Oh Hylight, I feel for you on the cluster headaches. I get those also and they are the worlds most painful condition.
I live in fear of them also.
Keeping a balance with the medication, nutrition, exercise, meditation, anything else that helps seems to be the key to reducing the number of headaches I get. Easy does it on reducing or adding anything.
Congratulations on your new puppy! Dogs are the best! My dog helps me so much.
Enjoy your baby.
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Thank you for your kindness and mentioning some coping skills and for understanding with such helpful words and empathy. Wow, very nice of you to help out by reaching out to someone with pain.
I have only had three attacks so far and I hope that some way we can prevent them from happening again.
Thank you for your honesty about being careful. The ER had said that there is nothing that can really be taken for relief from a cluster. However, I had to take a xanax each time to finally get something to calm me down enough to get through it all.
I think being off of pain medication now is keeping the headaches in remission. I need xanax just to cope with alot right now.
The puppy is so sweet and adorable. She is too cute to be true. She has so much energy and is still learning alot. She is so funny because she is still trying to grow up and she makes me laugh alot. She went to pull on my leg when we were going outside and she missed and rolled over three times sideways down three cement stairs but recovered nicely. I almost pissed myself laughing and crying because she could have got hurt.
We went to the lake seven or eight times already and our other dog taught her how to swim all by herself like a big girl too.
They are helping me to keep up with trying to get some exercise as much as possible. They are fun and hilarious to watch them growl. They make the funniest faces. They are medium small breed and growl over raw hides and who gets to try to sit on someone's lap. What a dog life but they are happy and go everywhere I can take them. They ride shotgun on the armrest when we go out on the road driving the highways.
I can function but with pain and nausea and low energy and I still really feel weak and have to struggle to focus or just find energy drinks to keep me going. I have trouble remembering things and have no motivation to even make me want to care. The dogs keep me going to be outside around the trails and training them at the beaches at the lake alot too. But other than that I am just struggling along right now with no pain relief from stopping taking the hydrocodone that was prescribed. I recently got a letter confirming that I have to contact a new PC because the other one was leaving and I had been prescribed a schedule II and needed to be tested for drugs because I was in pain management. I don't even know what that meant but the last pain management doctor that was available was ran out of town and had went to another state.
There really is not anyone to talk to about pain here so that is why I switched to medical marijuana so maybe that is what they meant in the letter about being put on a schedule II. I dont know and I haven't even started to really figured it out yet. they arent testing me for being on the MM so I will have to read the letter again. Maybe it is saying a PC can help with pain management but I tried that already. I think they went all hysterical over an opioid crisis. Maybe they ran out of supply. I am just sad and tired and don't even try to find help anymore with going to medical appointments for this that and everything for a simple request for pain relief. They sent me to plenty of physical thearapy, no problems with that type of authorization. Xanax gives me a little relief from pain but makes me dopey, high and way too relaxed and forgetful.
I hope the best for you too, so you wont have to suffer anymore with that painful cluster headache condition. I appreciated talking to someone so nice as yourself, so very much. ?