Yes. Working with a computer while having a migraine is bad. Quiet and dark areas where you can rest are what you need. An ice pack maybe. Take painkiller at the first signs of a headache. Going through Tylenol fast is better than having a migraine. If you get the real severe, see a doctor. There's prescription painkillers that are quite good at taking it away.

Learned from my grandmother that if you have any veins pulsing hard in your neck and head, putting a little pressure on them can ease the pain. This is actually quite effective.

Are you sure you have a migraine or just a headache (quite possible cause by straining your eyes to read the small font)? Have you had a migraine before?

If you have a migraine, I doubt you would be sitting at your PC, because that just aggravates it.

I've had 2 migraines before, and both times all I could do was lie on my bed in the dark and dead quite. They subsided after a few hours of rest, NO PC.

Btw, cluster headaches tend focus in an area in your head, especially behind the eyes and the pain is pretty extreme.

@MishYu: Some people never get them, other people like me will experience them once or twice in a lifetime which is once or twice too many for my liking , and then other unfortunate people get them on a regular basis.

Did you try the perscription pills? My friend suffers with regular migraines and it was interfering with his work and social life, the perscription pills helped him tremendously.

I'm pretty sure that stress is a factor for some of us who get migraines, but my mother (she was a nurse) also believed that some folks like us more or less outgrew them--which might mean having grown up enough not to stress out so often.

The best thing I ever got by way of migraine advice was to learn your personal onset signals (mine was almost like a 'flavor' that an ordinary headache would start with). When you get a feel for your onset process, you need to figure out a good strategy for avoiding the migraine--much nicer than doping up with heavy meds after the fact.

I eventually got to a little ritual: 3 regular ibuprofen (not good to take often, but its what worked for me here), a big dose of caffeine (an early migraine med, Cafergot, was partly Jolt in a pill), emptying my hot water heater onto my head and shoulders, and going to bed even if I'd only recently gotten up. What would have been hours of migraine not-napping turned into a fairly short nap and at most I had a bit of regular headache for a while. But the whole thing depended on getting in bed *before* the real thing hit.

I was having regular migraines even with visual anomalies before and they disappeared when I started to take Ginkgo Biloba. Try it, its natural, with no side effects and my migraines are gone.

I get migraines on a fairly regular basis, although they've been less frequent the last year or so.  Before, I use to get them at least once a week.  Now I only get them maybe once every month or every other month. 

Generally speaking, eating something and then taking 2-3 ibuprofen (Advil) does the trick for me -- this is especially true if I do this when the migraine is still in its early stages.  If I don't do anything until the migraine has reached full strength, however, it becomes much harder to knock it down; toughing it out is often my only option at that point. 

If it gets very bad, I just squint my eyes and silently sell my soul to the devil.

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Today, I had a migraine attack in school and then a friend offered me some weed. So we went to smoke it and immediatelly after first few minutes the migraine was gone. Marijuana cure FTW!

I quit taking painkillers for my headaches/migraines because they never work. My doctor is doing the typical throw pills at them and hope they go away. For me I noticed the hot/cold temperature stuff (warm wash cloth, ice pack, etc.) a lot of people prescribe makes mine worse.

As a constant headache sufferer with migraines thrown in that can last upwards of a week, I've found what helps me to get through the best (by no means does it stop the pain) is to turn on some heavy music, turn off the lights, and go play a FPS.

It doesn't help with the pain, but instead gives me an outlet of sorts for keeping it together. After 6 years with constant headaches keeping it together is all I can do, dealing with pain is secondary because otherwise I can't keep up with life.