All right. This one is mostly about my headaches. If this bothers you, please skip this. This is my true life right now and I need to get some of these thought out of my system. May GOD be with you and me. He is an important part of life each and every day.
Well, it is Sunday morning. I have come to the conclusion that nights are not for sleeping, for me anyway. Friday night, I had four real bad headaches that took about 30 minutes of SEVERE pain before my pills took over and allowed me another hour of sleep after each one. I tried an taking a nap during Saturday during the day to try to catch up on my lost sleep and guess what happened after 1 hour. It was painful, but it faded after 30 minutes. Last night we decided to take the expensive route and do the imitrex shot. Boy, it kicks in fast and makes you feel weird (real weird), but no headache was a good thought. Betty said I woke up screaming twice in the first couple of hours, but I did not know it. The first one I had to deal with was at 3AM. Twenty minutes on severe pain for the pills to work on it and another hour of sleep. Number two was around 4:20AM and was the same. Twenty minutes, on back to sleep again. The third one came about 5:40AM and I was up for the day. I guess I woke up earlier with this one because it was not as severe and medicine worked in about 20 minutes. I guess I should come to the conclusion that I need to quit trying to sleep at night and learn to live on the 4 hours I get each day. If you have never had pain this bad, I envy you greatly. There is nothing like this I have EVERY had. And if I thought I was doing bad, poor Betty is dealing with these with less sleep than me, I think. No pain for her, but to watch me through this has to be tramatic on her. These shots were suppose to be the answer, but they are not worth the amount of money spent for each one. Insurance does not like these and cost us over $20 each shot. Worth it? I don't think so. The pills are set up for one every four hours as needed and I am at one every hour to hour and a half. The pain is not worth the directions on the bottle. The pain feels like someone is pushing a screw driver handle above my left ear and even worse on the back of my left eye. Nose is running bad, too. About every 45 seconds, someone hits this item with a hammer for 15-20 seconds. You want to take about SCREAMING pain, I make some noise.
Betty found out yesterday on Internet that one of these new medicines I am on has side effects of headaches and it is to help the anti-biotics work better, so we are going to stop it for a while and see if it helps. The anti-biotics don't have anything listed for them, so maybe tonight will be better??? I can't imagine anything worse! Betty has to work tomorrow morning at 6AM, so her help tonight is critical for her to sleep instead of being there for me. She is there for me all the time, but somehow I need to let her get some sleep! How? I don't know because when I get in pain, I can't read the name label on the Rx, much less the ingredient, but some how, I have to work this over for her.
We go to the doctor on Wednesday to check my back wound. Her opinion says it looks so much better, healing great. I hope he agrees with this because I don't want it taken out! Not yet, anyway. Let's get passed this point first. We can deal with this later as needed. The medicine doctor said this plate could last three years or more if all is good! (One doctor did the plates and a second one for medicines). This will be fine if we get the headaches handled in a managed way. A third doctor is working on this, but he is limited because my back is most important right now to everyone.
Love to all of you. Sorry about all the bad, truthful news this morning, but life is not treating me great during the nights right now. Maybe this medicine change will help. Only time will tell.
I hope everyone has a great day and thinks happy, God relative thoughts for me and maybe this will go away. Family and friends are my world right now and could not do this without you help! Be there for me.
Love, Mark
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Good morning Mark,
So sorry to hear about the really bad headaches. I have only had sinus headaches which are nothing in comparison to what you are going through and thank goodness a pill works on mine. I wish there could be a simple solution for you or at least a pill that works.
While reading your note I had an idea -- Do you only get these when you are laying down to sleep, or do they also happen when you are sitting up? If it's only when laying down perhaps it has to do with blood flow and so trying to sleep in a recliner or with your head raised somehow either with lots of pillows or raising the head of the bed with blocks might help?
Wish the doctors could come up with a solution and a remedy quickly for both Betty's and your sake.
(I'll try to e-mail you those pictures of the deer later today,if I can get it to work correctly.)
Love, Janet (cousin)
Mulberry Canyon
Man sounds like you have had some really rough nights lately. Even though the injections are expensive do you feel like it works good for you except for the weird feelings. (I can't take anything stronger than an asprin or I feel weird). I have only had a migraine twice in my life and this sounds even worse. I will continue to pray for you and Betty, and your painfree nights. If its ok with you and Betty we would like to come by one afternoon this week for a short visit. I don't have your phone # or address anymore, but you could email it to us at
Brokeaton@yahoo.com. Praying that you have a much better night tonight. Love and prayers, Sallie, Scott & Noah
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