: Please Help

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This is really long but this has been 's week:

’s headache started Sunday around noon. Maxalt was given at onset of

headache. No relief occurred.

 

Mondaygave Verapamil, Naproxen, and Maxalt. No relief occurred.

 

Tuesdaymorning gave Verapamil and Naproxen as usual along with another Maxalt

tablet. Called Dr. Mar’s office was told to give her 600 mg of Ibuprofen and

another Maxalt tablet. No relief. Called the doc back was given prescription for

Prochlorperazine (10 MG) 1 tablet and Ketolorac (10 MG) 2 tablets. Had no

relief. Told me that her neck and back hurt really badly. I gave her a massage.

 

 Wednesday morning I called Dr. Mar’s office back , call was returned around

2:30 and I was told that the doctor did not think this was a regular headache(

they thought something was causing her to have a headache) and thought that I

should take her to the ER and ask them to find out what was causing the

headache. I did that at JerseyvilleCommunityHospitalafter I had done all my home

chores. When we got to the hospital we had to wait, after a while she was given

a Vicoden tablet at 6pm. At 7:15 she was put in a room and asked how she felt

she told them, “no better.† When the doctor came to see her I tried to

tell them that I would like to find out what was causing the headache but I was

ignored and the doctor told the nurse to get a shot of Demerol (50 mg) and

Phenergan (25 mg).   freaked out and it took 3 nurses, me, and about 15

minutes to get it in her.  After about hour and a half she started getting

drowsy and dizzy also. The nurses

kept coming in to check on her, when the doctor finally came back in she

noticed that was trying to go to sleep so she declared that she was good

and probably just needed a good nights sleep at home in her bed, so she was

going to send her home. She sent us home with 2 Vicoden tablets to give in the

morning and then again in 4 hours if needed.

 

Thursday Slept until 9:00. When she woke she said her head hurt worse than it

did before we went to the ER last night. I gave her no meds all day because I

had someone on the Chiari yahoo group tell me she could be having a

“rebound†headache and it might be the meds causing the headache.  Her

headache never let up all day, in the evening she asked me to massage her back

and neck told me it felt well but only if I kept doing it that it started

hurting again after I would quit. I looked at her neck and just above the

hairline it was beet red and felt very warm. I went and got a bag of green beans

from the freezer and wrapped it in a small towel and had her lay on her stomach

and put the green beans on the area just above her hairline and she almost let

out a sigh and said it felt wonderful and shortly after that she fell asleep.

 

FridayShe is still the same I am at work and will be home around 4:00 but I do

not have Internet access at home but I am going to try to go to the Library on

Saturday and Monday to check and see if anyone else has responded to any of my

posts with information.

 

I have called her primary care doctor. She has an appointment with her PA, that

I like, to be seen so hopefully they will order a Full Spine and Head MRI. As

soon as I get those reports I am sending them to Dr. Frim in Chicago. Hopefully

she can get in to see him soon but I really need to get help for her

immediately. So please send me help if you can if not please pray for to

receive some relief.