In the past 4 weeks, I’ve had a few appointments and some changes. Here’s a quick update for those of you who care:
Endocrinologist appointment on the 26th of January resulted in me taking a higher dose of thyroid medication, which was already covered.
I went to my primary care physician on February 12th about some other problems (which I will not go into here, just because they’re a little too personal for me to plaster all over the intarwebz) and she’s working with me to try and resolve those. I started 2 more daily medications (between 2 and 7 more pills daily) to try and help with those issues. That brings me up to 4-9 pills daily. Yee haw. One of the new meds has the lovely side effect of exacerbating migraine headaches in patients with a history of migraines. I took the first dose of that medication on Sunday morning, and guess what happened Monday! I got one hell of a migraine.
Now, it’s possible that this is purely coincidental, considering I had only taken one dose of the med. However, this migraine was still going strong yesterday. So back to the doctor I went. We discussed the possibility of the new med causing this headache to happen and be as bad as it was, and decided that we’re gonna try to keep me on the new medication and see how things go. In the meantime, she gave me a shot of demerol (a nice pain medication) and phenergan (an anti-nausea medication) to try and kill the migraine and get me a little relief. She also prescribed me fioricet (which is a tablet that combines a barbiturate, acetominophen, and caffeine) to take when I have migraines, along with a prescription for phenergan (as I said earlier, for the nausea associated with the migraine and the medications). So now I’m on even more pills. Yippee! </sarcasm> (Note: I still have the migraine.)
I go back to see her on Tuesday for an exam and a tetanus shot (yay!) and hopefully won’t get any bad news. Still waiting on results from some bloodwork she ordered from me on February 12th, so we’ll see what happens!
Thanks again to those of you who care enough to read this. I <3 you guys!
