Well.....My last post was about how I had gotten through my month long ordeal with migraines, which had ended in an ER trip for the worst of them, and which induced a trip to a new Neurologist, who finally prscribed something that actually seemed to be helping! And how, "knock on wood", I'd actually had a couple of weeks off from pain. Yeah!!
Well, no sooner did I post that, then what happens? Thursday night, the perfect storm hits again. Stress, tremendous sinus pressure, working on the computer....which is very difficult on me and is sometimes a trigger for my migraines....and just plain old fatigue, all came together to bring on another doozy of a migraine!
I'd already taken OTC migraine meds that day, which weren't doing squat for my headache. Thursday night I could tell it was blowing up into a migraine, but I didn
t have any prescription meds like Imitrex, only Darvocet. But Darvocet doesn't seem to do much for me but relax me a little. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So by nighttime, I had to take the Darvocet and hope for the best. It used to work for me, but most of the time, if it is a bad migraine, Darvocet doesn't do squat for the real heavy duty migraines.
Anyway, my neurologist had told me that he wanted me to be on a higher dose of Topomax,......(which again, is an anti-seizure medicine he prescribed for my seizures as well as for prevention of my migraines).....because he was sure my migraines would return on just the lowest beginning dosage.
But I didn't want to take a higher dosage, if I didn't absolutely have to. I just don't like taking prescription meds, especially on a regular basis and at higher dosages for fear of side effects and becoming dependent on them.
So I told him that I would start out at the 25mg dose and see how I do, and at that time, so far so good. I had 3 whole weeks with no migraines, happy, happy!
But the other night goes to show that maybe he was right. I will get the 50mg prescription filled and see how that goes.
Anyway, so Thursday night, last night, (Jeez! Was it only last night?!) I took the Darvocet, tossed and turned all night in abject misery, got no sleep and by the time Lance got up, I had already awoken again from another fitful little snooze, and yippee got to see the sun come up. Ugh!
So today, I was awake before him, waiting for him to rub my neck, my head, my temples, my anything to help me get some semblance of relief. I actually got in the shower before he was out the door. Although everything in me was screaming to stay in bed, I was so tired and in so much pain, sometimes the hot water pounding on my neck and shoulders relives the tension. So I got my weary body and my bleery-eyed head under the hottest water I could stand. Then I went back to bed until the very last minute I could, finally dropping off into a deep sleep.
A very short hour and a half later, I awoke to the sound of Blake and Emily walking around, playing, so I curled up under the covers, dreading the clanging of noise that comes with the day. But of course, mommies don't get days off, LOL.
Shortly thereafter, the play became fussing and Mommy, migraine or no, needed to get up and get breakfast and get to the business of living.....
I went into my the chiropractor today at my doctor's office for an emergency adjustment as I could feel that everything was completely tied up in knots and that has helped.
Tonight I still have the residual throbbing, underlying pain that feels like it is threatening to blow up again. So I need to get off the computer. But I just wanted to document this for myself, if for nothing else. It is helping me to get an idea as to the times and durations of these things.
One thing in all of this.....when you are so used to pain, you sure appreciate days without it! LOL
Maybe tomorrow will be a good day. I hope so, it's Saturday. I really want to enjoy a Saturday with the family.
My neck is burning right now from sitting here....so gotta go.
Blog ya later....
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