Free

I have been headache free now for two days in a row, 48 hours. No pain at all in my head. It has taken a month vacation a whole medication change and several trips to the doctors. I have pain but lo and behold I have arthritis. I stopped taking my anti antiflammitories last Oct in prep for a possible surgery that has not happened. I started taking a non-narcotic pain med in combo with tylenol in its place. For the most part this held me off for ten months. The stress of the summer and everything else put my migraines on spin cycle. My head was out of control. I was having stroke like symptom migraines one after another with no relief.

Now I am an educated professional woman but I am also very cautious about diagnosing myself or reading to much into it. This does not mean I do not have any common sense. I am in the medical field and have some sense of what is going on. About a week and half ago after my GR ER visit I started to wean myself off my meds thinking one or more of them have to be the culprit. I was a desperate woman looking for any answer. I cut my hair six inches, I tried to practice my yoga breathing daily, I would meditate, pray anything for relief. Well two days before seeing the nuerologist I couldn't find the tylenol so I grabbed the Motrin. I got relief from the small headache and some stiffness. I think I am on to something.

Well the neurologist took all my pain meds away but two I got to choose. One I can take at work and one I can not. She started me on Topamax for migraine perventative therapy. I was to continue the my betablocker,antidiabetic and antilipid. My internist today addressed the rest of the issues the body stiffness and pain and the rising glucose numbers. Two more new meds and I am off. The positive is two of these new meds promote weight loss. Heaven knows I could use that.