Lady Gaga Stars In Another Ad For Nurtec® ODT

[stewie_e]

Lady Gaga stars in new Nurtec ad:

“Nothing dims my light like a migraine. With Nurtec ODT I found relief.”
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- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) April 8, 2024

Last year, Lady Gaga was criticized for starring in a Nurtec® ODT ad

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[skyler_white_yo]

All the disclaimers in the post is sending me.

Migraines are the worst, luckily excedrin works for me, I can’t imagine how awful it is for people who need stronger/prescription meds for their migraines.

[pciam]

I don’t have migraines but I have chronic pain related to my TMJ. It’s awful. Nothing otc ever works. Botox has helped somewhat though so I’m thankful for that.

[ginainabottle]

TMJ pain is the worst, it wasn't until I started wearing an oral splint to sleep (and during the day when I'm too stressed) that I've noticed that most of pain/exhaustion I felt in my face/jaw were NOT normal. It's crazy how much we get used to pain, even when it objectively makes our lives worse. I'm glad botox helped you <3

[pciam]

Thank you. It really is the worst. I've had chronic pain re: my TMJ since 2012 after a bad dental procedure. I've tried so many splints, but most of them just make me clench harder and makes my pain worse. :(

Even with botox I have good and bad days, but it's helped me at least to manage the pain better. One issue though is that I'm a very fast metabolizer of it - it wears off within 2 months for me. And it's so expensive and insurance doesn't cover it. That's another thing I've also found with TMJ issues. There aren't much proven treatments for it and coverage is nil (medical says it's a dental issue; dental says it's a medical issue.. in reality it's both) and no 1 treatment is proven super effective so it gives insurance companies in the US an out to not cover most treatments like splints, botox, etc. Grr. But the botox at least, something for me that has helped more than anything else so I now budget for it.

I'm glad the oral splint helped you!

[my_moloko]

I'm always so jealous when people talk about using otc meds for their migraines.

[tetrazzinichikn]

It makes me wonder if they’re really migraines or just bad headaches, honestly.

[pciam]

I’ve had some pretty bad headaches but only 1 or 2 migraines. I can definitely tell the difference. Woof. Migraines are brutal. I have a friend who suffers with them regularly. I feel so bad for him.

[screamingintune]

I thought I'd had migraines before. Until I was like 38 or so and I hit perimenopause and the hormonal changes have put me into Migraine God Mode. in 2020 I had a headache that didn't let up for ten months (!) and now I get headaches every day. And when I have any kind of mild illness, or even if my immune system is fighting it off? POWER HEADACHE FROM HELL. When I got covid it was basically nothing but a ten day horrible migraine for me

bad headaches suck, like really bad. but migraines make me throw up and question whether I want to stay alive this badly.

[my_moloko]

Damn! There was a big post on here about perimenopause and when I read the symptoms so many of them match with my PCOS symptoms. I also just started a stupid progesterone only birth control pill and I think it's increasing my rate of headaches. I'm sorry you are fighting against this so much. I just had bad headaches for nearly a week straight and it was horrific. It's so exhausting. I hope you get proper relief soon. And I'm sorry that it has made you feel like not staying alive, chronic intense pain is so awful.

[screamingintune]

really that was mostly when it got really bad in 2020 and the headache didn't break for nearly a year and I was 100% convinced I was going to feel like that forever. The AJOVY finally broke through that one.

hormonal changes will FUCK your head up, man. I wouldn't be surprised if the BC has changed your hormones enough to cause extra headaches. Hormonal headaches are also the hardest to treat. My doc says that there's a good chance once I'm through menopause they will go away. They did for my mother, but hers were never as bad. He said it's 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 - one third will have their headaches go away after menopause, one third will stay the same, and haha, one third will get worse. But I'm more likely to follow my mother's pattern, I HOPE. When it was really bad in 2020 my neuro briefly explored initiating a chemical menopause to hurry it but my gyno threw a fit and that was that lol.

[my_moloko]

I'm glad the AJOVY worked for you. I'm thankful that I don't have frequent enough migraines to try taking a preventive med but it's frustrating when you just need something that will work in the moment. Mine are mainly due to barometric pressure and humidity changes but as you said, I think the hormones are fucking me over even more now.

Also just as a heads up, my mom's migraines got realllly bad when she started menopause. Of course idk if they even compare to yours but she started getting them easily 3-5 times a week. She would come home from work and just go straight to bed. I felt so bad for her at the time. Then as soon as she went on estrogen she was fine and went back to only having barometric pressure migraines.

I hate this fucking bc pill I'm on. I just started the third pack and I still don't have a period (that was the whole point of going on it). If I don't have one after six months I'm calling my endocrinologist cause this is bullshit.

[sirena73]

Oh my god, a ten month long migraine????!!!??? And headaches every day? I cannot imagine what you go through daily, I am so sorry this is happening to you.
My migraines are hormonal so about once a month I question if I want to even be alive I'm in so much pain/nausea.

[screamingintune]

the only reason it wasn't a catastrophic life event when I started getting them is because I was already on disability from getting diagnosed with MS a few years earlier -- there is absolutely no way I could function at a job at all now, the headaches are officially way worse than the MS at this point. Though between the two I'm convinced my brain is out to get me lol. But since I was on disability I had Medicare and didn't have to worry about a job. I don't know how other women who get this perimenopausal sudden onset of chronic migraine handle it? I imagine it's a really hard thing to get Social Security to approve for disability (it's just headaches! i'm sure they'd say) and if I'd had to deal with that... whew..

[tetrazzinichikn]

I am so very sorry you are going through all of this. I really can’t imagine and you don’t deserve it. I hope things start improving for you - a lot. I am completely pulling this out of my ass but what if you had a hysterectomy? Could that possibly be helpful if it’s related to hormones?

[screamingintune]

oof, surgery would be really hard on me physically, especially a surgery like that. It sucks having to manage the MS on top of the migraines because yeah, it probably WOULD help, but my body just doesn't easily recover from surgery. I spent like seven days in the hospital last year thinking they were going to take my gallbladder, but my neurologist was not for it unless it was ABSOLUTELY necessary, so I stayed for a fucking week while they figured it out -_

one more headache tip

[screamingintune]

edit oh and I use the program f.lux for my screens because it warms up the lighting and tbh reduces eye strain a LOT. idk how people live without f.lux

https://justgetflux.com/ it's free and it does make life better