First you get the feeling of pressure in the head then follows slight pain in the neck as it starts to build up. You can actually feel the neck getting stiffer, feels like there is grit in between your joints when you move your head around. Then the head starts to hurt. the pain builds and your eye begins to close, then the real fight begins.
The pain behind the eye gets to a point where it feels like its on fire and then starts to stream with water. Your nose then blocks up as you try to breathe through it and the pain gets stronger and stronger.
Eventually you are in a state, pacing up and down the living room, holding the left side of your face, praying for the pain to end. As the pain again becomes more and more stronger all you can do is rub the side of your head and face vigorously like you are trying to massage the pain away, but no matter what you try all it does is get stronger.
At this point you have two(2) choices, scream and ride out the pain until eventually it goes away leaving you with a sore left head and neck or you can take one of the 2 injections you are allowed per day.
The injection itself works wonders and actually stops the attack in its tracks, but the side effects of these injections is just as bad, they start to make you feel sick (doesn’t actually make you sick) when the medication kicks in, also makes you feel slightly light headed and takes your breath away for around a minuet. To me, when i take one of the injections, it feels like i have just finished running a marathon and drains all my energy away in a few seconds. You can actually feel the medication working on the head as you start to feel a tingling sensation and then a numbness as the pain killer side of it starts to work and then in around 30 seconds (just as fast as they start) the attack is gone.
Until now i don’t know how i coped all that time with out the injections and having these painful attacks all the time with nothing but over the counter pain killers. These injections have become a god send at the moment as they are the ONLY thing that counters the attacks.
Well it looks like another grey start to the day, even though they advertised sun for today, i think its going to be another painful day for my head. Yesterday didn't turn out as bad as i thought it would. I only had two attacks during the night and managed to get plenty of rest for a change. I don’t mind getting attacks during the day time as i know i can deal with them, but the ones that keep you awake at night, they are the ones i really cant cope with.
That's all for my blog for now as i can feel another attack coming on and i have only been awake an hour or so, time to take my medication and breathe in some oxygen….
