ode to my future mother-in-law (the latest agonist for instant migraines)

(hidden & saved as draft to prevent controversy, yet to freely allow my personal venting and analysis of the situation - so as to ease my insurmountable frustration with the issue)

exhausted

yesterday was brutal. i'm finding recently that with the current meds i need 9-10 hours of sleep a night, and a 1-2 hour nap when i get home from the lab. pretty insane if you ask me. i've always been one of those people that can go all day without stopping, and this is a pretty crazy transition to make.

i was rediculously tired at work, even though i had slept longer than usual the night before. i also accidentally skipped morning coffee (nts: never skip coffee). i almost went home around 2pm to sleep, but then felt like a total loser so pushed my body to do way more than it should have. after getting home around 5 or 6 & having to make dinner, i was toast by about 7:30 and had to go to bed. of course, with a migraine.

my fiance (thank god for him) brought me ice & tea which really helped...i was out like a light by 830/9 ish and slept until 8 am this morning. sometimes i think it must really suck to live with me, other times i think about how much of a super hero i would feel like if my partner couldn't stay awake longer than a few hours.

acupuncture works

after getting a migraine nearly every 2 or 3 days of my current life, my experience with traditional chinese acupuncture lasted a few months and worked miraculously.

as a skeptic i was convinced when the undeniable relief of 2 months migraine free resulted from my treatment. it was painful & scary, but you can't argue efficacy.

i've found nothing but support since for acupuncture in migraine. the results are always rolling in with people having similar experiences.

i ran out my income tax return last year almost to $1000 on treatments. sadly, since migraine drugs are covered and not their natural MORE EFFECTIVE counterparts, i'm now left drug-dependent and financially unable to treat my body with the respect & pain relief i've found.

but that's what the pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and government want, right?

typical

This may not be very coherent as I'm trying to wean myself off of meds & am currently in a lot of pain. I felt one coming on this morning that got pretty bad around lunch. Right side of my head and behind the eye. I met up with my soon-to-be-husband as he had an appointment at the hospital this afternoon & i wanted to be there to support him. we met at the same time actually almost walking straight into each other & he could immediately tell by kissing the top of my head that it was warm & i had another migraine. we ended up in an ackward situation in the waiting room where i was attempting to calm his nerves and he was attempting to soothe my migraine. in any event now i'm home...did the hot bath/ice packs thing....slept for 4 hours, woke up shaking from pain. now with green tea & mint & ice...trying to catch up with more applications and work stuff before the weekend. however, this probably isn't going to go to well since computer screens are the bane of my existance. alas, i've yet to turn to the drugs! you've gotta stay strong to fight the pharmaceutical bail out.

before i forget

after just throwing my coffee into the elevator by trying to carry too many things this morning, i need to get a few incidents down before i 'completely' lose my mind.

migraine: last week of april & may 1st

may 1st was due to an incredible (but on my behalf slightly overdone) trip with my friend where i woke up already sick from drinking the night before (you're not supposed to drink on the current meds), and then upon taking imitrex (with the increased head-stomach sensitivity) promptly ran off a bus with her to the closest stop & was sick. i'll leave it at that. mildly humiliating, now referred by us as "the incident" we shall never speak of this again. yet another fun event in living with migraines.

i live in fear over what the bachelorette will bring.