I had a phone call with the neurologist (I always get a new one every year when I need to renew my Sumatriptan prescription) and my hope was that we explore something else other than Sumatriptan, because March has been awful for me and even now I’ve been having more than 4 attacks a month, especially when I’m in the office and don’t work from home (which is every other day). I’m 31F living in Switzerland.
He told me about some preventatives, but told me that they might lower my blood pressure (which is already low) and make me lose weight (I’m already skinny), and he seemed very skeptical about them (he was talking about some antidepressants and something else, I don’t remember the class). He also mentioned the newer Emgality etc, but said that they’re expensive and have to be approved by the insurance, which can be a bit more difficult.
Eventually, he gave me a prescription for Riboflavin and magnesium (tried it in the past, trying it now again, I don’t see any difference so far) and I pushed to at least try a new triptan (he started looking up other triptans and prescribed eletriptan, it works well, even faster than Sumatriptan, but I don’t see a difference in the frequency).
I was venting about it and my boyfriend got upset I didn’t explicitly ask for a preventative and didn’t wanna try one yet and that upset me even more lol. I feel like every neuro I talk to is skeptical about them or think I’m not in a situation bad enough to really try them, but then I see how much I suffer every time I get a migraine in the office, and how often I sometimes take triptans.
I can call the neuro anytime and he is ready to give me anything, it’s just that I don’t know what to tell him because nothing convinced me.