I've had migraines since I was 11; I'll be 51 in a few months. I've been on Imitrex since shortly after it came out. I had to switch doctors at that time because my employer changed insurance carriers. I took a list of my previous migraine medications, dosages, durations of usages and failures to the new doctor and told him I wanted to try Imitrex. He glanced at the list and said he wanted to retry several of the old medications. I told him it was of no value to me for him to watch me suffer; I knew to my satisfaction that those medications did not work for me. He wanted to try anyway. I said, "Well, I've never seen you before today. I have no attachment to you. If you won't give me Imitrex and have no medical reason for not doing so, I'll find a doctor who will." He quickly changed his mind. I'm also on Topomax. Sometimes you have to get a little bit onery. Might as well get that way when you don't have a headache, because when you sure will when you do have one -- until you get to the whimper and curl up in a ball stage. That's the same doctor who told me I was obsessive compulsive about my list and whom I told that since doctors don't listen well I hoped they could read. I'm normally a fairly nice lady, but we're talking survival when we're talking headaches. |