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Teri Robert

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posted 09/25/2008, comments (4)

Migraines, the Election, Tomorrow's Debate

How is your head today? Any Migraine or headache? If you do have one, I hope you're getting the medical care you need and that it's not putting you in financial distress. There are many important (and somewhat frightening) issues in the news today, just a bit more than a month before this year's Presidential election -- hurricaine recovery, the... Read more Chevron

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Mandy Crest

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posted 09/25/2008, comments (0)

Double Whamy!

In my last post, I wrote that since 2003, I experience only a small number of full-blown migraines per year. As fate would have it, just after that post went up I was hit with two days' worth of level-ten nuclear bomb migraine hell.Years of experience tells me that the seasonal change from summer to autumn weather was probably a precipitating... Read more Chevron

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MaryAnnH

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posted 09/25/2008, comment (1)

Confused

Okay, I'm confused most of the time, whether I'm in Kansas or not, lol. BUT, I do have a question for the moderators. I registered with MyMigraineConnection.com, have a profile and have been slowly poking around the site. Tonight I visited the migraine forum listed under the tab "connect". When I tried to post a reply to... Read more Chevron

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Nebula

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posted 09/25/2008, comments (2)

let down

I was so excited at the beginning of the summer. It felt like a fog had lifted and I was myself again. I got off the topamax that HATED and began taking amitriptyline. I like being on it and for most of the summer it seemed to be working really well. Now I'm a semester into my senior year and it seems to have stopped working completely. I've taken... Read more Chevron

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Burgz

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posted 09/25/2008, comments (2)

Stupid Depression

Isn't it ironic that most migraine/headache preventives also increase the risk of depression? I have a history of severe depression, of chronic daily headache, and of migraines; I've tried several preventives already with no success. I saw a headache specialist today, and, like the last one, said there really wasn't much more we... Read more Chevron

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