Again i was wide awake at 4am this morning. Not from the beast but from my back this time. Aches and pains worst than having a tooth ache. No matter what i did i could not get rid of this awful ache in the back right in the middle. I tried to massage it but it was deep and it felt like i couldn’t reach it no matter how hard i pushed my knuckles into the back. I tried stretching, i tried bending, nothing was working. I tried laying on the floor for a while so i knew my back was straight but still all it did was ache. It wasn’t until i took some anti inflammatory tablets, that took around half hour to take effect, the ache in the back eased off. By the time it did ease i was already wide awake and there was no way i could get back to sleep. I tried laying on the bed in the dark but i could hear every noise inside the block of flats and outside the block. As i was trying so hard to get back to sleep the noises seemed to be amplified and sounded louder than they normally are. It was a wasted effort so after about 30-45 minuets i gave up and walked into the living room to watch some TV and see if i can bore myself to sleep.
Yesterday i managed to go the whole day with out having an bad attack so the one that was in the early hours was the only sign of the beast. i haven’t yet had any sign of an attack build and my neck is behaving itself at the moment also. I do have a tooth ache at the moment so am waiting till Monday and i will finally have to give in and go to the dentist no matter how much i don’t want to. At least if i go i will finally get the last of my teeth sorted and then they can start to build me a new set.
I started my new medication yesterday, Verapamil 80 mgs, so i am hoping this will soon start to help keep the attacks away and i will start to get longer pain free periods. You never know it could be why i haven’t yet had a sign of an attack this morning. I thought, with the nasty attack i had yesterday in the early hours, that my pain free period was over and i would be getting a run of bad attacks again. So far i have had nothing. A few small pains up the back whilst i am sat at the computer typing but other than that and a little bit of tooth ache i have been feeling well this morning.
Well only time will tell if it is working. I know for sure if i go out in the cold and i stay out for a while i will get an attack as i went out yesterday to call over my mothers and a nasty attack started to build. By the time i got to my mothers i thought i was about to have a massive attack the way my head and neck was feeling but suddenly it just stopped. So i remained pain free for the rest of the day. This has happened a couple of times to me lately, where the attack starts to build up and you feel the pressure and an ache in the areas that the attack normally effects and then suddenly it stops.
I am wondering if it is the medication that is doing that and stepping in to stop the attack from developing. Ever since i started taking the Pregabilin tablets i have noticed a big reduction in the amount of attacks i get and especially in the amount of big attacks. Now that i am at the max dose of 300 mgs in morning and 300 mgs in the evening i have noticed strange things happening when i get attacks like them suddenly disappearing before the main pain begins. I am sure as time goes on the tablets are building up in my system and that could be what is helping to stop the attacks. Now with the new meds maybe it will put an end to them full stop.
The trouble with my condition (CH) is that it could all be just down to the weather changes and now that we are heading into Spring and the temperature is increasing we are getting more high pressure fronts over us and less low pressure meaning better weather. My attacks start to get less and less the more closer we get to summer and warm weather. We already know that cold is a trigger for my condition and heat helps to ease the pain so it only makes sensei get less attacks depending on the time of year. I am just hoping it is the medication helping to improve my condition and not just the normal cycle of my condition and i end up back where i started from next winter. I don’t know if i have the strength to cope with it all again. things are improving at the moment and i just want them to start to let me live as normal life as i can. i don’t mind having to manage the condition with the drugs and treatment. having to take an injection when an attack come doesn’t bother me and as long as i have my oxygen to help also i can cope with a couple of attacks per week. Just wish they wasn’t every day.
