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Laurie Petrausch's avatar

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing this. I suffer from anxiety and bad migraines. I’m interested to hear the details of your migraine cure.

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Laurie Petrausch's avatar

I just realized I got a little excited. I think the headaches have improved in the last nine months not the last two years. But I can highly recommend the app. I haven’t ever tried preventative meds but I’m interested to know how they work. I’m also getting to that lovely age so my hormones are kind of crazy and unpredictable.

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Jaime Derringer's avatar

Oh boy! I've tried everything and everyone's response to medication is so different.

My migraines have stumped my doctors, and have been difficult to treat. I suspect they have always been hormone-related. My current medications are daily amitriptyline and every other day Nurtec. I have to take preventives, so I don't typically take any rescue medications, but my rescue includes everything from Benadryl to indomethacin to Ubrelvy. I'm also on a combination of HRT, but that's also very specific to each person and so I had to do a trial and error until I found the right combo.

Do you have migraine with or without aura? If you have aura, there are a lot of different treatment options that could work for you that didn't work with me since I don't have aura.

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Laurie Petrausch's avatar

I just saw this after many months! No aura. I think mine are hormone and stress related. They have improved in the last year or two. I realized that I needed some kind of mental reset like I needed to retrain my brain. I started using an a called curable. It helps you treat migraines like chronic pain and work out where they are coming from.

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Jaime Derringer's avatar

That’s great that it is helping you!

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