Anyone else have migraines?

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I have been having migraines for years. Lately they have been coming several a week and will last at least a day. I can only take Tylenol and up until recently, my idiot dr would give me percocet (which I hate taking, so I would only take sparingly so I would not become addicted to it). Finally I switched drs and she put me on Topamax. I have not had one since, BUT now I have been having this MAJOR onset of depression. It is bad. It is also a side effect that has to be reported, which means I have to get off of it. It is just right now, I am so depressed and I hate being depressed. At least I can say that I don't want to hurt myself, but I am crying, and I hate crying. At least I figured out WHY I am depressed. But I can't just stop the med. It is not one of those that can be stopped cold turkey.

I used to have migraines a lot. They went away when I stopped eating any foods with msg (monosodiumglutamate) or artificial sweetener. They are neurotoxins. So they're bad even for people who don't get migraines from eating them.
I hope you feel better soon. Migraines are terrible. Take care.
- mountain

I can stop eating MSGs, but not artificial sweeteners. I have to find a different sweetener source..l. unless by artificial sweetener you mean Aspertain and saccharine and that type of stuff. I avoid that stuff anyway because of my daughter. She has seizures and we were told to avoid the Aspertain because of it. I usually use Splenda. I can't have a late of Natural Sugar, so I have to use some sort of substitute. The dr said there is another med she can give me, it just tends t lower blood pressure, and I usually have lower blood pressure anyway, so they will have to be careful.

they are not diagnosed as migraines ( im thinking of going to a doctor though if they get worse) but i think they migraines

i dont get them often infact i usually only get them during my period

I started to have frequent severe migraines the last years of university (about 25 years ago).

Some of my migraines were associated with epilepsy. Some seizures would end in very severe migraines, while some partial seizures would magically stop a migraine in an instant.

Painless migraines with aura often confuse my doctors, as do some of my partial seizures. During one painless migraine triggered by a nurse's perfume, my doctor demanded that I take an ambulance to a distant ER. I refused and had a legal conflict with the doctor. Before then, in 2006, I had an extra long, blinding migraine after a cluster of seizures with secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and the month long migraine turned out to be frontal subdural hematoma that required emergency surgery. ER often tells me my partial seizures are just migraines, so I suffer many doctor versus doctor battles also.

Anti-epileptic Drugs (like Dilantin, Keppra, Tegretol, Topamax) help for a short while with my migraines, but the migraines quickly build immunity to the drugs if taken more than on rare occasions. Most migraine specific medications aggravate epilepsy, and never worked well for me anyways.

I like Oliver Sacks' book "Migraine" with full view often at books-dot-google with the book search "Oliver Sacks migraine 1985" and it mentions the paradoxical migraine warning of "feeling dangerously well" prior to an attack.

Tadzio