It was time. Six months seems to have passed very quickly! Always a painful experience for my bank account. Fillings today. Looks like I’ll be fasting the rest of the day. Ouch! Based on the cost of today’s dental experience, I should be fasting for a MONTH! Well, Jesus fasted for 40 days, so… I’ve…
Category: migraines
HelloMD
It was not until one day, when I casually asked again how to go about getting a medical marijuana card, that a longtime friend, both on Facebook and in real-time, answered specifically that the best dispensary was Harborside in Oakland and I could get a card through HelloMD. Since my friend’s husband is a retired…
Losses
Today my friend Ryan Bell posted this: “Some losses are a song interrupted. Some run their course and make coherent sense but sudden ruptures are deeply unsettling. Like a chord unresolved, it irritates and agonizes, not necessarily even because you loved the song so much, but because that’s not how music is supposed to work. Like a story that…
Heart Palpitations
In February 2017, I was still having constant neck pains. I tried using my shiatsu massager that I keep by my bed. It made my neck feel better, but only for the 15 minutes I used it before it shuts off automatically. I frequently fell asleep during that 15 minutes! I would like to have…
Migraines and Nortriptyline
Dr. Chan referred my complaint of a long siege of migraines to my neurologist, who sent the following email in response to Dr. Chan’s order to TRIPLE my current dose of nortriptyline. From: BRET DAVID ANDREWS DO Sent: 8/18/2016 7:40 PM PDT To: Jacqueline Hegarty V Subject: Neurology Hello– Got a message form Dr Chan…
Migraine Day 7
Don’t know what I’ll do when I run out of sumatriptan as my doctor won’t refill it. That’s life when you’re old, sick, and poor.
Off to a Slow Start
This first month of 2016 has passed awfully fast! I did well the first week, going out for a walk every day, wearing my pedometer, and averaging 2,121 steps a day. (Only 7,879 steps to go!) Then it started raining and I started on nonstop migraines. For 20 days out of 31, I had debilitating…
A Look Back at the Year
Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and we’ve just come back from an early party at the senior citizens’ group. I was lucky that there were big bowls of green salad on the buffet table, so I filled my plate. Then I topped the salad with 1/4 c. of potato salad, just to see what would…
A Look Back at the Year
Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and we’ve just come back from an early party at the senior citizens’ group. I was lucky that there were big bowls of green salad on the buffet table, so I filled my plate. Then I topped the salad with 1/4 c. of potato salad, just to see what would…
Another Milestone
First ever “normal” FBG. This is in spite of cutting my metformin dosage in half at the beginning of this month. (I was getting tired of the daily diarrhea!) Also, I’m aiming for 80% fat and 25g carbs. I’m putting up with the resulting migraines as long as I have migraine medication (sumatriptan). For now….