I'm up to 200mg of Zonisamide a night, and the nausea is trivial. Feeling much better, with headaches brief and infrequent. I do take a Skelaxin almost every day because like most treatments, even this one is not consistent.
At night when I want to fall asleep and not feel any pain I have some Tizanidine 4mg tablets that I can take.
Between the Zonisamide, Gabapentin, Tizanidine and whatever else is in my little grab bags of pills, I can sleep and not be disturbed by headaches ever again.
Since I've been in remission for over two years, the two remaining problems have been the headaches, and the fact that I don't have a great deal of energy.
I think I've got the right mix of drugs to deal with the headaches. August 2nd I have a sleep study to see if I have sleep apnea, and sometime later I'll have a session with the Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic at UNC and they can look for little nerves to zap in my neck.
That should pretty much fix the neck problem.
The energy issue is that I have perhaps not been healing because I have not been sleeping well. The Gabapentin helps with that, but the sleep study, if I find that I have sleep apnea will help a great deal.
I don't look forward to being connected to a machine for breathing at night. How ghastly.
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