HELLO TO ALL Hope today is as pain free as possible for all of us migrainers out here.....I have some personal opinions to share about some meds I have taken and would love to hear from others about some of these side effects.....some doc's here have not heard of some of the effects I've experienced, and probably would not have believed me if they didn't see for themselves what I looked like. DHE...have only had the injections, which did help, but for 2 days after my leg muscles were seized up---no pain just no voluntary muscle control. cafergot---I get a taste of blood from those pills...very thick film in my mouth, much worse then the normal dryness, anti-depressants will leave. now for the anti-depressants they will put us on or meds normally given to people with high blood pressure...hmmm...either you lose too much weight or gain loads...get hot flashes or dizziness.... before getting Stadol for home use I had to fight like hell at emergency for demerol...they use the gravol to help alleviate the naseau with strength of demerol...but after many needles and experimenting with dosages...for me--we found increasing gravol to 75 mg, instead of 50mg...and decreasing demerol from 100-150 mg to 75 mg also, was the best...wasn't too high a dose so that next day I wouldn't feel like a truck hit me.....narcotic hang-overs...wowza, even worse then alcohol hang-overs I think. My doc is strictly against fiorinal for migraine, due to its content of barbituate ( and kidney damage it will cause, I can't afford), and I am able to get Stadol...I have a friend who has suffered much longer then me and gets fiorinal very easy from her doc and he refuses to give Stadol, but he will also give her demerol injections when fiorinal isn't working.....go figure?? I agree that we all should at least try some of these meds until we find something that will help....one day a cure with luck!! I tell my doc all the time, "If eating s**t on a stick would cure me I'd do that too".....lol...what we would do for a cure huh? pain-free days.....hmmmm....that has a nice ring to it doesn't it? huggles to all roxie