Originally Posted by JerryFF
Also, she has found that a drug originally designed for epilepsy called Topamax can be taken as a preventive, Again, check with your doctor, as taking Topamax on a regular basis has served to significantly lessen the frequency and severity of migraines for many people.
This is true, but be very careful with Topomax and know the reported side-effects. My wife took the drug for about a month and had horrible problems with forgetting words mid-sentence (a known side effect) and generally not being very sharp. Although it did manage to lessen the overall intensity of her migraines she found that she started to suffer from near daily lower grade migraines as well as what she described as pressure headaches.
The real problem was that she couldn't just stop taking the drug as that would lead to withdrawls and other problems. It took over a month to taper her off of it and on to something else.