Click this link to read a post I like on the clusterheadaches.com message board...

Sep 28^th, 2024 at 1:22am

	Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register
	Search box updated Dec 3, 2011... Search ch.com with Google!

New CH.com Forum › Cluster Headache Help and Support › Medications, Treatments, Therapies › Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex

(Moderators: Mrs Deej, DJ)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex (Read 1500 times)

angela.lambert

CH.com Veteran

Offline

Support Alaska Commercial
Fisherman

Posts: 182
petersburg,alaska
Gender: female

Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex
Nov 18^th, 2009 at 5:20pm

Hello,
I've been PF since October 08. I just started on Friday the 13th, 3 days after an extreme drop in temperature here in Alaska.

I just purchased 2 shots of imitrex and was blown away at the price. $226.87. And this is the generic version. "We don't deal with your insurance company" says the pharmacist. So I have to prepay and send it in myself.
I remember reading on CH.com about a way to make your Imitrex last, by tossing the injector and using a q-tip.
IT WORKS!!! Now it is $38 a shot instead of $113. Thank you Thank you Thank you.
btw- i use O2 & Melatonin too.

After my last bout last year, which was a real doozy, I was extremely depressed. The sadness started during my cycle and I wouldn't leave the house for days. I was so tired, fatigued, unmotivated, no one wanted to be around me. Slowly, 3 months after my cycle ended, I seemed to pull out of it. And I was back to normal.
I wonder if it was the CH's or the Verapamil? I was up to 320/400mg of V. Did anyone else get depressed (like) feeling, fatigue or have problems with speech, getting what you needed to say out, confused, while on Verapamil?

Is there an antidepressant or upper I can take (never have before) to counter the effects of V (if it is the V)? I am just starting to dose up to 320mg. I don't want to ruin my "happy" chances.

Thanks for listening,
Angela

The Beast, the Beast, the Beast is on Fire!

IP Logged

chrisw

CH.com Old Timer

Offline

Posts: 315
x0|turnersville|NJ,USA
Gender: female

Re: Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex
Reply #1 - Nov 18^th, 2009 at 9:52pm

I have been on verap for years at a time, and sometimes at maximum doses. I never had any kind of emotional symptoms from it. If I were you I would do some research on the drug, and ask your doc or pharmacitst about it. I would seriously think twice before adding any antidepressants without asking a doc first. I never had any side effects from verap. but meds affect different people in different ways.

Good luck, and keep us posted
Christine

IP Logged

angela.lambert CH.com Veteran Offline Support Alaska Commercial Fisherman Posts: 182 petersburg,alaska Gender:	Re: Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex Reply #2 - Nov 19^th, 2009 at 11:42am Thank you Christine. I have made a call into my doc's nurse. I will also talk with my pharamicist. I appreciate the feedback. Angela
Back to top	The Beast, the Beast, the Beast is on Fire! IP Logged

Bob Johnson

CH.com Alumnus

Offline

"Only the educated are
free." -Epictetus

Posts: 5965
Kennett Square, PA (USA)
Gender: male

Re: Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex
Reply #3 - Nov 19^th, 2009 at 1:45pm

For a few folks, high doses of Verap can reduce the BP to the point where lack of energy and a general slowing down is experienced. This is not depression in the clinical sense of the term and so an anti-de is not likely to help.

May have to either reduce the Veap dose to mose to another preventive. Clearly an issue to discuss with the doc.

Bob Johnson

IP Logged

angela.lambert CH.com Veteran Offline Support Alaska Commercial Fisherman Posts: 182 petersburg,alaska Gender:	Re: Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex Reply #4 - Nov 19^th, 2009 at 3:35pm Thanks Bob I got an appt in the next day, to discuss how to counter act the depression. More likely from CH's. Again, feedback is really helpful. Angela
Back to top	The Beast, the Beast, the Beast is on Fire! IP Logged

Kevin_M

CH.com Sponsor

Offline

withered branches grow
green again.

Posts: 8754
Michigan, USA
Gender: male

Re: Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex
Reply #5 - Nov 20^th, 2009 at 2:31am

Bob Johnson wrote on Nov 19^th, 2009 at 1:45pm:

Myself in the mid-50's, slowing down can be body preferred, but after a long physical day at work, energy issues with a low BP need recuperative sleep. It's a Catch-22 though because the verap allows this, preventing hits. Tried to switch treatment but had to go back.

IP Logged

JustNotRight

CH.com Sponsor

Offline

CH version 15.0.8 member
since 2005 aka GingerS224

Posts: 1300
Wilkes-Barre, Pa (USA)
Gender: female

Re: Downer Verapamil & Q-tip my Imitrex
Reply #6 - Nov 20^th, 2009 at 8:41am

angela.lambert wrote on Nov 18^th, 2009 at 5:20pm:

I wonder if it was the CH's or the Verapamil? I was up to 320/400mg of V. Did anyone else get depressed (like) feeling, fatigue or have problems with speech, getting what you needed to say out, confused, while on Verapamil?

Thanks for listening,
Angela

I am chronic CH and have been on verapamil for years. For me...It's the CH that causes the speech issues and thinking issues you mentioned not the verapamil. I experience these problems after almost all my CH hits.

As to the depression my bet there is on the CH as well. We suffer massive amounts of pain that's enough to make anyone depressed. Just remember there is an end to each CH hit.

Verapamil is a calcium blocker / heart med. / bp med. and generally does not affect mood.

Hope this helps!

Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
M.K. Gandhi

If you are going through hell...Just keep going

IP Logged

Pages: 1

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

« Home

‹ Board

Top of this page

©1998-2013 Web Vision Enterprises LLC All rights reserved. All information on this site is protected by international
copyright laws. You may not re-distribute any information from this site without written permission from
Web Vision Enterprises LLC and the webmaster of this site. Violators will be prosecuted.
You may view our privacy policy and financial disclosure statement here

DISCLAIMER: All information contained on this web site is for informational purposes only. It is in no way intended to be used as a replacement for professional medical treatment. clusterheadaches.com makes no claims as to the scientific/clinical validity of the information on this site OR to that of the information linked to from this site. All information taken from the internet should be discussed with a medical professional!