I just want to know has anyone ever gotten IV for migraines and if so does it help any?

What kind of IV? I was hooked up to one when I went to outpatients once. It was Morphine. It helped as far as knocking me out. That I liked.. but I don't care for the rest of the effects of Morphine. Once it wore off the pain was right back. Demerol works better for me, injection form.
Were you talking about getting an IV drip at the doctors office or at the hospital?
Take care.
Di

Actually my neurologist told me that whenever my migraines are to much to handle just come to the building and get treated. So yeah, I would say its a more a office type.

Hi Joe,

If he def. said 'by IV' and not just by injection, it sounds to me like he will try something like DHE IV which is quite and effective abortive medication, in a hospital setting, for some people. Much more effective than if taken by mouth.

If he were just giving y ou pain medication like morphine or Demerol, he would probably give it to you IM.

Good luck!!//Chaswick.

I was just at Cleveland Clinic last week, and had a migraine while I was there. My doctor ordered an IV drip of Depakon. It took about an hour, so it is fed through rather quickly. Within that hour, my headache dropped from a 7 to a 4. The good thing is the medication continued to work after I had left the clinic. After about another hour my headache was gone. I am excited about this treatment as I have usually had to have a shot of Demarol with an anti nausea added. I cannot take the triptans as they cause rapid heartbeat and that scares me.
Depakon is an anti-convulsive, and I took the tablet form for a couple years before I was changed to Neurontin.

I had an IV treatment of DHE-45. It was administered at the hospital during a 3 day stay. Is this what you are talking about? It was to help clense my body of all the medications I had been taking and help break the cycle of chronic daily headaches.
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Kentucky Woman,

Can you tell me your thoughts on Neurontin and the Mg that you are currently taking for headaches. I have severe daily chronic headaches so in other words, I have a horrible knock me out flat migraine many times a week. I was put on neurontin for TMJ, but only 300 mg. which is NOT helping the headaches. Please any suggestions for these headaches would be greatly appreciated. I've always had occasional migraines but this last three months or so, It's been out of control. I am miserable and it's disrupting my life. Any thoughts on what works. Man, I wish I could run to get an IV each time I experience these headaches. I have an appointment next week with a headache pain clinic. Should I go? Will it help? Any answers please?

My headaches have been a lot less frequent since I have been taking neurontin. I have gone from about 3 a week to 4-5 a month now. I cannot say the magnesium helps or not. If it does, it is not so much that I notice. The neurontin does tend to make me a little drowsey; but since lowering the dosage to 400 MG 4 times a day, it has been better. Other than some drowsiness, I do not have any other adverse side effects from neurontin. Before taking neurontin, I was on Depakote and then Topamax. Neither of those two helped my headaches. My experience with neurontin has been very positive compared to the others.

A shot of Demerol with phenegran (sp) IM is the only way I can kick my migranes.......it always knocks me out but when i wake up i do not have the migrane