Migraine Headaches Support Group
Migraine is a neurological disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches are usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head and are often accompanied by photophobia (hypersensitivity to light), phonophobia (hypersensitivity to sound) and nausea.
I have been taking Fiorinal for over 20 years for my migraines when I get them, which is off and on and the only way I know I am going to get one is I have an aura first.
If I take the Fiorinal right when the aura occurs in my eyes, then it will kill the migraine in 15 minutes. But if I wait until the headache has already started, then the Fiorinal will not help at all.
It has been pretty reliable for me. Maybe it would be worth trying for others who get the migraines.
If I take the Fiorinal right when the aura occurs in my eyes, then it will kill the migraine in 15 minutes. But if I wait until the headache has already started, then the Fiorinal will not help at all.
It has been pretty reliable for me. Maybe it would be worth trying for others who get the migraines.
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I went to the doctor a while ago to see about my allergies. He rubbed my arm and stuck things under the skin. Nothing. He poked and prodded, his phlebotomist drew so much blood people thought that we were dating. The tests all came back negative. Then one day I went back and I told him that I had found the cause of my allergy.It turns out, I am allergic to betrayal.
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This isn't really bipolar related but there is never anyone on the parenting groups, this is the most active group I've been in.My 6yr old son has really bad seasonal allergies and they're in full force right now. He gets a terrible cough; he coughs all day and all night, making it hard for him to sleep, and his nose runs.I've tried every allergy medicine, OTC and RX, and none of them affect his...
how is this different from regular Fiorinol?
I believe that if you don't have migraines that often, Fiorinal can a good option when it works as a total abortive. However, barbs are not something you want in your system consistently. And Fiorinal and Fioricet have the highest likelihood of causing rebound headache. To the point where they have been banned in some European countries, deemed causing more harm than good.
If it has codeine it will be labelled in some way. Either with an extra C, or with having COD marked along with the little list of the ingredients.
The codeine is truly less threatening ingredient when compared with the butalbital (the barb).
If you cut it in half then you will be removing half of the rest of the ingredients as well, which means the entire thing will be half as effective, not just the codeine.
Once again, if it works for you and is something you only take for that once a month migraine that gets out of control, then taking it isn't problematic. Take what works, just be aware of the consequences.
What can you tell me about Dilaudid? I was discharged from the hospital after my last knockdown drag out migraine with a bottle of dialaudid. I have not had to take any (so far).
I too was on fiorinal for over 20 years. It worked well- however about 5 years ago my neuro convinced me to try Imitrex. I am thrilled with it. It works 98% of the time. Its just those 2% headaches that scare the hell out of me. Thats why I have the dilaudid. I have a massive supply of narcotics here! ugh! Thank god I am not an addict!
I have chronic daily migraine. I receive the Botox treatments and use Tristan's. I very seldom have to resort to narcotics anymore. Check out migraine.com or the daily migraine.com. These sites off a wealth of migraine education. There are apps on iPhone and such that can help you track your migraine and the best one I have found so far has a cartoon style picture on a man holding his head, it is very easy to customise and your doctor can download the entries to help with your treatment.
Hope this helps