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Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« on: Aug 26th, 2005, 10:02pm » |
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Anyone here take fioricet for the clusters? I know that most pain meds dont help clusters or migraines, but they say fioricet is made for that.
It contains Asparin, caffeine, codene and another drug that starts with a B.
Anyone have success with this?
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #1 on: Aug 26th, 2005, 11:35pm » |
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I've tried both. Neither one helped. They work for migraines, I'm told.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #2 on: Aug 27th, 2005, 12:06am » |
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I was 'scribed them back in the mid 90's when I had no prevents and not enough trex. I think generic was called esgic, which they stopped making. No codeine but had the butalbital. Helped for the first diagnosed episode but then stopped working, no matter how many I took. It prompted me real fast to start looking harder for a prevent then. 
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #3 on: Aug 27th, 2005, 9:17am » |
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In the 80s and 90s it was all I had. Might help with a shadow but thats about it.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #4 on: Aug 27th, 2005, 10:03am » |
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Didn't do a thing for me.
Be careful with it too.
Barbituates can be addicting and if you find it helping guess what could happen 
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #5 on: Aug 27th, 2005, 1:28pm » |
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Same here, didn't work. Time to move on to the next med. Good luck!
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #6 on: Aug 27th, 2005, 4:17pm » |
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I tried both and neither touched it my ch or migraines.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #7 on: Aug 27th, 2005, 7:52pm » |
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same here....... never helped.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #8 on: Aug 27th, 2005, 8:19pm » |
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Once upon a time Fioricet was my only prescribed prevent/abortive but like everything else it didn't help.
Plus the codeine tore up my stomach pretty good.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #9 on: Aug 29th, 2005, 3:43pm » |
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Hi I have suffered clusters for about 17 years now and my doc put me on fiourinal with codeine a few years back. I really don't think they do much, maybe help to break my cycle earlier. I know they mess up my stomache for about two weeks after I take them. So I just don't take them. I am in the process of having to switch to a new doctor mine is retiring. So now I get to try and educate another, he says he has dealt alittle with clusters. Doesn't sound promising. Hope you get some relieve soon.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #10 on: Aug 29th, 2005, 4:35pm » |
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They are pretty good for tension headaches.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #11 on: Aug 29th, 2005, 11:19pm » |
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are tension headaches also caused by dialated blood vessels?
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #12 on: Aug 30th, 2005, 7:11am » |
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Cheer up. Could be your in the best possible position you could be if he's willing to listen and learn.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #13 on: Aug 30th, 2005, 9:09am » |
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on Aug 29th, 2005, 11:19pm, BMoneeTheMoneeMan wrote:are tension headaches also caused by dialated blood vessels?
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I don't think so. I think they are caused by tightened muscles in the neck/shoulders which put pressure on or irritate nerves. That's why the butalbital, a sedative/barbituate, helps.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #14 on: Aug 31st, 2005, 12:29am » |
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Well, I'm gonna buck the tide here and say that for me, in the early stages of a cycle and the waning stages of a cycle the Fiorinal C (with codeine) always worked pretty well as long as I took one (or sometimes two) at the VERY FIRST SIGNS of an impending CH, and as long as the CH was no stronger than Kip 6 to Kip 7 range.
But once my cycle was firmly established and I was getting multiple Kip 8 and Kip 9 CH per day, the Fiorinal stopped working completely. I mean it wouldn't even dull the edge of them. It was about as effective as eating M&Ms.
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Re: Fioricet or fiorinal anyone?
« Reply #15 on: Sep 14th, 2005, 10:11pm » |
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Hello,
Fiorinal just made me dopey WITH the same pain. Can't recommend.
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