Sunday began with a cluster headache at 12:30 am that only lasted 30 minutes or so. After getting of to church for praise team warmup/rehearsal, I started another one about 8:20. I headed for the water fountain to take a Zomig, and that seemed to kill it, but I had a residual headache the rest of the day. I took a nap when I got home, and another headache started about 4 pm. Went through the usual routine, and it was gone by 5.
Monday at 12:15 am the beast returned with a vengeance. This was one of the worst ones I've had, and it stuck around until almost 1:30. I set my alarm for 6 to get ready for work, but wound up hitting the snooze a couple of times until the next bad one hit about 6:15. I called in sick and made an appointment to see my doctor. Just before leaving for the 3:15 appointment, I got a phone call that Aetna approved the medicine. I went to talk to the doc about other treatments, and he gave me some prednisone to try and kill the inflammation as well as hydrocodone. He also noticed that the script in the system for the Zomig was only 2.5 mg instead of 5, so he fixed that. When I went to pick it up at Wal Mart, they told me they wouldn't have the Zomig until tomorrow (which is what I expected).
At Rachel's basketball game, I started another one at 6:15 pm, and no medicine with me! I sat in the lobby and started praying. As I prayed I could feel the pain subsiding, and it was gone in about 30 seconds! Praise the Lord! I've still got a little residual pain, but it's on the left side, while my clusters are on the right. That's really curious, but I'll take it!
At 9:15, the headache hit really hard as if to make up for the relief at the game. This one lasted over two hours--very unusual for me. I don't know if the prednisone & hydrocodone helped or made it worse. It's now been almost three hours and it still hurts, although I don't think it's bad enough to keep me from sleeping.
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