I didn't have a wake up call from the beast this morning like i was expecting instead i just feel a little unreal after yesterday, what i can only describe as a day in hell. It started with a normal early morning wake up call from the beast at around 3.30 am in the morning witch i actually rode out the pain rather than take any of my injections as it didn’t feel as big as they normally do. I think this could have been the mistake that triggered my day in hell as afterwards the start of my day began.
It was on the 3rd attack of the day that i decided to take my injection as to abort the attack. The first one i rode out and the second attack was only a small one that effected mainly my eye and neck but the 3rd was feeling like it was going to be a massive attack so i took my injection as soon as i could feel the pressure build on the left side of my head. It took a while for the injection to start working as i had already gone into the attack by the time it started to work to block the pain. My eye had swollen and the sweat was pouring from me like someone had turned on a tap. It was around 10 minuets into the attack that the injection started to work and i felt my chest tighten and my breathing became shallow and the pain stopped. I felt a little sickly and it always takes my breath away but the injection works to stop the attack dead in its tracks.
There has been a few times where the attacks have actually over powered the injections but i was lucky yesterday as they seemed to do the trick but unfortunately i am only allowed 2 injections in 24 hours as they are so strong and very dangerous if you over use them. After the attack had eased it left me with the usual side effects such as a sore neck, a feeling like i have a golf ball stuck in the joint of my neck. A feeling of pressure constantly on the left side of the head reaching from behind the eye over the top of the head into the neck. Also a tenderness of the area so if anything touches that side of the face it feels a lot more tender than any other part of the body. The attacks then returned around an hour after the last bad one.
Again it was a massive attack so i had a choice to use the injection or leave and wait for later in the day just in case and i am glad i did wait for later on even though it was a massive attack that i had to ride for over an hour even with the help of oxygen. Usually the oxygen helps to half the length of attack but this time it was having none of it and i had to ride it out for the full length of time. I wanted to smash my head open just to try and get to what was causing these attacks to appear. Again i ended up with the side effects of the attack such as loud ringing in my ears and soreness in the neck. Even my back would hurt in the lower areas as pains would shoot down my spine when i would get up to walk about.
This was setting out to be a very painful day and by the 6th attack at around lunch time i knew i was in trouble and these attacks were set in for the day. I had to stay in complete darkness with no sounds at all otherwise the head would start to hurt again. It had become so tender that even someone knocking on the neighbours front door set off an attack due to the noise irritating the head. These attacks continued into the evening with around half an hour to an hour in-between attacks. I stopped counting them after 20 as i just knew i was going to keep on having attack after attack. I had taken both of my injections by tea time and even with the help of oxygen i was still struggling with the attacks when they came. All i could do was pray to god for the attacks to stop or some miracle to happen.
I honestly thought i was going to die they were so bad. Over 20 attacks in a single day and it felt like they would never stop. At some point in the early hours my eyes closed for the last time and i must have fallen asleep as i suddenly woke to the bite of the beast at 7am this morning with yet another massive attack. Even though it was a big attack causing my eye to swell and face to droop i can honestly say it wasn’t anywhere near as painful as they where yesterday and i didn’t even need to take my injection to ride it out. It lasted around 35 minuets and it was over. I am praying its the last i will get today and hope it starts settling again. I know we have been having some very hot weather the last couple of weeks and that the temperature suddenly dropped yesterday so i am wondering if it was that, that triggered my bout of attacks.
