What my chronic pain condition looks like now
If you asked me about my current migraines and pain condition, i would tell you i "got sick" on Christmas day of 2013. But really i have gotten migraines since the 7th grade. In late October of 2013 they started to become more frequent. Christmas night of 2013 i got a migraine that lasted 4 days, and ended with me at the ER having to get shots. That had happened before, but this time the medication didn't help. So they gave me a second dose, which still only brought the pain down by less than half. Then they gave more. After that they said i could go home or be admitted, there was nothing else they could do for me. I have had a headache every day since then. 401 days. Some days it's not bad, i can take a tylenol and be ok. Some days, most days, 3-6 days a week it's a full on migraine. I have to take abortive migraine meds, usually in combination with other medications for migraines and things like ibuprofen and be in a dark, cool room with little noise and wai...