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By Angieann Friday, December 28, 2007

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Hi everyone. I've read this forum now for some time, and finally decided to join. I'm 35 and have been suffering relentlessly with migraines now for about 2 years. My family doctor is in the process of referring me to the UNC Chapel Hill headache clinic. If anyone here has had an experience with that facility I would love to hear it. I have been to two neurologists and just feel like migraines are pretty low on their list of priorities.

So far, I've tried Topamax and Depakote. The Topamax made me dumb at a therapeutic level, and the Depakote made me CRAZY, I sobbed and just felt crappy in general with it. My doctor yesterday put me on Lyrica for fibromyalgia, and I'm hoping by some miraculous chance that it may help the migraines, while I am waiting for the referral appointment.

My GP also mentioned Cymbalta, anyone with experiences with that would be great too.

The triptans no longer control the migraines as an abortive. I have to take Demerol and the triptan to get relief when the headache is really bad. I try to juggle it so I'm not taking a lot of Demerol, but when the migraine hits, what else can you do?? I'm praying for some preventive therapy to work when I get to the headache clinic!!

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Myth1977

12/28/07 4:02pm

I'm on Lyrica as well, as a migraine preventative, and hoping to benifit the FMS. Have not been on it long enough to say whether it works for either, but so far not too many side effects.

Nancy Harris Bonk, Health Guide

12/30/07 9:05pm

Hello, and welcome to MyMigraineConnection.com!

We're so glad you deceided to SharePost. Hopefully, once you see a Migraine specialist, together you can come up with a preventive plan that will reduce your head pain.

Don't lose hope in the meantime. Lyrica and Cymbalta are just two of the many preventives used to treat Migraine disease. Migraine Preventive Medications - Too Many Options To Give Up!

Thank you for creating a SharePost. SharePosts are a form of blogging, and there are many things you can do with them. You can share an experience, suggest something that's helped you, use SharePosts as a Migraine and headache journal, and many other things.

We also have a discussion forum that you may want to check out. Especially if you have questions or are looking for information, you may find the interaction on the forum to be quite helpful. To get to the forum, just look for the orange box marked "Manage" and click on the Migraine Forums link. Because our forums are maintained by a third party, you'll need to register for the forum. You can use the same information you used to create your community log-in if you like. If you want to go directly to the forum, you can click HERE.

Along with your personal "My Home" page and the discussion forum, you'll find links to a great deal of helpful information on the main page of our site, MyMigraineConnection.com

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them to the forum or send me a message through my profile.

Welcome again,

Nancy Bonk
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