Re: Matt and headaches

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Matt,

I know I've asked before, but have you tried seeing a chiropractor?

Another three drugs to try are depacote, imitrex,or maybe even a

beta-blocker. Several members of my family, representing three

generations were/are plagued with migraines. Oddly, only my mother

used my husband's services (he's a licensed chiropractor, but gave up

practicing full time in order to teach and coach and get awesome health

insurance. Good thing, now that I have to have that pesky little liver

transplant which I just found out will run somewhere in the area of

half a million. I had no idea. Luckily my policy has a five mil cap,

and I have at least half left on it )I don't suffer from migraines, but

do get the " sarc " headache in the back of my head, which he can make go

away for a day with an incredible combination cervical adjustment and

some way that he literally pulls my skull up, relieving the pressure

where the spinal column enters the brain or something like that. That

way, when he makes his adjustment, and I admit it takes complete

relaxation and complete trust, so he can't do this kind of combination

on many people -- they just can't get loose enough-- anyway, when he

makes the spinal adjustment, I can just feel everything going back to

the way it should be. That's why I always tell people that Medicine is

an Art but Chiropractic is a Science, and my husband, lucky for me, is

a certified (he did his internship after attending Palmer) " neck man " .

The other thing he does for me is just helping me with plain old " bed

neck " since I'm in the fetal position so much, it's likely I just get

out of whack after a bit, ,just like every one. Lucky for me, I can

just ask my hubby to give me a tune up before he goes to work and I'm

as good as new.

But there I go again! somehow whenever I write a post trying to help

someone, I end up talking about myself. It's a bad social habit and one

I am trying to break with all my will. Please accept my heartfelt

apologies. I sure hope you find something soon. you might revisit

something you didn't think worked and think about just upping the

dosage. My mom is pleased as punch that I bugged her enough to finally

get her to try topomax. she started out at 15 mg twice a day, and she

doesn't have all the rules she had with the imitrez which worked, but

she could only take so many and then back off again, so she had to

suffer a couple of days, etc. And at her starting dose she can go up

quite a bit ( she's on 30 mg per day and I'm on 200 mg per day, which

is the ceiling).

One last thing. I have been enjoying your posts to the other members.

They are helpful and to the point, while being sincere and not too

wordy as mine always are. I wish I had that talent. Con gratulations

for doing such a good job -- please do as much of it as you can-- sorry

to say, but for a disease that strikes just a bit more males than

females, we've rarely had more than four or five men posting regularly,

or irregularly for that matter. I've had my theories, but none that

would explain the disparity that large. Maybe you could give us your

view point, not speaking for all males, but just for the one you are.

Hope some of this information helped, and hope your head stops hurting,