Yes, I'm 57 and have had migraines since I was 21. I get them about once a month to one every 3 months, somewhere in that frequency. For the past 2 years, I've been getting them about once per month. The call of triptan drugs helps me a lot. These are imitrex, zomig, relpax, etc. The self-injectable imitrex worked the best for me, but I'm too chicken to give myself the shot any more because the pills work pretty well. Now I'm able to function after the headache starts - I used to be incapacitated. I get the classsic ones with the visual disturbance at the start for about a half hour. I hate these things. In the past I treid cafergot, inderal and elavil and the only things that have really worked for me are the triptans. I also, avoid a lot of foods (red wine, nuts, chocolate, onions, msg, sodium nitrite, etc.) but am not quite sure if there is a correlation. I've also taken to avoiding aspartame (diet coke) and also don't drink regular coke any more becuase of all the sugar. I think there may be a correlation to viagra also which I had to start using in low doses a few years ago so have recently switched to levitra. The final concern I have is whether there is a correlation to PFO - patent foramen ovale - look it up. I have no reason to think I have a pfo, but there is a suspected migraine correlation.
So - there's a bunch of things to check into re migraine headaches!
Tom
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