Well my Neurologist has tried 5 or 6 different meds on me. From anti seizure meds, to anti depressants, to blood pressure meds. None of them worked, or caused such side effects that I had to come off of them.

Now he has me on Verapamil (high blood pressure med) I don't have high blood pressure, actually mine runs 110/60 to 120/80. The only side effects to date......YAWNING!!!!! and peeing way to much..... I yawn at least 100 times or more a day, and it feels like I am in the bathroom that many times too.....

I can handle the yawning and going to the bathroom, it's just annoying. As far as migraines, or headaches.... Haven't had any since starting Verapamil. I am pleased with this....

Anyone else take this, and if yes, do you yawn, and pee alot??????

I was on Verapamil at one point for migraines and it just wasn't effective for me. Keep in mind that I am someone who never gets an aura before a migraine (sometimes we are broken up into those who get auras and those who don't). I used to be very "active" with a "go go" personality and my job had me up very early, going at a rapid pace all day and sometimes until 8:00 or later at night, and I'm a female. I never had side effects from that medication. But each person is different.

I don't get aura's either. I am up at 4 am,, I workout for 40 minutes, work 6 hours a day, workout again for 40 minutes, and then call it a night around 8-9pm. I am a go-go person also.....I am a woman too, but not sure what that has to do with it.....

With being a female, I always think of female hormones and how they can fluctuate and doctors have told me some females get really terrible migraines around the time of their periods (never my situation). I wouldn't know if you would suffer from that and if it would impact any medication you would take. I had not finished menopause when I was taking the med, and it didn't impact me. But that doesn't rule out impacting other females. That's why I mentioned females.

I received a card for a migraine research study and it was for people who had migraines WITH AURAS. That struck me as so odd, but then made me believe that perhaps having an aura/not having an aura may separate the migraine sufferers somehow--and it did for this research study.





[This Message was Edited on 03/23/2009]

Post menopausal.......I had migraines throughout my 20's and 30's. In my 40's they all but disappeared. Now in my 50's they are back.....Hormones???? I don't know.

I have never had auras, I just had bad headaches that turned into migraines. If they got bad enough, I would vomit......Had to have total darkness, no sound, no stimulus. Ice packs on head, and sleep, sleep, sleep........

Well the Verapamil cause another side effect.. Constipation. Bad. I tried everything I could think of to end that, and nothing worked. i finally called my Neurologist, and he changed the dosage.

I had been on 240 mgs of long acting Verapamil, and he now has me on reg. Verapamil 80 mgs. The jury is still out with a decision......

Man, what you have to go through just so you don't have migraines. Oh, and I have had 2 migraines in the past 3 weeks, so I don't know.....