Re: insomnia med made my headaches & head pressure disappear.

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Penny

Alot of these drugs work on the bowel as well and drying everything

up in the bowel and creating constipation, as has been happening to

my mother for the past 4 decades, can possably decrease the

inflammation in the body.So somethimes the unknown effects of drugs

may be the direct impact on the bowel that could be the key to

understanding why the pressure came off the brain.

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> Hmmm...I took one of my husband's sleeping pills the other night to

avoid being up all night due to late caffeinne ingestion. Since I've

been having some sporadic insomnia, I felt it would be better to be

proactive, rather than suffer the next day from another night's lack

of sleep.

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> I looked at the bottle and didn't recognize the drug, but my

husband said it really worked for him w/o side effects so I thought

what the heck, might as well give it a shot.

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> Wow, next morning I woke up without any of the head

pressure/congestiony thing I've been having lately. Plus there was no

sign of the smallish morning headache which more often than not

progresses into a full blown migraine. That was 2 nights ago, and I

haven't had a headache or head/sinus pressure since. This is the

first time in months.

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> Since that was such an unexpected result, I looked the drug up

and whaddya know...it's temazepam...a pretty potent benzodiazepine

drug, (same class as Klonopin, which I was planning never to take).

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> But I was really curious as to why the big switch in the

sinus/headache stuff and saw that one of the side effects of

benzodiazepines is potential respiratory depression (which seems like

it would be contraindicated for sleep apnea patients, like my

husband). But this got me thinking. Pehaps whatever represses the

respiratory system also calms the inflammation? And perhaps that's

why my head is suddenly feeling normal for the first time in several

months?

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> I took 30mg, as that's what the tablets were. But it turns out

that's a pretty high dose and is more regularly prescribed at 7.5 or

15mg. Max is 20mg in Australia. Strange my husband's doc started him

at 30mg.

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> Since this drug is highly addictive, I don't plan on using it

often (once I get my own prescription) but I will definitely try it

again the next time I have a migraine or start with the head

pressure/stuffing up and see if it has the same effect.

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> At least for the last few days, it seems to have completely

aborted the headache cycle I've been in. What a relief. I've read a

few reports from people saying that Klonopin does the same thing for

them. This is completely surprising to me, as all of the various

opiates I've tried up til now have never been able to touch my

headaches.

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> penny

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