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Since surgery in February, I've experienced a marked increase in my Migraine activity. I was down to about one or two a year, and since surgery, I've had 5 or 6. I have one right now, which is what made me remember to ask. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm wondering if it's surgery related, or just me. I know this isn't a very scientific method of getting a true answer, but I'm just wondering what, if anything, you all have experienced.

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Oh my gosh! Me too! I just had one today..it knocked me out all day. I had to just lay in bed. I had a HUGE increase in my Migraines and the fact that I can't take my excedrine makes it ten timed worse.

The nurse said it is not because of the surgery so I have no idea what to do. But I am so tiered of them.

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Hi ladies. You can try magnesium and b2 my Migraine doc has me in these for life. I also have Imitrex which is availble sub Q. I hope my Migraines don't flair up! My surgery is in 10 days!

Thanks for the info!!

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In the past, when I have done low carb diets, it would bring on Migraines. I would also get them if I was dehydrated or had gone a long time without food. I'm not sure why. I have only had one since surgery on June 28, and it was when I started on Clear liquids.

I use an Rx med, zomig. It is the only med that has ever helped me, and I have tried several. It even works several hours after my Migraine start which is different than a lot of meds where you must take them immediately when the migraine starts.

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Oooooo!!!!

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Since surgery in February, I've experienced a marked increase in my Migraine activity. I was down to about one or two a year, and since surgery, I've had 5 or 6. I have one right now, which is what made me remember to ask. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm wondering if it's surgery related, or just me. I know this isn't a very scientific method of getting a true answer, but I'm just wondering what, if anything, you all have experienced.

I suffer from Migraines, high was 17 in one month, usually 10 - 12. For a month after surgery I had NONE!!!! It had to be because I was eating very little....very little variety and very healthy!! Slowly but surely they came back. I'm on a new preventive and am keeping them at about 8 per month....but I had high hopes that surgery would 'fix me' :) Good luck, I really have no advice!

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I had an increased number for, oh, about six months or so. I used to go months and months without one, and in the early months I was laid up with one just about every month.

They faded, however, into regular headaches (that lingered) over the first year, and now that I'm two years out I just realized I can't remember when I had my last Migraine or headache.

I think it's all the wacky in our bodies. Fat cells store all sorts of ugly things and that could be part of it. As your body adjusts, hopefully your Migraines will decrease like mine did.

~Cheri

Oh, and Imitrex is a great drug for migraines, true. But in both my mother in law and myself it caused tinnitus, which doesn't go away when you stop using the drug.

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