That's enough dancing for tonight
Sep. 1st, 2012 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightlotusmoonThe migraine dance is nothing like the chicken dance. Except at Oktoberfest in the year 3012, with Neanderthals fighting Germans in chicken hats. With prehistoric mammoths. And catapults that fire prehistoric sabre-toothed cats at spacecrafts piloted by incompetent egomaniac womanizing space captains in velour mini-skirts.
I would like to thank neck stretching, self massage, acupressure, dark chocolate, Acetaminophen-Codeine, Magnesium Citrate, Cayenne, CoQ10, and Vitamin B-100 Complex. With their combined combative help, I was able to ease and soothe this migraine pain enough to continue very light physical and mental work. Please give them all a round of applause.
My appointment with the neurologist yesterday went very well. Dr. Lin was very pleased to see me, and we set a follow-up six month appointment. I told her about Dr. Babus the pain physician and she was thrilled. I explained that since Dr. Babus was now handling all my pain drugs, it would be easier for her to handle all my brain drugs, thus taking the burden off my general physician, Dr. O'Conor. She was completely on board with that. We discussed my breakthrough seizures, and decided to increase the Klonopin from 0.5 mg to 1.0 mg daily, as a backup. She wanted to put me on Lunesta, but I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars, and also I'm doing fine with my current regimen of valerian, passionflower, and other such holistic sleep aids.
Metro Access had dropped me off at the building, and I had requested a return trip, but as it turned out, I misread the appointment times, and so the return trip window would have interfered with the appointment. I canceled the return trip quickly, especially when I realized that there was a Ride On bus stop nearby that would take me to Rockville, which meant that I could get to Shady Grove and then to home.
That bus stop was near the Walgreens shopping center, which had the only local Walgreens I knew of. Since I love the store part of Walgreens, I spent nearly an hour perusing. Prices really are cheaper than CVS. I would be happy to go back. I could take a bus, but that would actually involve too much time and effort, with hopping trains and buses back and forth. I'll try it when I'm feeling energetic enough. It's really only to Rockville Station, and I spent years metro-hopping in downtown DC.
Now, more reading.
I would like to thank neck stretching, self massage, acupressure, dark chocolate, Acetaminophen-Codeine, Magnesium Citrate, Cayenne, CoQ10, and Vitamin B-100 Complex. With their combined combative help, I was able to ease and soothe this migraine pain enough to continue very light physical and mental work. Please give them all a round of applause.
My appointment with the neurologist yesterday went very well. Dr. Lin was very pleased to see me, and we set a follow-up six month appointment. I told her about Dr. Babus the pain physician and she was thrilled. I explained that since Dr. Babus was now handling all my pain drugs, it would be easier for her to handle all my brain drugs, thus taking the burden off my general physician, Dr. O'Conor. She was completely on board with that. We discussed my breakthrough seizures, and decided to increase the Klonopin from 0.5 mg to 1.0 mg daily, as a backup. She wanted to put me on Lunesta, but I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars, and also I'm doing fine with my current regimen of valerian, passionflower, and other such holistic sleep aids.
Metro Access had dropped me off at the building, and I had requested a return trip, but as it turned out, I misread the appointment times, and so the return trip window would have interfered with the appointment. I canceled the return trip quickly, especially when I realized that there was a Ride On bus stop nearby that would take me to Rockville, which meant that I could get to Shady Grove and then to home.
That bus stop was near the Walgreens shopping center, which had the only local Walgreens I knew of. Since I love the store part of Walgreens, I spent nearly an hour perusing. Prices really are cheaper than CVS. I would be happy to go back. I could take a bus, but that would actually involve too much time and effort, with hopping trains and buses back and forth. I'll try it when I'm feeling energetic enough. It's really only to Rockville Station, and I spent years metro-hopping in downtown DC.
Now, more reading.
