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I keep typing responses and forgetting that I've had this window up since yesterday! My other posts were more involved, but this is going to have to be the short version:

Thanks for the support, guys. I've never heard of anyone else whose headaches/migraines last a week, either, which is kind of why I think they might be something other than migraines (but they feel like migraines, so . . . I don't know). I'm going to ask a doctor about and maybe try some of the suggestions you've put forward. Thanks.

Eednic, what does your sister think of Topomax? Doctors have told me it only makes the over-50 set forget words and stuff, but an under-50 gyno I just saw (who told me about a $40 acupuncturist whose appointment schedule would allow me to not take off from work to go, which is one of the reasons I haven't been able to find a good doctor and have to go to a walk in clinic; the other reason involves my insurance being ridiculously shitty) said it made her sluggish, and, as weird as this sounds coming from someone who takes narcotics for hers, I couldn't work or live comfortably with something like that, and I'm really susceptible to those types of side effects (see: beta blockers - my doctor told me they didn't really have any side effects and that they might make me sharper, which was the opposite of how I felt!). I wouldn't even feel comfortable taking a triptan if I felt one coming on and was at work; they make me so woozy, confused, and dizzy. But one of my sister's med school colleagues takes takes Topomax, so it can't make everyone tired and stupid!

Again, thanks for the support. I appreciate it a lot, but I really didn't start this thread so everyone could throw me a pity party (not that that's what you're doing). It's just good to be able to talk about it, and I don't like to around my friends because I'm already the sickly person who can't drink or eat cheese, and it's not really very interesting to people who don't share the suffering.