I am tired of drs who think they are gods. they think they can tell you how many migraines you can have a month, and what will help you. I am 50 years old and have suffered with these since I was at least 4. I remember them that far back. How can the dr tell me I can only have a certain number per month. Then because my dr changed her practice to be a hospitalist and parttime mom, I have to suffer thru finding a dr who will then keep me on the meds I was on, because the next dr doesn't treat the same way as the other one did. They all have their "own" way of treating a patient, so I am the one who suffers.. I miss work, and end up in urgent care because the next dr jerks me off one medicine that is working because he doesn't think I should take it, and increases another one that makes me drowsy because he thinks I need to take more of it... sometimes, I just want to shoot myself.. If I ever die from a migraine it will be from taking to many advil just from desperation to stop the pain pounding in my head. Does anyone have an answer to the circle?
No, I don't have an answer as it is the same question I have been asking myself. I am 54 almost 55 yrs old. I have been having migraines since at least 6 years old. They were different then but, I am tired of them. I am going to the Diamond Headache clinic this coming Thursday and I am afraid. I went to an internist yesterday, who spent maybe 4 minutes with me. I have been on Imitrex for years and it pretty much worked. Then approximately 2 months ago I developed an itchy rash. I have been on and off steroids since. The last time I got off the steroids, I had a week of migraines.
I wanted to die. The imitrex was not working and the rash came back with a vengeance. I decided it may be the imitrex and think that I don't know what I am going to do? I wish I could tell you there is an answer to talking to doctors. I had a couple along the way that were maybe ok. But something we have been finding in our area lately is that the doctors who spend too much time with their patients have to move on from the practice of the groups they are in. My one doctor is now working for the VA. Today my husband found out his doctor disapeared along with 2 other doctors from the group they were in? This is a crazy world. Don't give up. I know when you have a migraine you want to die, we all do. But when I feel ok like I do right now I am happy to be alive. So, I try to just sleep if I can and or exist until I can get better. I wish you health and healing you deserve better than you have received.