I woke up today around 7:00. I slept well, despite being woken up throughout the night for various things. “We needs to take your vitals.” “We need to draw blood.” At midnight I got another round of my “regimen” which is the Benedryl, Driperidol, the anti-emetic, DHE, Toradol, magnesium, in that order. Also someone came in around 4:30 I believe to draw blood for some test. At 4:30 I wasn’t really that aware of what they were drawing blood for.
Lidocaine can make you have very vivid dreams and can make you hallucinate. At this point I was not hallucinating, but I was having vivid dreams that were extremely realistic. Not that it was a bothersome experience though. I don’t remember the dream particularly; just that it was very realistic.
Once I was awake I watched some Charmed. I am able to have my laptop with me in the hospital, obviously, if I am able to type this blog. Eventually my breakfast came; it was the wrong breakfast, but that was okay; there was oatmeal and that was all I really wanted anyway. My am meds were merely a multivitamin and Lovanox, which is a blood thinner so I don’t get blood clots from staying in bed so much and from the IV meds they are giving me,
At 11:00 was a group therapy class. First we discussed what it is like having migraines, just giving us an opportunity to talk with fellow people who know what it is like and share a common ailment. Then we did a relaxation exercise, similar to mediation. I am not sure if it helped me or not, it was hard to tell, there were a lot of distractions in the room so I am not sure I got the full benefit.
My mom and girlfriend came to visit around 1:00. I talked to them and spent time with them. I walked around the floor with my girlfriend, which only took about 15 minutes, then came back, but felt much better from getting out and walking around, not just sitting in my room.
Later in the day I had a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap. My mom and girlfriend had to leave the room, and two doctors came into my room and did the procedure. They were extremely nice the whole time. The procedure took longer than they expected, but really wasn’t as bad as I expected. A lumbar puncture consists of the doctor checking the spinal fluid, and checking the pressure of the spinal fluid (http://www.medicinenet.com/lumbar_puncture/article.htm). Mine was minimally high, approximately 20, and they removed spinal fluid to bring the pressure down to a 12. Twenty is not high enough that they would generally treat this, unless I got significant relief from the lumbar puncture.
I didn’t think I did get significant relief, until about five or ten minutes later, when I was lying on my back (I was required to lie flat on my back for one hour after the lumbar puncture), and I realized my headache was down from a 5 to a 2. My mom ran out and told the doctors and they are going to tell my primary doctor and take this into consideration.
Later, my mom had left, my girlfriend was still here, and another friend was visiting, and I realized, I think I had no pain in my head. I am not sure, as it has been about 10 years since that has happened. But I think for the first time in 10 years, I am pain free!
I got PM meds, Lorazapam, Fluoxetine, Nexium… I think that’s it.
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