Congratulations on making it to the other side. Could I ask a couple questions? It seems like everyone has their own response to such an invasive surgery. As much as I will learn, I am a fiend for knowledge and preparation. I suppose being a type A personality got me into this mess in the first place! LOL!!!
I am an occasional migraine sufferer. Do you mind if I ask you if you were previously a migraine sufferer and if so, what the frequency and severity of the migraines were?
What was the severity and duration after surgery and how did it compare to what you have experienced in the past?
How are you dealing with them now? Any difference between how you deal with them now and before (if there was a before)?
Have you found any correlation in meds your taking after surgery and frequency/severity of migraines?
I apologize for all the questions, when I was in the hospital 18 months ago and was stented, they put me on nitro and It touched off 3 days of the most excruciating, lights flashing, hallucination laden painful events I have every experienced. I later had vertigo like symptoms which prompted a CT scan of my brain. Turned out to be an inner ear thing.
I don’t want to jinx myself or anything, but right now when I get an occasional migraine, I take a Relpax, and if it continues after an hour, another dose and that usually gets it at bay or takes it out all together. After that grand-migraine I had in the hospital, my pain laughed at Relpax, scoffed at Morphine and was only slightly moved by Dilaudid (sp?).
Anyway, as usual, I am blathering, congrats again on your liberation from the hospital and I will burn a candle at church 4 U Sunday for a speedy and uneventful recovery.