Archive for the Migraine category
January 16th, 2007
I put in a call to my GP this morning about the pain in my stomach, right side and back, as well as my migraine, bloatiness and lack of appetite. I said straight out that I’m not going back to the E.R. (or E.D. — interesting that since that series started most actual E.R.’s now want to be called Emergency Departments) and I don’t want to pop oxycodone all the time — makes me too sleepy and discombobulated, and that’s saying something.
As it is all morning I’ve been trying to pry my eyes open. I can’t decide if it’s not
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Tags: pain, migraine, gallbladder, gallstone, surgeon, GP, grocery store, project365, sleepy
January 15th, 2007
And I’ve got a continuing sharpish pain where my gall bladder is. None of the usual meds seem to be doing anything to help the migraine. I’m getting ready to go bury my head in a snowdrift, if I can find one big enough.
I haven’t had one this bad since I moved.
Tags: migraine, gall bladder
January 14th, 2007
O.K. So, I think I forgot to take my meds yesterday morning and I’m paying for it today. Otherwise, I’m just really sick today.
Pugly woke me up at 7am because he wanted to go out. I got up, took him out to do his business, put some birdseed in the feeder, fed the animals, and went back to bed. I woke up again at noon feeling much worse and with a migraine. I’d been having weird dreams mixing HBO’s Rome with HGtv’s whole line up of home improvement and house hunting shows.
I’ve been very ill since then. I’ve been wishing
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Tags: migraine, wellness, health
November 16th, 2006
Something told me that I was tempting fate last night as I took both my new 10mg of ambien and an oxycodone for my migraine as I was going to bed at 9:30pm. I even told Pugly that with my luck I’d get paged since I was on call. But the regular MaxAlt migraine med just wasn’t cutting the migraine pain yesterday. Not even a dent. In fact, it was worse by bedtime.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, at 3am, I got paged. It could have been a five minute deal really except that it turned out that the translator that
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Tags: work, sleep, migraine
November 1st, 2006
Migraine Attacks cause an estimated 112 million bedridden days a year.
Source: Woman’s Day, April 18, 2006, p. 50
Tags: migraine
August 23rd, 2006
I just got back from the rheumatologist follow up visit (after having had to sit through 2 hours of a budget meeting this morning).
Apparently, the Lupus blood test came back negative, but my Sed rate is still high at 90. He also doesn’t think it’s Sjögren’s Syndrome based on the blood work and my tear generation test.
So, now he wants to do some studies of my blood vessels to see if I have Takayasu’s Arthritis, which is a really rare disease where your blood vessels shrink. Apparently normally it shows up in Asian women, but he
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Tags: Takayasu's Arteritis, rheumatologist, CAT Scan, Lupus, Sjögren's Syndrome, ESR, cancer, emphysema
June 9th, 2006
So, yesterday, while everyone else was getting all hot and bothered about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death — something I took at first with a bit of cynicism since he’d already been killed about 4 or 5 other times this year — or busy calling their Congressman to learn just how dedicicated he or she is to the sanctity of marriage — I’ve kind of enjoyed reading some of the transcripts from the liberal bloggers with too much time on their hands who want to know if their Senators masterbate (I can’t believe I typed that, Mom) — I was considering
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Tags: fibromyalgia, wellness, al-Zarqawi
May 19th, 2006
Well, I’m not.
Earlier in the week, I was very, very ill. Fortunately I see the post ahead feature for “Quote of the Day” was working just fine. 
I believe that the illness was triggered by that nasty weather that New England got with all the rain and the flooding. It triggered some migraines and some nasty stomach issues for me.
Then after that I’ve just been busy with trying to speedily develop a nifty new interface for that project I thought was done and trying also trying to catch up at home. My house looks like
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Tags: Me, the puppy, wellness
April 17th, 2006
I know I’ve been quiet a couple of days. The truth is that there’s been some more arguing on the phone and in IMs and a couple of emails. Mostly it’s been one-sided so-called “Tough Love” coming from N2; at least that’s what she calls it.
I feel kind of beat up and sore and raw right now. It’s all been rather eye-openning.
Imagine finding out that the things your most afraid your friends will think about you are actually the things they think about you. But they “love you anyway” or they wouldn’t be talking to you about it. Quite frankly,
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Tags: friendship, dysfunctional drama, wellness, depression, anxiety
March 31st, 2006
Well, I had my second Botox treatment last week. I meant to blog about it then, but with all the problems with my web host, it got lost in the shuffle.
I handled it somewhat better. No passing out this time. However, knowing about the 22 shots and what was coming was worse, I think. I felt very ill the whole time, very light-headed. It wasn’t nearly as interesting an experience. I did keep trying to focus on my happy thought, which happened to be Pugly since I was going to go see him immediately
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Tags: botox, topomax, migraine, health insurance
March 7th, 2006
So, I think the topomax is actually working. I’m on my second week and I’ve only had one migraine and that was actually due to two days of bad sleep due to no ambien due to ran out. Though, admittedly, I had initial success with topomax when they tried me on it years ago. Let’s just hope the botox/topomax combo is the magic combo.
The only problem with the topomax is the random numbness it causes in my face, fingers, hands and feet. It’s not really a problem so much as a weirdness. It’s a little
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Tags: topomax, wellness, migraine, depression, suicide, therapy, botox
February 25th, 2006
Well, I had a chat with the neurologist’ nurse practitioner this week. I explained that I was still having bad headaches 3 out of 4 days and that I’d had really bad migraines about once a week for several days sinc the botox treatment. She had a different opinion than I did; she seems to think that this is an improvement for me and that it’s worth trying a second treatment.
Of course, since it didn’t help me more, we’re going to try a preventative medication in addition to the botox with the idea that the botox helps enough
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Tags: botox, migraine, topomax
February 2nd, 2006
I appologize for seemingly abandoning this blog. The truth is that I’ve been distracted by more than a few things in my life:
- My grandmother’s death, as you know, took me somewhat by surprise and has caused me to do a lot of self-inspecting. Plus, I want to be there for my mother who I think took it a lot harder than me. Plus, the planning for the memorial service the weekend before Valentine’s Day in Florida.
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Tags: Faith, God, Spirituality, migraine, wedding, England, paranoia, Samuel Alito, discombobulated, fibromyalgia
January 11th, 2006
O.K. So because I suffer from chronic migraines and have not found preventative drugs to be effective, my neurologist proposed Botox injections. Apparently, they have had great success using Botox on patients who did not respond well to the preventatives.
Mind you, I’ve always been uneasy around needles (who isn’t?) and I’m not fond of the idea of having something that’s labelled “toxin” injected into my “temple” of a body. However, After 34 years of pain and a multitude of futile attempts to lessen it, I was desperate.
So, today was my first treatment.
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Tags: botox, migraine
December 8th, 2005
Well, I apologize for my recent lack of posting. After Nano, I got distracted by real life. I’ve been ill, I’ve had a severe migraine, I had to cook gumbo and a cherry chocolate pie (recipes now at The Weekend Chef) for a holiday party, and my cats gave me The Movies computer game as an early Christmas present. 
I ended up having to go to the doctor on Friday about my digestive trouble as my throat was raw from the stomach acid that was doing it’s imitation of a volcano. I woke up choking on
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Tags: wellness, migraine
November 2nd, 2005
O.K. I broke the rules. At least I read on the forums that you shouldn’t revise, etc., but just keep pushing on, but I actually think I not only improved some things, I added words to the revise of yesterday’s work.
I admit to recycling most of a post I originally wrote in real life but I tried altering it here and there to give it Nora’s voice. I think I might relook at Chapter Two again tomorrow after I’ve had a chance to listen to Nora a bit more.
I guess I’m not too worried right at the moment
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Tags: NaNoWriMo, writing
November 2nd, 2005
Here’s an exerpt of the beginning. I’ve cut out the scene that I was working on when I quit last night. I guess I kind of want feedback and kind of don’t. If you do give it, please be honest.
Losing Nora: The Fall and Misadventures of a Computer DivaChapter OneSome days Nora felt that life would be so much better if she could just take a drill to her forehead and release the demons screaming and pushing and shoving to get out. Some days she couldn’t remember what life was like before the pulsating throb that
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Tags: NaNoWriMo, writing
October 17th, 2005
Seriously.
I’ve had a bad migraine for…as long as I can remember at this point.
O.K. I’ve actually had one every day since last Wednesday morning, I believe. They came. I medicated. They went away for a bit. There were side effects.
But this one I’ve had since Saturday afternoon/evening. I’ve tried several medications — following the doctor’s directions of not taking different ones within 24 hours of each other. At the moment, I feel slightly better than last night and this morning when I was praying to throw up and get it over with — though
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Tags: migraine
October 12th, 2005
I went to see my new neurologist today.
Personally, I hadn’t been interested in acquiring a new neurologist since moving to Maine. It seemed to me that they were pretty useless as the two I saw in New Orleans never really figured anything out and didn’t seem to run any tests and one of them dropped me because he said there was nothing else he could do for me.
Anyway, the new GP wanted me to go because my migraines and headaches are getting more frequent and painful again, but my blood pressure is staying gloriously normal.
So, I went.
And when I
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Tags: migraine, botox
