Thursday, 6 September 2012

Another Strange Day…

Yesterday was a strange day, started the day with a couple of massive attacks and then nothing. Pain went, no shadow on the head or feeling heavy, no pain shooting in the back. I suddenly thought, oh my god they have stopped Surprised smile fingers crossed they stay away. But unfortunately not Sad smile later that evening whilst sat in my neighbours flat, the beast suddenly attacked again. I had to grab my phone and stuff and run as fast as i could up the stairs to grab my injection and collapsed into the chair and strapped the oxygen to my face.

When they first told me about the oxygen treatment i wasn’t to sure about it. I thought to myself, what on earth… just breathing pure oxygen is going to take away or stop pain are they crazy Confused smile but low and behold.. its does work! Not completely mind you, it doesn't stop the pain altogether but since i have started using it i have noticed a huge difference in the length of time the attacks last and has halved them. To me that’s a good result!
The doctor started me on PREGABALINE tablets, starting at a small dose and increasing them slowly over time. They are not for the main pain but are supposed to help and hopefully eventually build up some sort of barrier to send the attacks into remission, or something like that. I haven't,  as of yet, seen any difference in my attacks because of taking the medicine but its early days yet, it has only been a couple of weeks and i need to wait at least a couple of months to see if there is any results.

Well was woken up again early this morning by yet another attack, it is awful draining on you when you wake up so early and have to fight the pain, thank god for the injections at the moment.

Well i think that's it for now, i may even try and get a couple more hours as my head has calmed down.