Fw: hospital stay

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Oh ,

I really feel for you today as I got a banger of a headach yesturday and it

won't let go.

Just whine away, sometimes it helps to distract from the pain for a moment

or two and every second of non pain is a little blessing to me.

Many years ago I had a splitting headach for 17 days and they tried

everything to break it. My mother in law cam to look after us cause I

couldn't sit up or move. What finally happened was an doctor of internal

medicine saw in the ER put his hands on my head and neck then prescibed a

intra muscular relaxant. With in the hour the headach was gone! I know

mostly what I get are headachs that I can manage through with tylonal

3/codine but I get bad ones like today where it feels like someone is

squeezing it so hard it's cracking apart. I have visual problems but not

spots or flashes and I don't vomit so I guess what I get is headaches as

opposed to migraines.

OK I'm rambling the tylonal must have kicked in.

Hope you get rid of the darn thing soon!

Jean

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| From: Mdmssmile@...

| To: ceda

| Subject: hospital stay

| Date: Sunday, April 22, 2001 11:41 AM

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| Hi guys,

| I got home friday night after 3 days in the hospital for my migranes. It

was

| a nightmare but seemed to work until yesterday (sat. night) and things

| started falling apart again. I don't want to go back. I had treatments

with 5

| (6?) different IV drugs every 6 hours around the clock for 3 days. ONe

gave

| me diaherra which was fun with an IV pump. I've been in tears because I

can't

| take the pain any more. I woke up at 6:30 with it bad again and took an

| IMitrex and then two fioricet with icepacks. Hospitals and migranes are

such

| a bad combo. The treatment unfortunately doesn't get rid of the pain

right

| away so you wait and wait and when I told the doc Friday I was better, I

| really was. I think he was worried it was too soon but things were so

much

| better. Please keep your fingers crossed for me today. If it gets too

bad,

| I'll have to call.

| Sorry for the whine. I think I must be just a big baby and just so tired

of

| hurting everywhere. THis cycle started the first of March. WHen I told

the

| neuro. that I'd gone to the library for books on alternative medicines,

he

| said that was a sure " sign " it was time to go in to the hospital. He said

| those treatments have their place but not when things get this bad.

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