#Also my legs aren't acting right so I've obtained a cane.

[rowanwolf]

Felt okay for like an hour but I'm starting to slip back into pain and nausea. I'm being taken off a med I'm on for migraines, fibromyalgia pain, and sleep disturbance due to chronic pain because it can contribute to dizzy spells and syncopy. And I've been struggling off and on for a year now with a relapse of POTS. Unfortunately, with my array of health issues, I have to prioritize what gets treated. Anything that can cause loss of consciousness is a threat to my survival and therefore of the highest priority. Migraines won't kill me, but if I black out and hit my head or otherwise injure myself falling, that might. And in the week since I started weaning off that med, I've had a constant headache and a fuckton of breakthrough fibro pain.

Today, I had a full blown migraine. Between my other med for fibro pain, the "new" (I've been on it before) med my rheumatologist prescribed for breakthrough pain, two excedrin, and one dose of my migraine rescue med, I managed to beat it back to where I could drive to work without crashing my car. I then got sent home from work because I apparently sounded miserable and when my pharmacist asked if I was okay, I burst into tears and told her I was afraid before too much longer I wasn't going to be able to drive home because of the migraine I've had for a week. Yeeeaaah... That's a pretty surefire way to get sent home.

I took another dose of my rescue med, got horribly dizzy, napped with the kitties for a bit, woke up with a lingering but not debilitating headache and was absolutely starving and ate the only solid food I've managed all day, and then slept on and off the rest of the day. I would like to be done with this now. I've got an appointment scheduled with a migraine specialist and that cannot come fast enough, dear god. But I'm once again beginning to feel as though I might be sick, so I think it's bedtime for me. And muscle relaxer time, because I'm afraid to take anymore excedrin due to the breakthrough pain med and can't take anymore of the rescue med, so that's the only thing I can think of to do. Hopefully tomorrow is better.