today's accomplishments

After last night's acupuncture appointment, when my acupuncturist followed up the "how are you feeling?" with "have you talked to your neurologist yet about stopping your medications?", I decided I had had it. She is a great doctor, but we disagree on the value of medications. She doesn't like them, and thinks they do more harm than good. I know how they have given me my life back in the past, and know I can find that again.

So, I called her today, cancelled my Thursday appointment, and let her know I plan to pursue other courses of treatment for the time being. I am not ready to give up on medication.

My normal morning migraine pain started developing into a whomper of a migraine. The pain was on both sides, which are always my worst migraines. I knew (for once) exactly what triggered it - I didn't eat enough for breakfast. Yesterday I ended up with an awful bilateral migraine when I skipped breakfast (accidentally, I'll add). So this afternoon I hit it with some Frova, combined with ibuprofen on the advice of my neurologist.

And... it worked. My pain went from a 6 to a 3, down to a 2 by the time I left work.

So, tomorrow I'm calling my neuro for a Frova scrip. I have a bunch of samples around still, but I may as well get the scrip now. I also have a scrip for Imitrex, which works well for me, but makes me drowsy so I don't like using it at work.

It's only in the last few weeks that I've been more aggressively treating my migraines. I still haven't found a preventive that will work for me, and my new HA specialist doesn't want me to change anything with my preventive until after I try Botox. (Still a few weeks away.)

Even if I only have two good head days a week, that's better than the 0-1 I average without abortives.