Migraine and DMT?

[Iziel]

I had a HORRIBLE migraine on Tuesday this week (morning after I smoked). By Friday when it still wasn't gone I decided to take 1 hit to bring up my serotonin levels.

But my headache is still lurking around the corner. It's not very present, but I can still feel it. Is the DMT helping or hurting?

 

[DMTripper]

I've heard of people claiming DMT helps with the migraine or even gets rid of it completely.
And there's a migraine drug called Sumatriptan and it's a triptamine too so maybe DMT really does help.

 

[lorax]

psilocybin or cocaine is actually the BEST there is for migranes. i'd go with the psilocybin if i were you. cocaine stinks of death and money! with psilocybin being 4-HO-DMT i could imagine that bufotenine might also help as it is very similar. (5-HO-DMT)

a friends friend always cures his migrane with microdoses of psilocybin. works like a charm. 4mg psilocybin should be enough maybe even less. a therapeutic dose is usually under the dose which can be felt. so i would guess you could even take 2mg and get rid of the migrane. it also makes your view sharper. good for hunting!

 

[Infundibulum]

I had a HORRIBLE migraine on Tuesday this week (morning after I smoked). By Friday when it still wasn't gone I decided to take 1 hit to bring up my serotonin levels.

But my headache is still lurking around the corner. It's not very present, but I can still feel it. Is the DMT helping or hurting?

Iziel, did you have a migraine in the "true" sense of the word, id est with the preceding visual phenomena (migraine aura, "television" vision, missing parts of the visual field etc etc)??

Or did you simply had some horrible headache? I'm just asking because many people refer to "migraine" as "horrible headache" where in fact migraine is a condition accompanied from a wide spectrum of effects, the most interesting being the visual hallucinations / disturbances.

Treatment with tryptamines is controversial in the case of true migraines and it might even be contraindicated in some cases

 

[DMTripper]

I get migraine attacks maybe once a year max (the real shit with distorted sight and all that stuff) and I'm trying the psilocybin trick next time I always get the first symptoms 30-45 minutes before the migraine kicks in so I have time to eat a very small dose of mushrooms. And my niece get's bad migraine very often. Like once a month or so and I'm telling her to try some shrooms next time. I'm very curious if it works good.

 

[fourthripley]

Iziel, did you have a migraine in the "true" sense of the word, id est with the preceding visual phenomena (migraine aura, "television" vision, missing parts of the visual field etc etc)??

I occasionally experience these along with the often described 'snake skin' patterns luckily unaccompanied by headache, my vision just eventually returns to normal. I just relax and try to enjoy the experience. Anybody experience- or have heard of- similary 'dry' migraine?

 

[acolon_5]

I believe many of the migraine medications on the market now are tryptamine based.

 

[benzyme]

very true
look no further than imitrex (sumatriptan, as DMTripper mentioned). it's dmt with a methyl-methanesulfonamide group at the 5 position

it's no secret, the central serotoninergic system is definitely involved in alleviating migraines

 

[Iziel]

Iziel, did you have a migraine in the "true" sense of the word, id est with the preceding visual phenomena (migraine aura, "television" vision, missing parts of the visual field etc etc)??

Or did you simply had some horrible headache? I'm just asking because many people refer to "migraine" as "horrible headache" where in fact migraine is a condition accompanied from a wide spectrum of effects, the most interesting being the visual hallucinations / disturbances.

Treatment with tryptamines is controversial in the case of true migraines and it might even be contraindicated in some cases

It was a true migraine with aura. The worst of the actual headache didn't last long maybe 30 minutes, but I couldn't shake everything else the entire day. I couldn't see straight, I felt like I was on the edge of vertigo - just slipping in and out of those kind of visual hallucinations. The symptoms woke me in the morning and I couldn't leave my room (except to vomit) until about 6 in the afternoon. Towards the end of the time I locked myself away I began to smell copper. It was very strange.

When I smoked a few days later to get rid of the lurking headache it helped - it was a horrible trip (probably didn't need to do that much) and the headache returned the next day.

Thanks for the help.