After class, I got a call from the Dr that my insurance has finally approved for me to get botox to treat the severe migraines I've been having for the last 3 or more months. This includes having injections along trigger points in my head, neck, and shoulder and it's what I've been waiting to get done - not b/c I want it done, but because I am sick and tired of trying new drugs only to feel like crap. They are hopeful that this treatment that's been FDA approved will help with both the classic migraines that I've been having way too many of, as well as the shoulder that's been having spasms and causing issues. I've never had headaches this bad, but over the last several months they've started to take their toll on my quality of life as well as my family's... In the past 2 weeks, I've had to take my emergency relief medicine 18 times, I've been tracking it, so I can show the doctor. Also, the most recent medication they tried me on as a "preventative" measure causes me to black out and faint... and I'm not exaggerating! Twice today the world went black while I was moving around at home and I found myself on the floor! I am truly lucky I had been away from furniture else I could have cracked my head open. It'd happened yesterday at the store as well, but I managed to grab the shelf so I didn't completely go down... Once I got my composure back, I shuffled Goofyboy out pretty quickly. It's got my blood pressure way down too, some readings as low as 80/59. They did tell me to stop taking it immediately, so hopefully it leaves my system quickly and I can get back to normal! I hate taking medicine - I'm praying that the injections will allow me to get back to normal and they can take me off all meds! Today they gave me some pain injections to help alleviate the current migraine while they wait for the botox to arrive.
All of this excitement leads me to my Insanity workout... after having had the injections, I became super tired and *knew* I wasn't firing on all cylinders and that the fit test wouldn't be an accurate measure if I did it today. I made it through the warm up and stretch before I decided I should let the head/shoulder rest after the injections today... So, I'll pick it up again tomorrow! No excuses then!
To top off my super fantastic rainy day... Hubby gets home and asks me if I knew about the hot water heaters running out... Both 50 gallon water heaters died. No showers tonight unless we want cold ones! Brrr!
Here's to tomorrow being better!
edit: I totally forgot to mention that that stupid medication that they had me on has caused me to gain 8lbs in the past 2 weeks... which I'm not even sure thats physically possible for me to eat *that much* extra a day to gain that! So, on top of the blacking out and low blood pressure... GRRRRR
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