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(Message started by: morry on Jul 17^th, 2004, 11:53am)

Title: Thanks for the help......
Post by morry on Jul 17^th, 2004, 11:53am

Thanks for the suggestions and advice. She did finally see a neurologist and after seeing nothing on the MRI, catscan, and spinal tap, wrote her scripts for butalbitol, skelaxon, bextra and depakote.......quite a cocktail eh?, but I'm sure that some of you can relate. Anyway, the cocktail seems to have managed the pain, but I have been left with a lump of flesh on the couch that used to be my wife. Hopefully they can back off some of the meds eventually.

Again, thanks.
morry

Title: Re: Thanks for the help......
Post by E-Double on Jul 17^th, 2004, 12:17pm

on 07/17/04 at 11:53:14, morry wrote:

Sorry to hear about your wife!
Stay strong for her and for yourself! (Support will keep her going and you of course. My fiance' has been my greatest supporter like many of the people here and we are learning together)

Interesting about the butalbital and the skelaxin:
butalbital is a "pain reliever" & relaxant and skelaxin is a muscle relaxant.

Both can be habit forming and can actually cause rebound headaches ('ll try to find some research for ya)

Is she a "lump of flesh" due to the number and intensity of hits or possibly those meds which could knock you out per se'.

The Bextra and the Depakote are used as preventatives?
Depakote didn't work for me (Actually made me feel fuzzy and I took the butalbital as well and did nothing other than fuzziness, tired then rebounds) but does for some and Bextra is similar to vioxx which someone posted about being used as preventatives instead of the steroids.

I wish your wife pain free days and you as well my friend!!

stay strong!

E

Title: Re: Thanks for the help......
Post by don on Jul 17^th, 2004, 5:37pm

Quote:

butalbitol, skelaxon, bextra and depakote.......quite a cocktail eh?, but I'm sure that some of you can relate.

After 26 years I cant relate to that med protocol at all.

Is she diagnosed with CH?

If so I would seek another neuro.

Title: Re: Thanks for the help......
Post by pubgirl on Jul 17^th, 2004, 7:52pm

Morry

It is an odd cocktail of drugs, but from what you said your wife had all day headaches where the symptoms didn't match CH at all.

I'm no doctor, but in all the time I've been talking to people with many different headache conditions, I've not heard of anyone taking that combination.

Did they say which type of headache they think your wife is suffering from and why these drugs were chosen?

Wendy