[storyteller]

Hello. I am 37 female and never have had history of mirgraines before. On Aug 25 I felt some numbness in my mouth area. I commented to my husband how werid it was and then about 30-60 later I developed an extremely painful headache. One sided, sharp pain, nausea, ear pain, light and sound sensitivity. Since this was a Sat., I just self medicated. I alternated with Tylenol and Mortin at max doses. It made the headache bareable but not go away. I finally got an appt with my doc, she said it could be a migraine but I also had fluid on my ear drum. She gave me Floricet and a steriod for the ear. I didn't take the max allowed dose of the Floricet because I need to be functional during the day. I supplement with Mortrin when needed. The pain would go way down but never completely gone. This past weekend I really had a bad episode. More numbness, increased pain to where I took max dose of Floricet and Mortin, helped me sleep, but again nothing makes the pain go completely away. I went saw different doctor. He gave me Zomig, said I may be rebounding from Floricet. I took ONE of the Zomig and had an increase of head pressure all over my head, not just the effected side. That lasted about 1-2 hours. I took mortin to offset. He is giving me a new med, i can't remember the name. This is day 17 and nothing is working someone have ANY HELP?

[UroDoc]

You might consider getting a head CT (cat scan) if you haven't had one yet.

[storyteller]

Thank you for you reply. Since my neurological exams haven't shown any immediate cause for concern, the doctors have said they don't feel a CT scan is necessary at the moment. I took the latest round of meds last night, Midrin. I took it exactly as it was directed 2 upon getting the script and one every hour after that it doesn't resolve the headache, not to exceed 5 caps in a 24 hr period. I took the entired allow amount. And this has done what all the other meds have, bring the pain down to a 1 and then as long as I don't get active, I am fine. Once I start getting up and moving around, then things start to get worse. I am going to try to stay with the 800 mortins he gave me as well and avoid even taking anymore Midrin, even though I have 5 days supply of the med. The doctor seemed to be concerned that the duration of the headache was due in part to a rebound effect.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks.