<day 2> I am embarking on another experiment with my health again. Before my gastric bypass surgery I suffered 2 to 3 migraines a month, I treated each individual migraine and went about my life. When I moved down here after my surgery I wanted to be all better. New me with a new svelte body, me migraine free. I embarked on a mission to be fixed. I found a neurologist a great one who specialized in migraines, and she of course gave me pills. Muscle relaxers which I took increasingly so until 2 weeks ago and topamax and verpamil both are daily preventative meds. I think I made my problem worst by medicating it. I have been in rebound since starting the muscle relaxers over 6 months ago. Rebound is a condition in which medications give me a headache, a common condition that strickens migraine sufferers, including myself. The more you take the worst you feel, the worst you feel the more you take a never ending cycle which leaves you in more and more pain. The cure, quit cold turkey, I did. I stopped taking the muscle relaxers and I have been pain free for the most part for 2 weeks. My goal now to stop the daily preventatives especially the topamax which gives me the short term memory of a mosquito and can cause sever and profound birth defects. I want to be drug free so I can have a baby, my one true dream in this life. I guess it being mothers day and all, it makes me ache, the only thing I want out of life. so wish me luck!

Today is day three without topamax, I woke up with a mild headache it went away after I exercised. I am not at a 0 on the old pain scale I'd say the presure is a 1, or a 2 but nothing that is non-managable. I usually just stop what Iam doing and relax a bit, little nap always hurts, 2 times toay I laid down, didn't actually sleep just relaxed a bit and I certaionly felt better afterwards. I told Eric I would keep track of my pain and go back on if need be, so far so good though.