I've had chronic migraines for 13 years and they are so much worse in the morning. I drink 2 cups of coffee and wait it out. It will normally lesson to a pretty good headache midmorning. I just started doing botox injections and have noticed my migraine/headaches are not as bad but still there. I have never had my sleep checked out though sounds like a good place to go next!!

It sounds like to me you have rebound headaches. You get a headache and take the medicine then get another headache because the medicine has worn off. I had these years ago from the drug Fiorinal. Certain drugs are notorious for this. I had to have an occipital block which was a shot in the back of the head from my internist and then I stayed on a low dose around the clock of amitriptyline for a couple of months. I finally got on a seizure drug that helped my everyday headaches. I would still have a migraine during my period but would take Zomig for that. A lot of doctors are not familiar with rebound headaches. It usually takes the doctor to get you out of them. I've known quite a few people that had them in the past. There are certain medicines that I can only take short term because of that. One of them is Soma, a muscle relaxer.

My chronic pain doctor requires sleep studies. I too get migraines and even awaken in the middle of the night with them.

I just got my sleep study result reflecting that in the nigh of my study I got 4 minutes of REM stage of sleep resulting in extreme sleep deprivation causing migraines, impacting fatigue (obviously), decreasing cognitive function and exacerbating how we experience pain.

Is a sleep study an option for you??

I wake with headaches most mornings and have been a migraine sufferer since 2008. I also have sleep apnea and was told that when I stop breathing in my sleep it lessens the oxygen to my brain therefore I wake with headaches. Not been so bad since using CPAP machine but if I fall asleep during the day without warning I'm in trouble of getting headache / migraine. I use sumatriptan for migraines as son as I feel it coming on. They're very good but if the migraine is full blown they're no good I just have to try sleep it off... its a vicious cycle as sleep causes the head pain... Feel for all my fellow fibro sufferers...

Yep me too . Doc reckons its because I grind my teeth sleeping