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You are most welcome!! The regimen can be a life saver!!! Yes, some take longer, but I a delighted that you are sticking with it to gain the full benefit!! ATB!!!! You are not far away from me!!

> Initially you may get some days are better than others kind of thing. But when it kicks in and your D3 levels are high enough, the whole mess can just melt away That's exactly what I was hoping to find out! That's what's happening to me (some days are better than others). It's taking longer for me, I've been on the new Vitamin D protocol since April 23, but my condition is really refractory. Thank you, @spiny!

Dr. Lawrence Robbins of the Robbins Headache clinic recently came out with an article on the CGRP mononclonal antibody drugs such as Emgality. He has been one of the biggest prescribers of these meds and to me, he seems like the most reputable, qualified doctor that we have in headache medicine right now. Technically the subject of his article was not the CGRP drugs, it was more about the system that we have in place to get accurate info to patients about medications. And he titled the article "The system is broken". And he used the CGRP meds like Emgality as an example of just how broken the system is. He says this because we originally were told that these meds were about as close to side effect free as you can get, but now we are seeing a very different reality. He says that at this point we have close to 6,000 cases of serious adverse events, meaning that people either ended up with a life threatening condition or needing hospitalization. He called this amount "staggering" and he also said it is the tip of the iceberg and that in reality, the numbers are most likely much much higher. And if you listen to the huge amount of patients that have had horrible reactions from these meds then what Dr. Robbins is saying makes sense. Because you find that most of them have doctors that are not believing them when they report problems. The only probIems noted in the original literature was constipation, so when people come in saying that they all of a sudden have crippling anxiety and their hair is falling out many doctors just blow them off. I know when I tried to tell one doc about some of the newer information she called me a conspiracy theorist. I'm sure there are quite few others that have had similar experiences. So at this point it seems that it is on patients to save other patients. We have known most of this info for close to two years now, so it's apparent advocacy groups and most medical proffesionals are just not going to talk about it. Hopefully this will change when the meds come out with black box warnings, which is something that Dr. Robbins told me he expects to see happen with these meds The CGRP monoclonal antibody drugs are an important option to have in our arsenal, but they pose a serious potential for harm if doctors are not aware of the side effects that can come up. And in all situations we need to be vigilant in our search for truth, even if we don't like it. Here is the article Dr. Robbins wrote. https://southernpainsociety.org/adverse-effects-and-clinical-trials-the-system-is-broken/ -Ricardo