Ok so I was getting these headaches for no apparent reason so I went to the neurologist like my endo referred it and now my neuro says i have migraines.. great just what i need.. : No im taking this pill called AMITRIPTYLINE HCL and i have been taking it for 2 days now.. Before that I took Topomax for 5 days.. and not anymore because my "health insurance" compony wont cover it.. anyways when i was taking topomax i was getting nightmares ever single night.. and with this new one I had one last night.. Could the medicines be causing them? Also this new one is an anti-depressant and the only things its used for it depression and migraines.. but the side effects could be the same.. it worries me because im a happy person and all but suicidal thoughts are one of the side effects.. And could it be affecting my BG? I have noticed that it is very more unstable now.. also i have been feeling very very tired thou the whole day and its annoying because i do so much during the day.. And i cannot stop taking it because then the 6 hr killer migraines will come back.... grr.. anyone gone or going thou this? if not ideas and help?.. :) thanks!
I take both Topomax and Amitriptyline for my migraines have not had any side effects from them. Have you tried taking Imitrex or something like that to treat them only when you have a migraine. Do you know what your triggers are for the migraines (stress, foods, etc.)?
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I take both Topomax and Amitriptyline for my migraines have not had any side effects from them. Have you tried taking Imitrex or something like that to treat them only when you have a migraine. Do you know what your triggers are for the migraines (stress, foods, etc.)?
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The only problem is that I tried the only-when-i-get-one method but it was making it worse because they kept rebounding.. Im just worried for the side effects.. The pills have helped me allot in getting them less often.. I know once a friend I had was taking pain killers and it was giving him night mares.. not taking the as a base but i have been getting them... hmm Lmitrex.. ill look into it.. whats the difference?
I was getting really bad headaches when I was your age. Often so bad that I would go home in the afternoon to sit in the dark of my basement bedroom and sob myself to sleep because my head hurt so bad.
Know what I did over time instead of leaving school early in a fit of tears from pain? Popped like 4 IBU's, lay down in the dark for an hour and had a nap...and I was fine. If it wasn't too bad, I'd pop the pills have lots of water and sit through class and then go home afterwards and have a nap.
Then I went to the eye doctor two years later and got a prescription for glasses. It's only a minor distance problem and I went because I couldn't see street signs at night, not because of my headaches. Now I rarely get them.
Why not go to your eye doctor and have him check you out, you might not realize you need glasses(I have needed them since grade 8 but didn't get them until I was almost 20 because I just shrugged it off cuz it wasn't that bad)
There's a couple theories. My mom thinks it was my eyes, the doctors think it was my eyes, I think it was a mix of my eyes and the effect of having my brother hit me in that area of the head a lot when we were growing up! haha