Well i didn’t manage a lay in today as i was again woken at 3am by the strong shadows on the left side of the head. I didn’t get an attack but it was so uncomfortable it woke me from my sleep. I tried to go back to sleep but was again woken by the beast at 4.30am but this time it was a massive attack. I hate these strong attacks as no matter what i try i can’t seem to stop them from happening. Even though i took my injection the pain was so strong it just over powered it and made the injection redundant. The attack lasted just under an hour and has left me again with a very sore neck and face. If i just touch the cheek on my left hand side i can feel sharp pain shoot along the nerve and over the top of the head on the left side into the neck. If i use my nails, that i have cut short so are blunt as anything, they feel sharp as if i am pushing a needle into my skin. When i do it on the right hand side i get nothing except a dull pushing feeling that you would normally get if you push your finger into your cheek.
With my head being so tender today i will have to be careful not to aggravate it and cause more attacks to appear. The neck is the worst thing as when ever i move my head i get sharp pain in the neck and that in turn causes pain to shoot over the top of the head. I am also getting strong pains again in my back and down my spine. The pain is so bad even sitting at the desk typing this blog is causing me to get shooting pains up the spine. When it is like this it is impossible to get comfortable. No matter what i try i still get the pains. If i lay down on the bed for a while it seems to ease it at first then after about 10 minuets it starts to get bad again and as soon as i move there is pain.
These pains in the back are relatively new and only appear after a bad attack. As far as i can work out it must have something to do with the muscle or nerves. I am starting to wonder if i have trapped a nerve in my back or when i am having the big head attacks it is causing something to swell and in turn causing something in the back to happen and that's why i am getting the pains. I will only find out, for sure, when i get the results of my scan. Not long to wait now, only a few weeks, and i will know what is going on and what my options are. The only thing i am really worried about is the walking side of things and carrying heavy weights. I seem to be getting a lot of pain when walking, especially up hills.
This pain is usually after i have had a big attack in the morning but has appeared out of the blue a couple of times even though i had not had any attacks to set it off. I seem to get sharp pains in the front of my legs right up to the knee and also in the back of my legs from my buttocks down to behind the knee. If i am carrying shopping then the pain in the back can get very bad and on a couple of times has stopped me in my tracks. This only seems to happen if i am carrying a weight in my right hand. If i swap the weight over to my left hand then the pain begins to ease away. The pain in the back is right on the spine in the middle and seems to spread into my left buttock every now and again.
I haven’t a clue what is causing it and why it is doing it all i know is it is starting to worry me as the longer i seem to be waiting for results and treatment the worst my condition is becoming. I am at the maximum dose of my tablets so now its a waiting game to see if they can build up enough resistance to stop these attacks from appearing. I know they are working, as i have repeatedly said in my earlier blogs, as i am getting a lot less attacks than i usually get. Even though the weather is freezing cold and we have had snow i haven’t been in as much pain as i was last year. Lets hope that if the tablets do eventually put the beast to sleep then the back and walking problems will disappear along with it.
