Posted on 10/15/2015 3:35:58 PM PDT by moose07
Mine peaked in my high school and early college years. I’d get about three a year, often with pseudo stroke symptoms including numbness on one side, partial blindness, and difficulty speaking and reading (which was a really wild...looking at a page and seeing groups of letters but not being able to see them as words). They’d start with the visual aura, then the other symptoms would kick in, then the pain. Thankfully they usually only lasted a few hours. As I got older they gradually became more and more rare and less and less intense. It’s been years now since I’ve had one.
Very interesting. I am most interested, as a serious migraine sufferer, in something that will stop them without having to take medication.
I’ve tried just about everything. My favorite triptan, Frova, works very well. However I have to take it so often and I don’t like having to, with any risks that might cause me. And it is extremely expensive.
I’d do anything if I could be migraine free with no horrible side effects.
Have you/anyone heard that triptans might cause/are a real risk of causing a cerebral stroke?
After getting the good CT scan news that I didn’t have a brain tumor—my helpmate was happy, having advised me to “have your head examined” for years, nyuk nyuk ) and then finally finding something that works—and I guess I’m lucky there, if they don’t work half the time—then I get the bad news:
“They could kill you.” ? Hey, whoa!
I get 8-12 a MONTH.
I am extremely careful with my diet. But it seems some can’t be prevented.
I do thank Gd for Frova.
Until they come out with something better, I wish doctors wouldn’t be so stingy with the triptans. There are actually studies where people have taken them daily. I wouldn’t want to live if I didn’t have something that both relieves / prevents the agony AND allows me to just keep living my busy life with no time off. I could do an ad for Frovatriptan because I depend on it so much.
Just found the local trade name.
Never tried them ,but looking at the data : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptan. , it wouldn’t be advisable.
Thanks anyway. :)
At the worst time, I was taking the maximum 100 mg @ day for three-day bad stretches. Then I was fine for a few days, I went days without taking anything.
The docs would prescribe six (6) pills only a time, and two different doctors acted like I was main-lining heroin using them up too quickly.
If your drugs are expensive, search `Planet Drugs Direct’, a Canadian outfit I have used.
There are several but this one seems the best. If you pay $500 for, say, Zomig generic from an American pharmacy, you can knock one of the zeros off that price with PDD.
No kidding, it’s that much cheaper.
I get weekly newsletters from this website,if any further developments occur, and I spot it, I’ll post it.
(Three comas, yuk)
I don’t know what my Chiro does, but it works. After his massage therapist gets done with me I’m a new person.
Know all that very well.
Hey thanks! I don’t have any heart problems and my blood pressure is good.
I think Yaelle will corroborate that when you are in the middle of one of these severe attacks, you’ll take the risk of anything short of a 4 pound sledge to the head to alleviate the pain.
It doesn’t look too risky but I suppose if I suffer a debilitating stroke I can always go back to
practicing law.
One of the downsides to triptans is a kind of `hangover’, some slurring of speech and other minor things, but acceptable to avoid that RR spike through the head sensation.
Yaelle, before triptans my Dad tried everything and was eventually prescribed (I think) lithium carbonate with good results. It is also used for bipolar conditions so ... hmmm.
I’ll talk to my doctor next week.
Get in her face, shove stuff off her desk, etc. ;^)
Good luck to you.
Some people have healing hands.
This may be the case.
Or he relaxes the blood vessels in the neck and scalp.
You are certainly correct! Migraines are awful. I had them for years sometimes with the fuzzy aurora sometimes without. I had headaches triggered by allergies too. About 6 hours after eating certain things like corn and chocolate, I would be in severe pain sometimes with vomiting. All this was gone by the time I was 55 or 60 so maybe hormones played a role in it too.
I’m taking Imitrex (Sumatriptan) as well. They are my ‘ miracle pills ‘. My husband can’t relate to the pain and discomfort at all. He never had a headache in his life! The lucky guy.
I get both, the visual are painless but then I can’t read or drive. I have not had a lot of luck with Tiptans for the headache pain when I have those, every day but have had some real relief with botox, 32 shots every three months in the head. The shots are uncomfortable but not as bad as the headaches
The migraine hangover. I know it well.
“...looking at a page and seeing groups of letters but not being able to see them as words). They’d start with the visual aura, then the other symptoms would kick in, then the pain.”
Exactly, precisely what I experienced several times as an adolescent.
Yes your husband is a lucky man and it is a “miracle pill”!
I’ve had a lot of luck with a combo of Advil and Excedrin at the same time. Usually two pills of each with milk or light food. Works great.
My daughter suffered with migraines for decades. Cured with beta-blockers.
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