Mark

have you tried depakote 500mg that works as a preventive medation
that might help you Mary

--- In migraineswithepilepsy@yahoogroups.com, Karin Schacht
<karinschacht@e...> wrote:
> hi mark~
>
>
> Are you able to take or tolerate an additional med like an
> anti-depressant? I wonder if something like one of the tricyclics
would
> help with some of your other migraine symptoms.
> Although a higher dose of remeon made my siezure problems worse,
the
> remeron in general helped with many of the other migraine symptoms
you
> mentioned- nausea, sensitivity,etc.. Can you do an adjunct
> anti-convulsant? Have you tried Neurontin yet? I would like to go
back
> on that because i had a lot less migraines on it than now,even
though i
> was on a fairly low dose. I was taken off that to go on topomax
(didn't
> tolerate) then lamictal (recently started and sure enough I have a
> headache:o() - these for the seizure activity.
>
> I found my migraines also started when I got my first complex
partial,
> at age 13. My mothers side of her family has migraines.
>
> Right now I im in a medication limbo-land, trying to get off
remeron
> for other reasons but trying to find another good subsitute and a
> tolerable anti-convulsant. I notice my migraine problems worsening
(or
> really going back to the way they used to be) as I get lower and
lower
> on my remeron dosage.
>
> Two things I have found helpful somewhat (as a preventative but
I've
> read of some using these to abort a migraine) is
magnesium..chelated
> magnesium in a pill form, and WaterOz (an aqueous magnesium product
> that you can order online), which has been pretty good..up until i
> started this lamictal :0(.
>
> I hope you can work with your drs to come up with something that
will
> stop your frequent migraines... out of all the meds i've tried, the
> neurontin and the remeron have helped me the most...
>
> best of luck in finding something helpful!!
>
> karin
> > 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
> >
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