Yesterday, dawned with great promise.I went to Curves. It felt like a holiday since we didn't have Produce Co-op. I came home and did a mile with my girl Leslie, while the guys went running. Zander and Arielle joined me for the walk.
The plan was a date with Mike and then shopping for the rest of our Christmas boxes.
I saw the aura at 11:30. I immediately took 2 Tylenol Arthritis. By the time lunch was through with Mike it was apparent I needed to go to bed. I slept the afternoon away.
I got up and headed to the Chapel for our PWOC Project night. Melody is making gorgeous SCA costumes for her family. Mandy is crocheting. Debbie and I worked on photos. I also sketched in our Christmas letter. Jill cut out a darling, soft quilt for her son from his baby blankes - I may do this another month. Sherri priced her items for sale at a local holiday open house today. I have now transferred 4 albums to one CM album. I also have a new plan to get Mom's writing scanned into the computer so I can do the rest of the albums with HER WRITING.
My head went from dull roar to full fledged. I was so blessed that Debbie had Excederin migraine. I've tried this before without a lot of help - but it worked last night. I thought I had some at home but only have Excederin extra strength. I've seen the spots again this a.m. and took 2. Yes, I'm calling the doc on Tuesday. They won't be open on Monday. All have convinced me, Mike included, that I need to ask for a blood test to rule out pregnancy if need be, and then take care of these headaches. Frankly, I used to get one a month....only time they've been bad was with one of the pregnancies and then you can't take anything....but this doesn't bode well for life. Now that I'm journaling them I am seeing that I'm dealing with constant pain at some level or the other. I HATE taking meds - really...and I'm taking a lot of combinations of self-medicating drugs. I'd rather have a doc give me one or two than take such a cocktail...but I think I've now tried all the over the counter things I can. I still praying that God would just make them go away again.....and I'm trying to get at least 6 hours of sleep a night. I'm also learning anew how to choose joy. LOL
We didn't work all the way until midnight last night. We all quit at about 10:00 p.m. I was able to be home early. The little ones were in bed. Mike and the young men were watching some Lord of the Ring thing that looked fairly disgusting and gruesome to me. I went to bed and slept well with my heating pad.
Today will be busy. We have a Veteran's Day parade to attend. Jared will be in the parade with the CAP float somehow. Hopefully we'll get more shopping done for our OCC boxes...pick up for these are this next week. The chapel's goal was 300 boxes....quite ambitious for our small group - but we are giving it a good try.
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Ugh about the headaches continuing. I'll pray for them to just go away but agree that getting it sorted out, even if it means a coctail of meds for a time is important. You can't function well with such headaches daily, plus no fun to hurt so much all the time.
De'Etta, I'm so sorry to hear you're having such a difficult time with the migraines. I'm praying for God's healing for you and for you to continue to be filled with his grace so you can continue to choose joy.
I love the Operation Christmas Child ministry. We'll be adding that to our "to-do" list for next week. The kids will be so excited! Thank you!
De'Etta,
I am with you 100% on hating meds. I won't usually self medicate, but on the flip side when I do NEED to medicate, a low dose will usually work. Earlier in this pregnancy I had a 3 day long migrane. I finally broke down and went in, they gave me percocet, which is apparently 'safe' in pregnancy. I only took one. I really did not like how groggy it made me, but it sure took care of the pain and I was able to sleep. I will continue to pray for you.
In Him,
Kristine in NE
Sis: Be sure sto tell your doctor your Mom has fibromyalgia. Might be some connection.
WHOOPS! I'll send another email.
Our new windows are SO beautiful.
l/p
DeEtta,
As someone who has a more or less constant level of pain plus an aversion to the constant use of meds, I do sympathise.
Praying for some clarity for the dr's on what to do
I didn't want to take meds for adverse reactions and such but the naproxen and ibuprofen is making me nauseas, the tylenol doesn't work and is probably hurting my liver in high doses, the excedrin gave me a belly ache....I figure it's time to talk to the doc - it isn't letting up.
DeEtta,
When Theresa gets a headache tylenol doesn't stop the migraine from happening. But we did find that if she has ibuprofen at the hint of a headache, she can keep the migraine away....
just a thought to consider until you can see the doc
I agree the tylenol does little to nothing.
The problem with extended use of high doses of Ibuprofen for ME however is that my stomach HURT and it made me sick....so I take it sparingly. This is what they gave me for "arthritis" too - 800 mg.
By the way, Excedrin migraine is the EXACT same medicine in the exact same doses as Excedrin. Check it out.
Anonymous - I discovered that! I even asked my pharmacist tech friend yesterday at Chapel about this....and she is asking the head pharmacist on Tuesday....because they are the SAME meds one is a tablet and one is a caplet.....one says take 2 every 6 hours and one says take no more than 2 in a 24 hour period.
I should ask Chris - my cyber pharmacist friend this question too.
hopefully the drs can get you on something to quickly take care of your headaches.
Good job on the albums!
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