u/ANicePainter

The ADHD stimulant medication Vyvanse / lisdexamfetamine significantly helps my migraines.

I've dealt with migraines for 30 years. Six months ago, I got diagnosed with ADHD / VAST and started Vyvanse for that. Amazingly, Vyvanse seems to have significantly reduced the number of migraines and has helped quell nascent ones in lieu of a traditional rescue drug. This is unexpected and wonderful, and I wanted to share the info. The drug has made my life so much easier in so many ways.

I'm lead to understand that because the drug is a stimulant, it may help the migraines as it works as a vasoconstrictor.

Some thoughts: what worked for me might not work for you, and I am not offering Vyvanse up as a primary migraine treatment. Instead, I offer this as proof that relief can come from unexpected places and with hope that you will find you relief.

Second, there are probably a whole lot of migraineurs who are undiagnosed or untreated for their ADHD/VAST. If you think you have ADHD or if you are depressed,* it may be useful to pursue ADHD diagnostics to determine if you have ADHD and if Vyvanse may be helpful to you.

*Did you know that there is a phenomena where ADHD has been misdiagnosed as depression, and when the correct diagnosis and treatment for ADHD is provided the depression clears up? This particularly happens with adult women with late diagnosis of ADHD. If you have always been a little scatterbrained and you're depressed, it might be worth looking into.

Good luck out there, folks!

There are times a migraine feels useful to me. While I am symptomatic, there are times when I am better able to focus on certain tasks. This can feel like I am choosing to go towards the migraine and work through so I can have whatever I am doing done so I can relax more through the rest of the headache.

This is absolutely not an every time thing nor is it anything I rely on. But it happens, and I never see it discussed, and I was curious if anyone else has experienced this.

I'm ADHD too, which could certainly be a factor.

Taking over over me what am i supposed to be

Does anyone else find Vyvanse affects your earworms? Like, you have a default that you will have an earworm but the Vyvanse removes them?

Hope this time you understand, here I am, you can’t deny

Oliver Sacks called getting a song stuck in your head an earworm and classified them as auditory hallucinations. I’m not sure ”hallucinations “ captures what’s going on in my ADHD brain; it feels more like my brain self-stimulating by putting a song on repeat.

Go ahead and play stupid little games, won’t get inside my head, never gonna change

As much as i love music, earworms can get tedious. But the Vyvanse really seems to tamp them down.

for a time, of course. By evening, the music comes back.

It’s my world. Yeah.

just curious if anyone else experiences this.

-Karen Dio “My World”