There is a link between migraines and epilespy I take topmax which
has been out for a year it works for seizures and migraines it works
for me appartly one of the things I been told by having a a lot of
seizures it sets off miragires and also it in the same area of the
brain as seizures that is the link cause i have migraines with
epilepsy as well Mary

--- In migraineswithepilepsy@yahoogroups.com, "einsteins_inspiration"
<einsteins_inspiration@y...> wrote:
> Hi. My name is Mark and I'm new in this group. I have complex
> partial seizures which are pretty well controlled on Dilantin. I
> also get viscious migraines which are starting to be controlled by
> Cardizem. At this point I still get a migraine almost every day
but
> they are only moderate, through I still get the nausea, weakness,
> numbness, sensetivity to light, sound, and smells, and extra left-
> sided weakness in full force. It's only been within the last 3
> months that I've had migraines so many days in a row (sometimes a
> single one lasts for 4 days), so life is pretty bizarre right now.
> When the pain gets to be too much I take Amerge once or twice, but
it
> really dosen't help that much, only about half as much as I would
> like.
>
> I'm interested in possible links between migraines and epilepsy.
> I've had both since I was a little kid (5 or 6) and my neurologist
> believes that my epilepsy is the result of small areas of brain
> damage caused by the vasoconstrictive stage of untreated
migraines.
> He's apparently seen a number of these kinds of cases. Migraines
> definitely run in my family. I can remember my grandmother holding
> her head and having to go to her room many times. Some of my aunts
> and uncles and my mother get them. (This is all on my mother's side
> of the family.) I even remeber my great grandmother acting like I
do
> when I get them, so who's to say she didn't get them too?
>
> Well, it's nice to be here. I am very interested to find out about
> the experiences of other people with these two disorders and how
the
> disorders might interact in their lives.
>
> Mark