For the last 6 weeks or so, I have been plagued with cluster headaches (like being smacked in the face with a hammer) and "hemiplegic" migraines; the type that, instead of an aura, one gets pins and needles/numbness down one side of the body. They came out of nowhere; in fact the first one I had, I thought was a stroke, as the numbness went into my face and gave me a droop.
After two weeks of this, with no sign of them subsiding, I went to my GP and got a lovely pile of pills. These stopped the cluster headaches straight away, but these nasty hemiplegic jobbies continued. I took the morning off work last week to visit the neurologist, where I spent an hour and a half getting tickled with cotton wool, bopped with reflex hammers and poked with pins. I'm booked in for an MRI scan in about a month.
I am hoping now I won't need it. During this bout of headaches, the in-between times have always had a minor throb in the background, with a general sense of fragility. Well, I haven't had a headache for nearly two weeks and I am feeling very robust. But I'm not going to stop taking the pills.
I'm only just trying to figure out the point of this story now and I've decided it's "headaches suck".
PS - the bears were for a road safety video being filmed here.
After two weeks of this, with no sign of them subsiding, I went to my GP and got a lovely pile of pills. These stopped the cluster headaches straight away, but these nasty hemiplegic jobbies continued. I took the morning off work last week to visit the neurologist, where I spent an hour and a half getting tickled with cotton wool, bopped with reflex hammers and poked with pins. I'm booked in for an MRI scan in about a month.
I am hoping now I won't need it. During this bout of headaches, the in-between times have always had a minor throb in the background, with a general sense of fragility. Well, I haven't had a headache for nearly two weeks and I am feeling very robust. But I'm not going to stop taking the pills.
I'm only just trying to figure out the point of this story now and I've decided it's "headaches suck".
PS - the bears were for a road safety video being filmed here.
2 comments:
Someone I once worked with had something similar - half of her face went all droopy and it took a few weeks for it to come right. I didn't feel sorry for her though, 'cos she always ignored me.
Karma. ;)
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