February 19, 2010
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gettinghealthyI took a few more days off this journal than I planned to, but I am back, although not really improved in any way.
I am attempting a new medicine to help with my migraines, which I just started last night a little after 9 pm. I am currently taking it only once a day at night and only half a pill, but will eventually get up to 3 times a day and a whole pill each time. We are starting really slowly because so far I have reacted badly to very badly to everything we have tried. This medicine is different from the others I have taken because it is an antihistamine where most everything else I have taken is either blood-pressure or specifically designed to alter the way my brain works. I am hoping that because it is an antihistamine, that I will have better luck with this one and maybe as a bonus I can reduce the number of allergy attacks I have which are also a year round problem for me.
So far today I have spent a large portion of it sleeping. They said this wouldn't make me as drowsy as Benadryl does but so far I have been even sleepier than normal and given how long I usually sleep, that is pretty much all day other than random awakings because of noise or Kevin making sure I eat. Right now I am tired, my head hurts and writing this is taking a serious effort in stringing sentences together. I know it takes six weeks or more to find out if a specific medication is going to work, so I will just hope that the sleepiness will not be a persistent problem because even if this makes me well, if I spent all day every day sleeping, I am still ineffective. Right now I am just happy not to be on an anti-seizure medicine because I went through a lot of those and they all had what seemed like the worst side-effects of anything I tried.
Pain is starting to get pretty intense on the right side of my head and I have only been looking at them computer screen for a short while today.
Food has been mainly potato based.
I am attempting a new medicine to help with my migraines, which I just started last night a little after 9 pm. I am currently taking it only once a day at night and only half a pill, but will eventually get up to 3 times a day and a whole pill each time. We are starting really slowly because so far I have reacted badly to very badly to everything we have tried. This medicine is different from the others I have taken because it is an antihistamine where most everything else I have taken is either blood-pressure or specifically designed to alter the way my brain works. I am hoping that because it is an antihistamine, that I will have better luck with this one and maybe as a bonus I can reduce the number of allergy attacks I have which are also a year round problem for me.
So far today I have spent a large portion of it sleeping. They said this wouldn't make me as drowsy as Benadryl does but so far I have been even sleepier than normal and given how long I usually sleep, that is pretty much all day other than random awakings because of noise or Kevin making sure I eat. Right now I am tired, my head hurts and writing this is taking a serious effort in stringing sentences together. I know it takes six weeks or more to find out if a specific medication is going to work, so I will just hope that the sleepiness will not be a persistent problem because even if this makes me well, if I spent all day every day sleeping, I am still ineffective. Right now I am just happy not to be on an anti-seizure medicine because I went through a lot of those and they all had what seemed like the worst side-effects of anything I tried.
Pain is starting to get pretty intense on the right side of my head and I have only been looking at them computer screen for a short while today.
Food has been mainly potato based.
