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A Certain Level of Brain Freedom
August 22nd, 2010
I am enjoying a long stretch of freedom from pain in the brain. Hooray! I have had only six Migraines since late June. Less than one a week! A better rate than I’ve achieved in the past three years, at least. I began taking the blood pressure medication Lisinopril in late June, and this seems like a winning combination for me. My current regimen includes:
- Nortriptyline 50 mg at bedtime (a tri-cyclic antidepressant, taken at a very low dose for Migraine prevention, it has also helped my sleep and lowered my anxiety level);
- Lisinopril 20 mg (10 at bedtime and 10 at breakfast);
- High potency multi-vitamin;
- Magnesium 400 mg;
- B-Complex 100 mg;
- B-2 300 mg;
- CoQ10 300 mg;
- Armour Thyroid 60 mg;
- Iodoral iodine supplement;
- DHEA 10 mg at bedtime;
- Melatonin 3 mg at bedtime;
- Omega-3 fish oil supplement;
- Pro-greens pro-biotic supplement;
- At least 84 ounces of water per day;
- daily walks;
- daily relaxation practice.
That’s about 15 pills in the morning and 6 at bedtime. If that’s the price of freedom, I can live with it. As always, an unintentional experiment proved how well this regimen is working for me. A few weeks ago I had a Migraine on a Thursday evening and, as I sometimes do, forgot to take my bedtime pills as I was treating the Migraine and everything else went out of my head. The next day we were leaving just after work for our cousins’ beach house and I got up early in foggy post-drome and packed for the weekend before work. I forgot to pack my pills! So just as Danny was leaving the house to come meet me at my office, I called him and asked him to pack them for me. He did that, but when we met up and transferred the bags from the car he was driving to the other, the bag of pills got left behind. We discovered this at about 10 pm at the beach house. So I went without pills for a second night in a row, and missed my morning doses Saturday morning. Danny was a hero and drove over 6 hours round-trip to go get my pills so I could stay through Monday. Two nights and a morning without had a cumulative effect, though, and I had a pretty severe Migraine Sunday night. It is now two weeks later, took my pills every day and no Migraines in that two weeks!
My Migraine specialist, Dr. Bill Young of Jefferson Headache Center, had said to me , “Six to seven Migraines a month isn’t good enough. We can do better!” (Love this guy! Compare with the last guy who thought I should be satisfied with reducing from 10 a month to 7.) So when I went to my last appointment in late June with the news that my blood pressure had been running high, for the first time in my life, he was excited! I had to tease him about that, how many physicians would say, “Oh good!” on learning that their patient had developed high blood pressure! But he explained that anti-hypertensives can be excellent Migraine preventives, but can’t be prescribed if the patient’s blood pressure is too low. He was confident that the two medications together, along with all my other supplements, would produce better Migraine prevention results for me. And so far, so good! I try not to really measure a trend until it’s been going on for several months, but early results look promising. I am loving the extra time and energy I have for hanging out with family and friends, and getting some chores and projects done around the house. Now if I could just manage the fibromyalgia…
For any of you who see doctors who only know a limited number of Migraine preventive options, or who aren’t comfortable with combining several medications, or who aren’t knowledgeable about supplements, find another doctor! If you aren’t doing daily relaxation, meditation, yoga or another practice to calm your nervous system, get on it! It can take time, but most of us achieve a significant level of brain freedom.
Hope you’re doing well. Leave me comment and let me know how you’re getting on, okay?
Smoo cave waterfall photo courtesy of Subflux.
Tags: fibromyalgia, Jefferson Headache Center, managing life with migraine, migraine, Migraine preventive medication, William Young M.D.
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