Originally Posted by flymeaway
Glad you had some meds with you...!
I've had a couple of migraine sufferers as passengers. Such a terrible thing to experience during a flight, close confines, no real control over the environment.
With one woman, we made her as comfy as possible inside one of the lavatories. Fortunately it was non-stinky that day, but she couldn't lock the door without turning on the lights - so we FA's took turns watching it and redirecting passengers. The quiet(er) dark and air from the vent helped her a bit. With another passenger, I found some stray blankets and helped him make a sort of tent over his seat to block out the light as best we could. He had less fresh air though, but he needed to get out of the light more than anything.
I'd love to hear other ideas, though, on how you guys deal with this - I hate feeling so helpless when I have a passenger dealing with it.
I don't think I could have handled the blankets, but the dark lav would have worked well. I'll keep that in mind, though I hope this doesn't happen to me again. May I ask which airline you work for? FAs as considerate as that would definitely influence my selection of carrier.
Originally Posted by JerryFF
My wife gets migraines, and Imitrex has been a big help. Have you read the instructions for Imitrex carefully? Our understanding is that if the first injection does not help enough that you can take a second injection an hour after the first. Then, no more for 24 hours.
I've been taking Imitrex so long, I've forgotten the protocol, except that I can't take it more than once every 24 hours. I'll check with my MD and ask about a second shot in an hour. I tend to experience rather unpleasant side-effects from Imitrex -- it feels like every muscle in my neck and back are contracting, and lasts for about 10 minutes. It's a measure of how bad the migraine is that I'm willing to take an Imitrex shot at all.
I've been lucky in that my blood pressure medication is prophylactic for migraine, and simply growing older means I get them less and less. For some reason, though, this has been a bad year.