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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gingercat" data-source="post: 175167" data-attributes="member: 29985">Hi Viv,Thanks for the reply.  Yes, I am a migraine suffer and do experience the 'dreaded drizzle' and then the headache followed by a sense of time loss lasting on average 24 hours to 3 days.  Up until 8 years ago, I was severely incapacitated by them.  No exaggeration to say that they dominated my life and I planned my life to fit around them.. :shock:   Anyway, my GP at the time, put me on epilim,an anti-epileptic drug, her words were: 'it will slow down the activity in your brain'! Sure enough, it reduced them by about 50-60%.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />  Then 4 years ago, I developed depression.  I didn't know it at the time that it was depression, but I do remember being obsessed with my 'past life', sorry I know that sounds weird but I met someone at the time who I became very friendly with because I had a 'I know you from somewhere feel' - went to the doctor with this information.  The doctor gave me a mental health questionnaire to do and I fell into the high risk depression category.  So he started me on citalopram, a mood stabliser.  Well a rather strange thing happened - apart from improving the depression - from that day on I never got another migraine.  For the first time in the whole of my life, I was migraine free!!! :lol:  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />   I am still on all of those tablets.  But the sad thing is, that I started getting pains in my eyes, big black floaters and more recently, dark patches of shadow when I am reading.  Sometimes the floaters seem so numerous that I find I am constantly drying my eyes.  All the time I see lights, balls of lights,spots of lights, streaks of lights.  Tonight I asked my husband if he gets floaters and he said no.  The stupid thing is that I thought everyone got them...Anyway, thanks again for finding that out.  I hope your migraines stop.</blockquote>

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