Migraine overview
A migraine is a headache that can purpose intense throbbing suffering or a pulsing sensation, typically on one facet of the head. It's often accompanied with the aid of nausea, vomiting, and excessive sensitivity to mild and sound. Migraine assaults can closing for hours to days, and the discomfort can be so excessive that it interferes with your each day activities. For some people, a warning symptom viewed as an air of secrecy takes location until now than or with the headache. An air of secrecy can consist of visible disturbances, such as flashes of mild or blind spots, or different disturbances, such as tingling on one thing of the face or in an arm or leg and concern speaking.
My experience-Amitriptyline changed my life
I am 23F and have been having migraines since at least 11/12. For the first few years, they were blamed on my glasses/using my phone too much/my hormones. When I was in college, I grew tired of the neurology appointments that never got booked, the 15-25 migraines per month, the inability to eat, be productive, or get out of bed; so I looked up online services and found Cove. I was prescribed Topamax, which within a week interfered with my Lexapro and caused me to become hospitalized. The hospital took me off of both medications and prescribed me Effexor for both my depression/anxiety and migraines; it helped with neither. I ended up back on Lexapro and was just barely managing my migraines with OTCs and sleeping a lot.
Then I found Lemonaid Health and was prescribed Elavil (amitriptyline) 10mg to take at night because the website can only prescribe a select number of preventative medications. I couldn't take Topamax anymore, can't take beta blockers because my blood pressure runs too low naturally, and most of the other medications interacted with my antidepressants. I was told that Elavil was the only thing left to prescribe me before I had to get "more vigorous testing" elsewhere. So I gave it a try. OH MY GOD. It took 3-4 months, but I have gone from 15-20 bad migraines in a month to maybe 1 bad migraine and 2 manageable ones. I can function again, I can forget my Excedrin at home and not have a panic attack. I can eat (mostly) whatever I want, I can read, I can write, I can watch TV, I can drive! Over ten years of debilitating pain could have been avoided with one tiny little white pill at bedtime. I thought I was going to be the token "nothing works" patient with migraines and that I was going to suffer for the rest of my life.... but now I might actually not. I also was prescribed rizatriptan as an abortive (bad reaction to sumatriptan) and Zofran for the nausea and with the combo of the meds, I have become a functioning member of society. I hope this post helps anyone just starting to take Elavil, and that it works for you the way it worked for me.
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