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Originally Posted by WindsThatBlow
I'm going to call the urgent care in town tomorrow to see if they treat headaches. My mom said since the other urgent care clinic came in town, they run more like a primary care doctor's office. We will see. I just can't go through this pain anymore. I've had too many too frequently to not have something to counteract it. I shouldn't suffer if I don't have to and I'm not gonna withstand it when I know there is help out there.
I guess my medicines are working. Depression is managed for sure, anxiety somewhat I guess. I'm tired of fighting that fight though. If I can make it through my day, it's not worth fighting to find the right med,. I've done so poorly on so many anyway. I'm gonna focus on just trying to better my quality of life one step at a time. Let's get a safety net for these headaches and migraines.
Also weighed myself tonight and I was not happy with the results. I really hope I can reverse course on that one.
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I hope the urgent care place can help you, WindsThatBlow. During the last couple of years my husband and I lived in New Jersey we mostly only went to an urgent care facility. Though we liked our primary care doctor, he was never really available and his staff were obnoxious. Plus, urgent care can be so so much more pleasant than having to go to a hospital ER.
Though the visitation co-pay was higher at the urgent care than our primary care doc, it was much cheaper than the ER. To go to the ER was a nightmare, every time. At the urgent care our waits were significantly shorter and more pleasant, and they could do a number of things that an ER does, but a primary doesn't. The one we went to even had a typical NJ diner next door. The urgent care let you go to the diner, and then called your cell phone when your number came up. We'd sit in the urgent care drinking coffee and eating either breakfast or some other food. Loved that place!
I had a period of severe migraines maybe five years ago for a good two years. They were so bad that all I did was vomit each time I got one. I ended up going to a neurologist and she prescribed sumatriptan self-injections. The thought of them was daunting in the beginning, but they worked so great and so fast that I got over that mental discomfort (they didn't actually hurt). I agree stress can be a trigger, as well as other things. For what it is worth, mine eventually stopped. I haven't had a migraine for about those five years. Hope yours stop, too.