Woke up today feeling okay, around a 7 for a majority of the day. I woke up around 6:30 this morning, after waking up at 4:30 and having a little bit of trouble falling back asleep.
I had scrambled eggs and whole wheat toast with coffee for breakfast. I got ready for the day, showered, got dressed, that sort of thing, and meandered the house a bit. Then I rode back to my apartment for a while, to pack a little bit while my girlfriend was in class so she could take me to the chiropractor in the afternoon.
At my apartment, I packed what I would need to stay at my parents longer, and what I would need for Thanksgiving. Then I talked to my roommate for a little while. My roommate asked me if I was planning on moving back in with my parents and this struck me. How independent am I ever going to be able to be? Am I always going to need to be close to my parents and need to be able to get to them quickly? Will I always be tethered down?
I heard from the headache center and I got more of the medication, Zyprexa, that makes me sleep, so that I can just sleep through the pain when it is really severe. Also, my neurologist is going to try to move up my admission date to the hospital.
I went to the chiropractor, and was with a different chiropractor, who does "deep muscle work" which is massage of the neck muscles. He instructed me that I really need to ice my neck when I got home, which I did. I also got something called a Cervical Posture Pump, which helps put the curvature into my spine. According to my chiropractor, the curvature in my spine was non-existant when I first started going.
I came home, ate dinner (tilapia, shrimp, and asparagus), and watched some tv before going to bed spent time on the computer before going to bed around 10 pm.
PM meds taken, with Zyprexa, AM vitamins taken. 4 Aleve taken in the morning.
A conundrum:
My chiropractor says that I will feel better when I stop taking all of the medications I am on. My neurologist says that if I increase some of the medications I am on I will feel better. Which one is right? The one thing they agree on is no pain relievers, like the dilaudid I get at the ER. But my chiropractor wants me off of all the medications, including the Topamax and the Verapamil. My neurologist on the other hand thinks I should increase the Topamax and quite likely the Verapamil. So who do I listen to?
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