Well it is 1:11am and I am sitting here with a headache. Which seems to be a normal occurrance these days. Anyway, where do I start? I have been suffering for years with many forms of headaches. Everything from tension headaches, menstrual migraines, migraines, basilar migraines, and more recently migraines with auras and a few times auras with no migraine. I have been on multiple different meds. Over the counter meds don't help, prescription medications that sometimes start off working and then stop, or prescription meds that just won't work at all. The list is long. So just recently had to change to a new doctor (My doctor I have had for years moved!). He seems like a good doctor. My mother and other family members have gone to him for years. So I decided I would go to him also. So he sent me for blood work and a MRI. So he decided he would put me on nortriptylin. I started off at 10mg for a week and now I am on 20mg. It takes like what 2 months or something for it to kick in for help on the possible prevention of headaches. Ok.... So I was like what do I do in the mean time if I get a headache. He was like at first when he called me on the phone to see how I was tolerating the 10mg; was if you get one call me. I was like oh ok so when I start getting a headache at 1am; I am suppose to call you! What are you going to do for me then? Anyway, I had to take my mother to see him on Friday; so while I was there I needed to get a new rx for the med because he upped the dose and of course the pharmacy won't give you any more than a month supply and for some reason his rx didn't have any refills. I told him that I was still have headaches and that I had a severe menstrual headache a couple of days ago and nothing that I have helps. ( I ended up taking 1 vicodin, 1 feldene, 3 flexeril, and not counting on the motrin that I had to take prior because I was at work! Which none of it woud help me at all!) I want something to have on hand to take if I need it; other than this pill that isn't doing a darn thing yet. He didn't give me anything! He wants to see if the pill works!!! This is where I am totally frustrated! 
I am NOT a drug seeker and my headaches are real! Sometimes I don't think doctors, people you work with, or friends understand what it is like to go thru this. I think unless they experience the pain of these types of headaches; they have NO clue! So I am suppose to see him in 6 weeks; keep taking these stupid pills at night and hope and pray that I don't get a headache. What am I suppose to do? Go the emergency room if the headache gets so bad that I want to find a gun to get rid of the pain? I am just sick and tired of getting headaches like every other day that last sometimes days. What am I suppose to do??
Ok I think I vented enough today! Sorry I think is the pain talking! Haha 
I have been on several different meds thru out the years. I have been on Imitrex (didn't work), Inderal (made me lightheaded and dropped by blood pressure), Relpax (gave me chest pains and back spasms),and Axert (which worked, but found out it for my basliar migraines you shouldn't use it). I have been on Feldene, Flexril, Naproxen, Vicoden, and Motrin for my tension headaches. I can understand and feel for you when you have a migraine and have to work. I am a 911 dispatcher and it is hard to concentrate when your head is about to explode or you can't see and you have a traffic pursuit and have to be on your game. I haven't been to a specialist yet. I have been thinking about seeing if my doctor will refer me to one. With my family history of brain aneurysms (My mother and grandmother are one of the few that have survived them) I think going to see someone that actually is well educated on migraines and headaches would actually help me. Just got to find a good one in my area. I hope that you have found the right meds to help you out.