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Cerebellar Stroke - experience/treatment/recovery

Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases | Last Active: May 5 11:27pm | Replies (515)
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@ethanmcconkey

Hi @kweber and welcome to Connect. Those migraines sound awful.

I wanted to tag fellow members @rachelanne @hammondm99 and @livetheday as they have all suffered strokes and may be able to sympathize with your post-stroke migraines.

Back to you @kweber, how do these migraines affect you during the day? Are you able to do any of your normal activities?

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hammondm99 | @hammondm99 | Dec 10, 2018

I only had a headache the day of my stroke and it wore off the day following, it was in my upper neck/lower back of my head. I guess it goes along with the stroke.. I very seldom have headaches, when I do, I find myself getting a little paranoid that another stroke is coming on.

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kweber | @kweber | Dec 11, 2018

Some days are better than others. I work in the IT field and it makes it hard to work. I’m only working 4, six hour days a week right now. I’m taking 200 mg of Topamax at night and 200 mg of gabapentin 3x a day, it helps somewhat, but makes me very fuzzy and I don’t like the forgetfulness and slowness it causes. If I work too much, drive too much, or just get overly stimulated with noise, light or stress the headaches will crank up to a 5 or 6, or higher real quick, they are alway there at 1 or 2 all the time. I’m learning to live with with it now, it’s just something I guess I will have to live with.

Thanks, I’m so glad I found this. Unless you’ve been though this people don’t understand.
Keith

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