Chronic headache/migraine?

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Does anyone else suffer from this? If so, what have you tried/what has helped you? I have daily mild-to-moderate head pain that flares up to severe every 7-10 days, then the full-on migraine lasts a few days until it tapers down a little. This has lasted almost 7 years now. I have seen a number of doctors, tried many remedies (prescription ones like antidepressants and Cefaly, and natural ones like herbal supplements and acupuncture, even a physical therapist), as well as changing my diet and removing sugar/gluten/etc. They have improved since they first began (I no longer have visual aura, and the severe days are about a level or two less), but it seems like no matter what I do, they persist. For anyone else suffering, have you had any luck with anything?

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The only things that worked for my daily headaches were the chiropractor, a more supportive pillow especially because I am a side sleeper and a drug called elevel (sp?). My dr had me on it several years ago and I went from taking 4-5 excederin tension headache a day to taking it twice in a month. The chiropractor and pillow helped with the migraines. A lot of it will depend on the type of headaches and migraines you get. Mine are tension and hormone based.

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For 3 yrs I had 2-3 headaches a day and about 2 migraines a week the drs were stumped and could not figure it out so I did research and stop drinking anything with artificial sweetener and then my headaches went away

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I have tried acupuncture, chiropractors, and different diets. I take 150mg of topamax daily. I had some weird side effects at first, but nothing that compared to my chronic migraines. Only downside is it's not recommended to take while ttc.

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I have tried a lot of things and the only thing that I have found to help my headaches is amitriptyline. Only thing is it cause me to get very sleepy.

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I've got a condition called new daily persistent headaches and for me that means I've had a headache 24 hours a day for the past 12 years. I've tried anything and everything and nothing works for me. Tbh after this long I barely notice it anymore it's just background noise. I was told to not take painkillers all the time as your body can get used to them and the will stop having an effect

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I was on Topamax, it seriously helped. The side effects weren't as bad for me as for other people that I've heard...I lost 40 pounds haha!...but now that we're TTC I stopped taking it.