I’ll update later today (it’s after midnight, it’s today!) with hair and cat photos, if I don’t completely forget. As you do. It’s snowy snow snowing outside again. Another 4″ on top of the 8″ we had (that, to be fair, had melted down by half at least) over the weekend, with [...]
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wrap me up against the cold
Alright, first of all, I would like to whine because it is COLD DEATH HORRIBLE COLD and has been for weeks.
Look, I know that by choosing to live in the mountains of Virginia, I run the risk of both boiling in summers and getting at least one good snow a year in the winters. [...]
I like talking – when it’s a healthy back and forth exchange
I am so sick of doctors refusing to listen to what I say that I think I’m going to give up on visiting them. Clearly what I say has little to no bearing on their assumptions, so I might as well not go.
In September, my GP told me he wanted me to get an [...]
the sky is clear blue
Dear Drugs.com,
I love you. Thank you for inadvertently giving me a suggestion for how to not keel over and die. I am in need of both migraine and allergy control, and thanks to your comprehensive interactions tool and reviews section, I learned via researching that I totally need to look into periactin/cyproheptadine. [...]
doubt and din
So, I went to the doctor for my 2 week follow up after discontinuing topamax last Friday (the 2nd).
He was still pretty skeptical of my claims of possible seizure activity. I haven’t had another event with the nystagmus and all of that, but I’m still having daily rounds of hiccups (fun) and [...]
the stars are all exploding
Shit, maybe the topamax was actually doing something–I’m at the onset of migraine number two for this week, and am aware of two things:
1. I should have guessed, given I slept for 10 hours (my prodrome invariably involves sleepiness, as do the actual headache, and the postdrome–I’m basically not sleepy when my migraines are well [...]
it’ll pour down
Still tender and vaguely headachey in the occipital region, almost exactly 4 hours after I took the imitrex (about five after I started noticing the onset of pain, while we were at the vet’s and driving home). I’m also currently having a hiccuping fit. I should have included them in my description of [...]
like a dam bursting
Aaaaand here comes my first migraine. I can feel it starting everywhere in my head (it’s one of those, great–did you know “sinus headaches” are usually migraines?), from above my cheekbones to the backs of my eyes to, no surprise, the occipital region of my skull. It is a rare migraine for me [...]
just can’t shake it
Just got back from the doctor and pharmacy. This was my six month med check on topamax/topiramate, which I have been increasingly disliking.
I began having migraines when I was 13 or 14, and they were pretty irregular; I had very few while on zoloft (one of the few plusses of remaining on that med [...]