Jenny - I feel like I have the same conversation all the time. Between the Frova, Relpax, Imitrix injections, steriods, muscle relaxers, Reglan.....I try to save my injections too for when I'm on the tile floor trying to sleep next to the toilet, wanting to rip my hair out because at least that would be a different kind of pain. When I do get to the injections it takes me 15 minutes to do it. I have to talk myself up because they hurt so much. I tell myself that its better than the migraine but that doesn't always justify it to me.
Lately, as my migraine attacks have become less frequent but sometimes, more severe, I've had to talk myself OUT of an injection. I know the Frova will work (especially accomanpied by the Reglan and sometimes and extra dose), but waiting the hour or 2 for it to kick in drives me insane. At least with the injection, I know it will be over in 12 minutes (or at least tolerable).
The worst part is actually opening the meds. The last thing I want to do when I have a migraine is struggle just to open the stupid blister packaging. It's a nightmare when relief is so close at hand.
Okay, I feel better now knowing I'm not the only persone who has the "medication convo".
Sometimes mine sounds a little more like a drill sargent "RELPAX! Are you gonna work? Or are you gonna punk out on me! "
But I go through the internal debate of what to take and when to take it all the time.
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Jenny - I feel like I have the same conversation all the time. Between the Frova, Relpax, Imitrix injections, steriods, muscle relaxers, Reglan.....I try to save my injections too for when I'm on the tile floor trying to sleep next to the toilet, wanting to rip my hair out because at least that would be a different kind of pain. When I do get to the injections it takes me 15 minutes to do it. I have to talk myself up because they hurt so much. I tell myself that its better than the migraine but that doesn't always justify it to me.
Lately, as my migraine attacks have become less frequent but sometimes, more severe, I've had to talk myself OUT of an injection. I know the Frova will work (especially accomanpied by the Reglan and sometimes and extra dose), but waiting the hour or 2 for it to kick in drives me insane. At least with the injection, I know it will be over in 12 minutes (or at least tolerable).
The worst part is actually opening the meds. The last thing I want to do when I have a migraine is struggle just to open the stupid blister packaging. It's a nightmare when relief is so close at hand.