Nausea — any ideas?
Hi guys! I’m rolling along with the same old here. There have been storms every day (seriously!) for the past week. I haven’t been feeling the effectiveness of the Botox. I’m hoping that’s just because of the weather.
But in other news, my nausea has returned over the past month. What a bummer! It was basically gone, we found a medicine that helped and I had hardly any nausea. Now….it is back. It seems I’m nauseated unless I’m eating. 10 minutes after I eat I’m pretty good, too. Ay yi yi. I don’t like to drink soda (so 7up and ginger ale are pretty much out), but I do drink club soda with lime juice or ginger tea.
I have nausea meds but I don’t feel think it’s a good idea to take them everyday. Anyone have any other good ideas?
Filed under Uncategorized | Comments (9)How about an update?
Well it’s been long enough! I’ve still been around, reading friends’ blogs. Just haven’t felt like blogging for whatever reason.
So you all know I’m seeing the pain clinic for back pain, but that the Dr. feels he can help with my headaches. I’ve been doing physical therapy (for my back) since the treatment plan. It’s been a couple of months of PT and I’m not seeing any results yet. But that’s not the good part.
The good part is this – my pain doc is working on the headache angle and I think we have actually hit on something.
I KNOW!
So we did some (more) nerve blocks, these in the back of my head on the right side. So those were about like the previous nerve blocks, only effective as long as the local anesthesia is working. But that led my doc to think that Botox in the same locations might work. And so last Tuesday we did Botox injections in 3 locations, around the back of my head on the right side. So he said it would probably take a few days to see any results. I waited hopefully… and then on Thursday I woke up, and my headache was much better than normal (on the right side). It still switches back and forth to the left side (where the pain is its normal bad-ness). As the day progresses, my headache gets worse and gets back to its normal levels. It also seems to be affected by not enough sleep and weather (worse before storms). So I’m still figuring out how much it has helped.
But clearly it has had some effect. And that is really good news!
Here is an overdue update on my hair…this summer and fall my hair was normal on top (blondish) and then purple on the bottom half. Here are some pictures for you…
