Shots in her neck...

I'm sorry to hear  about your wife's condition.  I hope everything works out. 

My prayers and best wishes Mrs. Beagle,
Jan

I'm a migraine suffer myself.

So was my ex-wife. She once had the "up the nose" steroid procedure (no jokes, I'm serious).

Your wife's procedure sound like an update to that one.

I wish (for all of us sufferers) they would find the permanent cure for migraines.

I've had that done several times for degenerative disk etc in my cervical spine (lower neck). The procedure wasn't bad but it gave me three days of relief in the middle of several weeks of rash. It seems if you have any eczema in your body, even dormant, the steroids have such a sharp dropoff that it triggers the eczema into full bloom. The same thing happened to my dermatologist of I may have never figured it out. It was like poison ivy that moved from day to day but was especially bad on my elbows. So if she gets a rash in about a week tell her it will go away in a few weeks. Really hot water helps for temporary reief. I hope she doesn't get it. I hope she just gets relief... I've also suffered from classic migraines since I was a teenager but I finally figured out that they were triggered, in me, by eating something with MSG in it. I stay away from MSG, I don't get migraines.

I am sure you know by now but ... it is always something in this world. I think whoever made up the term "golden years" must have been young laff.

J

I think you might want to spell check your post there Julien!  LOL!

And I as well used to suffer from migraines until I found that they were actually triggered by certain things (like food combinations or too much of some types of foods) so I've gotten a pretty good handle on them.

I was a lifelong migraine sufferer from about the age of 8 or 9.  I say was because about 10 years ago my blood pressure shot up and it took (takes) three different medications to keep it in check.  After being on these meds for just a few weeks I noticed I hadn't had any migraines.  And I have not had another since.  Zero.  From having at least one a week or more to nada.  I hate taking so much medication for my blood pressure as it can have it's own set of side effects and such.  But I'd never go back to the migraines.  I know this is probably something your doctors have already "weeded out" as a treatment...but if not...you sufferers  might check it out.  Maybe ask your Doc about it. 

Hope your wife gets some relief Reese, ol pal.

Sorry to hear about this, Reece.

Steroid shots also tend to make a friend of mine really tired. He needs the shots in his lower back. Seems to do the trick for a few days then it just drops off. When it drops off he ends up with a flare up of psoriasis....

I really wish that there was a better way to treat that type of migraine/neck/head pain....

Thanks Barry and Garry (HA! that's cool!)

Barry - you're not the first to say that it tapers off after a few days, I certainly hope it does better than that, but I understand it's a good possibility.

Garry - thanks!  they've really not been listening to her at all until recently.  we finally got referred to a specialist in Dallas (an hour's drive for us, but it's worth it!) who is listening to her feedback.  she keeps a daily journal of her pain and when we gave it to him the first time he was surprised at how chronic her pain really is.  she RARELY has days, even hours that she's not in pain, it's just a matter of how MUCH pain she's in at any given time.

thanks for the prayers and thoughts everyone!  I'm hoping this will at least be a start to recovery for her.

I know most of you hate facebook, and I don't know if you can view this photo without being logged in or not, but here's my beautiful wife:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150342987115842&set=t.640696392&type=3&theater

she's the one in the middle.  I'm on the far left.  this was a dinner theater play we were in.

I think you might want to spell check your post there Julien! LOL!

LOL... well, I have that too but that is another story. Thanks.

J

I was just watching the news and they were talking about new guidelines for preventing migraines:  

http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/news/20120423/migraine-guidelines-focus-prevention

Funny how those things happen sometimes.  

Wow, Reece.  I really feel for both of you... Both living with chronic pain, and living with the one living with chronic pain.  It tears your heart out to watch.

My MIL has had a series of these treatments... Sometimes they work, and work wonderfully... For her, it recurs, and not every shot does the trick.  But when It does work, it's SO MUCH BETTER.

Will be thinking of you two.

Beagle


I know most of you hate facebook, and I don't know if you can view this photo without being logged in or not, but here's my beautiful wife:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150342987115842&set=t.640696392&type=3&theater

she's the one in the middle.  I'm on the far left.  this was a dinner theater play we were in.

How did a bloke like you get such a beautiful bird???? 

On the migraine front I used to be a bad sufferer from my early teens onwards but attacks started to abate from my 40's onward, although I still get the pre-warnings of an attack, where I'll normally drink plenty of fluid and take some rest, it hasn't developed into a full on attack since then.

My Mother-Out-Law who is 83 and a long-term bad sufferer uses this for the headache phase and is the most effective treatment that she specifically has used to date.

Rizatriptan was launched in 1998 and was designed as a very small molecule, allowing rapid absorption and quick access to the target areas. It was also designed to have little stimulation of other 5-HT receptors, particularly 5-HT1A. This may be of some benefit in the early phase of migraine headache treatment, as there may be less nausea caused by 5-HT1A stimulation. Tablets are available in 5mg and 10mg and there is a 10mg melt-on-the-tongue wafer version (Maxalt Melt). With the wafers, the patient merely places the wafer on the tongue and it dissolves in the saliva within a few seconds. The solution is then swallowed and absorbed from the stomach. It appears to be well tolerated and rarely causes any taste disturbance. The most commonly reported advantage of Maxalt Melt is that the drug is convenient to take; the patient can take the migraine headache treatment earlier in the attack because no glass of water is required. This gives the wafer formulation a better chance of success because the hurdle, in terms of severity, is lower early in the migraine attack.

Of course I wouldn't be recommending specific medications for someone elses particular conditions myself, I'm just reporting on the fact that it is effective in this case.  She uses the Maxalt Melt version which brings rapid relief when used as needed and may work, after a serious consultation with her Doctor, as an alternative to steroid injections.

Thanks JB, we'll look into that.

I may be climbing a phone pole in Azle tomorrow, but my thoughts will be with you and Beverly tomorrow.
Wishing you both my very best, and I hope this procedure brings her some comfort.
Donna's rootin' for you too.