Migraine

Morning everyone. I have never started this post before, how fun. Hopefully as I am writing this you are all sleeping peacefully. Oh, how I envy you.

In case you are wondering why I am up at this crazy hour, I have my EEG at 8am and I am supposed to stay up all night...so here I am. 5 more hours to go. Have plenty of time to make up not posting all week I guess. I have been reading daily, just haven't had time to post anything myself.

I feel tired and wired at the same time (I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee and normally I don't even drink any caffeine). DH is asleep so I have invented lots of busy work for myself...apparently letting me stay up all night alone is asking me to reorganize everything in our house. I've become the mad housekeeper. I've cataloged the books and alphabetized them by genre, author, then series order, cleared out clothes from my closet that are too big for me now (yea!), completed 5 loads of laundry, stacked up some stuff to go to good will... right now I am sure that you are all thinking "jee! what an exciting life she has. I could never have that much fun all in one night." LOL.

I'm a work before play person, but I'm out of quiet jobs so I may just break out the Wii and have myself some fun while I can. I can feel the migraine coming on like storm winds brewing. Lack of sleep is a trigger for me these days and my body is not particularly happy that it has been awake 21 hours so far. Oh well, at least I'm allowed to take my meds when it hits. And I'm off tomorrow so I can be reunited with the blessed oblivion of sleep as soon as the test is over.

Well, I'm off to play Guitar Hero cause my mind is too weary for Zelda puzzles right now.

Hope you all have a great day and a happy Easter if you celebrate that sort of thing.

Ah me--sleep-deprived EEG! Emmerich and I were discussing those the other day. I've had one.

Hope yours goes well.

Oh Laurelin the things you have had to do to stay awake. By now you are in your EEG, I don't know how long they last, but I hope it goes well and you get to sleep. Take care.

I was so happy last night to get home to my own bed. The best part of a trip to me is coming home. Fortunately all planes were on time and even the lugguage cooperated and I was home a bit sooner than I thought, though still late. My own bed and coffee. A small slice of heaven.

Yesterday sitting in the Orlando airport my phone rang. I assumed it was work, but no, it was my daughter. She needed to leave school due to cramps. She doesn't miss much school, no big deal, so I let her come home. But I was 3000 miles away and she calls me, not her dad. I'm assuming it was due to it being from cramps and she didn't want to discuss it with him. I just thought it was cute.

This week as been a prevenative test with weird sleep patterns (a sleep trigger) and traveling stress. So far so good.

Take care everyone.

Cindy

Hi everyone,

Laurelin-I was thinking "What an exciting night life you have" LOL. Boy, it is amazing what you can get done with no sleep. (Hope you rocked at guitar hero). Let us know how the EEG goes. Hope you have a nice long rest when you get home

Medieval Writer-Hope you have a super day!!

Cindy-Glad you made it home safe and sound. I just read your success folder. WHOHOO!! for you!! I also think it is cute your DD called you 3000 miles away, sometimes only a mom can help


As for me, I am kinda down in the dumps today. I am trying to get out of it. I had another migraine yesterday afternoon. Not bad, but I am just so sick of them!! My hormones are acting up (ovulation) and yesterday the aura started acting up then I went to Wallgreens. The florecent lights made it worse, then vertigo and double vision and had to get out of there fast. Came home, got sick.

Today I am just tired of it. Oh, I am tired of waking up and thinking, hmmm Can I do anything today. Okay, enough whinning. I will write in my grateful journal today and turn my frown upside down

I wanted to go to the movies today with Zach, but the lights and such would be a stackable trigger for me, so I think we are off to the park with dark shades on I WILL MAKE THE MOST OF MY DAY!!

Hope everyone is having a Great Friday!!

Dar

I want to scream! I woke up this morning and my migraine is STILL here. I have had this beast since Wednesday. I have had periods where it let up a little during the last two days but it won't totally go away.

I have so much to do too. I have to do laundry and pack my suitcase. I keep looking at full trashcans, plants that need watering, etc. I am going to Nebraska on Sunday to take care of my mother after she has knee replacement surgery. All I can think about is how am I going to do that if I feel like this? I even asked my grown son if he could get me some "weed" brownies or something. I am desperate!

I am sorry to be whining but I'm so sick of being in bed. I keep trying to get up and take a shower, make a sandwich, etc. but the pain is so bad I have to drag myself back to bed. It hurts to lay down and my pillow feels like a rock. I can't get comfortable. I totally get why people commit suicide due to pain.

I took another relpax this morning so maybe it will work today. It didn't work the other two days but maybe, just maybe! Thanks for listening.

Laurelin ~ EEEK! I have a hard enough time staying awake until say, midnight. I think I only made it through the Harry Potter release thingie because I had my sister there for company. Hope the test goes well, and all is fine.

Cindy ~ keep on breezin' through that preventative test!

Hi Terri (Hoopsky),

I know you are feeling really bad and pain makes us not think clearly. First...Sending you lots of cyber hugs

Have you called your doctor? Or maybe it is time to go to the ER.

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I want to scream! I woke up this morning and my migraine is STILL here. I have had this beast since Wednesday. I have had periods where it let up a little during the last two days but it won't totally go away.

Remember, Status Migrainous is a migraine attack with a deblitating headache that last more than seventy-two hours. This 72 hours does NOT count sleep or relief due to medication.

This migriane needs to be broken, I am so just worried about you. If the medicine you are taking is not working, you need to get something that will. And "weed" brownies are not going to do it.

And if you are in so much pain that you "get" why people commit suicide due to the pain, please please call your doctor or go to the ER.

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but the pain is so bad I have to drag myself back to bed. It hurts to lay down and my pillow feels like a rock. I can't get comfortable. I totally get why people commit suicide due to pain

I am just so worried about you, Let us know how you are doing, Okay?

Dar

Howdy! I hope the day is going great for everybody! It feels weird to say Happy Good Friday, but I hope it's a good one to all. And that everyone whose head is acting up gets better as the day goes on.

My trip to Nashville to see my specialist was productive. I'm going to start a low dose of verapamil to see if that can prevent the headache I wake up with every morning. I didn't specifically ask for a rescue, but I did ask, twice, what to do when the abortives don't work. Her response, which makes sense, is to be sure to take my second dose of Imitrex one hour after the first, and use the injection for the second dose.

I think I'm going to rent a car the next time. It's SO boring sitting in a hotel room, waiting for a 1pm appt, and then sitting there the rest of the afternoon. I want to SHOP! I still haven't taken a big clothes spree. I had to retire another pair of blue jeans. I'm down to one pair of black pants, a pair of black jeans, and a marginal pair of blue jeans. The black jeans will need retiring soon, and the waist in the blue jeans is getting too big.

I'm not impressed with American's on-time record. I was late getting out of Jackson, but I had plenty of time to make my connection and eat supper in O'Hare. Jackson to Chicago to Nashville. How's that for an itinerary? Coming back, everything was messed up because there was horrible weather in Dallas, American's hub, the day before. All the flights were running late, but at least none of mine were canceled. From Dallas to Jackson, I sat next to a very nice lady from West Point, MS. She'd had to spend the night on a cot in the Dallas airport. DH has an uncle in West Point and cousins "out from" West Point. This lady knows them! The world is very small.

The last defendant in our judicial bribery scandal plead guilty today, to a lesser offense. The gov't recommended 3 years probation. The judge sounded a little displeased about that, and the bloggers are predicting that he'll get some time in prison, perhaps the entire 3 years. He'll also have to pay a $250,000 fine and be permanently disbarred. He and Daddy have so many millions that he won't starve.

So I'll find something else to amuse me. Maybe something constructive, like paying the bills that have been piling up, or planting something in the garden, or working on one of the two quilts I'm dying to start or on one that I've got started but stopped in the middle.

I hope the day is good for all!

Gretchen in Mississippi

Blech is the word of the day today. I'm feeling passable but I'm sick of using that word. I felt completely awful last night, with my migraine pain up to an 8, and the promethazine not playing nice with the Topamax and nortriptyline. No abortives until next Tuesday without big risk of MOH, either. I was hoping that when I woke up I still felt ucky enough to call out of work and just take the day off, but alas, I felt passable so here I am, sorry butt and all. I've discovered I have very little sympathy for certain coworkers who like to complain about every little ache and ailment - really - try living the migraine life for a day and *then* tell me how you feel! Ok, off the now. I'm grumpy today, I can't really help it.

Thanks for everyone's kind wishes about Madcat yesterday. His visit to the vet went very well. I'm very happy with his vet, in fact - like I mentioned, they're a cat-only clinic, and they are very knowledgeable about his breed (a first for me). He's got a touch of kitty conjunctivitus so they sent us on our way with some eye drops, as well as some suggestions on preventive care geared toward his breed. His eye is already looking better. He evened seemed to enjoy the visit as a social outing - it's a hard life, being a cat!

DBF and I have no major plans this weekend, which is good. I need to recover from our trip back east. I also have my follow-up with my specialist on Monday afternoon, so I need to get all my paperwork in order for her, as well as put together my one-month summary pages for my headache diary. I'll be glad to go to this appointment as I have a lot of things I want to discuss with her. I've been keeping a list of questions in my computer so I'll definitely be bringing that. Plus DBF will be coming with me, which is a first, so he may have some questions as well.

For now though I have to get through the rest of the workday somehow. I'll be going home for lunch shortly, then the downward slope into the weekend. Almost there... just a few more hours... I think I can make it.

I'm getting here late.

The kids and I painted ceramics today! First time, it was fun. Nikoli, aka Mr. I can get dirtier than anyone else, didn't have a spot of paint on him!

It took a while - 2 1/2 hours. I didn't expect it to take that long.

Dar, Hoopsky and MJ, hope you all start feeling better. Cindy, that's great that your new preventive is working. Gretchen, lovely travel plans.

I feel something coming on. We wanted to go to Good Friday services (dh refused to work late tonight), but I don't know. I've already taken something and tried to nap. We'll see.

Hey Boys and Girls - I know, it's only been girls and girls on here today but in case there are any boys reading...

I caught up some in the gripes folder, but sicne I always try to stop in for a cup of tea... I'm feeling mostly human. sinus infection is almost gone - just a little post-nasal drip at night. Woke up with the same nasty headache I've had for 3 days. Still wasn't entirely sure if it was migraine or not. (And I did have a 9 hour break while awake on Weds so not in danger of status). But we're heading off to RI tomorrow to my sister's, a 6 - 7 hour drive, and I really wanted to break the thing. so I gave it everything i've got - my choline salt of aspirin, the endorphin stimulating supplement, an imitrex, and icepacks on the neck and eyes. I lay there on ice for aobut an hour then went to the chiro for a very gentle adjustment. Put all together, it really helped. Still minimal head pain but I've been up and around and it's passing. I'm even going to take a page from Gretchen's book and take a little walk - feels like some motion would do my body good.

Hoopsky I'm worried about you too. Please let us know how you are. It sounds like you should get some emergency help.

Good to see you all! My computer won't be fixed til Wednesday since we'll be away, so I may not be on as much as usual.

- megs

Hoopsky/Terri, I'm with you in the "I can't stand this anymore" place. I feel so awful today. This is the sickest I've ever been in my life and there's no cure. If they don't ease up soon, I'm going to have to come off some of my fibro meds so I can try the Topamax and related preventives again and see if I can tolerate the side effects then. I'm just beside myself with frustration. I'm on my fourth day of a migraine so I started the Medrol course. We have plans tomorrow night but I don't think there's a chance in the slightest that I'll be able to go. And my usual understanding DH is getting frustrated too. He's scared. So am I.

I guess we should have put this in the Vents section, but if we can't whine about it over tea, why not?

Everyone else, don't worry, I'll bounce back soon.

Megs glad to hear you are feeling better. Man, when you decide to hit your migraine, you really do. Certainly sounds like it's paying off.

MJ, I loved your description of going to the vet with MadCat. My cats do not find going to the vet a social outing. But glad the he's getting better.

Terri, take care. I can only say "ditto" to what the others are suggesting. You need to find out what's going on. This isn't good.

Deb I hope the nap has you up to services tonight. I always find them very moving and calming. It could be just what the doctor ordered.

Gretchen I don't know how you could conceive on not having a car for so long while seeing your doctor unless the hotel was right in the middle of everything (a room at Nordstrom perhaps).

Dar I hope you are feeling better now.

Last weekend we hit on a silly on demand movie that if you find it on your local cable channel, you might enjoy watching it. It was free for us. It's the Accidental Activist and it is a 15 minute short film. Very sweet and funny.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Cindy

Just popping in to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Weekend.

I see some of you aren't doing very well, extra thoughts and prayers are being sent to all and may we all be pain free this Holiday!!

Have a great Easter Weekend

Lori

I'll keep this brief. I'm back from the ER. I went to the bathroom earlier and fell . . . blacked out. So when my husband got home and had him take me. The ER doctor thinks I was dehydrated and had low blood sugar levels. Bloodwork came back fine. He gave me fluids and MAJOR pain meds (I'm not sure what). I feel so much better but am higher than a kite right now. Feel like I'm majorly drunk. I do believe I will sleep good though. It feels like the band that was around my head has been cut off and it feels so good.

Thanks to everyone for caring. I will notify my doctor on Monday.