I was hoping that the pain free days would last and i would have more than just a couple of days break in between attacks. I managed 4 days total this time with out any incident. Then at around 2.30am this morning i was woken up by what i cam only describe as an attack from hell.
I could actually feel some thing building in my head last night. It was like it was trying to shadow yesterday but wasn’t quite strong enough and kept disappearing again. When it hit me this morning it was if someone had run into the bedroom and hit me round the side of the head with an bat. My god my ears were even ringing in pain. The amount of sweat coming off me was unreal, the bed suddenly became soaked so i had to get up. In turn, where the sweat had soaked not only the bed but my clothing as well, i started to shake and shiver as the cold hit the sweat on my body and i could feel it like it was exaggerated, like i was placed into a freezer. I rushed into the living room, turned on the heater and sat there warming till i stopped shaking.
I took my injection at the first sign of the attack as soon as i woke up but the injection wasn’t helping as much as it normally does, again! It’s not every time the injection is overpowered but when it is you know you are having a bad one. All i could do was massage my head and rock back and forth in screaming agony in front of the fire warming up and waiting for the pain to eventually stop. It seamed like it was carrying on forever, all i could do was pray to god for the pain to go, but to me it felt like it was just increasing every second. I actually thought this was the attack to end all attacks, the one to finish me off. Just as i was loosing all hope it stopped, as quick as it started it was gone. I looked up at the clock, when i came in it was 3.35am and now it was 5.05am. It had gone one for over an hour and half but to me at the time it felt like it was forever.
My eye is still a little sore and the top of my head is throbbing and my neck feels like it has a golf ball in it but for the moment i am again in control and have no pain. The shadow or feeling of pressure is there constantly so i know its not the last attack today, i have to take it easy as not to aggravate it and start another one. The cold is the biggest trigger for setting off attacks so i am hoping the weather is going to be kind to me this winter but i have a bad feeling that we are in for one heck of a cold winter. When the “real” winter kicks in i am going to be in agony i cant tell you so i have to try and take as many precautions as i can. I have bought a couple of woolly hats to keep my head warm and i have a real thick woollen scarf that my neighbour actually knitted for me last winter to help me keep the cold out. I think i am prepared but we will have to wait and see.
Well even though i have it under control at the moment i can feel it trying to start to build again. I know i wont have another attacks for at least 20 minuets so i think its time to jump on the oxygen for a while and see if that helps to reduce this shadow feeling.
