Laura Saunders
“Less time spent with migraines means more time spent with my son.”
Running a business is hard enough without migraines, but Laura runs her own printing business, and the smell of the ink is a migraine trigger for her.
“I can remember being up all night with a severe migraine but I had to meet my business partner out at a plant at 7 in the morning and I was there even with the headache because I just had to.”
Being a single mom is hard enough without migraines, but Laura has a 6-year-old boy who would hit golf balls all day if he could.
“I think as a single parent it is more difficult to deal with migraines because there's no one in the house with you if you have a migraine to take care of the child.”
Laura is both the daughter and the granddaughter of migraine sufferers, so she was familiar with the problem, though that didn't make the migraines any easier. She couldn't plan out-of-town trips, she couldn't focus on day-to-day activities, and she found she was thinking about her migraines, not just when she had them, but between attacks as well.
“I couldn't leave home without a whole medicine chest worth of medications.”
She tried triptans, she tried every over-the-counter medicine she could find. Nothing could stop the migraines. She realized that migraines were always on her mind, whether she had one or not. Clearly, just treating them one at a time was not working.
“I did not want to just treat them when I got them, I was done with that.”
Recently, Laura told her doctor it was unacceptable that she was living so much of her life around her migraines. She didn't want to just treat them any more, she wanted to try and help decrease their frequency. That's when her doctor suggested she try TOPAMAX.
“Once I started taking TOPAMAX I noticed that I was really tired and not very hungry.”
TOPAMAX can cause side effects but most side effects are mild to moderate. In clinical studies, most patients did not stop taking TOPAMAX due to adverse events.
“I'm feeling really good about it, I'm very optimistic about it and I think it's going to do me some good. I'm going to keep taking it.”
By sticking with TOPAMAX, Laura is doing what she can to help take control of her migraines. If her story sounds anything like yours, why not talk to your doctor about TOPAMAX.
