This is my 600th blog post on WordPress. Yay! My wife is from Maryland and her parents, grown sons, and many friends still live there and she rarely gets up there to visit, so we went up last week for Thanksgiving. She had been looking forward to it for a long time. It was an …
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As I may have mentioned, I have spent several months trying to get into Vandy's Headache Clinic before finally finding out I was accepted and getting an appointment. It was for this past Thursday. I was both excited and nervous. Some background. In September 2010, I started getting horrific headaches that I thought were severe …
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So if you've been reading me for any time at all, you're familiar with the fact that I have and battle severe head pain. I have trigeminal neuralgia and have somehow also been diagnosed with cluster headache, both of which are supposed to be among the most painful conditions there are in the world. My …
This week, I had an appointment with a rheumatologist. I had been waiting nearly SEVEN months for this appointment! I was not happy about having to wait so long. However, I was increasingly desperate and was hopeful this doctor could help me. I've always had strong hands and have always been able to give long, …
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As I've written about before, I have to deal with extreme pain and have had to since about 2010. However, it's gotten worse since around April 2014 and, if possible, even worse than that since about six months ago. I have Trigeminial Neuralgia, which is one of the most painful disorders known to mankind. Wikipedia …
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I've written about my health here before at times. I have health problems. In fact, I'm on disability for Trigeminal Neuralgia and several lumbar issues. The pain can be debilitating. Most pain medications don't help. I've had to have a number of surgical procedures to help, but they're limited in scope. I also have severe …
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I've had pretty bad insomnia since at least 2002. I've had several sleep doctors during this time and have tried just about every sleep aid available. Nothing helps. Two nights ago, I got no sleep at all. I was up the whole night. Tonight I got two hours. My doctor says I average about three …
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Well, I had my surgery yesterday. It was my third in the last four months. I guess it went okay. Although it's taking awhile for me to recover. I've gotten really woozy, very dizzy, and have had a sore jaw and a real headache -- very bad -- ever since waking from the anesthesia. At …
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