Topamax for chronic daily headaches
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I have had chronic daily headaches for the last year now. Since right after the birth of my last child. I have tried all kinds of different meds from daily meds to preventatives. I do not think that they are migraines since they do not come with anyother symptoms, but I am not sure They are alway one sided though. My neurologist has not really told me what causes them or what they are just switches my meds or ups the doses.
We need to stay in touch. I also have daily chronic headache, same tests as you were normal, have been to 3 neurologists (2 headache certified). Have your doctors accurately defined (to your satisfaction) whether you have migraine or tension or cervicogenic headache? Different preventive medication for migraines may not be effective on tension headaches. I have tried propanolol, which did nothing for me. Ditto for topamax--just made me dizzy, couldn't tolerate it for more than 1 day.
i have migraines and take topamax....it does relieve the headaches as a daily medication, just as long as they get the dosing correct. (and make sure you take it at the same time every day) i have noticed if i take it late then i tend to have the headaches the next day. you might see if they can put you on a medication in case you have a headache while on the topamax.
I have had daily headaches for well over a couple years. Four to five years ago my doc thought they were migraines and I took Imitrex about once every 2 weeks. Then I started getting a worse headache from the Imitrex, like my entire head was supersensitive, my hair hurt. He sent me to a neurologist who diagnosed occiptal neuralgia. That doc has been giving me botox injections in my neck and prescribed Lyrica.
I can't afford the Lyrica -- its $300 a month.
Hi. I've been on Topomax 125 mg. for almost 6 months now. I have much less migraines than before but I still have chronic daily headaches. Does anyone else have daily headaches? I've asked my neurologist about increasing my dosage to see if it would help with the daily headaches but he's hesitant due to kidney stones and other side effects. I feel better on Topomax than I did before and can handle the side effects I've had.
I had daily headaches/migraines for months and the last thing we tried was topomax. It caused me to have incredible reactions that resembled a stroke at one point so I quit taking it after I talked with my doctor. I was also taking Prilosec for some nausea. For some reason I had forgotten to take the prilosec for a couple days and hadn't had a headache. Got in the car to start a 6 hr trip and thought I should take it since I would be eating out a lot over the next few days.
I am honestly at the end of my rope. I have had chronic headaches since 2002. Diagnosed with a nonsecretring pituitary macroadenoma 2006. Transnasal removal 2007. No head for 2 months after surgery. Occasional double vision before surgery.
I continue to have daily headaches as well as chronic migraines (migraines since age 14). Latest MRI of brain reports venous angioma posterior fossa.
I am very sorry for your loss but she is in a much better place. I have had these headaches for about 9years and they were always "misdiagnosed" as "sinus headaches". I finally went to an eye doctor an they said it was a swollen optic nerve behind my left eye. He sent me to a neurologist and she said it wasn't that but she wanted to check something in my brain.
For 5 months now i have been suffering with headaches on the top of my head, allways in the same area,i have no problems with vision..The headache started very badly one morning and i vomited 15 times in 3 hours,i had to rush to the doctors to get a pain killing injection..Since this episode i have moderate headaches everyday, if the pain increases the nausea starts.does anybody have any idea what could be causing this?i am now being sent to a nerologist.
The headache your wife is suffering from may indeed be caused by primary headaches such as migraine headache or cluster headaches, hemicrania continua, and even post traumatic headache. If the medications she is not taking are not helpful, inform your doctor about this for proper management. Further evaluation may need to be done also to help determine the underlying cause. Take care and do keep us posted.
has said is the culprit behind chronic ongoing headaches like that he gave it to me v/s Topamax b/c he said that one only addresses migraines. I started on low doses & worked up to the high ones that people take for seizers. it actually helped a whole lot. Stopped it b/c of weight gain and feeling "drugged" alot (which when it relives the 24/7 pain at first you don't care if you feel "drugged".
I am ashamed to say that I am a big vicodon user I have been for about 8 years, however , they dont help with headaches at all. I started taken them for chronic back problems. In September I got a headache theis headache is across my entire forehead, in my eyes and very sharp pain in my temples. It is the end of November ans I still have this headache. It is taking over my life. I am a mother of 2 and its at the point were I cant deal with my kids.
Hi Pam,
I added the Nadolol to the mix of stuff I use for my migraines because currently I am still classified as having severe chronic migraines (15+ a month)... so for me the topamax isn't working to reduce my migraines to under 15+ a month. That is why my neurologist added Nadolol to the mix of what I am taking.
I also use zomig nasal spray (a triptan, migraine medication) and naproxen (a NSAID, pain killer) for acute treatment of migraines.
I have been having headaches for the last 2 months .According to the ER doctor they are migraines. I go there get shot and go home it will ease off but end up going back within a week for another shot and I think they think that I am just playing or something. Anyway I have had migraines before but only maybe once or twice a year.
I have been getting daily headaches for about 9 years, I can generally cope with these now as I am used to getting them. I have had an MRI scan about 5 years ago and they didnt find anything wrong. I have changed my diet, given up smoking etc, had my eyes tested, changed my pill and come off of it numerous times, but nothing seems to work to stop them.
There are only the odd days where I dont have one, some days are worse than others, and some days I have to stay in bed.
I am 55 years old and have been suffering from headaches for over 20 years. Since I also have sinus and allergies I always associated the headaches with sinus and is pretty much what I'd been told until last year. Over the past 2-3 years they have become worse. So bad that I had sinus surgery in 10/11. However, I was told it would not completely eliminate the headaches because I suffer from severe allergies as well. The headaches got better for about 10 months. Then around Oct./Nov.
Advil does nothing for chronic or severe headache pain... and is actually a trigger for headaches and can cause rebound headaches, so it also doesn't surprise me that advil did nothing for your pain... in face, advil can just irritate pain and make it worse. If your headaches really are tension headaches, then it makes sense also that the Sumatriptan didn't work...
I have been treated for tension headaches and migraines since 2009. I was diagnosed with JME when I was 13. I'm currently on 150 topamax and 500 lamictal for seizures. I have tried antimigraines, analgesics, muscle relaxants, nonsteroidal-anti-inflammatory and steroids, ssnri antidepressants and obviously acetaminophen and aspirin for headaches . I have one every single day but the severity of it varies. Within the past few days I have noticed slight shaking and weakness in my hands.
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