Here is a case wherein after umpteen zillion migraine treatments, this kid despaired to the point where when she had a migraine, she would go into the coolest, darkest place in the house - which was the bathroom - and lie down on the floor with her head beside the cold stone of the tub and cry out, "Just kill me. Please, just kill me." This kid had had too early on the subjection to the worst of physical ailments. For this type of pain you simply cannot meditate away with your thoughts neither can you do any mind-control exercises nor experiments that will prevent your head from thinking about pain..as the pain is IN the tool you use to think away or re-think.

On the other hand, one of the advanced migraine treatments of the sixties and seventies (especially the latter) was to make use of a form of biofeedback, psychically reducing or to do away with the pain by focusing on changing the alpha/beta wave patterns by warming the hands and rubbing the feet, etc. The blood leaves the extremities during [most] migraines. If you suffer any of these abominations, you will observe at onset your feet and hands turn cold. So in turn warming by rubbing does a couple of things: the blood flow returns, and it alters your brain wave patterns/activity so the focus is not so intense.

These versions of migraine treatments were recommended after the kid had been suggested to chemical migraine treatments (Equigesic, sub-lingual pills, Caffergot, Darvoset, and more); to allergy identification migraine treatments (by trying to find the offending food or smell source and getting rid of it); and to those migraine education sessions in the family doctor's office that helped only to the degree that they justified and consoled with pamphlets on the history of migraines and famous migraine sufferers or the medical explanation that a normal blood flow runs through the fingers of veins, axons, dendrites at a regulated pace, but abnormally pools and bunches in one area thereby creating the traffic jam throbbing as blood attempts to gush into an area only capable of taking half that amount. The kid undertook several migraine treatments as they were developed and initiated. She even did a research on migraine treatments. However she continued to suffer the bastards. The years of Qualuudes and other ill-gotten street versions of migraine treatments aside, she found that only two methods combined work for her: doctor prescribed Imitrex (which she took at onset, foregoing, after the first trial, the preliminary pills that made her puke more) and the highly controversial (addictive) Vicodin. The frustrating reality is that migraines are not fully explicit and migraine treatments are just left to that; generally treatments that can get you high enough to forget but that do not treat or eliminate.