I hadn't posted in a while, so I thought I would update everyone on
my progress. I've continued to have an almost daily headache for the
past 4 weeks. I ended up in the ER on 4/27/07 when I couldn't take
the pain any longer. They gave me three shots (tordall, kenalog, and
vitamin b) which did absolutely nothing for my headache. I ended up
using the stadol inhaler and phenergan again. This relieved my pain
and allowed me to get some sleep, but when I awoke the headache was
there waiting for me. I've been experimenting with high doses of
magnesium 500-750mg per day, but its doing nothing, but keeping me in
the restroom. I've started taking high doses of amitriptyline 150mg
per day split into 4 doses to dull the pain, but I don't like this
medication. I've also started taking indomethacin 50mg three times
per day, but no help. The doc said the pain was making me depressed
so he put me on wellbutrin 150mg at bedtime. I can't tell that it
does anything and I really hate taking so many different meds. I got
to thinking that maybe my headaches are being triggered by sinus or
allergies, so I made an appointment with an ears/nose/throat doctor
(actually had that appointment today). He did a sinus x-ray and said
I have some trouble on the right side. He also gave me some samples
of allegra-d 24 hour and cephadyn. I took these at 2:30 pm today and
they actually decreased my pain by about a third. I've started a
headache journal to track (where the pain is, how strong the pain is,
when it started, when it ended....wouldn't that be nice) what is
going on as well as spreadsheets to track all the medications I am
taking. Anything that will help me piece together the puzzle. There
has to be an underlying problem and the headache is just the symptom.
When I had this problem last year it lasted for 4 months (now that I
think back on it, I think my headache went away when the season
changed. I know I'm grasping at straws, probably been watching to
much House. I've scheduled an allergy test for the 29th of this
month, hoping to turn up some clues. If this avenue doesn't pan out,
I guess it will be back to the neurologist, who was no help last
year. I guess that's all for now, thanks for reading.

Mike