Migraines...
For those that don't know I've had chronic migraines since I was 14. I spent more days a week with a migraine of varying degrees than I did without one. My mom took me seriously as a kid when I complained about the pain and other symptoms, the rest of my family didn't. My dad bitched like you wouldn't believe about every doctor bill he had to pay, especially since he, and everyone else with the last name Prano thought I was "too young to have headaches," and "what did I have to be stressed about." This was also 25 years ago when migraines weren't considered much more than really bad headaches. So anyway, I learned to suffer mostly in silence and they went untreated for a long time after the car accident because I had pain pills anyway so I didn't see a doctor.
Four years ago I finally saw a neurologist who specializes in migraine treatment. She put me on Topamax which has done wonders, I've gone from 3-5 migraine days a week to 3-5 migraine days a month. Originally I was at 100mg but it's been raised to 175mg in the last several months. If you read previous posts I have to give up this drug...or my vision. I've been weaning off the drug but I may have dropped the first 75mg too fast since my new PA or Doctor just called me back about the message I left from the eye doctor a week and a half ago. I have to drop the other 100 in 25 per week increments and can't be put on anything new until I'm completely off this. So I'm back to migraines again. I've had so far 7 migraine days in the last ten days. I thought yesterday was going to kill me. Symptoms were worse than they've ever been...except for head pain. I even for the first time had non visual auras. I had taste definitely, and I may be having hearing and smell ones as well, less sure about those. I could be more sensitive to smells and nothing else. I'm very much out of practice for this.
I have at least four weeks of this before we start trying new meds so yeah, yay me, excruciating back pain and constant migraines! I love my life!
Four years ago I finally saw a neurologist who specializes in migraine treatment. She put me on Topamax which has done wonders, I've gone from 3-5 migraine days a week to 3-5 migraine days a month. Originally I was at 100mg but it's been raised to 175mg in the last several months. If you read previous posts I have to give up this drug...or my vision. I've been weaning off the drug but I may have dropped the first 75mg too fast since my new PA or Doctor just called me back about the message I left from the eye doctor a week and a half ago. I have to drop the other 100 in 25 per week increments and can't be put on anything new until I'm completely off this. So I'm back to migraines again. I've had so far 7 migraine days in the last ten days. I thought yesterday was going to kill me. Symptoms were worse than they've ever been...except for head pain. I even for the first time had non visual auras. I had taste definitely, and I may be having hearing and smell ones as well, less sure about those. I could be more sensitive to smells and nothing else. I'm very much out of practice for this.
I have at least four weeks of this before we start trying new meds so yeah, yay me, excruciating back pain and constant migraines! I love my life!