Why are cell phone companies so hard to deal with. It seems that their goal in life is to make your life all the more difficult. They must have a pac with insurance companies, electric companies, phone companies (for those of you that still have a land line-we don't) waste disposal companies, gas companies (we use LP, not natural gas) etc. And to get good customer service anymore is unherd of this day and age. When you call into the call center first off your on hold for what seems like eons, after going through a series of prompts-push this number for this service, push this number for English, push this number for Spanish-yada, yada, yada. And that music they play while they have you on hold makes you want to either fall asleep or yank your hair out.
What really gets you is at first they will tell you "your hold time is 15 minutes" then that hold music will play again. Every few minutes they will cut in and say "we're sorry but your hold time is 15 minutes" and again the music will play again. Some days it seems the hold time stays the same. Once I called into the cellular provider and I kid you not the hold time INCREASED! That automated voice cut in and said "sorry but your hold time is now 25 minutes" and I grew more agitated! It figures that I'm not the only one peeved at their lack of customer service! Or upset over their phone service, or where is my new phone by the way. And when I did get it where is the SIM card??!! And to get it activated, come on now-give me a break! Why should it take 45 minutes to get a cell phone activated! Technology is suppose to be getting better not slipping backwards.
All I can say is when I have to call customer service for anything I put them on speaker phone and I have something else to do while I'm waiting because I usually have to wait a long time. And honestly I do try to keep my patience unless I get someone that's rude on the other end and when that happens then all bets are off! Especially when I have a migraine then I can be a witch too ya know. I just want to get my business done and get it over with.
I'm sure they hate their job as much as we hate calling them. I use to do their job and it was a thankless job for sure. It was high stress and low pay. You'd be called everything but human. And in that position you'd never get backing from management-heck I think they got a kick out of it sometimes. To them it was like tossing chug out to the sharks and watching them go wild. So I can see it on both sides. I can imagine the person on the other end of the phone fighting a migraine as well and having to work through it because God forbid they ask to go home early because of it. Yep, I can relate to that.
So really it's a no win situation either way. The person working customer service and the person calling into and reaching customer service. It's nasty business either way. Too bad we can't call in and just talk to the person responsible for the whole mess to begin with-like the supplier himself that sent the faulty part. Or the packager that packaged the item wrong and it arrived with missing parts. Or the shipper that damaged the part-or better yet the driver that drove the Semi-truck that tossed your box around like a basketball and damaged it before it got to your doorstep. To be able to talk to the person that was directly responsible for the problem and not the customer service person that is stuck in the middle and has to clean up someone elses mess.
Oh well, that is my rant for the day. I am NOT making another phone call today and that is all there is to it!! Things were much better when I was phoneless, I realize that now.

Until next time, may the phone ring less for you and may you not have to call into a call center, LOL.

New device for migraine sufferers

Just got a tweet on this today. I wonder when this will be available. Insurance probably will not cover it. Of that I'm sure. But here is the link:

New device helps migraine sufferers http://news.uk.msn.com/health/new-device-helps-migraine-sufferers

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New device helps migraine sufferers
Scientists have developed a hand-held device that can stop migraine attacks by sending a brief magnetic pulse to the back of the head
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If your a tweeter get the word out and re-tweet it. I just did. Looks like it's only in the UK for now? I posted this question on their site so I don't know yet.

Nighty night folks.

Have you had those days where you get up out of bed and you just want to crawl back in it and hide from the world because anything and everything you touch just goes wrong. Every step you take and every turn you make just is not right. And for every two steps forward it seems you take 20 steps backwards!
Yep, one of those days. Just want to crawl back into bed and wake up like it never even happened-a bad nightmare that only happened in my dreams. I already have a slew of those anyway-just chalk it up to another one.
And I can feel another one of those blasted Migraines coming on. Getting my abortives hopefully in time before it gets out of hand. Hopefully. Just seems like I got through one. Using the Migranal this time-doesn't burn like the Sprix does. And I've noticed I've been getting bloody nose more often. I've not had that problem before. Could it be the Sprix or the O2? I'be been using that moisturizer everday in my nostrils like Alicks Home Medical has instructed me to when they deliver my oxygen. They said that the inside of your nose will dry out when you use oxygen and to keep it moisturized. I see my neuro this coming Monday the 1st so we'll see what he has to say.
My whole scalp is sore, it hurts to brush my hair, so forget about washing my hair for now. I really need to re-phoney it, as I call it (color it) since my grays are just taking over. Been fighting those dasterdly rascals since my mid-late 20's, Why is it men look good, some look downright sexy with gray hair and us women look like hags-well, speaking for myself. Some women are beautiful with gray hair. I can picture some famous movie stars but those names are escaping me right now as the gray matter is not working right with names nor numbers at this moment. But I have seen some women out and about in Wal-Mart or at the doctors office that look amazing with gray hair. Me-UGH!!! I guess it's just a matter of perception, or how we see ourselves. We are our own worse critics-how we see ourselves is not how others see us, as a rule.
I wonder what the neuro has in store for me this coming Monday. I'm anxious. This will be my 1st attempt at driving myself in busy traffic. My 1st attempt at driving myself since I drove and got lost taking my puppy to the vet a couple of months ago. And to tell you the truth I'm pretty aprehensive. What if I get a panic attack. What if I get lost. What if I get a lousy migraine and my aura interferes with my driving ability. All these what ifs. And if it rains I have a harder time seeing. And it the traffic is heavy and someone tailgates me I get really, really anxious and then I can start to feel a panic attack coming on. Oh Lordy it's Thursday and I'm already getting all worked up. His office is in the downtown area. There are really no back roads there. Then in 2 more days I see my therapist right smack dab in the middle of downtown where there is road construction and detours. Oh, heaven help me. Next week is going to be a long hard and stressful week for me. I don't know how I'm going to do it but I'm going to have to try. I have no other choice. No alternatives. My best friend was taking me and she is getting married this Saturday and she will be on her honeymoon. She deserves this shot at happiness this time around, so she will be in her own little paradise, hopefully not worrying about me. She's done enough for me as it is. I'm not her baby she needs to coddle and fret over.
Yep, I can do this. I have to do this. God willing I will and can do this. I'll just run myself ragged going in circles, but it can be done. Right?
That being said I need to go put an ice pack on my head and a heating pad on my neck-my neck pain is really getting bad today.
Until next time folks be happy, be healthy and count your blessings.

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9-25-12
Well, I'm lame-can't seem to get on the right track. I do good at the beginning of the day and then at the end of it I blow it. Need to think of a new game plan. Maybe more protein during the day with more fiber?
Bur right now I feel another big one coming on so I better get my abortives lined up and ready to go. Didn't I just get over one it seems? A never ending cycle.
I got a big pan of black bean and Kaluha brownies made and handed off to my best friend just a bit ago. She stopped off like a twister heading through tornado alley. She's so happy and in a flurry of preperations. She's getting remarried this Saturday and getting their rented Bungalow set up for the honeymoon. She's calling it their Love Shack. I had already gotten her gift earlier but she's a chocoholic so I had made a double batch for her to take to freeze and eat some as she pleases.
Chocolate doesn't appeal to me anymore for some strange reason. I don't know why. I guess it's a good thing. I'm more into the carbs. I use to be a chocoholic. I can't remember when that changed. Strange. I use to love Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Put those in the freezer for about 10-15 minutes and I'd be in heaven. Now they don't thrill me. And I'd really enjoy Peanut M&M's, but not anymore. I was OCD about those-I would eat them by two's of the same color and if I'd have an odd number left and the colors would not match I'd throw them away. Like if I had 3 left and they'd be 1 orange, 1 red and 1 green they'd all get tossed cause there would not be 2 of the same color. I know, I know-retarded. But they would not match.
The pictures on my wall are symetrical too. Cannot have a portrait size on 1 side then a landcape size on the other. Cannot do it. And all the frames have to be the same color and material-either all gold metal or wood. Not too crazy about silver. This year I tried something very out of my box and I'm still trying very hard to get use to it. On my buffet/china cabinet I have gold, silver, pewter and cast frames and portrait mixed with landscape and it is driving me absolutely nuts!!! I was told to do something outside my box so I did. You cannot imagine how many times I walk past it and want to so badly re-arrange it or go to the store and buy matching frames and re-do it all!! Or to be OCD is no fun!! To be a symetrical person and to be forced to be unsymetrical is torture! Not fun!!
Until later I need to tend to my head and ignore that pitcure grouping as I walk past it.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another, by George Eliot.

Proverbs 17:27 He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.

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9-23-12
I know I've done this a time or two in the past, but I think I'm going to have to do a food diary just to make double and triple sure that I'm not eating stuff on my no-no list just to make sure I'm not sneaking in any of my trigger foods.

I think I'm not, but you just never can be 100% positive. And I like to second guess myself anyway.

Besides, I really need to dump my plump, so to speak. I've gained weight from bad neuro #3 putting me on evil steriods left and right and also with him and the other doctors putting me on a slew of those old school antidepressants as migraine preventives-well the side effects are weight gain. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to put two + two together to figure out where the weight gain has come from. I can blame most of it on the meds. I can blame a part of it on my addiction to carbs. And feeling like crap not being able to exercise. But if I can try to get in a little stretching here and there and use my Wii I should be able to get something done.

Plus I found out if you write down what you eat your more honest and careful what you eat.

So here I go. I hope I've been safe still. I guess I will find out and if not I will post it and give you permission to smack me on my knuckles with a ruler. But no cuss words allowed, please.

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Migraine Hell just won't give me a break

9-23-12
Sorry I have not been on for a few days. I've been in that Migraine Hell. Using all my "Migraine Tools" (Abortives and of course preventives) to what it seems like to no avail. My next appointment with my neuro is on Oct 1st, which looking at the calendar is fast approaching-just over a week away. It will be a follow-up on what my new meds are doing and I guess to see if there will be any adjustments. I hope I can be able to drive myself as my best friend will be newly married and on her honeymoon. So I will have no other choice, really. I think, actually I hope and pray if I leave early and allow a lot of extra time and drive very cautiously I pray I should be ok. I hope. Well, I guess we will find out, huh.
The thing that has surpised me the most the past couple of days is that my husband and daughter have been very helpful and supportive the past couple of days. Yesterday morning I took my abortives and did my O2 therapy and went back to bed. My daughter did the dishes for me and went to work.
No wait, that was Friday morning. Geese how I screw up the days. She did that Friday morning. Then she was to meet a friend for dinner who cancelled on her, but then she met her dad instead so they had dinner out so I would not have to cook, then he picked up my RX's for me on his way home.
So that makes yesterday Saturday. Ok, now I'm caught up so today is Sunday. Gee. Being on these 3-4 day spells really gets a person behind schedule and gets the days out of kilter. Yesterday I was up to making them breakfast, sorta, but then my husband cleaned up the breakfast plates. But I was not totally off the hook. He drug me out to his pole barn to help him work on that project car of his. Yesterday was a miserable day. I had to come in and do more abortive treatments and make him a very simple dinner while I did my cheerios again and took a hot bath and went to bed.
Today, Sunday, miserable. That Sprix is not getting any easier to use. Still burns and stings and I still cannot use the O2 right away. I still have to wait 10-15 min after that dose to use the O2 or else I feel like I choking on that med going down my nose in my throat. But the sun is out too bright today. Yesterday was stormy part of the day and overcast-it hailed a little bit.
So I'm going to see how the rest of today goes. I'm going to go lie down again for a while. I feel like I've been rung thru the wringer.
So until the next time be happy, healthy and safe.

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Feeling like a failure today and oh so hopeless

9-20-12
I cannot help but feel like such a hopeless failure today. Since yesterday I've been down with a bad migraine from hell. Everything hurts.. from my scalp down to my feet it seems. I just brush my hair from my face with my fingertips and just the tugging of the hair on my scalp from that sends pain through my head.
Again I'm living like a vampire. I have all the curtains closed. As soon as my daughter left for work the TV was shut off immediately. I didn't want that noisemaker on as it irritates my head so. Thank goodness its not raining out as I can let the dogs out in the fenced in yard so they can romp and wear off some rowdiness out there instead of in the house. These walls just seem to make the noise echo too much when they are in here playing around.
It won't be too long where they will be cooped up in the house rough housing and driving me up the wall with that play yapping. Heaven help me when that time comes. I guess I will have to resort to wearing ear plugs.
I usually love this time of year-Fall use to be my favorite season. To go out and enjoy the cooler temperatures wearing a sweatshirt. Go to local fruitstands and get fresh picked apples and then see the fall colors. The trees from what I can see out my windows, away from the sunlight, are slowly starting to turn. My mum's are starting to bloom. They have a ton of blooms this year. My best friend suggested I trim them this year due to the early Spring we had they were wanting to bloom early, so I trimmed them down twice. They have never been so full and loaded with blooms before, and this is I beleive the 4th or 5th year since they've been planted? I will have to try to get a picture of them once they are in full bloom.
But for now I need to get some hot herbal decaf tea and rest my so sore and painful head. Feeling again like a hopeless failure. Where have I gone wrong to deserve 2 days in a row of pure agony. I am so thankful though that yesterday my husband and daughter were so supportive that it almost made me cry. I did appreciate their kindness.
I will go cuddle up with my little puppy pal and try to give my weary head a break. Until next time I hope all of you have a Blessed Day and try to stay happy, healthy and be well.

 

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Migraine Hell

9-19-12
Today is pure hell. My head is killing me. Behind my LH eye it feels like some little man is in there trying to jackhammer his way out through my skull through my eye socket, and the bottom eyelid is drooping and watery. The pain goes through my temple along that side to my ear. My ear is popping but my jaw isn't. I'm squinting as I'm typing this, even with my bifocals on. I had to turn off all the lights as they bother my eyes, and even the light from the computer screen seems to be glaring at me. The words are blurred and make no sense as I read them back to myself=it all seems jumbled mush. The LH side of my face is partially numb and my neck is sore down to my shoulder. All of my scalp is sore and my trigger points all through my scalp and face are super sore to touch. Strange I don't feel sick to my stomach. Yet. But smells are bothering me and I'm starting to see those blinky flashing lights in my vision so I know pretty soon I will see more aura's so this will be very short. Time to get the abortives out and the O2 and hit the dark room and ride it out and see how long it lasts. So much for today. This bites. I had plans on getting laundry caught up as well as the dishes. It will have to wait until hopefully later. Migraine robs another day.

I hope everyone else is doing fine. Take care all of you.

Here is a new product I just got I'm excited about sharing-To help w/pain around temple/eye area associated with Migraines

9-18-12
Here is the newest toy I got and I just tried it out as soon as the delivery man dropped it off at my front door late this afternoon. I ordered it online through Amazon direct and was able to take advantage of the free super saver shipping and paid no sales tax. I got it today and was anxious to try it out. I get those really super sore and sensative trigger spots around my eyes and temple area. I was amazed. It uses gentle air pressure around the eye area when it inflates and puts pressure on those points that are tender-around the outer part of the surrounding eye area and up around the eyebrow and under the eye area. But the pressure is not too harsh. It will alternate between air pressure, then massage along with heat. It has built in MP3 with soothing sounds which you can use with the ear plugs it comes with or use your own MP3 player. You will need to use something because it is a little noisy-that is the only drawback. You can set it for 5, 10 or 15 minutes. It has a 1 year warranty. It shipped direct from the factory and I got it in less that a week from California to Michigan via FedEx. It comes w/4 AA batteries but also w/an AC adapter so its portable so you can travel with it and use it in a car and annoy the heck out of the driver w/the noise it makes, or wait until you arrive at your destination and use the AC adaptor when they go off to get dinner and your left alone.

So time will tell if it's beneficial. I only know that for myself, the surrounding area around my eyes is really sore to the touch as is the temple area. Some days one side is worse than the others. I thought this might be helpful to me. Maybe it would be helpful to others. The price was $99.00. At this point I'm willing to try anything. Within reason and logic, of course. So I shall see how long this little contraption will work and what the long term benefits are, if any. But I thought it was worth sharing.

Take care everyone and until next time,
Be happy, healthy and be safe.
Julie

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How I vent about Migraine Disease-or when I get so angry about it all

The way I vent about my anger and frustration is to talk to my best friend of about 30 years. I will call her on the phone or she might happen to stop by for a visit. She is like a sister to me. We have been there for eachother through thick and thin and through many trials. She has been especially supportive of me through my migraine disease and all the comorbidites and has learned along with me all that goes along with this nasty business of being so ill. I have called off on her and cancelled outings with her on many occasions and she has not once gotten angry, thank God. But on my darkest days she has been there to intervene when I was at the end of my rope and got me the professional help I so desperately needed.

There were times when I'd be so mad I'd be spitting fumes about my other so-called better 1/2 (or should I just say my spouse, for his callous lack of emotional support and lack of empathy for my disease, and she would patiently lend me her ear and/or shoulder and let me get it all out. Oftentimes she would come by and offer me an escape route to get me out of this place when I was not up to driving, as is the case when these things strike out of the blue and your not able to drive due to the visual aura and slow reflexes that make you a hazzard on the road.

And at times when I'd get so mad about what this disease is robbing me of-the things I can no longer do that I so desperately what to do and when there was no one around to vent to I'll yell or rant at the surrounding walls in the house, and throw the pillows or beat up the pillows and have arguments with myself. Yes people, I'd argue with myself-I have conversations with myself to, but I don't talk back. At least not yet at this point and time. Sometimes my little doggie would look at me with his adorable little head tilted to one side with an inquisitive look to his face. I'd often imagine him saying to himself "poor mommy has gone bonkers" and at that point I'd stop and then I'd cuddle with him and then cry it out for a while and then I'd go on a carb binge.

Then at the end of the day I'd read a little scripture or go online to find scripture that would help me with strength to help me endure the trials and tribulations for what I'm going through because this is a long hard battle and it's far from being over. I've been fighting this disease for 20-25 years and the past 2 1/2 have been the worse ever. So I have a ways to go yet and I have resigned myself to that fact. I love the fact there is so much support online especially when it is so hard to get it at home because when you feel like your losing your mind you can check in with others and know that no, your not losing it, it's just the disease.

And this is the best way I've been able to vent about my migraine disease and my comorbidites. I am thinking about getting one of those inflatable punching bags, but not one that has a clown on it because those smiling clown faces kind of freak me out. I don't think I'd be able to even look at it, LOL.

PS,
If you punch your pillows, make sure they are not stuffed with feathers-too messy if they explode :)

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My best friend of 30 years and her new husband-Married on 9-29-12. Congratulations to the Newlyweds.

Unintentional Omission

9-18-12
I neglected to add, or I actually forgot to add, that at the end of July 2012 I had admitted myself to the hospital for Major Depression due to the Debilitating pain of Intractable Daily Migraines that have not responded to medication since May 2010, and for PTSD for molestation that happened to me when I was at the age of 11 by a family member that was 16, and also for major sleep deprivation due to my chronic insomnia that had been going on for approximately 5 months. The insomnia had been going on for a while, but the sleep deprivation had been piling up for about a 5 month time frame. I'd get 1 not even 2 hrs sleep and wake up in a cold sweat with racing thoughts. I'd do the same in the hospital. I was at the end of my rope. I could not take it anymore. Under therapy that was due to my unconscious mind trying to get me to remember the past that I had buried that I didn't want to . resurrect. I had buried it to protect my parents and other siblings that I didn't know how to open up about it, talk about it and let it go correctly so that the burden could be properly unloaded. I bear no malice or resentment-I just needed guidance on how to deal with it in the correct manner. I guess it was haunting me. Still going through the therapy to cope with it. This was pointed out by a blog I read by another fellow migrainer that no other migrainers talk openly about contemplating or attempting suicide. I'm adding this comment here on this home page after reading that and commenting on her page today to rectify that error I made. I should have been up front about that to begin with. To her I apologize and to the readers and other fellow migrainers I apologize as well.


I do not have much more to write on today. I have a lot of reflecting to do. I got behind in my journal so I need to get caught up in that. And of course I need to get that noisy washing machine going. It's a rainy day so I'm trying to keep up on this head of mine. I got an iPod for my birthday and I got some meditaion music so I'm going to give that a shot and see if that helps any. and I got a Wii too and a balance board. I fell off the darn thing the other day. I'm such a klutz. I have to try it again. I have to get some exercise in somewhere. All these medications have really made the weight gain terrible. That is another downside to medication side effects. And can you tell me why all of a sudden do I have breakouts worse than a teenager? I never had bad skin until now! Holy cow!!!


Until next time stay well, be well-be happy and stay safe.

1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another: be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble

Suggestions needed from fellow Migrainers, and a crazy invention idea.

9-17-12

I really need to get my eyes checked, it's been over 2 years, but since my vision is always changing because of these darn migraines, is it really worth the time and effort? I mean, if I get a new RX for eyeglasses and my eyesight keeps going all over the place what good will it do, if any? I'm to the point I can't see worth a darn with or without these things. It's very aggravating. But glasses cannot correct the migraine aura's anyway and it's always been hard to read since this has gotten out of control-especially black words on white paper, it's blurred and shadowed.

And do I get them tinted, not those ones that are just like sunglasses but also for indoors because inside light hurts them too? I know a few people that had theirs tinted like sunglasses after a while they stopped working so there is not point in that and why do that if all light hurts. I can't afford 2 pairs of glasses.

But does anyone else with migraines have that same problem?

And for the past couple of years I've been hunting for very dark tinted sunglasses that hide the sun glare as much as possible. Just because the lens looks dark doesn't mean they block a lot of the sunshine. It's been pretty disappointing. I get some that look like they're dark and block the sun, but they don't. I lost track of how many pair I've tried. I hear a lot of people say "oh, your sunglasses are so dark how can you see?" Oh trust me, they don't block much of the sun. Wish they did. Any ideas where I can get really dark, super dark tinted lens? Or give up and just come out at night period.

And I wish someone would invent a counter-spray. Really. When someone walks by you that wears way too much cologne, or with me even a tiny bit is too much (I buy scent free everything) you can spray something in their path that instantly neutralizes their stench they leave behind! That would be so wonderful! On our daughters birthday I braved it and was able to venture out into the public. Oops, we went out onto the terrace of El Salto's in Valparaiso Indiana. They allow people to smoke out there. Way on the opposite side two women were smoking. Of course, wouldn't you know it, the smoke had to wind a path in MY direction about choking me. And it was out in the open-3 open sides of the patio, but it had to find it's way to ME!! I was getting nauseated. How can people stand to smell that stuff and inhale it into their own lungs is beyond me. And you can tell smokers from non because they always look older and talk raspier.

But  THANK GOD they didn't stay long but it's amazing how sensitive a migrainer can be to smells of any and all sorts and types. Even in Wal-Mart about 3 weeks ago this man had some funky aftershave on-Ewe. I smelled it all the way out to the car! Convertible top down and 20 min later clean air again. Phew! Do people have any idea how bad that stuff makes them stink?

But someone needs to invent a counter-stinky spray just for those situations. Can you just picture it though. People with migraines cross paths with people who have stinky cologne or perfume when they whip out their little handy dandy bottle of counter stinky spray and then breathe a sigh of relief. It's either that or go out in public with a hazmat suit. I don't know about you but I'm super sensitive to smells. When I was in the hospital there was one cleaning lady that was extra trigger happy with the cleaning solutions. She'd go spray happy in each room and that stuff would float and hang around the hallways like a heavy Ozone Alert Action Day. Then a migraine would hit and I'd taste that crap in the back of my throat for at least 30-45 min until I could find a safe zone where she hadn't sprayed yet. Also the same place a patient was admitted a couple of days before I left. I had never seen or met  a manic depressive person before. This woman was in a full blown manic stage. Her husband smuggled in a bottle of stinky perfume. The next day she was going around spraying it on people to make "them" and "herself" feel better. I got up and ran out of the room like Hades was hot on my trail telling the nurse I was tasting perfume and my head was acting up. They ran after her to confiscate it and I had to get abortive medication.

And to get to this point. To tell my husband that I cannot tolerate smells from that nasty 25-30 year old lawn mower. He nagged me this morning when he left to mow the yard. Oh how I hate that noisy, bumpy, smelly thing. How I'm going to survive that thing I do not know how. But God willing I will not tip the thing over on me or drive it in the pond. And if I do I hope I can move fast enough to get off of it. At least it's overcast so the sun is not too bad. For now.

Until next time I wish you all good health, be happy and stay safe.

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Can somebody tell me what planet I've landed on.

What planet did I land on and where did all the sane people go? No wonder ET was so anxious to leave as soon as he landed. He wanted to get as far away from here as soon as possible and didn't want to ever come back here again.
But really, where did everyones common sense go. Or did they have any to begin with? Help me out here so I can better understand the human race as a whole. Were we put here as rejects because we could not stack up to a higher standard? Or wait for the mother ship to come back and get us as soon as we find our calling card and call home like ET did? Or is it the other way around-do we wait for those around us to get called back once they get their minutes filled back up and rounded back up and taken away?
Either way this is a confusing state and I cannot make heads nor tails out of it no matter which way you slice it.
I live in a house with TWO healthy indivduals. They are both pretty capible of taking care of themselves. They can cook, clean and clean up their own messes. I on the other hand have a disabling disease with several comorbidities and can barely take care of myself, but they expect me to be their caretaker. I have to cook for them. Clean up after them-basically provide a bed a breakfast establishment for them but also through in lunch and dinner and on weekdays pack their lunches for them and make breakfast to go.
And what do I get in a return. Well, a hard way to go and a short trip getting there. If the food isn't done on time I get yelled at. If the right laundry isn't done on time, well you get the picture. Then I'm the animal sitter. Not only do I watch after my own ONE dog, I watch after my daughters 2 dogs, one of which suffers seizures, and 1 cat. Not a moments peace. So through the day I have 3 dogs yipping and yapping playing like crazy and they might take a few dog naps to recharge then they're at it again.
In between all of this I have to medicate myself for my daily excruiating migraines in which sound, yep sound, is a trigger. Guess who is adding to that. Dogs. But then again I'm on "vacation" and all I do is sit around all day with nothing to do and they, after all as I'm told often, have to work hard for a living. Ahhh, poor babies. Let me get out my violin and play a few cords. Oh, I forgot. I don't know how to play the violin. Darn it! I forgot to take that class in school! I will have to get an MP3 recording of someone playing the violin and have it on que to play that so when they whine I can play it for them.
They think it's a picnic what I have to endure daily? I would give anything in the world for them to have to live my life for one week and to have this constant pain in addition to everything else-the depression, panic attacks, PTSD, OCD-etc. I'd love to be able to get out of here for a week and for ONCE lead a NORMAL life and be out amongst others and socialize. Heck, I'd walk in their shoes for one week. Would they be willing to walk in mine? Betcha not.
So I'm done with my whinning again. I have to go clean up the supper dishes, yet again, and go put some ice on my head again. And if someone asks me again what is wrong and if I have to tell them again for the 15th time today I'm in pain I might slap something or throw something.
They just don't get it. Again, I'm on some planet and all human life has vanished. I don't know what I'm surrounded by anymore. But any compassion or understanding does not exist. ET come take them home with you.

 

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Talking about Migraine Disease-A tiny bit of progress to report.

 I thank God that my practitioner has found a formula that is finally helping me to gradually get in a little more sleep night after night. After the past several months of suffering major sleep depravation I call it a miracle. She prescribed me Vicoden, which I was leery of at 1st, but at this point I was desperate to try anything. So I have a 5mg dose at which in the am I take a 1/2 pill then at bedtime I take a full pill. This is the start of my 2nd month on this regimine. Also as of the end of August my neurologist prescribed me Amitriptyline I take at bedtime at a dose of 100mg, so I've been on that going on 2 weeks now. That is to help with sleep and also works as a migraine preventive as well as antidepressant. So I do beleive those are finally helping with the sleep issue.

I am not noticing much effect on the pain from the migraines though. I guess it might take longer for the Amitriptyline to work on that plus the other medications I'm on. I'm still on the 200mg Topomax for migraine prevention as I have been for the past several months and wonder if that should be adjusted? How high can that go I wonder? Is anyone out there on Topomax as a migraine preventive and how high is your dose? I tried Depakote and I got the side effects of rapid weight gain and hair falling out so my pior neuro took me off it, but I was on it for about 2-3 months and noticed no effects anyway.

I avoid taking pain meds when I get migraines at all costs because I get them daily and I hate to get caught up in those rebound migraines. The Diamond Clinic I went to in 2006 accused me of over-using pain medication so I guess that is why I started cutting way back on my abortives-that and because the insurance company will not refill your medications but once each month. So I would take my abortives for 3 days on then I would go for 3 days without and on those 3 days without any pain medication it would be pure torture. I would lie in the bathroom floor crying and wanting to bash my head into the wall to see if it would aleviate that pain or make it go away. I'd use ice packs upon ice packs and seclude myself in total darkness and quiet. I didn't want to be touched, talked to. Did not want to eat, drink, smell or see anything let alone hear anything. That would go on for 1, 2 or 3 days. Abusing pain medication-I would show them. Ha, I only hurt myself more. They would never believe me. I stopped going there after a year.

But I kept that regimine to this day. It's probably the wrong thing to do but I'll be darned if anyone will ever accuse my daily migraines be a result of medication over use! Stubborn, yep, I'm stubborn. And when my current neuro gave me an RX for a pain med to break a real bad cycle that contained Oxy in it this past March, well I reluctantly filled it. It had 90 pills. I took it back to him the end of August it still had 30 pills in it and told him to destroy them for me. I was too scared to use them and when I did I cut them in 1/2 and I didn't want them around anymore. I do not abuse pain medication. Heck, I'm not happy about taking preventives but I have no choice-I can't do without them.

Then I have friends and family that tell me that these medications are doing no good, that I need to get rid of them all and just go medication free! Well, you know, that would be nice in a perfect world where migraine disease, depression and anxiety didn't exist. But we don't live in a perfect world and these conditions do exist and I have no choice but to take medications wether they like it or not. I do my alternative therapies: meditation, relaxation, ice packs, prayer, journaling, vitamins and supplements. But there comes a point in life where that is not enough and medication has to come into the picture and be a part of the program. I'm doing all I can the best I can. I'm still avoiding my triggers to the best of my ability, if only my friends and family can stop adding stress to my life and give me the emotional support that I so desperately need and want.

When you suffer from Migraine Disease you have to resign your life to this fact: you are an experiment. I am resigned to that. I have nicknamed myself a professional lab rat. Resigned to that title as there is no cure for this disease and I have accepted this fate and everyone else around better accept it as well and learn to live with it as I have. It's not fun. It's downright miserable. But they don't have to suffer the effects like I have to so they should in part be thankful for that. And while the majority of the time I go around dizzier than a bat from one of the many side effects of a migraine attack they could cut me some slack and try to help out a little like picking up after themselves. Would that be too much to ask for? Sure, I know they work full time and I'm home all day, but I'm not sitting on my butt watching soaps and having fun. Hey, I'm on SSD-Disability-that does NOT mean "paid vacation" that means DISABILITY, and that is SO VERY HARD TO GET FOR MIGRAINES. Even my therapist told my spouse this. He said it was luck. My therapist and myself told him it was VALIDATION for the hell I have been through and am still going through. Men-skulls usually thick as concrete walls. 

Anyway,  I'm usually in bed with an ice pack trying to have quiet so I can keep my pain from getting out of hand. And they can show some courtesy by not turning on the TV and hiking the volumne up full blast and rattling the windows when they know full well I cannot tolerate noise. Is that really too much to ask? In the morning when Megan is still in bed, my husband will turn on the TV, but not the volumne-he will turn on the closed caption and READ the news as NOT to wake HER up! He can be considerate for her, but not for ME!!?? That blows!

I can try to tinker in the kitchen and make them supper so they don't have to cook, heaven forbid, but they can't do anything for me in return, knowing full well it's a struggle for me as smells can really set me off, and 3/4 of the time I will just eat cheerios or oatmeal because I cannot stomach what I cooked-not that it's bad, it's just because the smell turns my stomach or else my migraine has made my stomach too sensative and I cannot tolerate the spices. Some days it's pretty bad. And he wonders why I go through so many boxes of cheerios. HELLO, anyone there?

Why do people not listen? I bet if I talked Bears football, Cubs baseball or hotrods he'd listen, but the moment I talk about not feeling well he rolls his eyes and says "again". Like I can help it. Well, sorry, they stopped passing out those magic wands a few years back and I was too far back at the end of the line and missed my chance. Bummer.

    Well, like I said, we don't live in a perfect world, and mine is far from perfect. And I just know I will be nagged into mowing the yard this weekend-pain, vertigo, visual aura, nausea and all..

Until next time, as I continue to spin in circles chasing my tail and seeing double (sometimes more) but to all of you out there-be happy, healthy and stay safe.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary of doing good,
for in due season we will reap, if we do not give
up.

I Just found a solution to the burning caused by Sprix I wanted to pass on right away. Acutally, the Pharmicist at CVS recommended for the Oxygen therapy for the dry nasal passages this water/aloe based nasal spray or gel called AYR. I just tried it today after I did my post. It worked pretty good-did not burn as bad. Nothing really can stop the bad taste in the back of the throat other than drinking ice tea (water doesn't cut it for me) and then I was able to follow with my oxyten therapy right away like the neuro recommended. It seemed to make the Sprix work faster using the O2 right away. Now to see if I have to repeat the Srix dose sooner, or later. But for anyone using the Sprix and/or Oxygen therapy the AYR works pretty good for keeping the nasal passages moist.

 

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Talking about Migraine Disease-How do you talk about Invisible Ilness

What an extremely stressful start to the day. Well, it started as usual-the mundane get up, make breakfast and pack lunch for the spouse and feed the critters. Then minding my own business wondering what todays topic would be, after all it is Invisible Ilness week. I'm sipping on my coffee when my daughter screams from the basement her Puggle Buddha is having a seizure. Apparently He had nudged the basement door open enough to sneak down there while I was in thought and crawled onto the bed with her to be near her. I rushed down there careful not to fall as I have fallen down those stairs countless times.  He had 2 of them back to back, poor guy. Of course it had to be the time of day where his regular vet, on Central Time, was not open yet, but she called and left a voice mail. I called my vet and found out there was no vet in the office yet until late that am. He had just had a series of severe seizures, 4 back to back, not even a month ago and had his potassium bromide dose increased by .5ml. Her vet finally called back and had his dose increased another .5ml. I hope I'm  typing this in correctly so now he will get a total of 2ml instead of 2 1/2 ml.

So she went off to work and I'm a nervous ninny hoping he  doesn't have another one because I'm still banned from driving per my Dr. orders. So how do you talk to people about your invisible ilness? I use to be very open and honest in the beginning to family, friends and co-workers. In the beginning. It got harder with co-workers as the ilness progressed and got worse. They got pretty cold hearted, especially mid to upper management. And the sorry part was they knew I was doing anything and everything possible to work on it and keep it under control with doctors visits for medication changes and alternative therapies. I was open with them as possible and keep them up to date. I even informed them when I brought injectable medication to inform them if I had to rush to the bathroom to inject myself that was why. I was the only one in the office that would bring in doctors excuses when I had to call in sick due to migraine or any other illness because I was starting to be discriminated against-a lot of pressure was starting to be put on me-especially by my "team leaders" who were my peers and I'm still not clear if this was prompted by management or if they did this on their own. But they started monitoring all my phone calls and started picking them apart and critisizing me and telling me I could have done this better or that better. Then they started picking apart my paperwork and critisizing how that was done. I had been doing it how it was taught to me for 13 years and now all of a sudden it was wrong and no one else by myself was being singled out. The pressure was mounting big time. One of the team leaders made a pointed remark towards me in a round about way about missing too much work on Facebook then recanted, but not before I could print copies of it. Another co-worker had coaxed me on in a joke about M&M's and some of the other co-workers that happened to be male and she called me a slut. She got written up over it. And yet another co-worker called me a cougar but since she was buddy buddy with the team leaders she was fine and dandy she could do whatever, and she was a chronic whinner. But they had a little high school click going on at work for Pete's sake and since I was older and I apparently had outworn my welcome after 13 years of loyal service they were pressuring me to quit.

I had NEVER once filed a complaint to management in all the time I worked there so I did this one time for unfair pressure from my peers. The manager at that time to tell you the truth was a Baboon that could not have been able to manage a banana cart in the middle of a jungle, that was how "intelligent" he was. Not. He decided I was in the wrong for filing a complaint and my so called peers were in the right. So they kept on with their Hasseling of me and then I started having panic attacks and my doctor put me on sick leave and I never went back. I'm not sorry I left. In fact I'm glad to be done with them. That place was so very, very toxic. Everyone there would stab you in the back before you could even turn your back to them. They'd throw you under the bus in a nano second if given the chance and do it again to make sure it was done right the 1st time.

But I would make them aware of my triggers hoping to make it migraine friendly, they would not co operate. They would always put me under a speaker and blast the music full volumn! And they expect you to hear the customer on the other end of the phone at the same time while music is blaring away over your head! The manager would always come in 1st thing in the morning wearing a full bottle of the most disgusting, cheap smelling cologne and deliberatly walk by you so you get a big whiff and get it in the back of your throat.

They finished the new addition of the warehouse flooring with a very toxic smelling finish that was all through the building that was not properly ventilated, and ticked you had to leave cause you were seeing double or quads of everything, ready to puke and your head ready to explode in a billion pieces.

Not a worker friendly environment, and not willing to make it migraine friendly, that's for sure. And if they know you have an illness or a disease they will pressure you, in a round about way, to make you quit because they know they cannot terminate you-up to a certain point.

But that was the start of my downslide. I started closing up and shutting down to outsiders about migraine disease, panic attacks, depression etc because after that I could not trust anyone. This was in early 2010 and it has just taken until this long to start to open up to strangers again, but very slowly. My parents, God rest their souls, and a couple of my siblings I could always talk to. My extended family I have a few, but my spouse is another story-at 1st he was but now he's at the point he said he's tired cause it's the same ole story. Well, don't you think I'm tired of it too. He thinks there is a cure and I tell him there isn't. He has a brother-in-law that is yammering in his ear that says there is and agrees with him I should be off the med and at Mayo to cure me. How many times can you tell someone there is no cure. Mayo will only do what every other clinic has done-experiment on drugs to find the right combination.

So I draw the circle to myself tighter and close myself up again. No one gets it. No one listens. No one understands. You just want to pull your hair out (but just brushing it makes you want to scream). Why are people so dense!

So that is why some people do not open up about their disease and why it remains invisible. It's a shame but when your in the workforce and have to work for someone else, in todays economy if they know about it your screwed. In personal situations its touchy too. I guess it just depends on each persons circumstances. When you have such a hideous disease it makes life unfair, that's for sure. It makes you want to pull  your hair out, which hurts anyway when my head hurts, so what the heck.

Until next time stay healthy, be happy, live well and be in peace.
Julie

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Talking about Migraine Disease-A day full of forgetfulness

9-13-12. That ole cliche I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached is true of me today. .

It has been a trying day so far. I have tried to get some stuff done around the house taking advantage of my pain level being at a 6-7. That sounds pretty pathetic when you can try to manage w/a pain level at a 6-7 and not be incapacitated. Don't get me wrong. It's pretty painful, but if I don't do it no one else will and who will catch heck for it if it's not done. Yep, you got it right-dear ole Miss Suffers from Debilatating with Migraines will get called on the carpet for a dirty house.

I lost track of how many times I lost my cup of coffee this morning. Honestly. The last time I searched, and searched. I just could not find it. I thought I went all over and re-traced my tracks if not twice but FOUR times and no luck. No where in the heck could a 14oz blue coffee cup went and walked off to! I was beginning to think I had lost my flipping mind after spending well over 20 minutes looking for a lousey coffee cup! I don't pull that crap that a certain member in my husbands family does for the past 30+ years of blaming someone else of taking it or moving it. That's a bunch of BS and pretty childish. But that is a different story.

So I gave up and made myself a fresh cup of instand decaf. Yuck. Oh well, it was hot and soothed my throat and went about my business of trying to tidy up the house and drinking my required water with lemon wedges squeezed in there to flush out the ole system as well. I got as much done as I could tolerate and decided I better put on dinner in the crock pot. Decided yesterday on making homemade spaghetti sauce from scratch. I just hope I remembered how to make it ok. If it wasn't for the threat of rain today I would have hung the load of clothes outside as I cannot stand the sound of the dryer running. The sound of the washing machine drives me batty enough as it is.

And I'd be in the middle of doing one task, I'd switch to something else and totally forget what I was doing in the 1st place. It's not good to have a migrainer that is in pain, especially this one sitting at this keyboard multi task. Not meant to be.

So I decide it's time to call it quits and come to the study to blog for the day and yep, you guess it, here sits my blue coffee cup from this morning that I hunted down for 20 min that I could never find! That little rascale! Now to think about it I guess I didn't come in here to search for it-my daughter was hogging the study making her conference calls for work and her cat was snoring on the desk, like she is now and was and still is driving me nuts. Who ever herd a cat snore?? I have to see how to attach a video of this cat sometime, if I can catch her. She seems to know when I get the camera and wakes up when I start taping her. This cat needs a breathe right or surgery for a deviated septum. So noisey.

So since I have supper partially made, the house partially clean I'm 100% assured when the crew comes home it will be a disaster when they are done as they will not clean up after themselves and they will wonder why I'm in bed taking my heavy duty med and taking an oxygen treatment as I am feeling my head pain starting to escalate. I'm pretty sure I've overdone it but if you ask the others that live here they would for sure say that I haven't done enough. That goes to show the lack of gratitude on their part and the lack of emotional support I get. They would say I could always have done more. Especially the spouse. I guess I should not dwell on him and just push it out of my head and just deal with it when I have to. Why get upset about it now as it's not happening now. I have to learn and live by what I learn-their problem-not mine. I can only do the best I can do and if they don't like it they can lump it. Ta da.

For my immediate problem I have to find my glass of ice water I lost. Now where was I last when I had that I wonder.....................................
I guess I'm practicing for my Part-timers or Full-Timer's, LOL.


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Talking about Migraine Disease: How open I am Depends on who I am talking to

This has not been an easy 24 hours. The ole noggin has not been cooperating for sure. Keeping pretty much to myself as to not bother anyone around here, when they are around me that is, with my "irritating" illness that seems to be more of a burden to them that to myself. I really do need to get to a place to start to excercise because all the side effects of these medicines has really taken a toll and I have gained some weight that I really do not like nor do I need it. But what is a person to do? Pain or meds??
 The sun is just way too bright and I'm avoiding it at all costs, shut in with all the curtains and shades drawn shut like a vampire. I could swear I was smelling something burning but as of yet could not pin point anything so I was safe to assume it was yet again one of my migraine symptoms. Heaven help me if anything was ever truly on fire and I just ignored it thinking "oh well it's just my migraine symptom" until it was too late".
And of course my weather radio had to sound off it's weekly Wednesday test. I wanted to smash that into a million little pieces and that got the dogs all worked up-barking, yapping and howling. Yipes! My head is ready to spin around and explode as it is it sure doesn't need any more extra stimulation!
It's a wonder I can type this-I'm seeing those wavy sort of lines and flashy blinkie lights. Its a little hard to explain an aura when you get those distorted visual disturbances. And the partial blind spot in the Peripheral vision is a little alarming when you think you know where your going until you run into things you swear were not there a few seconds ago.
My little Paco buddy is staying close by me and is ready to cuddle. In fact after everybody left for work and I made myself eat breakfast we laid down for a little bit. I just forced down lunch and need to get the dishes tidied up a bit. I wish I could read today. It helps me when I can journal but when I see double it's of no use. Having this Migraine disease robs not only myself but thousands of others that suffer from the same disorder as well. But the pain. To try to explain to non-sufferers how horrible the pain is, they just look at you like you have 3 heads or something. God forbid, having 1 head is bad enough I could not imagine having to control this disease w/2 other heads on top of it all!
Why can't People get it! Why can't people just take the time to listen to you? Why can't people understand!? What is wrong with people that they turn a deaf ear to this desease and shut people out and tune us out?! Is it because it's not classified as a REAL disease in their illogical minds or illogical thinking?! I just don't get it. Can someone out there help me understand why Migraine Disease is so dicriminated against and what can a person do to be herd??!! And then to be understood!!!
This whole thing is not only painful beyond words and depressing, but the lack of support and the stigma attached to it only adds more to the depression and the isolation. What can a person do?
Again, not having a good day.
On this note I'm going to go cuddle with the only soul I have today that loves me no matter what. My little puppy dog Paco.
Until next time folks, I hope your all having a better day. Stay happy and stay well.

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Today we remember the victims of that horrible September 11th tragedy. Hard to believe it's been 11 years ago today. Makes our problems seem petty for a moment as we think of all those Innocent lives lost. Those who went about their normal day at work in the twin towers and the hustle and bustle on the streets below. Those on  the commuter jets on business trips or taking those family vacations. Those people in the Pentagon working to secure our nation. But how about that one flight where the passengers knew what was going on and took control and said "not out plane" and sacrificed themselves to save how many other hundreds of lives as a result? And those brave men and women who raced up those towers as they came crumbling down to try to save as many victims as possible. Yes, remembering the lives lost, those that sacrificed their own so that others may live, or those that gave up their lives in the line of duty-my problems seem insignificant today. I have no more to say but to reflect on the meaning of today and to pray for all the lost and the survivors of the most horrendous terrorists attacks perpetrated on American soil against the American people.  

God Bless the USA and all her people. United we Stand. And God Bless you all as well.


Update.
I did get the most wonderful email from Vicky E.  on my main webpage suggesting Yihoo Digital Portable Massager that helped out her husband w/his migraines. I went online to check it out per her suggestion. I looks like a Tens unit that is programmable. I have a Tens unit, but I cannot attach it to my trigger points on my base of skull-it comes undone. Need to ask her for more info. But I also came across an eye and temple massager that also looks promising as well. Since that area is so sore to the touch and very raw I'm at odds at which way to go. Eenie meenie miney moe. Cannot afford to do both.

This is the Yihoo Qbobo Massager above and below is the Eye and Temple massager on Amazon.

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9-10-12

Wow, quiet. Everyone has gone to work and I'm left with the critters who have decided to take a nap. Those who said it's hard leading a dogs life never met these dogs! They are pampered pooches! My little buddy is such a sweetheart. He can be rowdy at times but he seems to know when I get a whopper of a migraine he gets all lovey dovey and wants to be extra cuddly. It's amazing how some animals have that sense where they can pick up on our vibes so to speak and just sense when something is wrong or about to go wrong and they go on alert.

I had a yellow Lab a few years ago that was super sensative to my migraine attacks. She would be my nurse maid and protector when I'd lie on the floor with my head on the cold tile trying to find some relief. I didn't notice back then but looking back on it now she would pace around me when one was coming on. I guess back then I took it as a signal she was wanting a treat or was hungry. I sure do miss that dog. But I have Paco now and he has his special ways about him too.

So my question would be does anyone have a cat or a dog, or maybe even a bird that can sense when your about to have a migraine attack and they become super attentive to you and will not leave your side until your feeling better?

I think I'm going to take advantage of this quite time and make my breakfast and try to keep my head from kicking up into full gear.

Until next time stay well everyone.

Julie

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Talking about Migraine Disease-My support group is limited

9-9-12
What can I say. It's getting harder over the past 20+ years to talk about migraine disease to my spouse and extended family. They have become less supportive. I have a few close friends that I can rely on. I get most of my support online through Migraine.com and other outlets. It's helpful to have others that share the same experience you have and have gone through what you have and you can always learn more since we are all on this same journey that shows no end in sight. We can make the best of it or we can groan and moan and make the worst of it. After going through all the posts I've read today and seeing the fighting spirit of everyone I have decided it's not time to give up the battle but to puff my chest out (as small as it is) and strut my stuff about (yep, stick my bit butt out and heaven help the poor soul behind me, LOL) and carry on the fight and not let it get me down.

My spouse and some of my extended family may be of no support, but I have God and a few others that will not let me down and I know there are some great people on this Blogger site that have great input as well.

So my questions is has anyone tried oxygen for abortive to migraine/cluster headaches? My neurologist just prescribed that to me last week. And also Sprix.

Take care and be well. God Bless you all.
Julie

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