Called my doctor again today.  I've spent the last 6 days doing a course of steroids, to see if it could lessen my pain.  No such luck, and, though I was told to call back today, my doctor is out of town on vacation.  Will be until NEXT Monday.  Which sucks, because I was hoping to get something new to try and thus avoid another trip to the ( Read more... )

I feel much better.  I had to go back to the ER, but this time, I was actually treated with some dignity.  The doctor I saw this time was very kind, and more than willing to listen to me and help me.  So I got a higher dose of the morphine, which finally worked.  An annoying side effect of morphine is that it makes me terribly itchy.  I want to run ( Read more... )

I went to the ER last night.  On the whole, I believe my preventative might actually be kicking in - I've been able to space out visits to the ER more lately, which is such an amazing thing.

But yesterday I had to go in... it's gotten to a point where, if a migraine lasts for a certain length of time, and the pain is occurring in a specific way, ( Read more... )