Re: please help my wife

[Guest guest]

I know my wife is on here often, and I don't know what else to do. I'm

sure someone's been thru this before. She has had a constant headache

for the past few days, in severe pain. worse when she bends. Only meds

she has is 800mg motrin. any advice on how to help? what meds help?

anything is appreciated. The pressure headache is at the base of her

skull. She is already on diamox. we were at tci yesterday and are

waiting for Dr. B to see about a fusion. Nothing we do helps. If we go

to ER its 5hrs and all they do is poke and probe and say follow up with

family Dr. So we are here trying to find out what helps. Shes had a

decompression 4/02 and a detetherring 4/07. Since detethering below

symptoms are alot better but head symptoms worse. Detethering surgery

was great and she doesnt even feel like she had it. THANKS.

when i have one of my sever headaches (which i don't get very often anymore)

i try keeping myself in a straight position on my side in the bed. i would

keep the bed flat and have a small pillow that lets my head lay soft onto

the bed. i usually would put a hot wet hand towel i microwave (BECAREFULL put

another hand towel over it so you won't burn yourself) wedged behide my

neck and I would lay quietly and not always but a lot of times doing this along

with the Tylenol the headaches went away. Marisa/Florida

decompression / cranial cervical fusion 2/07 disc replacement 2/07

detethering 3/06

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[Guest guest]

Ice gel paks on the base of the skull really help me. And also,

wearing a soft foam collar can help, you can pick one up without a rx

at a medical supply store, RiteAid or whatever. Be sure to get one

that fits correctly. If it's too tall, it would tip her head back and

cause more problems. If it's too short, it would cause her chin to

drop down and makes it ineffective. You can buy one that is too tall

and then take it home and carefully, in small stages, trim it down by

cutting open the " sock " that is on it. A collar can really really

help to keep the skull base pain at bay.

Watch what she is doing and if she is doing much that causes her neck

to hyper flex or extend (forward/down, or back), this is not good and

can really flare up symptoms. The collar helps to keep us from doing

that. And also self monitoring so that you avoid those positions (no

cleaning/painting ceilings and no positions with her chin on her

chest!)

A stronger pain med, of course, would be more helpful. But also some

lifestyle changes, the collar and ice pak, can really help.

hth

Virginia

>

> I know my wife is on here often, and I don't know what else to do.

I'm

> sure someone's been thru this before. She has had a constant

headache

> for the past few days, in severe pain. worse when she bends. Only

meds

> she has is 800mg motrin. any advice on how to help? what meds help?

> anything is appreciated. The pressure headache is at the base of

her

> skull. She is already on diamox. we were at tci yesterday and are

> waiting for Dr. B to see about a fusion. Nothing we do helps. If we

go

> to ER its 5hrs and all they do is poke and probe and say follow up

with

> family Dr. So we are here trying to find out what helps. Shes had a

> decompression 4/02 and a detetherring 4/07. Since detethering below

> symptoms are alot better but head symptoms worse. Detethering

surgery

> was great and she doesnt even feel like she had it. THANKS.

>