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.

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shelleyaz 10/19/2009

I was in to see my neurologist today. He always gives me freebies. Today I got 6 Frova and 2 Maxalt.

I am just curious - does everyone's doctor give lots of freebies? If so, how many? (he did write down in my chart what he gave me).

deleted_user 10/22/2009

My doctor has never given me any migraine freebies (though my sister-in-law has once because she's a pharmacist).
My doctor gave me some Prilocet(sp?) once because I was having bad acid reflex and I barely had enough money to come see him. It helped and I haven't needed it since.

I haven't got a lot of freebies though. I'd rather not take medicine unless I have to, lol.

deleted_user 10/25/2009

I've had Lyrican and Topomax for free from my doctor. Good thing, also, because I couldn't take either one, and it would have been very expensive to find out after paying for them.

My doctor does tend to save "new" meds he wants to try for me, with free samples, because he knows I am sensitive to many medications. The only thing is. I most likely need a new opiate, and there are no free samples for controlled subs. *sigh*

deleted_user 10/25/2009

I wanted to say "LYRICA." I have no idea why I wrote it wrong.

Why is there not a edit function?

deleted_user 11/06/2009

My Dr knows my budget is tight. He always gives me samples. I'll even call and ask for them--he'll pull some and leave it at reception. He's even apologized for not having my particular meds in.

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