hello an introduction

By hearts41 Wednesday, August 22, 2007

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I have been living with migraines for about 15 years now. I am currently taking topamax as a preventative and Maxalt and Fiornial as an abortive. I recently had to have home health come in for IV infusion. That was a first for me, they gave me Decadron, benadryl and something for naseaua. The decadron made my stomach hurt for about a week, I had muscle weakness and pain as well. The muscle weakness and pain was pretty bad, on a scale of 1 - 10 I would say it was about 7. I just had a check up with my nero and he said that if I need home health again he would not use Decadron due to the side effects. I noticed that some of you spoke of DHE, I was wondering what that was?

The thing I find most frustrating is the lack of communication between the nurse and the doctor, for example when I have a problem between office visits and have to relay information between the nurse and doctor. I spoke with doctor about this at one of my check-ups. It did help somewhat.

Recently my nerologist put me on Doxepin for mild depression due to the migraines, he explained that the Doxepin can actually help the migraines as well. So perhaps it will. Since December they are not as controlled as they were, I have had them last as long as five days.

Lori

Iv Infusion for me

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Yvonne

8/23/07 6:33pm

I don't have any info on the infusion treatments, but wanted to say hello and welcome you to this web community.

I'm sorry you need to be here and hope that you gain as much from this website that I have.

Good luck.

Yvonne-MigraineMom

Teri Robert, Health Guide

8/24/07 11:48am

Lori,

Hello, and welcome to MyMigraineConnection!

DHE stands for dihydroergotamine. It's an ergotamine medication used as a Migraine abortive. Something else that works quite well in IV infusion for many people is simple magnesium sulfate. There are quite a few medicaitons that can be used for this type of IV infusion. You can take a look Effectiveness of IV Therapy in the Headache Clinic for Refractory Migraines at for more information.

There are several people on our forum who have had DHE infusions. If you'd like to come talk with them, there's more information about our forum below.

Thank you for creating a SharePost. (If you haven't created a SharePost by the time you read this, I hope you'll create one and tell us a bit about yourself.) 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, http://www.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,
Teri Robert
MyMigraineConnection.com Lead Expert

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