Bad Migraines This Month - Increasing my Imitrex Dosage

Hi everybody,

Well, since my last post, I have to say this has been one of my toughest months in quite a few years in terms of migraine pain and frequency.  I wouldn't say they've been daily, but right now, every day that I wake up with no pain is a day I am feeling really grateful.

I hardly ever get frustrated with the fact that I have migraines.  I feel like I've really learned how to cope and how to understand that almost everyone has a physical malady they deal with.  Migraines is just my personal malady. 

But, even when I can talk myself out of feeling sorry for myself intellectually, it doesn't remove the emotional pain that I feel after having headaches that last for days on end.  It just wears me down and I end up crying on the phone to anyone who might call me that day.  I cried when I was talking to a client the other day and just felt like an idiot.  Luckily, she's someone I know well and have a great relationship with... but it's still kind of embarrassing that I was so worn down by the pain that I couldn't control my emotions.

And I cried again that night when none of my medicines would work and I had to cancel plans on one of my friends... again.  Sometimes I can still go out... but recently, I've been having such bad motion sickness associated with the migraines that I don't feel like it's safe for me to drive. 

I think I posted before about the connection between kids that have motion sickness and their propensity to develop migraines later in life.  I was fascinated by that because I was always one of those kids that didn't do well on long distance drives.  I could never read or play those counting cars games... I would just have to listen to my music in headphones and try to sleep as much as possible.  I found that all pretty interesting when I first saw an article connecting motion sickness with migraines.  It makes sense from the whole vascular angle.

To the point of my subject line... I thought I would post that I tried taking a 100mg dose of my Imitrex the other day instead of my normal 50mg pill... and it seemed to work quite a bit better.  These past few months, I've had so many headaches that my Imitrex (the 50mg pills and also the shots) just can't seem to touch.  I had received a few samples from my doctor of the 100mg, but hadn't tried them.  It seems like it helped to up the dosage.

That's all for now.  I hope you all are doing well.  I'm anxiously waiting for the cooler weather.  We've had 2 cool days in a row... and no surprise to me, no headaches! YEA!

Kelli  :)

Comments

[psychy.org]

Hi Kelli!

The fact that higher dose may be helping better may mean that your body metabolizes the medication very fast. There are people out there who are so-called "fast metabolizers", and normal doses are always below sub-therapeutic level for them.

Good luck!

Psychy.org