Thank you so much for sharing this! I have dealt with frequent, chronic headaches for a long time. They are similar to migraine, but other than throwing increasingly stronger analgesics at me that render me completely useless and unable to function, it's hard to get anyone to listen to me and help me. The common thread seems to be CT scans don't show any abnormality. And people (friends) just don't understand. What's the big deal, right? It's "just a headache!"
This gives me such hope! I will continue to push the issue with my doctors, still praying all the while that God would somehow see fit to deliver me from it rather than carry me through it.
Would you be willing to divulge what exactly was your diagnosis? You can PM me if you would rather. I've not had the vertical double vision, but the pain that would last for days/weeks is something I am familiar with.
God bless!
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So glad you posted this testimony! God has definitely spared you and prepared you for greater things yet to be revealed in your life. Keep looking forward.
Thanks to everyone for the comments. You are wonderful friends. I'm blessed.
Jim, my condition has a few names. The two main ones are Pseudotumor Cerebri and Intracranial Hypertension. It's more common in women but men can have it too.
There aren't really any definitive tests except by process of elimination, but having a spinal tap after everything else is negative will solidify a diagnosis, as the spinal pressure would be elevated but the fluid must be clear.
Keep me posted. I hope this isn't what you have, but at the same time, it's nice to know what is going on. I didn't know for years.
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Jim, my condition has a few names. The two main ones are Pseudotumor Cerebri and Intracranial Hypertension. It's more common in women but men can have it too.
There aren't really any definitive tests except by process of elimination, but having a spinal tap after everything else is negative will solidify a diagnosis, as the spinal pressure would be elevated but the fluid must be clear.
Keep me posted. I hope this isn't what you have, but at the same time, it's nice to know what is going on. I didn't know for years.
While I can relate, in general, to some of the symptoms you've described here, I am not suffering anything close to the severity of what you have described. I was relating more to the arrogance of doctors and their "nothing wrong with you" diagnoses. It offends me that I can be in such pain and another human can look at me, and can SEE that I'm obviously in pain, and tell me I've basically imagined it all. I'm not crazy, and I'm not a hypocondriac (sp?), and I'm not looking for special attention. I'm just looking for relief from the pain.
Your story gives me a renewed will to keep fighting and getting second opinions. Thanks for your testimony.
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While I can relate, in general, to some of the symptoms you've described here, I am not suffering anything close to the severity of what you have described. I was relating more to the arrogance of doctors and their "nothing wrong with you" diagnoses. It offends me that I can be in such pain and another human can look at me, and can SEE that I'm obviously in pain, and tell me I've basically imagined it all. I'm not crazy, and I'm not a hypocondriac (sp?), and I'm not looking for special attention. I'm just looking for relief from the pain.
Your story gives me a renewed will to keep fighting and getting second opinions. Thanks for your testimony.
In my nursing practice (and this is only because of what I went through, as I didn't have the understanding before), it's not my job to judge. The definition of pain is 'whatever the person experiencing pain says it is'. I live by that definition, so if the doc has prescribed pain meds and the patient wants some, they get it. So what if they are drug seeking? It's not like they are going to be there long-term. They are going home when we can no longer do anything for them that they can't do at home.
I have heard complaints from patients feeling that if they complain and want pain meds, nurses will think they are drug seekers. I always assure them that they will never get that feeling or attitude from me, and if they are in pain and need something, I want to know about it. I have yet to come across anyone 'drug seeking'.
I'm sorry that sappy docs make you feel like that and therefore don't seem to want to help you. Don't give up. Good docs are out there.
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