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New Study About Vitamins B6 and B12 Helping Migraine Sufferers

By lolwme Thursday, July 23, 2009

New Help for Migraine Sufferers
July 1, 2009

By Melanie Segala
Managing Editor, Total Health Breakthroughs

Here's a fact that the pharmaceutical companies will try to keep from hitting the mainstream media. Daily supplements of vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid were found to reduce the frequency, severity and disability of migraine headaches twofold.

The study conducted by researchers at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia found that the B vitamin combination lowered levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, which can be elevated in some people and lead to migraines.

 

To read the rest of this article, please see Are Migraines a Warning Sign for Stroke?

A MIGRAINE IS BORN
8/13/09 6:05pm

Would like to know in what dosage vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid should be taken to have this effect.  I have taken a daily multiple for years and migraines are a constant in my life.  Thanks.

8/14/09 10:41am

No, I don't, but I take 1 - 2 ounce bottle of 5 Hour Energy DECAF which has no jitters and only as much caffeine as a 1/2 cup of decaf and wards off most of my CLUSTER migraines which I've suffered with for 12 years.  I am now completely off all medications after going cold turkey from Methadone the first month, Percocet the second month, and now Amitriptyline the third month.

 

Yes, I still have bad migraines sometimes but the days I don't are no longer spent like a vegetable.

 

I will be going to a Naturopath soon to get Vitamin B6 and B12 shots hopefully only once per month but continue to drink 5 Hour Energy DECAF everyday as well as take Vitamin B6 and B12 caplets as well.

 

I also take 2 capsules of Taurine daily (afternoon) which is also found in 5 Hour Energy DECAF.  It's very cheap and seems to be helping.

 

But no one thing that works for someone works for someone else; the variables are simply too many to calculate.  Unfortunately, experimentation is about all we have, and that's what I was subjected to for 12 years but the drugs were killing me.  My prostrate grew demanding more medications just to pee.  I was sleeping too much and feeling driggy all the time.  Was irritable, impossible ot live with all the time not just when I was experiencing migraines. 

 

At one time I was put on Vicodin and Oxycotin (not Oxycodone) for over a year, and now doctors say no one should ever take those drugs together.  It cost me two of my most loved nieces over a misunderstanding during my mother's dying.  That's been 9 years now and still hurts.

 

Do something other than medicate!  I wish you the very best.  Understand and accept it's a long road whihc sometimes seems not worth it but giving up is NEVER an option.

 

GB

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8/14/09 10:59am

I forgot ot include Vitamin B9 (folic acid) which I will start taking now as well.

 

 

GB

pat

By lolwme— Last Modified: 04/28/12, First Published: 07/23/09