For anyone who hasn't read any of my status updates on Facebook, let me give you a little update on what's been going on lately. Jack and I went on a fantastic cruise back in October. The week after we got back from our cruise, I got my first migraine headache since middle school. No nausea, just a headache that I was sure was going to be the end of me. I just knew that this was it. This was how, where, and when it was going to end. I was in the floor of my classroom in the fetal position, squalling, on the phone with my mama who was praying (thank JESUS for my mama!), and ready to just rip my eye balls out. Jack took me to a Quick Care type place up here, and they gave me the "Migraine Cocktail." It didn't knock me out. It just made me feel high as a kite. And it didn't take away my headache. It was still there on and off for the next week.
During the month of November I had random headaches that would come and go throughout the day and would repeat like that for several days at a time. Ibuprofen literally saved my life. Damaged my kidneys I'm sure, but saved my life nonetheless. On Christmas Eve we were at my parent's house in Georgia. We had just driven back from Knoxville, and my eyes were feeling "tight" as they always do before a headache comes on. I attributed the tightness to driving across the mountain and all the traveling we'd been doing. By that night I had a full blown headache. Like, an it-woke-me-up-from-a-dead-sleep-screaming headache. It felt like someone was using my eyeballs as the reins to Santa's sleigh and then had a chainsaw splitting the back of my head open with a chainsaw. Although, that might have actually been less painful. My Super Trooper (Jack) immediately went upstairs and got me some medicine and a drink. I had to continually take Ibuprofen and Tylenol every three hours on Christmas Day, or I could not function. I was completely miserable.
On January 8, I started feeling that "tightness" in my eyes again after school. We got home, and I took the usual meds. Nothing. Took a little more. Nothing. Went to bed. Couldn't sleep. Jack gave me one of his migraine pills (he is an absolute angel) but it really made my headache much, much WORSE. So I did what any southern girl would do. I called my mama and just lost it. (Yes, I am twenty-seven years old, but I am NOT too grown to call my mama, and I know she will drop whatever she is doing to pray for her baby girl!) At this point, I think anxiety took over because I was a crying, blubbering mess. Not to mention the stabbing, fierce pain in my head. Then my face started tingling and feeling "heavy"and that's the only way I know to describe it. I immediately thought I was having a stroke since it was specific to my left side. Jack all but tossed me in the car and took me straight to the hospital, which is luckily five minutes or so from our house. Or at least it was that night.
I got poked and prodded and was given another "Migraine Cocktail" and a CT Scan. This time, the "Cocktail" caused a scare though. The second they injected the medicines into my IV my heart-rate would shoot sky high and caused me to come up off the bed. My eyes FLEW open, and I nearly hit the nurse. But it knocked. me. out. Anyways, they sent us home and the next day I went to my doctor. She gave me Topamax. Y'all. The devil is in that drug. He is. It made me have very vivid, frightening nightmares. It also gave other unpleasant side effects, but the nightmares were just a deal breaker. The next medicine she gave me has weird side effects on the heart, so I'm not even going to bother with it, since I have a murmur and sinus arrhythmia anyways. No, thanks. So off to a Neurologist I go. We are praying for an answer and an EFFECTIVE treatment! I am so thankful for the sweet angel I get to call husband. He has been so amazingly patient through ALL of this, and has not uttered the first complaint. (To me, anyways) I love him so much for that. Keep us in your thoughts!
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