Posted by Vincent_QC on March 8, 2010, at 20:44:06
In reply to Re: adrenal fatigue + tension headache (Lyrica) » Vincent_QC, posted by Phillipa on March 8, 2010, at 20:00:10
> Vincent I forget did you have an MRI of the brain? For the headaches? Love Phillipa
Hummm you already forget that? lol I'm kidding...
I had a MRI test done the last 22th january... and nothing is wrong with my brain or veins or anything else who can cause headache...
My headache are tension headache, you have to kind of tension headache, the one who are trigger by stress and who last only a couple of hours and dissepear when the stress level decrease... and the chronic one, who last for several days in a row... Those kind of headache are linked to the anxiety level and tend to come in cycles... Will have it for 1-2 weeks in a row... will be free of pain for 1-2 weeks and the headache will start again....the pain is always near the temples and behind the eyes... that's a dull pain, mean that it's really annoying and painful...
A lot of meds are used to treat those kind of headache... The old dirty tca Elavil... but I try it in the past and it never work... I go up to 50 mg at bedtime and I had more side-effects than anything else.
After you have the beta blockers meds, that I try also for anxiety and headache... and no improve on them also... they tend to make you really tired...
After sometimes some analgesic meds like the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) can be used like the Naproxen... they are good to decrease the pain, but they increase the risk of stomach bleeding and heart attacks...
And as off-label meds you have the anticonvulsants meds... Topamax who work more for the migraine type of headache and cause of lot of numbless everywhere in the body and can induce anxiety as well as terrible cognitives problems..., the neurontin, who is not doing anything else than pins and needles effect, the Lyrica that I never try for real ( 2 days in a row is not a real trail for me and I never reach the effective dose anyway)...
When I had my surgery last november, I was on the Naproxen to prevent the inflammatory and I never had a single tension headache for the 3 weeks I was on that med... maybe it was because of the high pain level, who distract me and make me forget the neadache, or the many panic attacks that I was experiencing each that I had to go to the bathroom... but the tension headache start again 2 days after I stop the Naproxen... is it possible that the tension headache return because I stop the Naproxen? Who know...
Since I know it's tension headache, I don't use Advils or Tylenols because they are not effective ... and if I do it, it's in extremely emergency case, when I will hit my head on the wall if I continue to feel the pain!!! lol They decrease a little bit the pain, but that last only 30minutes to 1 h... I stop using them after my family doc told me that they cause a lot of rebound headache... I was already award of this, but had nothing to decrease the pain or prevent those headache...
Some peoples will find the Tylenol + codeine effective, but I find it very anxiogenic... I can't stand opiate meds...
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