Experiences - Sinus headache after doing Meth...

[wysiwyg]

I have seen similar posts about this subject but none exactly like this one.

A few hours or so after smoking meth, SWIM starts brewing what feels like a sinus headache and if nothing is done to ease it then it will just get worse. The headache is a dull, annoying pain behind the neck and also in the eyes.
SWIM has a long history of allergies and sinus problems and over the years and the only thing that works for her is a prescription med called MAXALT which is a vasoconstrictor for migraine headaches. Its generic name is Rizatriptan Benzoate. Im telling you this because I read somewhere on this forum that Meth is a vasoconstrictor, so that seems confusing to me.
SWIM has considered the fact that maybe there is a dehydration problem. So she downed over 6 pints of water yesterday, but that did not work either. She also ate food several times.
I want to mention that SWIM is a very moderate meth user (a light weight in fact) and is in pretty good health and was enjoying a BREAK from sinus headaches until now.
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on here? MAXALT (5mg.) gets rid of the headache but SWIM does not have medical insurance and a 10mg pill over here in the States is $25! Needless to say, she cannot continue partying with this drug if she has to take a Maxalt everytime...bummer!

[30dy]

My cousins friends pimp seems to have a similar problem as well. and he does have allergies too. mainly nasal allergies. he has began to suspect that he just may be allergic to the smoke or something along those lines. he is now attempting to record when those problems occur and if he took any antihistamines that day... very random but interesting prognosis.

[mr. nawtynuff]

Back when swim was in elementary school, one of his best friends frequently got migraine headaches and was instantly excused from the rest of the day of school. Swim, somewhat envious and very naive, made a wish that he too would have migraine headaches so he could have a fail proof way of being excused from school (swim hadn't always disliked school, in fact he rather enjoyed it until the school district changed the boundaries that determined which of the three grade schools a student would attend). It wasn't until swim was a middle school student that the long forgotten wish would come true. It began as a headache from the shitty bus ride home, turned into one of the most intense, unrelenting head throbbing, unbearable & disabling experiences which generally lasted quite a few hours but not subsiding until after the violent projectile puking occurs .

Lovely story huh? What does it have to do w\ the thread topic? Mostly just establishing that swim can relate to the hell that is migraine. Swim never had allergies until he was 24, making the whole migraine thing more frequent. Getting to the point swim also started using meth very frequently at the same age. Often when swim was getting a sinus headache, to his surprise; he learned that if he smoked some meth the headache would usually dissipate (re:meth vasoconstrictor). And if he ever got a headache when he had already been smoking, that taking a small handfull of ibuprofen & pseudo ephedrine (roughly 6 each) generally curbed the headache. However as time went on and the quality of meth really began to go downhill, Swim began noticing that sometimes it was the shit that was giving him the headache. Long>short, it was the meth cut w\ msm that would instigate these headaches, this same 'shit' would (after having smoked it quite frequently) create this sticky white mucus (like elmers school glue but not runny) , anyhow it creates the sensation like having a slimy boogie way up in your nose! but very difficult to remove it (double eek)(sorry so gross)(yes swim knows he's not right, but swim is cool w\ it). So to finish up, swim thinks you might be getting meth that has been rerocked or cut w\ msm to some degree.

[This is only swims experience and reminds everyone that their own experience is unique to them & may be completely different, swim also doesn't offer or suggest that anyone follow or try any of the remedies stated above unless you're very familiar w\ physical\medical limits & tolerances.]