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[QUOTE]Originally posted by LOA: [QB] Well, the results are back from the mayhem that was my spinal tap. First of all, can I just say that while I'm not a fan of ANYONE using medications or drugs for recreational uses, the anxiety medication that my doctor gave me to tranquilize me before the big LP was some MIGHTY fine stuff. It really made the entire experience (what I remember of it!) much more bearable! I don't have increased intracranial hypertension. This is both good and bad, depending on how you look at it. The good part of it is that I don't have IIH. Yay! The bad part is that we still don't have any one thing we can peg down as The Thing that is causing my headaches and other medical issues. So that sucks. Also, my spinal fluid was checked for meningitis and abnormalities that would signify cancers, tumor growth, and other ailments - all of those tests came back normal. Again, this is a good thing in that there's nothing in my body that's slowly killing me that I don't know about, but it's a bad thing because I'm still just this random enigma of daily headaches that medications cannot control. Aside from that, I managed to be one of the lucky few who after my spinal tap developed a spinal headache. What that meant was that the hole they poked into my spinal cavity didn't close up and heal like it should have, and it leaked cerebral spinal fluid for well over a week. If I sat up, stood up, or moveed around, I would get a headache unlike ANYTHING I can describe to you, and painkillers couldn't even dent this pain. As long as I laid down, the pain was pretty much non-existant. So, I spent most of my time in bed for over a week. Fun, huh? Got a lot of reading done! And a lot of napping. Current plan of action: We upped my Zonegran (epilepsy medication) to 4x the dosage I started on. This is a maximum dose. It hasn't helped yet, and still isn't helping, but it's causing great weight loss, so the vein female side of me is okay with this. My Neuro also put me on Periactin, with is an antihistimine. Crazy, I know, but apparently for some people it helps. I has NOT helped my migraines yet, but my allergies have been SOOO much better. This makes my Allegra and Allegra-D both look like pussy-drugs! Of course, I'm still on the trazodone (anti-depressant) to help me sleep - this also, theoretically, will help my headaches. Not yet, but I'm sleeping finally. Plus my gyno switched my birth control for a few weeks to see if my headaches changed - I'm not sure if that helped or if it was coincidental, but I DID have a few days that were better. This was short lives, and I also and retaining a lot of water and am irritable. Pisser. All in all, between my multiple presciptions I'm taking something like 14 regularly scheduled pills a day, and I have 12 prescriptions total right now. It's a grand life. Oh! And I've started charting! I'm making charts for my doctor of my migraine intensity each day upon waking, and at it's peak, and also the time of day. Yes, I am high tech, and he will now see my Excel mastery in action. Bwahahaha. You've now been updated. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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