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so i got some make up. and i put it on for fun. things are ok. i did have a headache a few days ago that lasted 36 hours, with no relief from tylenol, ibuprofen, asprin... so i called my doc and he told me to go to the ER since it was 11:30 pm..... and they gave me 1 mg of dullatin? dulladid? i have no clue how to spell it... and as soon as that shit went into my veins, my whole body just about jumped off the hospital bed! I thought I was on FIRE! it hurt my whole body so bad I cried and I couldn't talk... the nurse had her back to me, she was also going to inject me with benedryl and something else... she asked,"Rachel, are you alright? Rachel?" Andy was like, "No! Look at her! she is not alright! what did you give her?!" and in about 3 minutes it all subsided... and I was more stoned than I have ever been in my whole life, which sucked... I hate that feeling... and, the headache NEver went away... they did a CT scan... and depending on the outcome of that, they were going to also do a spinal tap... when the doctor mentioned that, I said, hey, isn't that a band? (I had already had that shot of narcotic stuff) after about an hour, and the CT scan, they gave me another 1 mg shot of that stuff. The headache stayed. So, the CT scan showed that my brain has no tumor YAY! and no brain bleed YAY! but they said I just had a headache.... gave me a script for vicodin, which is not working either... it's just making me puke.
This headache is crappy, I mean, every light is way too bright, every noise is way too loud...
Even my Own voice is too loud for me.... my voice is vibrating inside my head and making me feel like throwing up.
I don't think I have ever had a headache this bad... that persisted even after taking a narcotic.
So I have an appointment with my doctor thursday... I hope she can figure out what it is.
The headache did subside for a while after I went and did a bunch of lawn work where Andy mows in the summer. I dug big ass holes and planted a bunch of bushes.
Being outside in the sun and fresh air may be what helped it... I mean, it was completely gone for about 4 hours today, now it's back.
So i have decided to start the day with a very brisk walk, about 30 minutes. Maybe that will help.
I have issues with cluster migraines. The are very random, and last for months at a time. Luckily though I've had two bouts of it in my life and they were around 15 years apart. The last one I had started in June of 2003 and lasted until September of that year. I went to the ER finally because I was going to cut my head off, and they gave me indomethycin (sp), and said nothing would make it "go away", they were just giving me meds to help me sleep. I hate those headaches, but there is nothing that can be done about them. You just have to deal.
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I think my doc gave me that Indo stuff once when he thought I had Gout... which I didn't.
for the pain.
Anywho, the headache STILL persists, so I saw a specialist... who said, Oh, you had an adverse reaction to the Dulladid, not exactly an alergic reaction... and he said, Narcotics Rarely ever work with migraines... so take These meds...
I filled the scripts, and when I got home, I read up on them, this is what I found out:
Stadol: Narcotic for moderate to mild pain. Toradol: Narcotic for moderate to mild pain. Phenergan: Aid for sleep/ stop vomiting.
What the Fuck? So I tried these for a few days and the headache never went away, I was just stoned beyond belief and feeling clumsy, stupid, and nauseated.
So I called that doctor back and left a message with his nurse, saying that these meds were not working and I wanted to know if there was something Non Narcotic I could try. The nurse called back and said the doctor said to keep taking these meds until the headache went away.
So... I wonder what this shit is about Narcotics Never working for migraines, and then being perscribed fucking Narcotics.
stupid. anyway, I know for sure now that I will never abuse opiates because I hate the way they make me feel.
I do have to hide them around the house though..... Somebody fricken Loves them.....
Grrr.....
the same thing happened when I had my tooth removed and I got percocet for the pain... Somebody took half of the bottle of percocet.. over the course of two days...
JackAss
other than that, things with us are fine... sex is better than ever... I'll go write about it in the SexxxxRoom...
The Indomethycin didn't get rid of my cluster migraines. Nothing works on them. Actually, one of the clues that it wasn't a "true" migraine was because laying down made my head hurt worse. THAT is indicative of clusters. The indomethycin was only to knock me out so I wouldn't care and could get some sleep. Because without adequate sleep, your headaches will stay. And since laying down made them worse for me, I would avoid laying down. I hope your doctor figures out what is wrong with you. Maybe if you explained to your doctor that you have an addict in your home, and you're not drug seeking, but rather trying to find something that will help you, but not enable him, he might be willing to look into it for you. Sometimes when you call drs and tell them that what they're giving you isn't working, they're not willing to give you anything much stronger because they're afraid that it is a drug seeking thing. Like I'll point blank ask for loritabs because I can't take Tylenol with Codeine in it. That stuff makes me HORK big time. And since I don't have much experience with narcotics, I only know what I have taken that works and what hasn't. Percocets work too. I found that out after my c-section.
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my doctor found a malignant meningioma somewhere in my brain.
fuck. so thats why i have a constant headache and i cant remember much of anything i did even just a few minutes ago... and why i cant seem to walk anywhere without walking right into things... and why i am dizzy and nauseous all day.
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i have been asleep for a while. i think i am going to see mr. doctor again today in the late afternoon.
so far Andy has been keeping up with everything and filing all the papers and stuff like that.
my hair just started growing, like in march. i know it sounds bad, but i dont want to do chemo if it takes my hair away.
i will post an update tonight or tomorrow about what the doc says. i am hoping it will be as simple as my mom's but hers was benign, or however you spell it.
the thing is, she got lucky, cancerous brain tumors and anyuresms in the brain run in the family, in all the women. literally, my mom, her mom, her mom's mom/... all the way back to my mom's great, great , great, great grandmother.
when i told her my news she and her sisters did some geneology something or other.
anyhow, as far back as they could get records for, they all died from one or the other.
i am going to go lay down. i suppose i am not as scared as i was the other day.
you know, i think i have lived a pretty full life, even if i am only 30.
i've seen the really really bad and the really really good, and just about everything in between. including the grotesque and the macabre.
