No no no no no no no no NO!
Aug. 20th, 2008 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melredcapNo, oh noooo, we are NOT doing this again!
Damnit, I got over the stupid frikkin' recurring migraines. I got them under control to the point where I'm off all the meds and I've been having maybe one every couple of months. I can look at a computer screen without screaming pain, I can read, I can knit, I can smell flowers and coffee and look outside at a bright day without collapsing, I am back at work full time, I am doing well at uni, I am WELL. I am not going to go back to having recurring migraines again! You hear me, brain? Stop it!
I got stressed at work, thanks to an IT guy completely wrecking my computer while trying to fix something minor, right before I needed all the programs he buggered to do a priority job. And then I had a migraine on that Sunday, then Monday, then Wednesday, another one yesterday, and today I have a full-blown migraine hangover and an aura that's lasted all day. (I normally get auras about 20 minutes before I start a migraine. This damn thing has hung around for over ten hours, it's making me paranoid.) So as of yesterday my doctor has put me back on the 'sledgehammer meds', but they have to be made up by a compounding chemist (ergotamine and caffeine and something-or-other else is not a standard mix) and won't be ready until Friday at the earliest. Hopefully I won't get another migraine before I pick up my meds, they will do their job, and I will be able to slap this down quickly.
Because quite frankly I would rather shoot myself than go back to the half-crippled lifestyle I was stuck with when I got migraines all the time.
Damnit, I got over the stupid frikkin' recurring migraines. I got them under control to the point where I'm off all the meds and I've been having maybe one every couple of months. I can look at a computer screen without screaming pain, I can read, I can knit, I can smell flowers and coffee and look outside at a bright day without collapsing, I am back at work full time, I am doing well at uni, I am WELL. I am not going to go back to having recurring migraines again! You hear me, brain? Stop it!
I got stressed at work, thanks to an IT guy completely wrecking my computer while trying to fix something minor, right before I needed all the programs he buggered to do a priority job. And then I had a migraine on that Sunday, then Monday, then Wednesday, another one yesterday, and today I have a full-blown migraine hangover and an aura that's lasted all day. (I normally get auras about 20 minutes before I start a migraine. This damn thing has hung around for over ten hours, it's making me paranoid.) So as of yesterday my doctor has put me back on the 'sledgehammer meds', but they have to be made up by a compounding chemist (ergotamine and caffeine and something-or-other else is not a standard mix) and won't be ready until Friday at the earliest. Hopefully I won't get another migraine before I pick up my meds, they will do their job, and I will be able to slap this down quickly.
Because quite frankly I would rather shoot myself than go back to the half-crippled lifestyle I was stuck with when I got migraines all the time.
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Date: 2008-08-20 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-20 09:43 pm (UTC)*cry*
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Date: 2008-08-20 10:35 pm (UTC)((SNUGGLES MEL))
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Date: 2008-08-21 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-21 11:10 am (UTC)*sigh* borked brain also requires me to retype words three and four times to get them right.
**hugglepurr**
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Date: 2008-08-21 11:12 am (UTC)Would you believe that I have an earache too? O_o It's never just one thing at one time, you have to have the little niggling problems to make the big nagging problems seem just that teeny bit worse. *pfleh*
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Date: 2008-08-21 11:41 pm (UTC)*huggles Mel and glares at aura and migraine*
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Date: 2008-08-22 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-22 08:30 am (UTC)Cat hugs make everything better. :) *snuggle*
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Date: 2008-08-22 08:33 am (UTC)Don't have my sledgehammer meds yet - the compounding chemist didn't get the third ingredient on Thursday like they told me to expect, so probably won't have it ready until sometime this weekend. As soon as I do have my lovely capsules, though, I will take great pleasure in zotting any migraine that dares to show up. That'll show 'em "unwelcome"...
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Date: 2008-08-23 06:28 am (UTC)http://www.creators.com/comics/bc/22564.html
*wanders off snickering quietly*