[PeppyGPhiB]

I get migraines, too, and am finally learning what my triggers are. MSG, aspertame, changes in the weather, hormones, intense stress. But it also runs in my family - my mom gets them, and my dad got cluster headaches, which are supposedly worse than migraines. My mom always warned me that when she started taking birth control pills, that's when she started getting migraines, and sure enough, that's what happened to me. The biggest trigger for me seems to be the weather, and it seems that my sinus problems and allergies are somehow tied to the migraines, because my dr just put me on some nose spray a few months ago for allergies and I've only had one migraine since.

My migraines are mostly throbbing ones that go away temporarily with one Imitrex. But every once in a while I get a really bad one that doesn't respond to the medication right away and I have to combine a couple Imitrex with OTC meds to make it go away. The last one I had wouldn't respond to anything but Vicodin. Most of my migraines last 72 hours; I just take another Imitrex when the previous dose wears off. And Imitrex is the only prescription I've tried so far that worked. It took some getting used to (I felt funny at first), and it's expensive for just 9 pills per pack, but it's worth every penny to me.