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What medicines are you currently taking to treat Chiari?
What medicines are you currently taking to treat Chiari?
This was posted in 2009; however, I am curious what the newbies are taking. Please let me know if I should add or delete some of the choices. Thanks.
This was posted in 2009; however, I am curious what the newbies are taking. Please let me know if I should add or delete some of the choices. Thanks.
i just finished a third steroid pack in a row. also, taking tylenol with codeine. head ache finally reduced from a 10 to about a 3. do not know how long things will stay this way!
I'm on an antidepressant (Prozac) And nortiptaline (sp.?) these both help with headaches.
I was taking a lot of painmeds. My NS is wonderful. He suggested a radiotherapy rizotomy, and then taking 30mg miztazerpine each night.
A radiotherapy rizotomy is done under genereal aneasthesia in theatre. Two needles are put in the nerves both sides of the neck vertebrae just below the skull. Radio frequency is sent through to stun the nerves. This causes the measage of pain/headache not to be carried to the brain. Other pain like a cut in a finger will still be felt, but the neck and head pain is gone. I had my second one January 2010. I also use 30mg miztazerpine at night. The result - I use no pain meds. I do have all the other symptoms, just about each one and other as well not written on your sights, but never pain and this has changed my life. It wears off after about 20 to 22 months and then has to be done again. Living without the negative effect of painmeds however makes it worth the money and while. My medical insurance pays most of it. To find out more, talk to your neurosurgeon. I am from South Africa. .
A radiotherapy rizotomy is done under genereal aneasthesia in theatre. Two needles are put in the nerves both sides of the neck vertebrae just below the skull. Radio frequency is sent through to stun the nerves. This causes the measage of pain/headache not to be carried to the brain. Other pain like a cut in a finger will still be felt, but the neck and head pain is gone. I had my second one January 2010. I also use 30mg miztazerpine at night. The result - I use no pain meds. I do have all the other symptoms, just about each one and other as well not written on your sights, but never pain and this has changed my life. It wears off after about 20 to 22 months and then has to be done again. Living without the negative effect of painmeds however makes it worth the money and while. My medical insurance pays most of it. To find out more, talk to your neurosurgeon. I am from South Africa. .
i am ending a steroid pack. taking a low dose of neurontin. just added tylenol with codeine. pain has lowered some.
lyrica, topamax, tramadol, amitriptyline, cyclobenzaprine, vitamin d, tramadol, hydrocodone and promethazine. i'm a walking pharmacy....oh...and plaquinil for the ra.
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