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(Message started by: renrob on Sep 8^th, 2002, 2:06pm)

Title: Did Meds Screw up Your Schedule?
Post by renrob on Sep 8^th, 2002, 2:06pm

My CHs were like clockwork for 6 years. Then I went and got some meds and all bets have been off since then. Is there such a thing as coincidence? My doc at the time thought it was just coincidence that my pattern went koo-koo, but I'm not so sure. Anyone else have a similar story?

Title: Re: Did Meds Screw up Your Schedule?
Post by kim on Sep 8^th, 2002, 8:00pm

Yes. In the beginning, I took NO meds. Cycles ran the course like clockwork. When I got older I decided to go to the doctor and get help. that's when I began the journey with the medication trip. That is also when my cycles have been the most horrific.

Title: Re: Did Meds Screw up Your Schedule?
Post by justin on Sep 9^th, 2002, 12:10pm

i've been doing the trial an error thing to find something that will work. so far i've tried 7- or 8 combos (i.e. lithium, verapamil, depakote, dhe, topomax, diltiazem) and everytime i try somethign new the schedule and frequency and level of attacks changes. i think so far verapamil has been the best giving me 1-2 attacks a day and only really the first one in the morning being bad. but i didn't get them at night then so i could at least sleep. when i went to depakote i would get 3-4 at night and then a couple bad ones in the day. so it was all over the place. that's what's making this so frustrating is that there isn't a real consistency to test the drugs and see what's working. it's like not having a control group in a study. oh well, hopefully one day something will just work and they will go away.