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Migraine Headache is the most common type of vascular headache, involving (it is thought) abnormal sensitivity of blood vessels (arteries) in the brain to various triggers resulting in rapid changes in the artery size due to spasm (constriction).

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I have them and they are a killer. My dr perscribed me a beta blocker to help control them. and then maxalt, my head aches are still pretty bad!!!!

I also have migraine. It kills.no cure for it.

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You should try Imigran or Imitrex

The Imitrex injections worked pretty well for a while - I liked that the results were almot instantaneous! But eventually I got used to it, and it stopped working. So we've gone through the gamut - Relpax, Maxalt, Midrin (which is like candy with my headaches!) I also took Topomax for a while to try to prevent migraines. Once again, it worked for a while, but I just seem to get innured to these medications.

The Imitrex nasal spray was horrible! I already had this headache which felt like an alien was trying to come out of my skull - and then the nasal spray set my sinuses on fire! Not fun.

I completely empathize! I did great on Imitrex for a while and then they started interfering with my ability to breath...

The worst thing about not being able to use Imitrex is that there are so many people that it DOES work for who can just give themselves a shot, disappear to somewhere quiet for 15 minutes and come back as a reasonable fascimile of a functional human being; that people start to see you as a slacker because you can't do that!

Julie

Toward the end of my migraine "career" it was rare to go 2 whole days without one. I suffered from migraines for over 20 years. Ironically, it took that long for a doctor to suggest blood pressure medication. Even though my blood pressure always measured in the low normal range, he thought it would help; and IT DID. I've been on it 4-5 years, and I have only had 2-3 almost-migraines in all that time--NOTHING near my old migraines. It even turned out that I can cut my Rx dose in half, and it works just fine. I take Timelol (spelling?), also known as Blocadren, 2.5 mg. twice a day.

I, too, tried Imitrex; but it got to where it made my heart race so much it scared me. Exedrin worked off and on, but it eventually upset my stomach severely.

Migraines are AWFUL. People with normal headaches have NO IDEA what the pain is like. In fact once, after I'd been on the blood pressure pills a while, I had a very mild headache. It was only then that I understood how one friend of mine could say she always continued to work when she had a headache as though it was easy for her! Normal headaches are a piece of cake. My heart goes out to anyone with migraines.