think my doctor would...about migraines

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give me a occipital nerve block a couple times a month just to keep me from getting migraines the way I have been?

I do have an Rx for Topamax but I haven't been taking it. I don't know why. I really should. It's been proven that it does prevent me from getting migraines and it's a mood stabilizer to boot. Heck, my psych doc might be upping my dosage on it for the mood stabilization effects because the Lamictal didn't work.

Let's see...what are my conditions to date?

Asperger's (aka infantile autism back when I was first Dx'ed)
ADHD
Dyslexic
bi-polar disorder
recurrent major depression
and the doc seems to think that I'm borderline OCD.

You need to be careful because men who are prone to migraines are also have a 24% higher rate of heart attacks. I was talking about this with some other guy friends who have the same thing. Migraines are awful.

I have been unable to find out the precise definition for 'Infantile Autism', though by the way that this is worded, and from what I've been able to construe from what I have been able to pull up, this sounds like it may be classic Kanners or some form of 'Low Functioning' Autism.

The ADHD as well as the OCD can partially be attributed to the Aspergers diagnosis. Before Aspergers was a diagnosable condition in the US, many people with Aspergers were given the dual diagnosis of ADD/ADHD with OCD. A girl in Maine that I now know to have AS was diagnosed thusly.

Furthermore, the Dyslexia that you've been diagnosed with can also be attributed to Aspergers, as another guy that I knew in Maine was always called Dyslexic. --He was also one of the stranger Autistic people that I have known.

Their is a possibility of Bipolar disorder, OR recurrent major depression,(I have this, BTW) though I believe that it is impossible to both simultaneously. I'm sure that your doctor will do anything to pad your diagnosis due to the fact that if you are recieving state funded health care, the more things that he can list that are 'wrong' with you will provide him with a long term state financial subsidy every time you pay him a visit. --The more diagnoses, the more you have to visit him, and the more cash he gets from DHS.

At any rate, he sounds more like a 'pill pusher' than a doctor.

That being said, that still leaves you with migraines, and I don't know what can be done about that, though I think that these may be seen under either a CAT scan or an MRI. --Whether MaineCare will pay for these to be done isn't something that I know.

he's not into it. He doesn't believe in it. He told me to go to the doctor who gave it to me initially. "Gee, that nerve isn't normally associated with migraines." uh huh... Fine, leave me in pain, a-hole. He tole me to take naproxen or tylenol or something - which I have been. I'm thinking about finding a new doc.

And the infantile autism thing was mentioned when I was a kid. I don't know why and in what context or anything. Just thought it was a precursor to AS.

Thinking about self-medicating (when I'm not home alone with my daughter) with cannabis