What can I do?

[Mack]

I have chronic headaches and migraines, with many ways in different places. My main migraine begins as a headache and involves the right side of my head, eye socket and eye ball. Ocassionally I will feel so much emense pressure to my right eye that I will actually pop blood vessels in my eye.

I saw a Neurologist and was prescribed Depakote ER a few months ago and ordered to take 250mg, then 500mg. I have been on 500mg for about 3 months, and I was told to go down to 250mg when I had about 10 pills left.

Depakote ER did seem to work for about 2 months. In that time span I had about 2 migraines and 2 headaches, unlike my usual headache-every-day extravaganza. With migraines almost every other day. However, recently my headaches and migraines have returned to their frequency and duration.

My neuro doesnt seem to be too concerned. Which is concerning to me. He wont even do an MRI, or any kind of test. All he has done is seen me 3 times and gave me a medication, when Id think hed atleast do some sort of brain scan.

What can I do?

[Ging]

Show up at the ER and tell them you are having the worst headache of your life, they will order a scan of some kind, I went through this and was found to have an aneurysm, this is after doctors trying to drug me up without knowing the cause, and yes the vote is out, some doctors believe there is a headache connection and some don't . I hope this is something minor for you, but you should be checked out . Good luck !

[jingle]

Ditto what Ging said..... somehow get an MRI.
15 years fighting migraines and politely trying to get attention and it finally turned out I had a brain tumor

[suse]

The whole "worst headache..." scenario is a good one! Are you able to change neurologists?? (I called my neuro's office and got the name of a headache specialist. You'd be surprised at how much information receptionists have!)

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[braintumor1eyeblind]

My story...
Tell your doctor you want a MRI done one the BRAIN & ORBITS.....ASAP! I have a brain tumor/mass.
Well, I had severe, severe migraine headaches, then bell's pasly on my left side, then 6th cranial nerve palsy..which means my left eye was stuck staring at the bridge of my nose I had double vision, then the Dr.'s finally found the reason(which was a BRAIN TUMOR) by doing a MRI of the brain and the ORBITS! But it's not like that stopped me from going blind in my left eye.
The night I went blind in my left eye the doctors finally started me on Steroids. Now, after about 4 months my left is no longer paralized(and the brain tumor shrunk) BUT a year later.... I AM STILL BLIND in my left eye.
To back track....From January through April I think I had 2 or 3 MRI's and none of them found the brain tumor. I wasn't until I had 6th crainal nerve palsy(cross-eyed/double vision) and kept pushing the issue to see a specialist that they found the brain tumor.
All I can say is don't give up, push push push. Because nothing anyone can do now to bring my vision back. And on top of all of that, I still have headaches and nerve pain on the left side of my face. Oh, if this helps, my vision didn't start and finish all in one day. It started on a Sunday and I was complety blind in my left eye on Thursday. Too sad for anyone to go through...it could've been prevented!
Change doctors...don't wait....I hope what I shared can help someone to not go through what I have....