Had some trouble sleeping last night, I think partially from falling asleep so early and partially from thoughts about possibility of leaving today. Requested Ambien to help me sleep and it did, from about midnight to 4:30 this morning, when they came to draw blood, although I was already awake.
I eventually gave up on sleeping around 6, and my doctor came in at 6:30. Since my pain level was still a 0, I was able to go home! I had to wait for a bunch of things, but still, I was able to go home.
The second doctor came in to agree to me being able to leave around 7:15. I was told to call tomorrow to schedule a follow up appointment with my primary neurologist, and that I would probably get an appointment within two weeks. After that I took a walk around the wing, which took me about 15 minutes, but still got me out of the room and moving, and requested to take a shower.
I had to have my PICC line taken out, which the doctor had to do. That really wasn’t too bad though, it was a lot like having a long string pulled out of you. It looked kind of like that too.
My discharge directions are to increase my Topamax by 25mg every 2 weeks until I reach 200 mg. Also, Compazine has been changed to Droperidol, which I am very happy about, and Nabumatone has changed to Naproxen. Other than that my daily meds stay the same and life continues on as normal. I am supposed to take it easy for a few days and not do anything that might bring the headache back, which is what I have planned to do anyway.
So, upon leaving the hospital my newly updated med list, including vitamins and supplements is:
AM Medications
Riboflavin (B2) 2 100 mg (200 mg)
Vitamin C 1 240 mg
Multivitamin Chewable wafer
Omega Fish Oil 2 1000 mg
Vitamin D 1 5000 mg
Iodine Plus-2 1 12.5 mg
Magnesium 1 100 mg
Progest50 2 50 mg days 15 through 28 of cycle
Petoladox Butterbur 1 50 mg
Afternoon Medications
Magnesium 1 100 mg
Petoladox Butterbur 1 50 mg
PM Medications
Lorazapam 1 0.5 mg
Nexium 1 40 mg
Fluoxetine 1 10 mg, 1 20 mg (30 mg)
Topamax 1 100 mg, 1 25 mg (125 mg)
Verapamil 2 40 mg (80mg)
Riboflavin (B2) 2 100 mg (200 mg)
Vitamin C 1 240 mg
Omega Fish Oil 2 1000 mg
Magnesium 1 100 mg
Petoladox Butterbur 1 50 mg
PRN Medications
Toradol (30mg/mL) as needed for migraines
Naproxen (550 mg) as needed for migraines
Droperidol (2.5 mg/mL) as needed for migraines)
DHE (1 mg/mL) as needed for migraines
Zyprexil (2 mg) as needed for migraines
A great list of meds. Thankfully a lot of them are supplements and vitamins that I take. Most of them aren’t prescriptions. Although counting I do have ten prescriptions; that is a lot for one person, particularly a twenty-two year old to have. And all of them are for the migraines, except for the Nexium.
I came home, and was feeling great. I went out with my dad to run some errands, and the migraine started to come back. It was at a one or a two for a majority of the errands, but began to be more like a three as we were at the house having dinner. It felt like the muscles in my neck were tensing and causing the headache.
I did my Posture Pump, hoping that would maek me feel better and that had very minimal results. It was decided that perhaps coming back to my apartment (I was at my parents) would make me feel better, give me something to do, that sort of thing) and so I packed for and went to my apartment. I got everything into my apartment.
Through the course of the evening my headache rose up to a 7. I used DHE, compazine, and nambumatone. I didn't have a chance to go to the pharmacy to get the droperidol or naproxen yet.
I took my PM meds and went to bed feeling utterly defeated.
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