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Originally Posted by Big Dave  One other thing: I was in a specialist neurology hospital a while back, and there was a guy in the bed next to me who suffered from terrible cluster headaches. He used to inject himself with morphine almost daily because they were so terrible.
He was started on a new drug (still not licensed for use in England, so he had to sign a disclaimer) called dihydroergotamine. (How I remembered that name I'll never know!) It's a pill that he has to take daily, and instead of treating the headaches when they showed up, it is actually meant to work in some way (I don't know how) to prevent them. He said it was brilliant, and that it had left him with far fewer cluster headaches, and when he did get them, they were far milder.
I don't know, but considering the report I got from the guy, it appears as though it's a good medication, so I thought you might want to look into it. |
I wonder if that's the anti-seizure drug that a doctor tried on me? I tried it and had some really bad reactions so it doesn't look like I'll stick with it. Another one that is supposed to help prevent them or lessen their effect is verapamil, which is a blood pressure medication. I don't really think it works on me that well.
BTW, are you sure that guy had CH? I've read that morphine doesn't effect them. (Though it probably makes you not care about having them.) The only thing that stops them for me, for sure, is the imitrex injections.