[CedarS]

All yesterday and so far today, I am free of migraine. My head is not throbbing and pounding, I am not nauseous. My anxiety level is also lower and I am actually happy.

I've been able to get out for walks in the beautiful autumn sun, without flinching and needing to run for cover from the light.

I can listen to music of all sorts, even on my iPod shuffle with ear phones, without triggering too much pain.

I am able to sit up without feeling dizzy.

I'm able to hold casual conversations with clerks, go out to a cafe for coffee without fear, dance around my apartment, and think clearly.

I know all this may change at any moment, but for now, for these gifts, I am thankful.

Sarah

[Gemstone]

Thats great Sarah!! I am so happy for you!!

[wi_fighter]

:whispering: what a great way to start the week.

(don't want to trigger a headache with too many whoo hooos and happy chili dances).

[(JD)]

sneaking one in hee hee

[CedarS]

Plus with my last $2.79 on my food stamp card I actually found Ben and Jerry's ice cream on sale, was able to get that along with yogurt, such a deal! Vanilla and Swiss Almond ice cream, no less.

As for dancing hot peppers, bring them on! Hot pepper helps some folks with chronic pain too, so maybe they can be my mascot.



Reminds me, I miss Santa Fe this time of year, especially for the red and green chiles.

Oh another thing to be grateful for!.........animated flashing stuff online isn't bothering me today! So definitely, bring the dancing peppers on. If they trigger a migraine I'll consider that a lesson learned. Even then, still am grateful for this respite time.

Sarah

[kimmydawn]

((((((((((((((((sarah))))))))))))))))))))

how wonderful that you can "see" the beauty and appreciate these things...even amidst pain and suffering. THAT is a true gift.

thank you so much for sharing.

[January]

Hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hugs,

Jan

[BlueFaith]

That's wonderful Sarah! I'm happy for you too!

-Jennifer-

[eskielover]

Oh Sarah,

You reminded me of my migraines (or one huge migraine that lasted years) several years ago before my pain specialist found the med that releived them. I remember having to lay in bed with no light, no sound, & especially no smells. I just layed in bed with my head pounding, sicked than one could ever imagine....& not being able to even live. I would lay there between ER visits every 3 days for demerol shots of 200mg.....& of course I was "drug seeking"......when I couldn't make them realize that I was only "pain relief seeking". Finally about 3 years ago I finally found a pain specialist that was willing to go up against the DEA & prescribe me the amount of Fentynal that finally rcompletely eleived my migraines for the last 3 years.

I can really understand the relief you are enjoying right now.....I don't think that there is a better feeling than when the migraine goes away. To be quite honest I am not sure that the med actually stops the migraines from occuring, but I don't feel them so I don't know if they are there really there & I just don't feel them or that they are really stopped.

I know my pain specialist had an MRI done on my brain & they found what was called white spots or leisons.....he explained that leisions are an indication that I had serious migraines. It is kinda scarry to know that there are leisons in my brain that are similar to those caused by a stroke....that migraines also cause.

I hope your relief is for quite a while......there isn't a better feeling than the relief after having a migraine......I love the pain specialist I have now....he is the only one that has been willing to make sure that I have my "quality of life back". Which is true since I have been able to ride my horses daily & stay out of the ER permanently for pain control. I have been his poster child for migraines being treated with narcotics (duragesic fentynal patches). I wasn't able to take the migraine meds for the side effects they caused my heart to experience.

I hope you can find someone to help you get a control of your migraines so that you aren't constantly in fear of it coming back & landing in a dark, quite room for the rest of your life.

Enjoy your respite....& hope it continues....from a fellow migraine sufferer,
Debbie