Get to us earlier!

Easy for you to say, Mr. Migraine Specialist Man. When I go to the ER after four days of the same migraine, I feel like I'm folding early. That's what I did this past Friday, but instead of decreasing in intensity (either much or little) it decreased and then spiked.

Which meant they transferred me from that ER to a hospital where the specialist has admitting privileges and I got the DHE flush again. Tiresome, boring, cold, hot, just...not a fun way to spend your weekend.

Does it work? Hard to say. Lying down for two days has its own minimising effect on my migraines. I was discharged at about noon, and got my next migraine by six. But it was small and mostly responded to Maxalt.

Mostly.

The upshot of the visit:
a) He wants me to ping him (how? he's so very unavailable) before the ER to see if we can do the DHE as outpatient before dilaudid, etc come into the picture
b) Namenda again
c) Increase Depakote to 1750mg/day

We shall see. My fingers are crossed Namenda-wise, and I'm back on the Mg and the riboflavin, just to see how things go.

I didn't end up stopping the magnesium--the upset stomachs are less constant, perhaps because I'm making sure not just to eat when taking it, but increasing the yoghurt in my diet as suggested by random websites.

Google backs me up on it. Magnesium is making my stomach miserable. I emailed my GP about it--even though I was taking it with food and topping it off with yoghurt I was ending up with an aching stomach and a feeling of fullness that lasted hours.

He suggested I lower the dose, but I can't do that with these pills, or stop altogether.

I'm thinking I'll stop because I wasn't noticing any positive changes to the migraines anyway.

Back on the topic of "is it a thing, or is it a side effect?"

I lapsed off of my Mg and B2 in hospital mainly because they couldn't find me Mg, and took a while to find me B2. Took me a few days to get back into the rhythm of things, and in a few days I was back having orthostatic hypotension--though nowhere as badly as a week or two before the hospitalisation.

Wondering about those things is such a drag. I've had a hard time finding B2 especially in the dosages he recommended--I'm way past the RDA (1.2mg) at 400mg daily. From what I can tell I'll just pee out the excess, but I'm reading now that I should be ingesting as much B6 as B2, and that's patently not happening.

My Mg intake is not too far off the normal supplement amounts, so who knows. Probably just coincidence. So many drugs and supplements are using my body as a battleground that I can't tell collateral damage from a random coincidence.