I don't know whether it was related to the attack. I mentioned it to
the doc and after viewing the scans he seemed very disinterested. I
don't think I would fall into the category of Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome either. I'm a very active person, usually feel very well,
and walk 6-7 miles per day.

My stats usually do well also:
I'm 35 years old
BP is usually around 110/75
Temp is usually around 97.9/98.0
My resting heart rate is usually between 68-75
I've had my blood sugar checked a couple of times and its always
been great.

As far as diet goes, I've been suspicious for some time that MSG
might be triggering some of my headaches, so I avoid it. We don't eat
out alot and I'm the primary cook, so its an easy fix. I'm also
caffiene free, a non-smoker, and no alcohol.

I wrote my doc's nurse about the reaction to the Stadol, so hopefully
she'll get in touch with me tomorrow. Thanks for the response.

Mike

--- In chronicdailyheadache@yahoogroups.com, Margaret Diann
<mother_margaret@...> wrote:
>
> About a week later I awake around 4am with a massive
> debilitating headache and vomitting
>
> I wonder whether this is unrelated to the attack ...?
> Because wouldn't it have been almost immediate?
>
> Anyway, there is a very severe type of headache that goes with
the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome group, CFIDS actually
> http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/egbehorribleheadaches.htm
>
> and people also can get racing heartbeat ... abnormal bp,
abnormal blood sugar and high or low body temp
>
> What is your body temp?
http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/bodytemp.htm
>
> I was explaining some of the pattern to Don recently
> http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/don.htm
>
> & good nutrition & glyconutrient food supplements is a better
help than meds,
> as meds can add harm to one who is chemically poisoned in the
first place
>
>
> photography_sage <photography_sage@...> wrote:
> My name is Mike and I live in western kentucky. I was
very happy to
> find this group hoping that I might gain some insight in what
> approach other people are taking with there headaches.
>
> It's June 2006, I'm at work, a supervisor at a facility for psych
> patients, when I'm assaulted by a patient I had worked with for 6
> years. About a week later I awake around 4am with a massive
> debilitating headache and vomitting. I goto my family MD and
receive
> shots for nausea, and pain, then home to bed. The headache went
away,
> but came back a few days later, so I called the doc and he referred
> me to a neurologist. I had a series of x-rays, ct scans, mri, and
all
> test were negative. The only test I didn't have done was a lumbar
> puncture. The headache contiuned non-stop for about two months. We
> tried 3 vaso-dialators imitrex, max-alt, dhe, and I did not respond
> to any of them. The neurologist suggested a kind of headache
cocktail
> which consisted of amitriptyline 50mg (three times per day),
inderal
> 40mg (three times per day), indomiacin 50mg (three times per day),
> and phenergan 25mg (three times per day). I literally sat at home
and
> drooled on myself for about a month, but the headache broke up and
> went away. This ends around late August and I get back to work and
> start backing off the meds.
>
> Jump to present day, I changed jobs to reduce stress, I only take
> inderal 40mg (one time per day) and then bam out of no where my old
> friend returns. About 2-3 weeks ago we got up and within the first
> hour of being awake I was in severe pain and dry heaving. I took
> phenergan for the nausea and went on with my day, but the headache
> kept getting worse and worse. I went to the ER and got a shot of
> stadol/phenergan, and was told to follow up with my family doc, and
> talk about using a stadol inhaler as a abortive medication. My doc
> was reluctant, but agreed to let me try the inhaler (he says my
> headaches are muscular and not vascular). I made it about a week
and
> a half and then bang, a massive headache comes out of nowhere, so I
> took a phenergan and did one spray of stadol. It worked like a
charm,
> but less than a week later, another headache worse than the last,
so
> again I take a phenergan, but this time did two sprays of stadol
> (which is equivalent to a 2mg injection that is used in the ER). It
> worked, but with a slight amount of disforia (side effects of the
> stadol). Two days ago I got another headache, tried tylenol, and
> after one hour, I took a phenergan and did two sprays of stadol.
This
> time things went wrong, very wrong. The stadol depressed my
respitory
> system to the point that I thought I was going to stop breathing.
It
> scared me to death. My chest felt like someone was sitting on top
of
> me, my heart was hurting, and I felt prickly all over.....we should
> have called 911, but I sat in the living room with my wife for 4
> hours, making her keep me awake. She monitored my pulse and breath
> rate (my pulse was around 72 and my breath rate was about 11-12
> breaths per minute). I now work at the ER and I talked to the doc
> there yesterday about my experience, he says it could be disforia,
> but probably was an alergic reaction to the stadol and I shouldn't
> take it any more.
>
> So, I'm back to square one, I have no rescue medicine. My family
doc
> wants to discuss taking me off of inderal and putting me on
topomax,
> and I don't know what to do. The doc is also pushing the
> amitriptyline, but I am fighting it. It makes we very lathargic and
> hungover feeling, and I just don't want to go through that
everyday.
> I have been wondering if anyone has tried muscle relaxers as a
> preventative medication?
>
> Well, this is my story, I have to goto work, so I'll check in
> tonight. Have a great day, and thanks for reading.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
>
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