So, I'm 27 weeks pregnant and have been suffering with migraines all through my pregnancy (not something I have an issue with outside of pregnancy, thank goodness!)
After months of Drs fobbing me off, I've finally been prescribed some strong painkillers - dihydrocodeiene - I was over the moon, until I took one and felt awful!!
Shivers, sickness, headaches (different from the pregnancy ones!)
I'm so gutted, these migraines have been the bane of my life and I believed if only I could get some painkillers things would be bareable again. (I'm doing lots of other things: healthy diet, frequent hydration, yoga, osteopathy, good bedtime routines etc to try and manage them BTW, not just been flopping around waiting for the drugs!)
I took one 30mg dose, which I was told to do when I really felt the need, if paracetemol wasn't managing the pain.
I guess the next step is to go back to the Drs and try something else, but I wondered if anyone had had a similar experience taking dihydrocodeine and gone on to be ok with it? Or what did you find finally worked for you?
I had cocodemol after labour with DS1 without issue, but apparantly the Dr didn't want to prescribe me that, as it contains paracetemol and thus would limit the amount of that I could take to manage my pain...