Posted by IsoM on February 4, 2002, at 14:02:41
In reply to Re: headaches and folic acid, posted by Willow on February 4, 2002, at 7:30:53
Thanks, Willow. I'll look into baclofen. From the word, it looks like a NSAID. I do have a prescription for Vioxx, the most effective NSAID I've found, but I prefer to use it sparingly. Whenever I take NSAIDs, I bruise horribly from the slightest thing - even pressure on the same place for long leaves bruises. I had complete blood work done as one doctor thought I looked like I was beaten. My tests came back very, very good, but I have (I think it's genetic) a mild enough reaction to NSAIDs with my platelets.
I'm 52, & like you, I get more auras now that don't progress to pain, but still leave me a little spacey. I get a lot of lights, spots, etc in my vision. Yet eye tests showed nothing different. It's one reason I was so excited when I tried the Subsyndromal Epilepsy questionnaire on another page of Dr. Bob's. I scored high on it.
All three of my sons tried it too. One got a higher score than me, another was similar to mine, & my oldest only answered yes to one single question - weird! He said if that's what we have to operate under, no wonder we feel like our brain doesn't work at times. He had no idea we experienced these things.
I did have tests done by a neurologist & he suggested valproic acid as the main med. I figured at this point that I've lived with headaches for years (& according to tests, manage my pain well) that I didn't want to add another drug with such potentially harmful side-effects.
I just need to kick myself in the rear to get physically more active. I used to walk 5 miles 4 times a week, rain or shine, & weight train at one time. I don't have the room in this place & I hate going to a gym full of people. I prefer working out alone. And it's just very easy for me to break habits but very difficult to form new ones.
I'm curious how often you get migraines, pain or not now, too. Mine seem to have no pattern, no triggers that I've ever found. How about yours? I can get them once a week or more; or other times, a month or two will pass without one. No seasonal pattern either. Actually any headache makes me stupid. A concept that I could easily grasp other times has me struggling to put it together when I have a headache. And it HURTS like hell then to think! You too?
The neurologist who tested me said more & more, it's thought that migraines & frequent tension headaches are part of the same spectrum of a disorder - serotonin problems. He suggested an AD for me but I told him I was already using one. That's when he suggested valproic acid. I still consider it at times, but it does make me nervous.
There I went again, blithering on...
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