI on. However, just beware of one thing, you may get more ear infections if you are wearing your molds for longer periods. So maybe you should be really careful about keeping them clean?

Sorry about the lack of sleep. Tinnitus is also aggravated by stress so it sounds like there is a vicious circle. Give yourself time out, do exercise, give yourself regular treats (such as chocolate!), deep breathing and so on.

No offense but I dont think eating chocolates is a good idea while u are having a migraine headache. I remember learning that somewhere so maybe check with your dr first about chocolates and migraines.

I am sorry that u are going thru that. R2D2's other suggestions sound like good ideas.

I have been suffering from migraines more frequently in the past few months. Went to see a dr, he gave me some special meds for it but it is not working. I have a follow up appt tmw. Right now I am suffering from one, go figure! I feel u especially during exams. I cant imagine it.

BTW...I dont wear my HAs while sleeping cuz if I do, my ear ends up hurting in the morning.
 
Ya i finally noticed why my ears were hurting sometimes in the am when i wake up...im guessing its from sleeping on the my right ear the ha side...if its against the pillow i dont get circulation and it ends up hurting...so Definitely wont wear ha to bed..no thanks! loli dont want ear pains lol
 
I've never worn my hearing aid sleeping unless I fell asleep accidentally which rarely happens. Like everyone else says, the ears need to breathe. It cost more in batteries. I use to get headaches a lot but not anymore. No one has every contributed them to my ears, it always been stress.
 
My aura is smell. When everything around me gives a smell. (It's hard to describe the smell) I know one is coming. If I get the Maxalt taken in time, I might be okay. It not then it is at least 24 hours until I am able to function again. Then I am exhausted for a week.

I can tell which type of headache it will be by the side that starts hurting first. My left side goes numb and that is the one that I have to leave work right away and lock myself in that dark room and take off my hearing aids(before CI). A right side migraine gets tingling and I can just take meds and go on the day.

A migraine aura is rather a phase of hallucinations, mostly of visual nature- for example you may lose your sight completely or partially in one or both eyes, which should pass, or you can see spots and flecks in your field of vision, lights flashing and other visual sensations. Or you may smell what's not there - for example a cigarette smoke when no one is smoking anywhere.

IMO, what you describes is more of PRODROM - when we are starting to be extra sensitive to external stimuli of any kind.
Smell is my worst trigger, btw.

Both types of your head pain and location sound like migraine. migraine pain is not neccessarily a classic one sided throbbing, it can actually resemble tension headache, or even your head may not hurt at all and you still can have a migraine..
And yeah, chocolate is a big no-no for migraineurs. so is cheese, alcohol, coffee, marinates, citrus fruits, and many other things... sighs.. so many good things can be bad.. :(

anybody interested in migraine may read this:
What is a Migraine?
Migraine Headache Stages » Migraine Information Mall
Anatomy of a Migraine: The Phases of a Migraine Attack and Their Symptoms. About Headaches and Migraine

Sorry for going off topic..

Fuzzy
 
The articles are wonderful. Yes, that sounds like me. I hope they stay away. At least my neurologist can't ask for a MRI to check :)
 
No offense but I dont think eating chocolates is a good idea while u are having a migraine headache. I remember learning that somewhere so maybe check with your dr first about chocolates and migraines.

I am sorry that u are going thru that. R2D2's other suggestions sound like good ideas.

I have been suffering from migraines more frequently in the past few months. Went to see a dr, he gave me some special meds for it but it is not working. I have a follow up appt tmw. Right now I am suffering from one, go figure! I feel u especially during exams. I cant imagine it.

BTW...I dont wear my HAs while sleeping cuz if I do, my ear ends up hurting in the morning.

Thanks for pointing that out Shel. I should have remembered about that as I have friends who suffer migranes and chocolate is indeed a trigger for them and they cannot eat it at all.

Sorry to hear that the medication for the migranes haven't done the trick. I hope that at your appointment the doctor can suggest some other testing or leads. It must be really frustrating be be laid low. It happened since you returned to work?
 
I take my hearing aid off when I go to bed. The reason for this is so that I don't accidentally break my hearing aid and I keep it from getting internal damage from moisture that might accumulate in my sleep depending on humidity. Sometimes, my ear hurts when I wake up because I had something in it all night and I slept on it.

This is because Vampy becomes WWE wrestler when he goes to sleep so he has to take it off. :fingersx:
 
I don't sleep with my HA at night either, or when I'm napping...
 
When I was young I always sleep with hearing aids all the time till my dorm counsellor telling me to take it off beacuse the battries will waste goes fast died so I took it off and sleep that I stopped to use hearing aids when I was 13 yrs old. Now I always take it off hearing aids when I go to bed :) .. I always wear my hearing aids on all day morning till take it off go to bed :)
 
Yes migraine is the worst than severe headache... I had it when I was a little girl until I got first period when I was 11 years old then again magraine come back when I first moved to live in Germany in 1985.. suffer until 1996. My migraine gone again after birth to my 2nd child... No more since 1996... *knock on the wood*...

I feel migraine attack come soon from between head and forehead then to eyes... brain is like squeeze hard... it´s painful... Nobody touch or pat me... all what I do is cover on my head and face with my arm and stay in dark room or hold my arms on my head and face to corner to keep my eyes dark... nobody touch me... sweat... vomit... terrible one... hate smell...

I noticed that some people confused migraine attack with severe headache which is not... They are TOTAL different. I rather to have severe headache over migraine attack.

Sorry for :topic:


No, I don´t sleep with HA when I used to wear HA ... I haven´t wear HA for over 20 years now...
 
I noticed that some people confused migraine attack with severe headache which is not... They are TOTAL different. I rather to have severe headache over migraine attack.

That's true.
Most people confuse headaches with migraine, and that's not correct, migraine is neurological disease/ disorder where head pain is only one of the many symptoms,
and there are types of migraine WITHOUT headaches.

Fuzzy
 
I don't sleep with the hearing aid on. Too uncomfortable, and of course, my hearing aid would whistle away all night. And the whistling sound is even worse than the tinnitus.. and I have tinnitus ALL the time when I don't have my HA on (or if it's just quiet in the room). But once I get to a deep sleep, the tinnitus doesn't bother me.

And migraines do suck. What kind of a diet do you have? Lots of caffine, sugary, salty stuff? Those are triggers for migraines (and tinnitus too). I remember a few years ago... instead of drinking sodas with caffine at night, I would have a Berry Sprite Remix (no caffine).... and I ended up with even louder tinnitus than usual, because of the amount of sodium in the sprite. Oh gee, now what to drink at night (and I do not like water). So watch for that sort of stuff when you eat or drink, it might make a difference.
Of course... for migraines, sometimes caffine helps... but it has to be a certain amount I think. If you ingest TOO much caffine, that can definitely give you a migraine. But if you have a migraine and you don't normally drink sodas or coffee, maybe drink a little bit and see if that helps. Or try some Excedrin Migraine (but try taking 1 pill, some people get pretty jittery if they take 2 due to the amount of caffine in them). Or a soda and some aspirin?
I used to get migraines ALL the friggin' time, for no reason too. A doctor did give me some samples of different migraine medications for me to try. Of course, I now don't remember what they were or which ones worked. Usually the Excedrin Migraine does the trick. But I don't get them much anymore as the antidepressant I am on has really helped.
 
I never got headach all my life. I don't sleep with ha's. Sometimes I did fell asleep with 'em but never get infection until now I just got that happen. When I get older, it hits me much worse not like before I never got allergy from that earmold. I did ask for a change other materials but still not work. I will have to look for other service might be better for me cuz some of 'em do not have that kind of material from my old service for many years never happened to me. They don't make the same kind anymore. I will have to keep going to look for other service.
 
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