Not so bad this time

Boy, have I been slack here.

Let's see. Monday (the 20th) I had a pretty stiff headache. Gave myself a shot and it still took about 6 hours to feel better.

Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty good. Thursday the 23rd, Thanksgiving, I did pretty good until the evening. I was watching a movie on a big screen in a small room and started to feel lightheaded. I took a frovatriptan as the migraine was starting and felt better w/in an hour. Went home and went to bed only to wake up with the headache again. I got an icepack, took an Ativan and went back to sleep. I was then able to wake up without the headache.

Friday was great and Saturday was fine until about 11 am. I started to feel very sleepy and then noticed that my menstrual cycle was starting. Within a few hours I started to get a headache. By the time I decided to give myself a shot of DHE the pain was picking up to a three but never got past that. I think my worst symptom was the tiredness. It was strange, like all the energy was drained out of me. Within a few hours the pain and the tiredness was gone.

This was the first menstrual cycle in a long time that I didn't have really bad, burning type headache pain.

A Tangled Web...

It's long overdue but here's the update on the climara and the levlen.

climara wasn't so hot. in fact i got a rash from it, which to put it delicately, was extremely unpleasant. i think this is the first medication i am officially allergic to.

when that was over i started the leven. everything went pretty well until around july 15, 2006 when i started spotting everyday. this continued until sept. 24-ish, 2006. definitely not in my top 5 of pleasurable experiences but all in all, could have been worse.

around the first of august i was on 2 weeks of estrogen to try to balance my cycle out and stop the spotting. the only purpose it served was to help me get totally psycho (this is quite an understatement...so let's leave it @ that!) on the day i stopped taking it.

fortunately i have a patient and forgiving husband who understood that the hormones were whacking out the underlying mood issue i deal with.

i am a lucky wife.

so the spotting stopped late september and that immediately ushered me into the october from hell. more often than not, the entire month, i had a headache/migraine. i tried to function as best i could and not take too many medications or take the same one consequtively for fear of rebound/lack of efficacy. unfortunately i am pretty well convinced i entered a rebound cycle.

so did the levlen help? evidentally, it appears not....so now i entered the tangled web of menstrual cycles and will hold on for dear life as we enter the twilight zone of pain that accompanies the dreaded period....