I have been suffering from migraines for about 15 years now, but in the past year I have had really bad daily headaches.
I take Imitrex which helps, and I have tried Topomax with no much help there.
In order to function daily I have to take the
In answer to questions of why Botox(botulinum toxin type A..there is now, in the US, another strain of type A, Dysport...)works, it probably is NOT by relaxing muscles, but rather:
Botox actually is an anti-inflammatory, decreasing, or antagonizing, the
I was wondering how many of you felt about Hydrocodone for your migraines. I am only using it right now as a last resort (because of the expense of my Relpax <rescue med>. My nuerologist told me that people who use a narcotic to reduce the pain of
I have recently been diagnosed as having CPEO - chronic progressive external opthalmoplegia. This is a mitrochondrial disease that manifests itself with droopy eyelids, double vision, limited eye movement, and (sometimes) general muscle weakness in other
I have never been able to exactly pinpoint the exact trigger of my migraines. I get month long migraines and have been able to find things that do make already existent pain worse.
That being said, I have never had a normal menstrual cycle. I have gon
A few weeks ago I was having horrible headaches, fever, couldnt turn my head, was feeling very sick. I had a red patch on my leg that grew to 100 times its original size over the next few weeks. The doctors put me on 5 different antibiotics, was in the ER
happy new year everyone!
i have not been on in a while. my spouse is finally walking without a cane(mostly) since he mangled his knee, leg and ankle on 7/2!
so i went from being the patient to being the caregiver. a total flip of roles. keeping
I know this is a very controversial subject and most likely has been discussed here before but it interested me nonetheless. Even my hippie wife and myself the tattooed rock-n-roll migraine sufferer were not aware that LSD was and is being used to treat
A coworker was absent yesterday because she got a new memory foam pillow and had a bad allergic reaction to it and her face was all swollen and she had trouble breathing. She did research and found out that the pillow had formaldehyde in it that the
