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One Month Of Calcicard

Well. I’ve been taking Calicicard for the last month and it seems to be working for me. The worst side effects happen in the first 10 days when I feel constantly tired and drained. After 10 days I return to normal.

The positive effects of the medication is that they clear up my headaches pretty effectively. I still have the occasional shadow but no full blown headaches! As a result I have 3 doses of Imigran injections sitting waiting around for the next cluster.

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Last Weekend

My headaches are back. I had one on Saturday and one on Sunday, Both were successfully aborted with Imigran injects.

From today I’ll go back onto Calcicard tablets.

Calcicard

After taking Calicard 240mg SR tablets for a month I can say that they work well:
The first week I still got headaches but they were at unusual times and lower pain threshold, so I guess that was just the medication starting to work.

The second week I was totally drained most of the time but almost completely pain free.

The last two weeks I felt completely fine and was completely pain free!

About Last Weekend

Last weekend I had two headaches – a bad one at 3:00am on Saturday morning that I aborted in an Imigran injection and a long, dull, debilitating but not excruciating one on Sunday morning that I let run its course without any intervention.

Still taking the Calcicard every night, hopefully it is starting to show results.

Imigran

I successfully aborted a headache with an Imigran injection two mornings ago.

Currently I am taking a Calicard (240mg) tablet with dinner as a preventative and will rely on Imigran for pain relief.

Swedish Consultation

Last month I went to a Swedish Neurologist for another opinion and spent an hour talking to him about my headaches.

He suggested I try Imigran (Sumatriptan) injections to abort a headache and also to continue with my course of Vasomil as a prophylactic.

I had a few lesser headaches last week and bad one on Sunday on which I used the Imigran injection and made a complete recovery within 10 – 15 minutes!

new meds

I’ve started a course of Verapmil tablets – 3 * Vasomil tablets per day, with meals.

injections no longer working

I went to the doc on Friday (21 Jan) and got another Depo Medrol/Lignocaine injection in my head but that didn’t help – on Sunday night (23 Jan) I had another bad headache.

another headache

this time fitting more to the usual pattern – started at 8:30 in the morning but I was functional by 11:00. Time to go back to the neurologist.

Headache Yesterday

Had a bad headache yesterday, started at 7:00 am and lasted a while. Left me washed out for the rest of the day.