The last two weeks have been steadily getting worse for my husband. The hard part about headaches for him is not only the the persistent vice-like pain in his head and the pain in his left eye, but the nausea that comes with it. He is holding less and less food down. In the past, it was common for him to vomit daily, but now 2-4 times a day is his new norm. He went to his Headache neurologist on Thursday. After waiting two hours to see her, she pretty much said there is nothing more she can do. She did put him back on zofran, so he can take it at work to hopefully reduce some of the nausea. He will now use pheragan at home and the zofran at work. She changed his muscle relaxer back to one that did not work before. Hmmm, REALLY? Not that any of them really work any way. They only help a little or knock him out. She also gave him vicodin, which the botox/ pain management dr doesn't want him to take due to increased chance of dependency and rebound headaches. Additionally, it doesn't make the headache go away, just lowers the pain until it wears off and then he is back to full grown migraine.
The funny thing is she is his medicine prescribing doctor and has given up. So now we need to figure out who can manage his meds. One good thing she did was give him the name of the dr who does nerve stimulation implants. Now, can we get the insurance to pay for it? We will see on that one.
Today even on nausea meds, he is now thrown up 3 times in the 2 1/2 hours he has been awake. Lovely day already. Good news is the Botox appointment is Thursday morning. Bad news is that it is supposed to snow Wednesday night and Thursday morning and we live over an our away. If we have to reschedule it could be another couple of weeks to get in. That would be mean more vomiting and I am not sure he can handle that.
Pray for the storm to not come in until Thursday night, please.
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