I have suffered with migraines for the past 9 years. I never had even a headache before I started taking anti-depressants. But they started when I took my first anti-depressant & only got worse as my psychiatrist tried all the other possible ones that might work for the depression. They got so bad that I went to a neurologist who hospitalized me for treatment which didn't work. I tried all the migraine meds with no help. Then they tried the beta blockers. Nothing worked. Then they decided that I had a neck problem that required neck fusion & that WOULD CURE THE MIGRAINES. I only ended up allergic to Morphine & the pain continued. I went my first pain specialist who ended up treating them with a low dose of narchotics which also didn't help. This went on for years until all I could do was lay in bed in my dark room, no sound, no light, no smells. Only a close bathroom fot those lousy times when I had enough food in my stomach to feel sick. I lived between ER visits when I would get a faint glimmer of releif from the Demerol shot which needed to be at a higher dose than the ER wanted to give.

I even stopped taking all anti-depressants, & removed all caffine & triggers from my diet in hopes that the pain would go away, but no such luck.

I now have a new pain specialist who's only concern is to improve my "quality of life". He is willing to give me the amount of meds that actually work & keep the migrain pain away. I must admit that at times, I can feel some symptoms, but never the pain. It doesn't take pain away from other places & I can tell when I am hurting with other problems, but NO MIGRAINE PAIN. I have been this way for 1 1/2 years without becomming tolerant to the med, so I feel somewhat successful.

I have never become addicted to the meds, wanting them for the feel, I just get the feel of no pain.

I hope you can find the same releif in the future because migraines can be as disabeling as any other problem. Because people can't see them, they don't believe...I do understand what you are going through & it is real.
Debbie K