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I live with migraines. I've figured out over the years certain things that are likely to set them off (soy, peanut butter, bright sunlight, being in the car, lots of people talking, not eating often enough, not drinking enough water, forgetting about protien for days on end, etc) as well as the general "Someone in the universe decided that k1 needs to have a migraine today so poof!" and when they hit it's usually in a string of 3-5 at a time. For a few months this year the acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, daily migraine meds, acute migraine meds and me behaving myself were all working together and I would have months with just 1 or 2 migraines. But that seems to have passed and I'm back to the string. Thankfully I have a great neuro doc who puts up with the shit my nervous system throws at him and me. (he and his magic drugs are the reason I went from 15-30 migraines a month down to 1-7, the guy is a genius, he is neurologist #5 after a drs 1, 2, 3, and 4 sucked big time and really didn't 'get it'. I recall one telling me that I couldn't possible have a migraine right that instant as if I did there was no way I could be conversing with her the way I was. My jaw dropped and I took that as a bad sign. She didn't 'get it'.)

After 3 this weekend and one today, I'm sitting here waiting for him to call me back actually. Last time we chatted he said something about putting me back on brand name med instead of the generic my insurance co had kicked me onto when it came out about 3 months ago. Who knows how long that will take or what kinds of paperwork. Insurance co.s are just that necessary evil I have come to love to hate. Without them paying for my various meds and drs appts I would be unable to take said meds or see said docs that keep my head screwed on straight, but every so often they do things like say, "sorry we're not going to pay anymore and oh by the way here's your $1200 bill for last month" Ahhhhhh!!!! That happened last year, it wasn't pretty.

When I have a migraine I get really sound sensitive, even more so than I am usually. I'm light sensitive too but I'm always that way, I live with the lights off, curtains mostly drawn and sunglasses when I go out. But with a migraine even the smallest teeniest sounds set me off. Like today my puppy O has to wear an Elizabethan Collar due to have just been neutered as it keeps him from chewing at his stitches. But he hates to wear it. So he scratches at it (better it than the incision, right?) and chews at it and generally walks around smashing into things and making a huge ruckus. And it's really really noisy and really really is niggling on my last nerve before my head tries to explode. I can't stick him outside on the porch and in the small yard with M as there are steps there and he likes to take flying leaps off of those, again a no-no with the stitches. Alas. I'm out of my monthly allotment of migraine pills. And it sucks.

Ok me thinks I should go find lunch and go back to the couch. After I feed the dogs, N is begging for food already, sometimes it's just easier to give into his neurotic food craziness than tell him 'no' 30 million times and make him wait till 5. Oh and I need to hide the squeeky ball. I have no idea where they found it in the 1st place, but it needs to find a new home ASAP.