After 25 years of migraines, using every med with anecdotal efficacy in prevention under the sun (namenda being the most recent), I still have migraines. Barometric pressure, floral scents... we could spend all day on my triggers. So, I ended up with a dependence on opiates that were prescribed for my migraines. Seizures from the meperidine metabolites were enough to get me into detox a year ago. Now I find myself with no solution but to suffer, throw up, and hide in the dark until I can't stand it any more and end up in the ER for fluids, opiates (tolerance is still huge), and anti-emetics. It's an endless cycle that me (and my family) are sick of. My ex-husband has decided that I'm really putting myself through the *miserable* ER for a "fix"- even when it's done with my addictionologists treatment protocol, and not at the bioequivalent of my oral doasage. I have no quality of life. Drugs like midrin, fiornal, and toradol don't help, nor have any of the triptans. Trying to make more lifestyle changes (adequate sleep, hydration, absinence from alcholol or caffeine) but the headaches still happen. Is there any choice but opiates?
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1/ 6/08 8:50pm
i think we have such similar lives..but i go back down to thomas jefferson on the 16th of jan. and i swear i'm MAKING him do something!!! anything...i just finished up predisone today so i hope i don't go down hill again. hes talking about putting me back in the hospital but i'm not sure what for?? All I ever do is go to doctors. i had the heart tests done...fine. i kinda was hoping for something to be wrong so it could be fix and my migraines would finally go away! pathatic huh? anyway i have seen everyone even had my cards read! they told me its in my blood! to look in the blood!
i passed the word along..lol hang in there,pray for strength!
i passed the word along..lol hang in there,pray for strength!
9/10/08 2:38pm
Hi Dawn!
I've been suffering from migraines since I was the age of 16. I am now 41 and for the past two years I have been under treatment with a great Neurologist at the Headache Clinic at UCSF. I have to tell you that like you, I was dependant on Opiates for my migraines and constantly in the ER. It wasn't until I started treatment at UCSF that I found out that Opiates can actually create a pattern of headaches for us. The more you take them .. The more migraines you will get. I still get migraines but not as often as before and I no longer take narcotics. I take a preventative medication on a daily basis, along with a combination of Zomig and Naproxin for my attacks and that really seems to knock them out, and I don't feel hung over afterwards.
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