A quick note: I had actually written this to be posted to a friend's group on FaceCrack, and I thought it was a good enough overall review of what has gone on and what went on today that I am just going to use it, for now, as a general overview for today. I will probably write up a prettier version later with less salty language, but not right now. You have been warned.
Ok...
now, I am not bitching. I just wanted to let you all know that the
neurologist appointment went well. She appeared to listen to me. Also,
she said she is fairly certain that I did not actually have meningitis.
((after reading my actual doctors notes from the ER yesterday after I
picked them up, I came to that conclusion as well, and was fucking
pissed)) She is pretty certain that I had a **SUPER HORRIBLE FUCKING
AWFUL MIGRAINE FROM BLOODY FUCKING HELL** that has actually damaged
stuff, which she took care to point out, *can* in fact happen, as I am
experiencing. She said that they were assholes to tell me that and I
should have been sent to a neurologist right off. She also said that my
ophthalmologist made crappy notes and gave me a copy of her notes
unedited that requested *specifically* that he re-do the eye exam with
things to look for.... with specific request for dilation.
She
is giving me a six day steroid pack to help break this pain cycle I am
in (starting that tomorrow, so that I can take it three times instead of
just two.. I don't want to deal with that tummy ache). She also gave me
a scrip for imitrex (which I took for the migraine I was having this
morning.), and Topimax to start this evening before bed as a longer term
migraine control med. Topimax is usually for seizures, but a secondary
use is migraines. A tertiary use is as an appetite suppressant/weight
loss med. A quarternary use is as an anti-depressant... so it has a
similar set of side effects (could make depression worse n shit.. so i
get to watch out for that).
I have been awake for about an
hour after an Imitrex sleep, and while I feel tender, I don't feel as if
my head is in active pain. I am still having eye issues, but not the
stabbity pain that I have been feeling.
As for the eye thing:
she thinks that it might be something that she called a pseudo-tumor.
What that is is when some trauma happens (like this horrific migraine
from fucking hell) and my optic nerve is reacting as if there is a tumor
there, when there isn't. It might not have been the migraine that
triggered it. It might have been that horrific period that I experienced
as well, where I thought I was going to hemmorrage.
Of
course, it could be an actual tumor, but since I don't have any
indications in the blood work, she doesn't *think* so. That's what MRIs
are for. I should be hearing form the radiologist to schedule that shit
in the next week or so.
So... I feel like there has been a
serious step in the correct direction. She seemed very nice and
competent. I liked that she listened to me. Her nurse was kind of a
cunt, who was wholly dependent on the blood pressure machine to take my
blood pressure and couldn't get it to read properly, but I can deal with
that. I did point out that I have a tendency to freak out and I
suppress it well, but that results in blood pressure spikes until I get
comfortable. It is actually in the medical paperwork that I brought from
my doctors office.
Anyway.. YAY!
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