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Great advice!
I have suffered with migraines for 51 years. My Grandmother had them, my mother, and brother. I had a large family to pass them on to and that is what I did.. all four of my children then they all grew-up got married and had their babies, 14 beautiful babies. The fourth oldest had his first migraine at 2 years old. He sat on the couch and starred. My daughter took him to the doctor and they said "he has focal migraines". At this point 8/14 have some version of migraines and I was 15 when mine started and 6 of the kids are under 15.
I have tried everything there is to take away my pain or keep it away. I have seen every kind of doctor, experimental machine and after all of that I set up for a week long evaluation by a team of doctors at Mayo, So I check in on Sunday night and get settled for my weeklong stay. I check in for my appt on Monday morning and do tests and paperwork until 2PM. I go to a different unit where I am called in to have my initial consult with the doctors and they tell me that it appears I have tried all the medications, and treatments and that in their opinion the current effective treatment (an opiate & antinausea injection) is the only thing at this time that is going to work for me. I left and thankfully the hotel let me cancel my room for the 5 days. I went home and 2 days later had a migraine; went in to the clinic, the Doctor came in to see me and told me that the day before there was a vote that NO opiates could be given in the any clinic setting.....so for the last 6 years I just have Tramadol which does very little and suffer with it....
Thanks for you thoughts. However, I have been with the two best/largest hospitals in Philly trying to figure this out. Had 6 blood patches in my spine, 4 spinal taps, nerve blocks, every migraine medicine available and off label ones as well. I take no medication for my headache because nothing works. I will start PT again for cervicogenic headache and chiropractic for tension headache. Migraine is sencondary. Where do you treat?