hawkstalion

I'm so thankful I live in Ireland. There's a public drug payment scheme that means that my monthly cap on prescription drugs is 80 euro. I'm on the 140mg dose and I don't even know how much it costs at full price.

I was in a very similar situation, like 20+ headaches a month and 2 migraines, and tried the usual batch of medications and no real improvement but I recently got onto aimovig (3 injections now) and it's life changing. I've had one headache in about 40 days. Try talk to a neurologist about it.

Is there enough info about how migraines/headaches happen to really decide on a targeted solution? Most doctors I've talked to always seem to say they don't really how and why migraines happen.

Thankfully I've found a treatment that works wonders for me, but if I could have skipped the try this drug for 6 months, then this drug and the ups and downs that can cause especially when some of the drugs are antidepressants that'd be great.

Also How does the new treatments that are actually meant for migraines affect your plans? Like aimovig?

Oh yeah good call. I am pretty happy with my current regime and neurologist so even if it was real I'd have no need for it.

You should totally find another neurologist. I suffered for years, if you're getting 4+ headaches/migraines a month you should try get on aimovig. If you want to pm me I can send you who I went to. I might sound like a walking ad but it literally changed my life and with 0 side effects (so far at least) the first month I reduced headaches be like 70%, then the second month 90% and now I've had one in like 40 days. Down from 20+ headaches and 1 or 2 migraines a month. And it's just one injection a month.