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A little bit about my situation with Clusters and Migraines. I have a very unique situation in that I have never had a cluster without not first having a migraines for multiple days in a row. Through busting I got the Clusters to calm down a bunch but the migraines seemed to keep coming back. I have always felt that if I could get controll of my migraines my Clusters would stop. Well on January 5th my doc had me try Nurtec taking 1 every other day. They seemed to calm down my migraines from 3 to 5 a week on the average sometimes more down to about 1 every 7 to 10 days through January. February is down to 1 every other week. The greatest thing is I have been 100% cluster free since started Nurtec. I hope that this continues to work as in the past everything that has worked stopped over time. last thing is insurance. This stuff is ridiculously expensive. When I went to the pharmacy with the prescription my insurance would only give me 16 for a three month supply wih. $20 co-pay. I called my Insurance and told them that my doctor wants me to take one every other day and the 3 month supply was not enough. They told me that if doctor wrote the prescription to say 1 tab every other day they would cover it as a preventative medication not an abortive medication with a $90 co-pay

I have been hit every day since the onset in 2014, believe it was March. It does not matter. If not cluster or cluster-like, migraine, or paroxysmal. And, my C5-C7 was an ACDF Reconstruction with an implant. The rest of the discs in the neck are beginning to show myopathy (spinal cord compression) and radiculopathy is established. This means I am well overdue to have the rest of the discs removed, and ACDF. Most likely with implants. Artificial discs are junk money rackets. The best neurosurgeons will bluntly tell you that. A few of the best spinal reconstructionists are in my area (Thank God). Most of my L Spine needs to be finished as well. Anyway, despite the above, my muscles become stiff as a board before any headache. Like, popping 2 Soma (Carisoprodol) (tried several times) won't phase it tight. So yeah, it appears common. My muscles are abnormal, alarmingly tight because of my movement disorder. When you place that into context and the fact that I notice it, that should tell you something.