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Also: new reasons to be happy each day for the next couple. Today is the TSO concert. Tomorrow my Kindle (extremely belated birthday present - it's more than half a year late) is due. Then it's the 7th, and WoW:Cata comes out, and the 8th is my father's birthday.
Also also: my old migraine medicine, which had to be prescribed and worked by getting all vein-pinchy, was incompatible with my focus meds. Not only did it not work, it made me nauseated. So I always had to choose between the migraine and the fuzzy... and if the migraine came only after I'd taken my focus meds, well, too bad. But when Mom had that issue with blood blockage in her eye (which is improving, yay! Albeit slowly), and the hospital people told her she probably shouldn't take her migraine medication any more, I did some research into alternate solutions. Which didn't get very far, because the best I could come up with was a feverfew/magnesium/B2 supplement, which was supposed to start having ameliorating effects about six weeks in. And I suck at remembering to take supplements, anyway. But someone offered me Excedrin once when I had a migraine in their presence, and not only does it work -- and do so through anti-inflammatory and therefore non-vein-pinchy means -- but (I discovered today) it works with my focus meds! More happy.
The thing is, triptans are advised against for people with (among other things) arrhythmia and chest pain, and may not be effective against status/continuous migraines. I occasionally suffer from as-yet inexplicable palpitations, also inexplicable chest pains that are neither costochondritis nor heart burn and seem to originate from directly behind my sternum, and have had migraines that lasted as long as three days. My doctor knew all this, and yet continued to prescribe my old migraine medication to me, without a word. ... It's pretty disappointing, actually. But let's not dwell on unpleasant thoughts, these are supposed to be good times.
Also also: my old migraine medicine, which had to be prescribed and worked by getting all vein-pinchy, was incompatible with my focus meds. Not only did it not work, it made me nauseated. So I always had to choose between the migraine and the fuzzy... and if the migraine came only after I'd taken my focus meds, well, too bad. But when Mom had that issue with blood blockage in her eye (which is improving, yay! Albeit slowly), and the hospital people told her she probably shouldn't take her migraine medication any more, I did some research into alternate solutions. Which didn't get very far, because the best I could come up with was a feverfew/magnesium/B2 supplement, which was supposed to start having ameliorating effects about six weeks in. And I suck at remembering to take supplements, anyway. But someone offered me Excedrin once when I had a migraine in their presence, and not only does it work -- and do so through anti-inflammatory and therefore non-vein-pinchy means -- but (I discovered today) it works with my focus meds! More happy.
The thing is, triptans are advised against for people with (among other things) arrhythmia and chest pain, and may not be effective against status/continuous migraines. I occasionally suffer from as-yet inexplicable palpitations, also inexplicable chest pains that are neither costochondritis nor heart burn and seem to originate from directly behind my sternum, and have had migraines that lasted as long as three days. My doctor knew all this, and yet continued to prescribe my old migraine medication to me, without a word. ... It's pretty disappointing, actually. But let's not dwell on unpleasant thoughts, these are supposed to be good times.