Went to the doctor again today because unfortunately I stil lhave my headache. They still dont know what is wrong with me and are starting me on a new round of meds. The good thing is they are not putting me back on narcotics (which I am so thankful for). I have an appointment with a neurologist who specializes in Headaches and the brain. I will see him a month from today. So now I will get another opinion and hopefully some answers. They may end up sending me back to my neurologist that did my neck surgery to see if I am just having something flare up with my neck again. I will keep everyone posted but I still don't know what is really wrong.
I suffer from migraines so headaches normally aren't a big deal to me. But about three weeks ago I got a headache that was out of character right after I had just gotten over a horrible migraine. I have had this headache for three weeks now. Sometimes it is a dull annoying pain more than anything else and other times it is immense pain. My really started to worry me is that I started getting dizzy, light headed, my vision at times is blurry, I feel like i am on a boat sometimes at sea when I am sitting perfectly still, I have almost blacked out completely about 6 times but the room goes black then I am fine. Yesterday the pain reached the worse it has been since the onset of this headache. Today it was still there when I woke up but I had already decided I needed to get this thing checked out. It could be serious it could not be.
I went to the Dr. today. They are going to start me on a new round of muscle-relaxers and pain killers that are non-drowsy so I can still function at work. This has been a major problem since the things I have now make me pass out and tylenol and advil have not been cutting it. They think and are treating it right now as a muscle-tension headache, that is why they say i have had it for 3 weeks with episodes of unbearable pain. Many things could contribute, stress, migraines, my neck injury etc but my Dr. stated if I don't have good improvement over the next week he wants me to go to my neurosurgeon for further analysis because it could be something more severe related to my neck injury or worse, something with my brain. He doesn't want to jump to either of those two conclusions but can not rule them out at this time either. Keep me in your prayers, I am just hoping it is a muscle tension headache, i take the meds get better, get off the meds and go about life. we shall see.
I just recently had to go back to the doctor because my neck was killing me, I am up for my surgery that I am supposed to have every three years but we wanted to try another round of meds before consulting the surgeon again. So yes this issue could be related to that. I am not one that likes to take pain medicine. I live in constant pain ever since my neck injury but I will not take anything unless i just can't tolerate it. Many times the highest pain medicine makes me really really sick but they have put me on lower doses of less potent drugs so that I can still manage to live my life. But I really do not want to live on pain killers. So we will see what this does and I will follow the doctors orders but I can't wait to be in a place where I am back to an as needed basis, which is pretty minimal.
