Acid Reflux Over The Counter Medication
Q: I have had horrible headaches since I was about 7 years old. I am now
29. The headaches always have been concentrated in spot on the back
side of my head. Sometimes they develop when a regular headache goes
on for a while without taking anything. Sometimes I almost get tunnel
vision a few hours before and feel a tightness on the right side of my
head including tremendous eye pressure.
About 8 years ago, after one brutal one I still had what I consider
"after shock" effects days afterward. My doctor sent me to a
neurologist. I had an MRI and they determined that there was nothing
out of the ordinary. The neurologist gave me a sample of a migraine
medication to try. I don't remember what it was but I do remember that
it made me feel like I was dying the next time I had a headache.
Since then, I have just dealt with them. I have Aleve which is the
only thing that seems to knock them out for a while...and that can go
on for days.
Last week, a headache developed and took I still had heart burn
pains with the nexium but the aciphex cleared everything - even the
pain in swallowing after a few days. Now with the migraine I was
experiencing...
Relpax - 4:30 PM - I took the first dose. 30 minutes later, the head
was feeling a little better. An hour later....the headache was coming
back and I felt very weak and anxious.
My question is this: I am fairly sensitive to any kinds of medication
I take. I seem to always get the weird side effects of things. Even
non drowsy drugs seem to make me drowsy. Are there any other Migraine
drugs out there that have lesser symptoms? I read that Relpax was
pretty bad with side effects as opposed to other drugs. Anyone else
tried it? With the reflux so bad from so much Aleve I am not really
left with an option anymore and willing to look into the migraine
drugs more.
Can anyone help me please?
A:The reason I ask, is that if you get them more than three a month,
you might benefit from taking preventive medicines that keep the
migraines from happening so often, or from being so intense, they hope.
They hope, because while there's a raft of drugs to use in preventing
migraines, they don't work the same way in everyone, some don't
work for some people, and some have pretty noticeable side effects.
Relpax is one of the newest triptans, and it tends to have a lot of side
effects in some people, but it also seems to be very effective. I guess
you have to pick your poison. There are other triptans with different
profiles; maybe you should tell the neuro what your first experience
with it was like, and if it was unpleasant enough to quit or switch. The
probelm is, all the triptans seem to have some fairly short-lived but
difficult side effects.
As for the Motrin vs the Relpax? I'd say it was the Relpax... Motrin
doesn't have a very good rack record on migraines,