migraine headaches

[YorkieShadow]

My daughter gets them and they last for days. I know how bad they can be, I hope you feel better soon.

[YorkieRose]

My oldest daughter (40) gets migraines and is on meds. My youngest daughter (37) gets mild ones a few times per year. You may find this hard to believe, but I have only had two headaches in my life..both made me sick to my stomach, but then they were gone. If they are genetic, I have no idea where they come from.. My husband says some of us give headaches rather then getting them..I guess that is me.
I never realized how many people suffer until my daughter started getting them. Feel better soon...

[susansmom]

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.