Another night of high temperature and sweating whilst having nightmares. Then to be woken at 5 am by the beast wasn’t the best of starts to the day. I feel as if i have been run over by a truck and then reversed back over again just to finish the job. My head is pounding and my neck feels like it has a grinder inside it. My back feels as if it has been used as a training bag for a boxer. I keep getting the shooting pains up the spine as well as the other pains i normally get when i have an attack. The attack lasted just under an hour this time and even with the injection it didn't;t completely stop it so i am assuming it must have been a massive one to over power the injection again. Every time i turn my head to the right my neck cracks and feels like it was out of joint and then suddenly snapped back into place. Its a horrible feeling and one that i don’t want to repeat. i am hoping it is the infection that is also aggravating my CH condition and making it play up this morning as it has been behaving itself for a while now.
With the start of the Verapamil i have seen a huge drop in the amount of attacks i normally get. The specialist did say i would know straight away if a medication is going to work or not and he was right. I have gone from having anything from 2 to 8 attacks per day to now getting 2 to 8 attacks per week on average. That is a massive difference and has helped me slowly get my life back together. I don’t mind even if the condition stays like this as i can now control it using medication and don’t have to seek out pain relief all the time. I just wish the pain in my back would ease off just as fast as the head does. I know as soon as i get over the infection i will be able to move around easily again and won’t have the pain in the lower back but will still be getting the shooting pains up the spine so i will have to get the specialist to look into it when i get my referral. The doctor has referred me to the back pain specialist to make sure i am not suffering with arthritis of the back.
It is weird how now days you have to have specialists in each particular area of the body instead of one that dealt with basically all injuries or problems. A specialist for the head area, a specialist for the back and a specialist for the mental side of things. Even specialists for when i got addicted to all the different pain killers and opiates i used to take. I am so glad that chapter of my life is over and is something i never want to experience again. Being addicted to drugs is not pleasant and i don’t understand why people would want to become addicted to them just for pleasure. The only thing that worries me at the moment is the medication that i am taking is also addictive and i can’t just suddenly stop taking them. If i have to stop a certain medication or change it i have to reduce myself down slowly before changing as it will send me into withdrawals if i don’t do it correctly and that is something i never want to experience again as long as i live.
At least the weather is starting to warm up so i am hoping it is the last we see of the winter for the next 8 months. Spring is now hear, flowers are sprouting and trees are starting to bud so it won’t be long now until summer is here once again. It is also fishing time for me and i am going to try and get as much fishing into one year as i possibly can. I have our holiday then end of April where we are off to Cornwall for a weeks fishing holiday. My mother and step father, Brian, will probably spend a few days looking around the area and visiting some of the local attractions and i will probably join them for a couple of days just to have a break from the fishing but most of my time is planned to be spent by the lake side. I can’t wait!
