Today I am thankful for doctors.
I have my share of physical ailments that sometimes make me feel like my body is falling apart.
But the one ailment that plagues me the most is headaches: migraines and other awful headaches.
The worst kind I get are called cluster headaches and I have had one for a couple of days now.
I can usually handle it for about a day and then I start to feel like I'm going insane.
I start crying and whining and yelling and scaring the children.
I say things like "I want to jump off a bridge"
So off to the ER we went in the middle of the night last night.
I was lucky enough to get an ER doc that also suffers from this same ailment!
So he was very empathetic.
Sometimes they think you are just a drug seeking person or something...it is very annoying.
He actually told me that the incidence of suicide is quite high in people with these headaches.
(apparently it is nicknamed "suicide headache". who knew?)
So I decided I should stop saying I want to jump off a bridge.
I don't actually plan to do that.
The pain just makes you say crazy things.
Anyway, I was given a variety of medications and I am feeling
WAY better.
Not 100% but I can function again.
And I'm not scaring the children anymore.
Hurray for doctors!
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3 comments:
I am sorry you had a headache. I had one for 3 days last week myself and I too didn't know what I wanted to do with myself by the end of it. I ended up getting a new medicine that I have to inject myself with next time, not looking forward to that! Hope you don't get another one for a long time!
Dude. That is awful. Headaches are the worst. Do you know Delos doesn't believe in headaches because he's never had one? Can you even imagine?
Well I don't believe in chocolate allergy. Delos. Sheesh.
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