hmm
been a while since i last updated.. but I guess I could write a little about this week..
Well the weekend was typical.. and just as i thought.. predictable.. the weather has started to turn around though and thats a very good thing.. I love the spring time.. and I love summer even more..
Anyways.. so anyone who knows me well.. and has been around me often the last few months.. knows I have this little problem with constant head aches... well these head aches go back a while now.. but the have gotten serious in the past couple months. Some nights I cant sleep because my head is just pounding.. some days at work i feel like i want to put my head through a brick wall.. i just get some serious head aches and my body is now immune to everything you can take for a headache.. including my beloved excedrin's...so nothing works for me.
So ya.. sunday night i had a slight head ache.. i thought to myself.. just the normal thing.. and i kind of fell asleep but i woke up about an hour later and it was about 1am.. and I have a pounding head ache.. Now im walking around my room and my house thinking of how to make this shit storm go away.. I try doing the crazy yoga tricks stacia showed me.. and i tried drinking cold water and doing all the tricks in the book basicly.. nothing was working.. so I basicly laid in my bed all night with a pounding head ache that just would not let me sleep. So im pretty much half asleep now because I cant be 100% awake because I am pretty damn tired afterall.. my alarm goes off.. its 630am.. i get up and get ready for work.. and still the head ache is killing me. I finally say fuck this.. and called my mother.. I literally couldnt see straight out of my right eye my head was pounding so hard.
So my mother comes and gets me because i told her what was happening and I wanted to go to the Emergency room. I get there and tell them what I was going through and told them my history of head aches and they bring me right in and hook me up to some I.V's.. do some blood work.. and give me a dose of morphine. They then bring me down to get a cat scan... im laying in this bed with the IV hangin above my head.. and this old guy is pushing me to the Cat scan room which happens to be on the other side of the hospital apparently.. so im on this long adventure down hallways and up elevators and across buildings.. while totally feeling the effects of this dose of morphine. Now for some reason the morphine did not take away the pain.. it just made me feel completely wasted, which a headache.
So i get back from this long trip to the cat scan room and i tell them i need something else for the pain.. so the insist on more morphine.. which ended up not doing anything for the pain even still. But yes.. it did make me feel even more wasted.
So now im waiting for the doctor lady to come back to tell me what next.. and she comes back with the greatest news !!! I need to get a spinal tap.. they needed to get fluids from my lower spinal area to do a few tests.. which meant They had to numb up my lower back and stick a needle in my spine.. push it deep enough to get to the fluids.. and then suck out a bunch of liquid that should ( in my opinion ) stay in my spine.
It turns out that all the tests they took.. with the blood work.. and the cat scan.. and the spinal tap.. that im a pretty healthy kid!.. im glad im healthy and all but what the fuck I had to pretty much donate my body to pain on a monday morning.. when all i wanted was some help with my constant head ache problems. So after the spinal tap i tell the lady that im in alot of pain still and that the spinal tap added to it.
So in comes the really cute nurse that has this large needle.. and her eyes are set on my ass.. no not because she thought i had a hot ass.. but because my ass was where the large needle she was holding was heading straight for. This felt like someone came and punched me in the ass as hard as they could. But about 2 minutes later my whole body felt really hot and the pain just went away, so I was finally happy for once.. after several hours of tests and being wasted on morphine and having my spine messed with.. my headache went away.
So after all was said and done.. i went in there at about 730.. came out around 130.. the final theory from the doctors was that my constant head aches are stress related and that I need to try to get more sleep. they gave me a prescription headache meds to pick up which eventually I figured out hardly does anything for my headaches.. and they told me to see my regular family doctor twice a month to get checked up on and to see about other ways to help these headaches.. a certain diet and stuff like that.
So i have an appointment with MY doctor on friday.. hopefully I dont have to go on some crazy diet.. I do agree with the ER doctors though.. about the stress and lack of sleep thing. I do need to get more sleep.. and well.. I guess there are plenty of reasons for me to be stressed. I cant say im a stressed out kid but there are alot of indirect forms of stress being put on my shoulders day in and day out.. Ill just try to sleep more for the most part though.
School is going good.. mid-terms next week.. first quarter half way done.. GPA is definitly well above average.. in most of my classes I feel like im the only one who knows whats going on. I have some weirdos in my classes.. and its all night classes so the classes are very small and its alot of older people. ohwell..
time to go to sleep now.. while I dont have a headache.. nows my chance.
Goodnight.
Well the weekend was typical.. and just as i thought.. predictable.. the weather has started to turn around though and thats a very good thing.. I love the spring time.. and I love summer even more..
Anyways.. so anyone who knows me well.. and has been around me often the last few months.. knows I have this little problem with constant head aches... well these head aches go back a while now.. but the have gotten serious in the past couple months. Some nights I cant sleep because my head is just pounding.. some days at work i feel like i want to put my head through a brick wall.. i just get some serious head aches and my body is now immune to everything you can take for a headache.. including my beloved excedrin's...so nothing works for me.
So ya.. sunday night i had a slight head ache.. i thought to myself.. just the normal thing.. and i kind of fell asleep but i woke up about an hour later and it was about 1am.. and I have a pounding head ache.. Now im walking around my room and my house thinking of how to make this shit storm go away.. I try doing the crazy yoga tricks stacia showed me.. and i tried drinking cold water and doing all the tricks in the book basicly.. nothing was working.. so I basicly laid in my bed all night with a pounding head ache that just would not let me sleep. So im pretty much half asleep now because I cant be 100% awake because I am pretty damn tired afterall.. my alarm goes off.. its 630am.. i get up and get ready for work.. and still the head ache is killing me. I finally say fuck this.. and called my mother.. I literally couldnt see straight out of my right eye my head was pounding so hard.
So my mother comes and gets me because i told her what was happening and I wanted to go to the Emergency room. I get there and tell them what I was going through and told them my history of head aches and they bring me right in and hook me up to some I.V's.. do some blood work.. and give me a dose of morphine. They then bring me down to get a cat scan... im laying in this bed with the IV hangin above my head.. and this old guy is pushing me to the Cat scan room which happens to be on the other side of the hospital apparently.. so im on this long adventure down hallways and up elevators and across buildings.. while totally feeling the effects of this dose of morphine. Now for some reason the morphine did not take away the pain.. it just made me feel completely wasted, which a headache.
So i get back from this long trip to the cat scan room and i tell them i need something else for the pain.. so the insist on more morphine.. which ended up not doing anything for the pain even still. But yes.. it did make me feel even more wasted.
So now im waiting for the doctor lady to come back to tell me what next.. and she comes back with the greatest news !!! I need to get a spinal tap.. they needed to get fluids from my lower spinal area to do a few tests.. which meant They had to numb up my lower back and stick a needle in my spine.. push it deep enough to get to the fluids.. and then suck out a bunch of liquid that should ( in my opinion ) stay in my spine.
It turns out that all the tests they took.. with the blood work.. and the cat scan.. and the spinal tap.. that im a pretty healthy kid!.. im glad im healthy and all but what the fuck I had to pretty much donate my body to pain on a monday morning.. when all i wanted was some help with my constant head ache problems. So after the spinal tap i tell the lady that im in alot of pain still and that the spinal tap added to it.
So in comes the really cute nurse that has this large needle.. and her eyes are set on my ass.. no not because she thought i had a hot ass.. but because my ass was where the large needle she was holding was heading straight for. This felt like someone came and punched me in the ass as hard as they could. But about 2 minutes later my whole body felt really hot and the pain just went away, so I was finally happy for once.. after several hours of tests and being wasted on morphine and having my spine messed with.. my headache went away.
So after all was said and done.. i went in there at about 730.. came out around 130.. the final theory from the doctors was that my constant head aches are stress related and that I need to try to get more sleep. they gave me a prescription headache meds to pick up which eventually I figured out hardly does anything for my headaches.. and they told me to see my regular family doctor twice a month to get checked up on and to see about other ways to help these headaches.. a certain diet and stuff like that.
So i have an appointment with MY doctor on friday.. hopefully I dont have to go on some crazy diet.. I do agree with the ER doctors though.. about the stress and lack of sleep thing. I do need to get more sleep.. and well.. I guess there are plenty of reasons for me to be stressed. I cant say im a stressed out kid but there are alot of indirect forms of stress being put on my shoulders day in and day out.. Ill just try to sleep more for the most part though.
School is going good.. mid-terms next week.. first quarter half way done.. GPA is definitly well above average.. in most of my classes I feel like im the only one who knows whats going on. I have some weirdos in my classes.. and its all night classes so the classes are very small and its alot of older people. ohwell..
time to go to sleep now.. while I dont have a headache.. nows my chance.
Goodnight.