Thanks, Bloom.....I guess the meds have a lot to do with it, huh?

I have not taken the Migranal in a while...probably a few weeks...and I have been off the Fioricet (butabital) for 9 days now.....The hydrocodone, I was off of it for 6 days but took a few on Tuesday and Wednesday to get through this last migraine. None since then. And those I take only when I have the really severe migraines.

I guess it would've made sense if she just weaned me off the meds instead of cold turkey...But perhaps I am at fault for that for underestimating how often I take them and how many....I estimated severe migraines about 10 days a month - and explained what I would take in a given day. She did the math based on that.

I also explained that I have less severe headaches almost every day...but we did not expand on the meds that I take on those days....which are the same meds, just not as much. So now she doesn't really have an accurate picture of how much of those meds I relied on and the impact they have on rebound headaches, withdrawal, etc.

I better look up my pharmacy record so I can tell her IF they ever call me back. Grr.

At this point though, shouldn't the worst be behind me?

I thought of the movie Office Space earlier, a good way to describe how I feel....

Peter Gibbons: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.
Joanna: You're just not gonna go?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Won't you get fired?
Peter Gibbons: I don't know, but I really don't like it, and, uh, I'm not gonna go.
Joanna: So you're gonna quit?
Peter Gibbons: Nuh-uh. Not really. Uh... I'm just gonna stop going.
Joanna: When did you decide all that?
Peter Gibbons: About an hour ago.
Joanna: Oh, really? About an hour ago... so you're gonna get another job?
Peter Gibbons: I don't think I'd like another job.
Joanna: Well, what are you going to do about money and bills and...
Peter Gibbons: You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either.
Joanna: Well, so what do you wanna do?
Peter Gibbons: I wanna take you out to dinner, and then I wanna go back to my apartment and watch 'Kung Fu'. Do you ever watch 'Kung Fu'?
Joanna: I love 'Kung Fu'.