Migraine

Well, I'm looking ahead to a busy day. Church, then a play in the afternoon.

At some point, I still have to do my laundry, even at the risk of flooding the kitchen again.

But I made it through yesterday without a migraine, even though I thought I was possibly prodromal in the morning. I may have been completely wrong, or I may have simply avoided the headache phase. That happens sometimes now with my preventives.

Yay, turtle! Keep moving on the ticker!

Glad you didn't wind up with a migraine, or at least skipped the headache phase, Nutcracker!

Our TV is finally going, and we're probably going to go to Costco to look at new ones today. Well, that is- assuming that DH wakes up and feels like getting out of the house. He's been sick for a couple of weeks now, so, this might not happen as planned.

Well, the increase in cymbalta seems to have cleared up the problems of constipation from the Verapamil. Unfortunately, it may be doing a little too good of a job... I suspect it all will level off in a week or so. We shall see.

Looking forward to the UNC game this evening- go heels!

Morning all - Actually it is afternoon here, but i'm in bed in my pjs so that makes it morning - at least til the sun goes down!

Sinuses achy, a little post-nasal drip, and a hint of migraine lurking around the corners of my head - not feeling prodromal but I don't always feel it.

I'm laying low today - stood up to fold more laundry and empty a junk basket - that was not too awful but made me woozy after awhile, so I'm laying down again. I'm gonna take a nice shower and steam out my sinuses after I've rested my head a bit. I hope I can keep the martians at bay - sometimes a day of lots of rest & tea & vitamins makes them go away.

Adam has a ton of schoolwork today and he is so distractable - Danny's mostly coping with it on his own and I feel bad that I can't help, but relieved to be out of it too. Adam is so hard to deal with when he has a deadline - with the ADHD he has no sense of time passing or of prioritizing - he needs a lot of help staying on task, but in his almost 13 y/o adolescent-ness he resents the help. We end up gritting our teeth a lot!

Good work, nut, in heading off that migraine. And Jamie, I'm glad your tummy and your DH are starting to feel better.

Glad to have all of you to check in with!

- Megan

So, the family is gone. Had a very nice visit, I really miss them.

Now, we are off to SIL to celebrate her birthday, and of course re-celebrate Sam's.....

We'll see how I am when I get home!

Hi Nancy - Here's hoping you get to enjoy the visit and celebrating, with no repercussions.

- megan

Since about Christmas, dh has been snoring WITH his cpap.

The pressure card in it is from when he was thinner. He would occasionally snore, but it's been every night the past two weeks.

He's tried to get around it, using nasal breathing strips. Really, doing that reminds me of his dad jerry-rigging things to make them work.

Last night was the last straw. I had a migraine anyway and when I went to bed he was snoring again. I tried sleeping in the recliner, but a cable from the Wii was messing up the video on our TV. It had audio, no video. Call me wierd, but when I sleep in the living room, I want the TV on.

So this morning when the alarm went off for church, I got up and told dh I was going back to bed because I didn't sleep. He asked why and I said, "because you're snoring like you did before the cpap!" I said more than that but that's all my tired brain can remember.

When he got home from church he said to remind him tomorrow to make an appointment with the sleep clinic. Yeah!

What's ironic is he is making me go - I have an appointment on Tuesday. He "made" me make an appointment after a night of not sleeping well. Well, I've never slept well, Anxiety, recent hormones, etc., has given me insominia all my life. I"ve talked with my primary and ob/gyn about it. But that wasn't good enough, I have to go to the sleep experts.

I will chuckle inside if/when I get the same dx as I've gotten from my other doctors.

Well, I got slammed with a migraine last night. Pain got up to an 8/10, horrible dizziness and nausea. The pain was on both sides, which are often my worst migraines. I was at my triptan limit so I didn't take anything for it. Drank a *lot* of my favorite tea, orange peppermint (real leaves too, not just bags). Went to bed with a cool patch stuck to my forehead and an ice pack on the back of my head. DBF rubbed my back for me for a while before he went to sleep. I finally managed to fall asleep around 3 am. Uck. I have no idea what even triggered it.

I woke up twice this morning, at 6:30 and 8:30, and the migraine was still there full force. Finally got up around 10:30 when the beastie settled down to a dull roar.

I took some Frova and ibuprofen this morning. I don't have much hope of it working, but it's been long enough since my last triptans that I figured I would give it a try.

I had grand plans to run some errands today and finish my laundry. It's likely I won't be well enough to go run errands, so DBF will be on his own. I always feel guilty when he goes by himself. But the fluorescent lights will just do me in today.

Instead, I'm going to put together my headache diary and list some questions for my appointment with my new HA specialist tomorrow morning. I have a ton of work to get done this week, but I don't even care that much right now. It'll get done, or it won't.


Nut, I'm crossing my fingers that you won't flood your kitchen! And glad to hear you avoided the headache phase of your migraine!

Jamie, I'm hoping DH is feeling well enough to go tv shopping. DBF and I need to go to Costco as well but I definitely can't deal with the crowds there today.

Megan, hope you're feeling better soon and that the martians leave you alone!

Nancy, enjoy the celebration time today!


Hope everyone is having a pain-free Sunday!

Deb, you snuck in there while I was posting! I'm the same way when I sleep in the living room - the TV has to be on!

Go, turtle, go!

I'm much spiffier than yesterday. The short reason is that I've decided to take a mini-med break today. I think my innards need a day off from the iron, especially. The last couple days they've felt all stretched out o' place, like the gremlins had used them for an all-night tug o' war marathon. Not real comfy, particularly after the nausea/near blackout bit. Maybe a day off will help reset things a bit. I might take my magnesium in a bit, though. The rest I'm going to just casually "forget" today. (And yes, my doc is okay with me doing that from time to time.)

I do have a beastie in residence today. Said beastie scoffed at my offering of the beloved Midrin. I'd try a Lortab rescue chaser, except I really don't want to add the Lortab to my already taxed innards (Thanks a lot, stoopid iron!). The beastie's pretty well settled in, but it's down to maybe a two. Since it's mild right now, I'm going to just put up with it and wait it out.

I'm not so washed-out feeling today, either, since I skipped the iron. I don't know why it's hindering instead of helping. I'm sure glad the blood doc said I'd be so surprised at the return in oomph once I had the iron. Hrrrumph. Hopefully the blood doc can enlighten me when I see him on the 14th.

Well, we didn't get to costco today. DH is feeling better! So, that's good.

I went to B & N to return a christmas present (a book on redecorating) that we would never use, and they gave me a store credit for it. Woohoo! So, I picked out something that DH and I wanted, but never would lay out the money to pay for on our own. So, now we have a very cool present, and someone else will probably buy that book off the shelves- people who could use it better than we could.

When I got back, I had a beastie waiting for me. I took some frova, and it went away for a while... but due to my not wanting to cook, and being lazy, I totally threw off my eating schedule, and triggered myself. I don't have any more frova, (refill in 2 days-insurance will pay for it) so, it was Mobic time.

I still feel a twinge, but it's mild enough that I know it's there. If I have to, I'll pay for some frova out of pocket, but I'd prefer not to have to push my use to 4x- multiple tablets- this week. The pharmacy is open until 12am, so I have time to change my mind, should it be necessary.

Food is here- I'm hungry. Later, y'all

Droolie- Hope you're feeling fully better soon! Iron's a weird thing- it took me a couple of months before I felt anything different... of course, 'twas just my oddball experience. But I can definitely tell now if I forget it for a few days- I feel my energy level drop. Especially if it's "that time of the month"

MJ- Good luck tomorrow.

Deb- my pdoc is trying to get me to sleep on my own- sans medication. I should do a sleep study, I suppose, but what are they going to tell me? I can't sleep? Besides- I'll be up worrying how much they're charging me to see my sleep patterns- and money's a big concern. So, that may not be the best of ideas. I need to call her back and talk about the timing of this sleep issue stuff...Too many meds being changed at once makes for unhappy Jamie.

I've been anemic at various times in my life. I just don't seem to absorb iron very well. When I was a preschooler, I was always anemic. Mom said they gave me so much iron she thought I would start manufacturing nails. (And that's from a Mom who rarely displayed much sense of humor.) Fortunately, I've always been able to tolerate iron supplements. For quite a few years now, I've been able to stay non-anemic with just the amount of iron--9 mg--in my multivitamin.

Droolie, I certainly hope your medication holiday helps. And since you've got the beast, I'm glad he/she is relatively tame.

Here I am, late again. Got up an hour late. Really trying to do the "good sleep hygiene" thing by going to bed and getting up at the same time every morning, without naps. True confessions time -- I set the alarm an hour later on the weekend.

Woke up with a 4 or 5, Skelaxin didn't do much, but walking (plus Anaprox and Imitrex) did. It's still in my neck and some in my scalp, but I took another Skelaxin, and we'll see.

Deb -- is it time for a new mask for your DH? My DH needs a new one every 3 months or so. He's supposed to bring his equipment in to see why they wear out so fast.

Don't be afraid of a sleep study. It turned out that DH was having 70 interruptions an hour. More than 1 a minute. The CPAP gave him his life back. He even takes it to fishing camp.

I waited too long to eat lunch and ate crackers, an extra starch on my Diet Center food plan. I'll eat a lot of vegetables tonight.

Walked for a full hour. 3 miles. There's a 4th mile in the neighborhood I could take, but it has killer hills, not the regular ones on my normal walk. My tootsies started complaining.

6 loads of laundry! That's enough to wear anyone out. I did 7 last Sunday -- DS was still finding dirty clothes in his home-from-college stuff.

I can't megadose Vitamin C. Trigger.

Finally got the Christmas taken down. DS and DH can get it up to the attic this evening.

I hope tomorrow is fabulous for everyone!

Gretchen in Mississippi
75 today, and 70's all week. 80 percent chance of rain Tuesday. I don't have anything scheduled Tuesday, which is good.

Gretchen, I set the alarm later on weekends too. I've been trying to do the good sleep thing, and during the week I do well. I'm in bed by midnight and up by 8 am. The past few weekends have been a different story. I go to bed sometimes a little later, and I get up way later. I've even had my alarm set on the weekends but I just go back to sleep. I think it's time to enlist DBF's help to get up by 9 on weekends.

On another note, the Frova seems to have done the trick. My pain is back down to a 3, which is about average for me. I talked to DBF and we decided I probably shouldn't go run errands and risk the fluorescent lights today. He's only picking up the essentials, with the plan that both of us go food shopping tomorrow night.

Speaking of sleeping - I've had insomnia more or less for as long as I can remember. It's been particularly awful since my migraines kicked into high gear last year. The only thing that's managed to fix it was acupuncture. (Granted, I didn't try any of the serious sleep meds, but I'm very wary of those considering my strong reaction to anything sedative.)


Back to knitting DBF's scarf. I have more laundry to do today once DBF gets back with more laundry detergent.