Migraine

Happy Friday!

Thankfully I woke up with just a migraine hangover so the migraine broke while I slept last night. Hooray!

On tap for today is some foruming (is that even a word?) and then all the kids have a half day today so between the three of them, a sprinkle of their friends, I'm sure it will be a busy day. I love it!

I hope everyone is having a great morning!

Well, I finally got a break from the vertigo that started after a nerve block. I'm feeling kinda drained, but excited, as I've spent a couple of days on the couch in utter misery, and I'm at work and moving around, and nothing's spinning!

I can finally type out what happened at the HA Specialist. Good appt. He likes the progress that the verapamil has given me, but since my BP was running really low, didn't want to raise that anymore. So, we're going with the amitriptyline this time- bringing it up from 50mg to 75mg. Hopefully I won't have the "off to the races" tachy heart go wonky on me with the raised dose of the tricyclic (It raised my already tachy self a great deal when I started it, so it's a valid concern)

Then I got the nerve block, and my neck was all cleared up and happy, but for some reason, triggered the vertigo- so I've not been a happy camper this week.

My neck is feeling amazingly good- I don't want to say anything that'll jinx it, but I have flexibility, and it's not knotted up. One less migraine trigger for Jamie (insert happy dance here)

Hope everyone's doing well- and happy friday!

Hi guys - I woke up better too. Love when I can sleep off the migraine. Post-droming today (Laura - that's even worse English than foruming) but not too bad - a little dizzy and tender headed. Laura sounds like a nice day for you - hope you can take it easy.

Jamie I'm so glad things are getting a little better. Here's hope and prayers that it continues.

It's cold out but I'm going to see if Danny can take a walk with me in a work break. A client canceled on me which gives me more time to relax and work on my other projects. I'm committed to go easy today and not tense up my head and end up with a Frigraine - Love to start a weekend feeling WELL!

Have a good day all!

- Megs

Mornin yall!

Laura, so glad your migraine broke! Have fun with the kiddos today!

Jamie, I was wondering how your med changes went! SS about the dizzydayz. Glad your feelin better. with the tackies and the med change!

Megs, Glad to see your feelin better today too hun! And glad you get some downtime today!

Yesterdays peak from driving slowed way down after coming back home! I ended up having a mild pain/symptom day for the first time in over a week, and actually got to cook! Made a nice big pot of black beans to go over the rice for dinner. MMMM

Today im not doin as hot, pain isnt horrible yet, but dizzy, and sensitivities pretty bad. all of em.. sound light and skin!

Well hope yall have a great wonderful Friday!

Good Morning,
Laura, it does sound like you have a fun day planned Great way to start a weekend.
Jamie, I am so sorry you had to deal with the vertigo, YUCK!! I hate that....but, I am glad that you are feeling better and it sounds like your neck is better and knock out those triggers Yeah!!
Megs, Enjoy your walk and have an easy, fun-filled, no Frigraine (love the word) Friday.

As for me, Nicole (one of the twins) is sick, so I have to take her to the doctors this morning. It is "Who you admire day" at my son's school and they are having booths at lunch time, so I am going to run the cotton candy booth. I will be smelling pretty sweet. It should be alot of fun
Have a super friday.
Dar

Hi Tawsha,
You jumped in while I was taking a drink of my tea. I have my fingers crossed that your sensitivities mellow out . (Don't they know it is Friday, duh) Hoping you can relax today

Dar

Ok, I am seriously bummed - I did not sleep well last night and it wasn't dh's fault.

It's this darn insomnia. I didn't think I'd look forward to set bedtimes and waking, but I am ready for this to work. I start tonight.

Happy Friday everyone!

I did not have a good night last night. DBF and I went out to dinner (something we very rarely do between the restricted diet and the many triggers). I had a jerk chicken salad, one I've had a number of times. I started getting more migrainey about an hour after dinner, which makes me think there may have been something in there I shouldn't be eating. It wasn't too bad though.

Unfortunately, my constipation from my nortriptyline got way worse this week, so yesterday I upped my magnesium dosage. I take it twice a day, and before I went to bed it hadn't kicked in yet. Well, I woke up at 1:30 am when it *did* kick in. Between that and the nausea I didn't get back to sleep until 3. I took some promethazine for the nausea, which also knocked me out enough to sleep. I did NOT want to come into work today.

I am feeling better, though. Just tired and a little migrainey. Hopefully I don't get slammed by the beastie today - bad sleep is one of my biggest triggers.

Hope everyone has a good and pain-free (or low pain) Friday.

Hi everyone! I've been reading these for a while but every time I get to this page (around lunch time CST) there's too much to reply to!

I am migraine free at this exact moment (finally a break!) and am hoping it continues throughout the 4 hour drive to Southern IL tonight w/ DH to meet some friends from TN. It will be great to see them. Although I know it will annoy me to get enough sleep (we used to stay up almost all night back in the day) I know it will be better than to spend haf the day in bed with a migraine!

Laura - it's good that your headache broke. Good luck iwth the kids.
Jamie - vertigo really is no fun at all. I know wat you mean about the verapamil bp - my first 2 doses worked so well that I almosted passed out. Good luck with the meds.
Megs - goodluck with your walk and glad you are feeling better too.
Tawsha - hope you start to feel better.
Dar - good luck at the doctor's. Cotton candy - yum!
Deb & MJ - sorr that you did not get much sleep. Hope you all feel better.

Great weekend hopefully for everyone.
Laurelin

What's up all!

Well I think I've finally kicked my 40 hour migraine! I can't be sure though since it has not been 4 hours of no pain yet...I have my though!

It was on the right side for 2 days and then moved to the left - or vice versa I can't remember now. Seritonin is gone. Eyes, swollen and puffy.

I keep feeling a wham, wham, wham throb when I stand up, so I'm guessing it's not totally gone yet. I hope it's on it's way out though. Max out on abortives....onto rescue tonight if I need it, but right now I'm feeling good, so I hope this sticks!!!! Again

Family has been stressful, work has been stressful, people just blah, blah, blah and with phonophobia I can't take it!!!

Ok, enough of my whining.

I start the amitriptyline tonight!!! Yippee! I almost broke down and started it last night, but I was worried I wouldn't get up for work today!

Jamie, we can compare notes!!! I love how the side effects state right on it "may cause increased hunger...especially for sweets." Thats just great!!! The plan is the Topamax will level that out.

Anyway, I'm blabbing now because I'm finally feeling like I'm getting back to myself.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Good afternoon everyone.

Lunch time! I'm gonna have some leftover soup from last night that DH brought home. Yum.

It's been below freezing here the last couple days. Finally today it is in the teens. Poor dog has been running in and out like lightning. No lingering to bark at the neighbors or bunnies (his favorite thing). Yes, we are that neighbor with the annoying dog who barks everytime you walk by. He is just so protective for his 20 lbs. If you actually walked up to him though, he's quite a pansy.

I did Pilates this morning. Yea!

I have the ever-so-fun task of cleaning out the humidifier. DH has had upper respiratory infection & now sinusitis since early December, so we have it constantly running. It is just so dry here!

And if I feel up to it, I may try to make some bread in our breadmaker--mmm mmm mmm.

to you all.

Kelly

Eileen - hope your pain stays away today!

Good luck with the amitriptyline. I took it for several years and being hungry all the time never went away! Especially deserts. I could eat like 4 deserts at once if I wasn't paying attention. When I first took it about 8 years ago, I don't remember that being listed as a side effect - either that or I didn't read it. But I'd like to think if I'd known I could have done better staying away from the sugar.
But the topamax made me not really interested in sugary snacks so hopefully they will cancel each other out for you. I never tried them both at the same time.

Laurelin

So then the fact that I went to school for baking and pastry arts and I am now going to be put on a medication that makes me crave baking and pastry is probably going to be a bad thing!!

I can't wait - Can I just tell people I'm pregnant when I start gaining weight?? LOL TOTALLY KIDDING!!!!!! I'll just blame it on being newlyweds and happily married....yeah that will work

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Originally posted by Laurelin:
Eileen - hope your pain stays away today!

Good luck with the amitriptyline. I took it for several years and being hungry all the time never went away! Especially deserts. I could eat like 4 deserts at once if I wasn't paying attention. When I first took it about 8 years ago, I don't remember that being listed as a side effect - either that or I didn't read it. But I'd like to think if I'd known I could have done better staying away from the sugar.
But the topamax made me not really interested in sugary snacks so hopefully they will cancel each other out for you. I never tried them both at the same time.

Laurelin

Oh - and yes, I think that the pain, if I stay in one position and don't get up too fast - is gone!!! (doing a bit of a slow moving happy dance)

Still when I get up my head throbs, but on a just sitting down basis, it's gone.

Yippee!!!

Late again. I started my on-line "community-ing," but the dog, deservedly, demanded to take me for my walk. He takes me. I was all set to walk myself, but it's just too cold. 34 and light rain. That's cold for us. A shame, because walking usually makes my head feel better, if going outside doesn't hurt my eyes. I guess I'll ride the exercise bike.

I hope everyone's day is going well. It sounds like some of us got off to a pretty crummy morning. I hope it's getting better. I started out with a 5 or 6. Took my triple-threat combination and took my second Imitrex about an hour ago. It hurts on the top of my head, like a too-tight ponytail.

It sleeted a few pellets this morning, with the temp just above freezing. Everyone goes wild whenever there's even a slight chance of "winter precipitation." This stuff melted the instant it hit the ground, but that didn't stop the weathermen from forecasting doom and gloom. The same thing happened in Nashville when I was there earlier in the week.

Our poor dog. He's got arthritis, and his doggie Vioxx has played out. We started him on Ultram last week. I'm not sure it's any better than the Previcox. He might be feeling a little better. But the Ultram is a liquid. They had to get it from the compounding pharmacy to get a weak enough concentration for a 16-pound dog. He won't drink it out of a spoon. I tasted it, and it's nasty. So we have to shoot it into his mouth with a syringe. He HATES it. I'd hate it, too. It's getting harder and harder to get him to be still enough, even with my hand keeping his mouth open, to give him the med. We go back for a re-check on Tuesday, and I'm going to ask whether there's any way we can get it in a pill or capsule. He takes them in peanut butter with no problem at all.

The latest in our judicial chaos is that the attorney general is going to have to testify in a case. A year ago, he promised to abandon a criminal investigation if State Farm re-opened a bunch of Katrina claim and paid hurricane victims several million more dollars. Well, the AG has started the criminal investigation, and State Farm has sued to keep him from continuing. That's where he's going to have to testify.

You have to keep a computer chart to figure out who's misbehaving how in this thing. It makes all of us lawyers look bad, which I resent very much.

Here's to pain-free-ness!

Gretchen in Mississippi