chronic daily headaches/migraines

Have you been accurately diagnosed yet? You should be seeing a neurologist who specializes in headaches. You're still at less than a year and have a better chance if you see someone who diagnosis you correctly and then starts to treat. Treatments are varied as the headaches and not every med works. If you can, get an appointment as soon as possible. My son's headache is 5 years old and we haven't stopped trying to find a fix for him. Watch out as the OTCs will cause rebound headache -a Catch-22 that will cause more misery. Get a doctor who listens -they may not have the immediate answer but you need to find one who cares about you, listens to you, and will keep trying. I have seen one listing of headache meds to try that is over 250 different medications long. If you can, get an appointment at a well-respected headache clinic. We travel from Colorado to San Francisco -keeping my finances strained but we are still hoping to find a fix.

I'm new here, but I'm just about desperate. I've had migraine for a long time, and as no preventatives word on me, my doctor had me on Tylenol 3's for pain control. Then I was in a car accident, and as well as breaking my knee, I suffered a fairly bad closed head injury. My migraine quadrupled over night. The pain medicine doctor in the hospital said I should be on Dilauid instead of Tylenol 3's, as long term use of the Tylenol is bad for my kidneys. So, I tell this to my GP, who puts me on the diludid. It's eleven years later, and after I had reached a point where I was taking up to 24mg per dose, I decided to get my dosage down, and I did. I go back to the doctor every two months for a RX renewal, and I often would make two months worth last three or even four months. The last two appointments, I've had only enough pills to barely make it. My supply was down to only one or two pills left. I figured that, despite my efforts, my body was now needing either more, or stronger dosages. When I told this to my doctor, you would have thought I was some strung out junkie- not a 51 year old happily married, mother of three. A person who has been going to him for 17 years! I am still livid. Mind you, my response to him at the time was not anger. I broke down and cried instead. Now he says that he's never been happy with this course of treatment, and he is never going to increase these meds. He wants me to take Tylenol as much as possible. OTC Tylenol. I'm on gabapentin to try and help with he migraines, and that's the direction he wants to go. I'm already on the highest dosage of gabapentin, and he's not telling how that is going to do any more than it is.
I'm just so frustrated! He doesn't want me on Dilauid? Fine! I just want help. I don't care how. The pain is more than I can cope with. The neurologist says that I am considered in the top 2% of migraine sufferers world wide, in that I have one every day, and no preventatives work on me.
So what do I do now?

Post Edited (Maxtucker) : 8/10/2013 2:55:08 PM (GMT-6)

I have been meditating for years, so when I was diagnosed with a 2.5 cm large brain tumor, I took the news very calmly. Brain surgery was inevitable, but I was able to accept this reality and went into surgery without fear. When I woke up the next day, I was already mentally meditating to manage pain, 3rd day I was released from the hospital, had some post-surgery headaches, but I continued to meditate the pain away. It is very effective, I only took probably 4 Tylenols which was given to be by the nurse before surgery. The healing took place in a week, and I was already walking on the track one week after the surgery. I was in such good shape that my GP was very surprised to see me after surgery. If you feel that you don't want to take anymore pills, and would like to consider holistic alternative medicine, please consider mindfulness meditation. It works so well to heal and remove pain, almost instantly. Meditation stops the constant chatter in your mind, it allows you to see pain in a different perspective, try this guided meditation and see if it will work for you. http://db.tt/P6F8GYni