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Join Date: Dec 2012
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Posts: 205
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After a year a headache specialist at UCSF prescribed nortriptyline. I had vertigo, migraines, vision issues. Any plane trips resulted in a bad case of sinus infection.
The brain was not happy, and therefore, many migraines said the specialists. The signal were being mis interpreted.
The nortriptyline helped for a while, and the migraines / headaches and vertigo stopped. At 60mg some side effects emerged so I am back down to 20mg. The vertigo is still absent, but migraines / headaches have returned.
I take tramadol and sometimes propanolol for the migraines. Icing the neck, and good food/vitamin regime helps.
I have eliminated gluten, dairy and caffeine from my diet which helps, but there are still weekly migraines.
I am told that we need to work close to our threshold, but it's hard to unravel which is the major contributor to migraines.
Best of luck!
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The event: Rear ended on freeway with son when I was at a stop in stop and go traffic July 2012. Lost consciousness.
Post-event: Diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome, ptsd, whiplash, peripheral and central vestibular dysfunction and convergence insufficiency. MRI/CT scans fine.
Symptoms: daily headaches, dizziness/vertigo, nausea, cognitive fog, light/noise sensitivities, anxiety/irritability, fatigued, convergence insufficiency, tinnitus and numbness in arms/legs.
Therapies: Now topamax 50mg daily; Propanolol and Tramadol when migraine. Off nortryptiline and trazodone. Accupuncture. Vitamin regime. Prism glasses/vision therapy. Vestibular therapy 3month. Gluten free diet. Dairy free diet. On sick leave from teaching until Sept. 2014.
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