As you can see I've changed the layout of my LJ
I'm not entirely sure why I chose a peach, cute cartoon elephants and little bobbley clouds...but it struck my fancy.
I've been getting a lot of reading done recently - I was reading Mary Stewart's novel The Crystal Cave, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks mum! I just finished it last night - or rather, this morning at 4am. I shall explain why I was up so late/early.
For the past three weeks and counting since my mum and gran were here visiting I've had headaches all day long - from about an hour or so after I wake up in the morning until I fall asleep at night - nonstop. Not throbbing but a dull ache in a band from about the bridge of my nose upwards all around my head - not in any one particular area. Light and noise both irritate it, and the intensity sort of comes and goes. My sinuses are fine and my neck wasn't sore at all until yesterday which I did to myself because I was sitting stupidly in my chair for most of the day. At times the headaches get so bad that I feel faint and often loose balance - I also get a bit of the chills and feel a bit feverish. The worst symptom seems to be that I have a really hard time falling asleep at night - hence being awake until 4am when I'm desperate to fall asleep - because it hurts to rest my head on a pillow or my arm, or any surface - it feels like I'm pushing down on the pressure and it starts to sting really quickly.
Anyways - I've been taking tylonal and advil for them but nothing seemed to be making any sort of improvement so I went to have it checked out by a doctor at the clinic up the street from our condo - the doctor told me that it was probably tension headaches and he gets them a lot so I should take the maximum dose per day of both tylonal ultra and advil liquigels...so I did for a few days - no difference. It was really intense last Friday after work and I collapsed trying to go lie down on the bed when I was home alone so as soon as Trav got home I got him to take me to another clinic (thanks for looking one up for us Pen) and the doctor at the clinic told me that he was a bit concerned and that he wanted me to go see a neurologist at the hospital - so we went to Royal Jubilee and sat around for 5.5 hours waiting to see someone - yay for holidays at hospitals! - but when I saw the doctor he checked my blood pressure, temperature, pupils, etc. and said that everything looked fine. He also said that it confuses him because he wanted to just assume that it was a tension headache but I don't have any neck tension and nothing in my life is making me particularly tense at the moment - I'm actually really relaxed lately. So that was Friday. A week later I still have headaches. The emergency doctor gave me 6 T3s to try out to see if it would help me sleep but they aren't having an effect either - I've only been taking them before bed if the headache has been bad but they don't seem to improve it at all or help me fall asleep any earlier.
I'm a little exhausted from all of this. I had to take two days off work last weekend and I have a full load of work and studying this weekend to get through but I'm giving it my best shot. I've been trying to relax during the days this week - reading that Crystal Cave book and studying for Cultural Geography and taking some naps to catch up on some sleep.
I'm not sure what else to do. Apart from trying to find a permanent doctor in Victoria so that I can request my files from the hospital here, etc. to have on a file somewhere - and also to possibly try going to an optometrist to have my perscription checked? I'm not sure if that might have something to do with it - but it doesn't seem to make any difference to the headache wether I'm wearing my glasses or not...oh well.
Confusing!
ARG.
Meh - I'll try those two things and if I still have a headache next week then I guess it's back to the drawing board for me.
Blah.
I created my mother's mothers day gift today - as well as ordering my father's fathers day gift too - I'm on the ball - oh yeah!
I'm quite happy with both. Tehe and I'm not giving any hints.
Haha - I took Trav out for dinner last night at Whitespot because we were feeling lazy - and I ordered a Crantini - which unfortunatly they make with a very unpleasant brand of Vodka - very watery....and definatly not enough Cranberry juice. But oh well. I explained to the waitress that it was quite watery and could I please just have a glass of cranberry juice instead of the Crantini - but apparently I was misunderstood as she brought back a decanter glass of cranberry juice thinking that I wanted more to pour into my Crantini - we tried but it didn't help - Trav drank the Crantini and I drank my water and the rest of the decanter of Cranberry juice.
Meg
I've been getting a lot of reading done recently - I was reading Mary Stewart's novel The Crystal Cave, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks mum! I just finished it last night - or rather, this morning at 4am. I shall explain why I was up so late/early.
For the past three weeks and counting since my mum and gran were here visiting I've had headaches all day long - from about an hour or so after I wake up in the morning until I fall asleep at night - nonstop. Not throbbing but a dull ache in a band from about the bridge of my nose upwards all around my head - not in any one particular area. Light and noise both irritate it, and the intensity sort of comes and goes. My sinuses are fine and my neck wasn't sore at all until yesterday which I did to myself because I was sitting stupidly in my chair for most of the day. At times the headaches get so bad that I feel faint and often loose balance - I also get a bit of the chills and feel a bit feverish. The worst symptom seems to be that I have a really hard time falling asleep at night - hence being awake until 4am when I'm desperate to fall asleep - because it hurts to rest my head on a pillow or my arm, or any surface - it feels like I'm pushing down on the pressure and it starts to sting really quickly.
Anyways - I've been taking tylonal and advil for them but nothing seemed to be making any sort of improvement so I went to have it checked out by a doctor at the clinic up the street from our condo - the doctor told me that it was probably tension headaches and he gets them a lot so I should take the maximum dose per day of both tylonal ultra and advil liquigels...so I did for a few days - no difference. It was really intense last Friday after work and I collapsed trying to go lie down on the bed when I was home alone so as soon as Trav got home I got him to take me to another clinic (thanks for looking one up for us Pen) and the doctor at the clinic told me that he was a bit concerned and that he wanted me to go see a neurologist at the hospital - so we went to Royal Jubilee and sat around for 5.5 hours waiting to see someone - yay for holidays at hospitals! - but when I saw the doctor he checked my blood pressure, temperature, pupils, etc. and said that everything looked fine. He also said that it confuses him because he wanted to just assume that it was a tension headache but I don't have any neck tension and nothing in my life is making me particularly tense at the moment - I'm actually really relaxed lately. So that was Friday. A week later I still have headaches. The emergency doctor gave me 6 T3s to try out to see if it would help me sleep but they aren't having an effect either - I've only been taking them before bed if the headache has been bad but they don't seem to improve it at all or help me fall asleep any earlier.
I'm a little exhausted from all of this. I had to take two days off work last weekend and I have a full load of work and studying this weekend to get through but I'm giving it my best shot. I've been trying to relax during the days this week - reading that Crystal Cave book and studying for Cultural Geography and taking some naps to catch up on some sleep.
I'm not sure what else to do. Apart from trying to find a permanent doctor in Victoria so that I can request my files from the hospital here, etc. to have on a file somewhere - and also to possibly try going to an optometrist to have my perscription checked? I'm not sure if that might have something to do with it - but it doesn't seem to make any difference to the headache wether I'm wearing my glasses or not...oh well.
Confusing!
ARG.
Meh - I'll try those two things and if I still have a headache next week then I guess it's back to the drawing board for me.
Blah.
I created my mother's mothers day gift today - as well as ordering my father's fathers day gift too - I'm on the ball - oh yeah!
I'm quite happy with both. Tehe and I'm not giving any hints.
Haha - I took Trav out for dinner last night at Whitespot because we were feeling lazy - and I ordered a Crantini - which unfortunatly they make with a very unpleasant brand of Vodka - very watery....and definatly not enough Cranberry juice. But oh well. I explained to the waitress that it was quite watery and could I please just have a glass of cranberry juice instead of the Crantini - but apparently I was misunderstood as she brought back a decanter glass of cranberry juice thinking that I wanted more to pour into my Crantini - we tried but it didn't help - Trav drank the Crantini and I drank my water and the rest of the decanter of Cranberry juice.
Meg