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Posted by susan b. anthony on March 28, 2003, at 8:18:04
Hi - many of you have mentioned getting headaches. I have suffered from migraines since I was a teenager. Are these major headaches or just an aspirin will fix it. yesterday i got a whopping one and had to take 2 different migraine pills and still have some pounding today. Can this be from the lex?
Posted by falconman on March 28, 2003, at 17:23:48
In reply to Headaches, posted by susan b. anthony on March 28, 2003, at 8:18:04
Hi,
I've had whopping headaches off celexa, so I'm sure its possible with lexapro. I've always suffered from migrains but not this often, maybe we are more susceptable. The only pain killers that help me are anything with codeine in it. Paracetamol on its own doesn't do anything.
peace
Mark
Posted by PamJeanBrunot on March 30, 2003, at 1:22:06
In reply to Headaches, posted by susan b. anthony on March 28, 2003, at 8:18:04
Hi, I don't know what "lex" is but I'm sorry to hear about your migraines. Did you try taking an aspirin for it? Or did the migraine meds work better? I hope they did. What migraine medications did you take?
My sister suffers from them horribly. I had a mild headache today, but I started on the Trileptal med yesterday.
My sister takes Maxalt, and it seems to do wonders for her, I guess because it acts right away. She is also on Effexor and she says that has helped the migraines to subside.
Feel better,
Pam
> Hi - many of you have mentioned getting headaches. I have suffered from migraines since I was a teenager. Are these major headaches or just an aspirin will fix it. yesterday i got a whopping one and had to take 2 different migraine pills and still have some pounding today. Can this be from the lex?
Posted by Okpolosi on March 30, 2003, at 7:13:31
In reply to Headaches, posted by susan b. anthony on March 28, 2003, at 8:18:04
I had some of the most terrible headaches when I first started Lex. But after a few weeks they tapered of and stopped. They were so bad I felt like I had a migraine though I do not usually suffer from headaches.
Posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 14:49:31
In reply to Headaches, posted by susan b. anthony on March 28, 2003, at 8:18:04
Take a look at this site. I've been getting visual aura migraines since I was a teen. I wrote to the author of this site, and he said migraines are almost always a symptom of low magnesium. I am definitely going to try this because I have headaches almost all the time, whether stress or sinus.
http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.
I'm posting the info from the site, but there's much more, and you may want to read it (also check out the magnesium thread).
beardy : )>
Headaches
Treating headaches with magnesium should be obvious to the reader by now. Does magnesium work for migraine headaches? Researchers have found that patients who suffer with migraines also suffer with low brain magnesium levels. When treated with IV magnesium 88% of those patients found complete relief of their migraines. Since starting http://www.headachepainfree.com website in September of 2000, Shawna Kopchu RN, its director, has given advice to hundreds of migrain patients on the use of magnesium for their migraines. Out of those patients - ALL of them got some sort of relief with the use of magnesium. Some were completely cured and others found that it decreased the frequency and intensity of the migraines they did get.
I have also found that regular use of magnesium prevents headaches. Since I started using magnesium for depression, I have not had a headache (unless I did something really stupid - for which I deserved a good headache). I have a friend that suffered from cluster headaches, the worst and most debilitating type of headache known to humans. People have committed suicide to be free of them. This person was really irritable (a clear sign of magnesium deficiency) and would not take magnesium, saying that if the best doctors in the field could not cure his headaches, why would he even listen to me? He suffered horrible cluster headaches for another year, and was suffering from some prescription drug overdoses and bad side effects. Finally, his girlfriend told him (after I had proselytized her for that year), that she was going to leave him if he didn't give magnesium a good college try. OK. He was in so much pain that he laid down on the floor. I did too. He knew my position on magnesium already and all he wanted to know was the dosage. I told him that if I were him, I would take, at least in the beginning, 400-mg magnesium (as glycinate, malate, lactate, citrate) three times a day (breakfast, mid afternoon and bedtime) totaling 1200 mg magnesium. I told him to avoid the toxic forms of magnesium, which would probably make his headaches worse. I also told him to avoid man-made gluatmates and cut down on calcium. I didn't see them for several days, then, I heard a loud and very rapid knocking on my door about midnight. It was my friend and his girlfriend, and they were tripping over each other trying to be first to explosively and joyfully tell me the good news! NO MORE HEADACHES! PERIOD!!!!!!!! Not even a minor headache! What more can I say. Chronic headaches without clear explanation (like a well deserved hangover) are just another symptom of our sick, over-medicated society, meaning magnesium deficient society. Can you imagine the financial losses that would be incurred by pharmaceutical companies if the truth were known about magnesium and its critical role in health? I suspect they would declare magnesium to be toxic and force the FDA to take it off the market. Succeed! Depression is not a disease!
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