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  1. Ahhhh. Ok thank you. Interesting thank you but definitely not for me.
  2. Sorry for the dumb question but what is busting? Im a little desperate as I’m not allowed to take verapamil or sumatriptans (no more than 1-2 per week) and I refuse to take topiramate...
  3. Hi Henri, im in the same boat as you. This is what my neuro has recommended but I don’t have the luxury of feeling dopey at work. Peoples experiences on topiramate scare me even more.
  4. Thanks for your reply and thanks for making it so informative. i think you’re right and based on my history with verapamil I don’t think that may have been the cause. I think I’ll be seeing a cardiologist to determine if I have any pre existing conditions (although my GP did mention it was normal prior to verapamil), probably best to see a specialist. thanks again
  5. Hi all, Firstly sorry for my first long post! This is my third episode, my very first I had no idea what they were and they eventually disappeared after a lot of pain. The second time I was prescribed 160mg of verapamil SR and that worked well and only took about 3 days before seeing results. I ended up taking it for 3 weeks. EKG performed before taking verapamil. now most recently, I’m about 2 weeks in my episode and was again prescribed verapamil and sumatriptan nasal. EKG performed before taking verapamil. After taking verapamil SR for 2 days at 90mg (9am dose) every day (on the second day I used the sumatriptan 20mg spray at 12pm) I ended up in the Emergency room (around 11pm) with Brady-arrhythmia and a first degree AV block... it was actually my Garmin watch that detected the slow pulse rate although it was very erratic, bouncing from 30 to 60bpm, which was confirmed when I was in the ER. I was advised to stop taking verapamil which I did. No headaches for 4 days after and important to note my heart rate has been normal since. i had a headache yesterday (1pm) and used the triptan, upon checking my heart rate when sleeping, I noticed it dropped to 37bpm again (approx 15hours later) I’m now thinking the issue may have been the triptan all along and not the verapamil. I’ve now voluntarily stopped the triptan. Does anyone know if this is a normal side effect from the triptans? I would love to try verapamil again as I now have no means to stop this... my neuro mentioned topiramate but that just sounds scary. I need to be switched on at work. In a positive note, luckily for me it only seems to be a daily occurance. Ive started batch’s regime and about 1 week in. Scarily my blood tests have confirmed I’m deficient (70nmol) according to batches graph, scary how accurate it was. I’m dosing at 20k IU with 1 day at 70k IU per week for the first 2 weeks. I’ll probably add the Vitamin C and BENADRYL tomorrow. Haven’t seen much difference so far but fingers crossed. I’m not normally one to ever cry but sometimes the beast just beats me to a pulp.
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