Oh well i was again woken at 3 am so the beast is back again. It was screaming pain that woke me this morning. A sharp shooting pain over the top of my head and behind my eye and down the side of my face on the left hand side. One thing i do find strange is why does the face droop on the left side when i am getting these pains. I think the pains are from a damaged nerve and if that's is the case then why does the nerve effect the face and make your cheek and eye droop when you get agonising pain.
Thankfully my mother chased up my appointment with the specialist to try and find out the results of my scan. Apparently due to illness all appointments were cancelled in December so they are now re-arranging appointments and will make me an appointment and send it out in the post so i should receive one soon. This is great news as finally i will start to get some answers. It can only go one of two ways. Either i have nothing there that is causing anything and i have to suffer this condition for the rest of my life and will have to find a way of managing the pain all the time or they have found something on the left side of my head where the swelling is and maybe they will be able to do something that will decrease the amount of attacks i get.
Yesterday i managed to stay pain free all day apart from an attack in the morning and a small one late evening. I am hoping for the same today. Let’s hope the attacks stay away and i can get on with things like cleaning the flat and also organising my fishing tackle and getting it all ready for my first fishing match at the end of January. Lets hope the weather stays mild and it warms up a bit by then, if the weather is still cold and wet i wont be able to attend the match due to the attacks and pain i will get. I am so looking forward to fishing this year and will hopefully catch some new personal bests and maybe even a record size fish.
At the end of 2012 i set myself a challenge as i don’t want to let my condition get the better of me and dictate how i live my life due to getting the attacks and pain all the time. I challenged myself to take on the rivers, streams, lakes and fisheries around Wales. To travel around and try out fishing at different venues in and around Wales an to write a review of every place i visit. We will also be trying out some places outside Wales as well as we are booked to go down to Cornwall in April and spend a week at a very nice fishing resort. I am really looking forwards to this holiday as not only will i be doing something that i love, fishing, but will also get a chance to take a look around the area and visit some sites while i am there. I am also thinking of going to France either at the end of the year or next year for our holiday but due to my condition i will have to take precautions if i do go. This is something i have to discuss with the other members first.
Well again i have been kept awake all morning as i was unable to go back to sleep after the attack due to the level of pain and the level of the shadow i have been getting afterwards. The neck again feels like i have a golf ball stuck inside it and the head is very tender to the touch. Normally i would say i was going to get another attack either soon or later in the day but just lately even the shadows have been easing off during the day and only seems to return at night or early hours so i am wondering if the medication is finally starting to work. I do still keep getting shooting pains up the back when i walk and down the front of my legs but it is not every day so i think this is something else and has nothing to do with the attacks. Maybe it is arthritis as i thought and that in turn aggravates my condition every now and again. Lets hope i am wrong and eventually even the pain in the back will eventually disappear, fingers crossed!
