My Emgality Journey, Pt.2
It has been such a struggle to finally get the Emgality shot. Pt.1 ended with me being pleasantly surprised with my new neurologist. She asked me all the right questions and once she realized that I had more knowledge than most, we got straight to business. She began to tell me that I could do Botox, which I quickly declined, and then she mentioned CGRPs. I told her that I knew about them and she told me the differences between Aimovig, Ajovy, and Emgality. We decided to try Emgality. When the appointment was over, she gave me quite a few samples because we were not sure if my insurance was going to approve it or not. Well low and behold...they did not. I was on Emgality for 6 months but after that time, my insurance still didn't approve it. It was very disheartening. Let me rewind and say that it took about 3 months before the medicine truly "started to work". Overall, it did reduce the number of migraine days that I had. I went from having about 20 migraines a month d...
