Chiropractor Visit
December 31, 2008
After trying to ignore stiffness, pain, and loss of movement in my neck, shoulders, and back over the last couple of months, I've finally given in and am going to the chiropractor. I was rear-ended in an auto accident early last October, and I suspect it's caught up with me. The chiroman said I have the neck of someone who is at least 70 years old.
Lovely.
He's also encouraging me to get the medical bills paid by the driver-at-fault's insurance. The trouble with that is the stigma of mental health issues. It would go fine for anyone else who got hit then a couple months later went to the chiropractor. BUT with a mood disorder, they are going to blame the mood disorder for the whole mess, one way or another.
If I stubbed my toe, a lot of people would say it was just a result of my mood disorder. That's how ignorant a lot of people are, including some medical "professionals."
Tags:
mental illness, pain, stigma
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Two Plus Two
December 7, 2008
After the two day migraine in the left eye, I got two days with pain in the right. It's always worse waking up with the eye pain. This is the first day in three that I didn't have eye pain upon waking. Now the left is threatening me again.
I was doing fairly well until an hour or two ago. I tried drinking a soda to head off the migraine, but I think sometimes if that doesn't help it only makes things worse. I'm getting
prodrome symptoms.
For me, prodrome usually means, my hands and feet get cold, I feel a pressure building in usually one eye, my neck and shoulders feel stiff or like they need cracked, and I start to yawn. From there, I may become nauseated with stronger pain in and around my eye, worse neck stiffness, more frequent yawning, and sensitivities to light, sound, and/or smell. My forehead and sometimes face will feel hot to me from the inside (like a burning,) but not necessarily hot to touch.
I'm going to...
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frova, migraine, pain, prodrome
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Two Day Migraine
December 4, 2008
OMG my migraine medicine isn't working, and it's been two days. I have a stabbing pain behind my left eye. I'm nauseated and keep yawning.
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migraine, pain
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Switching Mood Stabilizers
December 2, 2008
This fall I switched from Lithium to Tegretol. Lithium was depressing and made me gain weight which was even more depressing. But that's not the main reason I switched to Tegretol.
This summer I discovered a new chronic illness to add to my repertoire, as if I needed more. This one is called Trigeminal Neuralgia, and mine was triggered by getting a shot of novocaine and having two fillings replaced. It is treated with Tegretol until eventually that no longer works, then you just want to kill yourself even if you have no mental health issue.
The pain is like an ice cream headache in one whole half of the face. I have pain everywhere that the novocaine effected, and the pain started in earnest when the original numbness wore off. The shot hurt like hell in the first place, but since I'd not had a shot like that before, I didn't realize that was not supposed to happen. There are very few days, and by that I mean one or two days in...
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bipolar, dental work, medication, migraines, mood stabilizers, pain, trigeminal neuralgia
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