Information and opinions on health from Lisa S at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/88856/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/88856/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/88856/index http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/c/88856/155179/update Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:19:25 -0400 Lisa S Hello out there.  Well its been over a year since I was diagnosed with VKH.  For those of you who don't know my situation, I was diagnosed with a disease called VKH in June/July of 2011.  VKH (Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada) is a diseased named after the doctors who discovered it.  It is "a multisystem disorder characterized by granulomatous panuveitis with exudative retinal detachments that is often associated with neurologic and... http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/c/88856/155179/update http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/155175/releif Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:04:47 -0400 Lisa S Guess what team!  I have moved and I needed to get a new pain managment docotor for my migraines.  My first concern was another doctor who will try to change all the work the other doctors have done and it won't work.  WRONG!  He did a different method of pain control. He allowed me to keep my script for Diludid, but he did burning of the nerve in my neck with radio frequency waves.  He could only do one nerve at a time... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/155175/releif http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/143658/happening Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:52:15 -0400 Lisa S So you know that I went blind back in May but since I have recovered in the right eye.  The left eye not so much.  Well this am I woke up at midnight with extreme pain in the head and the left eye.  I couldnt open the eye and when I did pry the eye open it was red.  If I opened the right eye the light would shoot to the left and kill me.  The headache is so painfull right now Im writting in the dark.  I wanted to... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/143658/happening http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/142144/vkh-syndrom Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:56:05 -0400 Lisa S Hi out there!  Well its offical.  I have VKH syndrom.  It attacks the eyes and the autoamun system.  It is treated with heavy steriods, antibotics, and bone desity meds.  I went to an appt with a Rumatologist yesterday to get more information and treatment.  She was very knowlegable in the syndrom.  I had a chest x ray and bone densty tesst ( because of the high dosage of steriods Im on).  I have to take... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/142144/vkh-syndrom http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/141760/acting Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:49:16 -0400 Lisa S HI there,  the left eye is getting better, but now the right eye is actting out.  THe only eye that I have that I need to do everything.  Is acting out.  ANd it happens to  be the week I have to take my driving teset.  Beat me and call me Loretta.  What do you do when it happens?  You call your doctor right away.  THe good thing about this situation (if you can find one) you get diagnosed, get... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/141760/acting http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/141490/week-back-work Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:57:00 -0400 Lisa S Hi there!  Its almost the end of my first week of work.  Ive had a migrain for 5 days.  I have been taking tylenol in the morning to help get me through the first part of the day, but boy when it wears off you know it.  When I come home (of course all the kids are here) I hit it hard.  I lay down and talk with my daughter about what we will do when mommy's head stops pounding.  They say there are levels of the... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/141490/week-back-work http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/141340/im-excited Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:18:50 -0400 Lisa S Hey friends!  Im so excited to be going back to work tomorrow.  Im a little nervouse also.  But mainly excited.  I saw the nuro last Tuesday and he said that he wants to see me in a month.  We are seeing if the dosage of 2000mg a day of the depakot is working out for me, along with the nuraton (sorry for the spelling) of 1800mg twice a day are going well.  Im also going to be dropping down to 5 mg of steriods... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/141340/im-excited http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/140994/eye-sight Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:52:15 -0400 Lisa S Hi out there.  Two months ago I was going through a 5 week long migriane.  They treated it in the hospital with diladed and morphian.  After a week long treatment and stay there I was released on steriods and depakote and nuraton.  Sorry for all the spelling misstakes.  Then on Sunday May 29th I woke up with no vision in either eye.  I was blind.  It was pitch black dark.  What happened to me, where was my... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/140994/eye-sight http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/100945/living-working Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:17:33 -0500 Lisa S I call my migrains my non wanted buddies because of how long I have had them.  I have had them since I was 5.  I am now 35 with a family of 5.  I have been through a lot of the medications that are out there and some narcadits too. (Sorry now about the spelling).  We do the injections and other meds that are used for sezures.  We have started a new medication for the onset of the headache.  It is treximet. ... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/100945/living-working http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/44474/medications-gotta Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:33:50 -0400 Lisa S Hello Team Migrain!   So one of the steps the new doctor I'm seeing was to have an IV treatment.  Okay, no problem.  I don't mind needles.  Then I thought "how am I going to schedule that with work, cheerleading, and then my family life?"  Then she handed me the number for the Visiting Nurses.  She said they come to the house and will hook me up to the machine and will start everything.  It was perfect. ... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/88856/44474/medications-gotta