Category: Chronic Daily Migraine
A Tree Grows In Ohio
Today I ended up getting the worst headache I’ve had in months, severity-wise. I haven’t been sleeping well and didn’t make it to the girls’ joint birthday party. And the dread and constant worry of poverty. Feeling really hopeless right now, and know my only job in the world is to make my children feel…
Migraine365: The Sumatriptan Series
In Fall of 1992, I believe, or maybe Spring 93, I took an Intermediate Poetry class with an instructor and poet named Tom Andrews. He was bald, soft-spoken. I don’t know if he encouraged me, after a number of missed classes and my explanation, to use my illness as muse; but then, I already had,…
And on and on and on
have barely gotten out of bed since that last entry
Migraine365 & Dr. Mitzi
My appointment today with Dr. Mitzi went very well. I explained that my headaches had improved in severity but not frequency, and that I’ve been having a lot of trouble with anxiety. She said she doesn’t often prescribe benzodiazepines, but that she would for me. I told her that I see a pain therapist twice…
365 Days of Migraine, Day 151: Reclamation
J created this page over a month ago and never got it published! That, truly, indicates what our lives have been like lately… http://www.migraine365.com The Migraine Diaries http://amzn.to/1EmXdFQ
Medication Overuse Headache, BITE ME.
Since detoxing from NSAIDS, I’ve been really trying to be careful about over medicating, which is only an option since I’m not working. So I am supposed to ideally only medicate twice per week. Okay, that’s crazy, I’m just not there yet. So, I’m trying to only take Tylenol 2 days per week; Imitrex 2…
