Faith + Reason = Truth

This is actually for people who think they have migraines but really have something else that's almost as painful.  After years of suffering through allergies (probably Mountain Cedar, particularly bad in Texas), I finally tried some Claritin every day for a week.  In the past I had tried it for a day or two, saw no improvement, and stopped.  But a doctor said it needed to be in your system to really work, so give it at least 4 days in a row.  Well, after a few days, my allergy symptoms were gone - but I had excruciating headaches.  So I stopped, because the headache was worse than all the allergy symptoms that I had suffered through the years.  The next doctor prescribed Allegra-D (for Decongestant - Claritin also makes a "D" version, and there's generic Claritin and now generic Claritin D).  The Allegra D worked, and no headache!  The doc said my headaches had been caused by sinus congestion.  But I didn't FEEL congested, I protested!  Couldn't argue with the results though.  After that 30-day supply ran out, I switched to generic Claritin D, with equally spectacular headache-free allergy relief.  And next moved on to plain generic Claritin (called Loratadine) and Sudafed as the decongestant.  Then, this very week, with my wife suffering debilitating headaches for a little over a week and trying every headache medication she could buy or borrow, I finally got her to try my good old-fashioned decongestant (Sudafed Maximum Strength Non-Drowsy) so her head would stop pounding as she lay in bed.  It worked that night, and has been working every day since (it's a 12-hr that she takes in the morning and at night, and it hasn't been keeping her awake at night, oddly).  Her mom and her sister are trying it today for their "migraines", which started right about when my wife's did (allergies are frequently inherited) and I expect the same miraculous results.  So do yourself a favor if you're suffering from "migraines" like this and drop a few bucks to try some Sudafed Max - whether you FEEL congested or not.