So, not too long ago I had the first of what is supposed to be two nerve ablations to the back of my head to see if this stymies migraine pain. They numbed the back of the left side of my head after liberally applying chlorhexidine to it, which I liked a lot because numbing it with lidocaine (did they also use dexamethasone? I don’t know) has immediate effects on any pain that I may be having. Once that fully took, they inserted probes into the back of my head that I did not even feel that sent pulses to the left side of my occipital nerves over the course of four minutes. Once I was done I was done. The probes were removed, I was bandaged up, and I was good to go. Getting home was… fun, though, especially once the local anesthetic wore off and everything hurt. I was told that the nerve “healing” would hurt a bit, but then it would stop hurting because it would not be able to communicate feelings of pain (or as effectively, anyway), but we’re still in the part of that where it hurts, I feel a whole lot of pressure, my body is trying to make sense of what happened, and I don’t like the feelings that this is producing in the back of my head. Fioricet has not even helped me here.

I have literally had to take 40mg to 60mg of prednisone to make the back of my head feel tolerable.

I’m not sure if I’m going to have the right side of my head done if this is how the left side continues to feel.

I was supposed to get tested for autism yesterday, or so I was told… but all I had to do was put myself on the waiting list to be tested, and county testing can take anywhere from six to nine months. So I’m going to ask my psychiatrist about it when I see him next month (technically I see a nurse practitioner, but at a psychiatric clinic, so I’m sure that someone can get me in for the testing that I’m told I need there… I mean, it’s a full-blown psychiatric facility that caters to all kinds of diagnoses). I’ll do whatever I have to do to get the diagnosis on paper, especially because so many people have indicated that they suspect that I am autistic and I would like to have diagnoses for things that I have. There’s also the fact that my mother medically neglected me while I was a child, which I’m not entirely sure I’ve covered in here, but I do aim to cover it at some point. I know I covered the months that led up to her death, but I don’t think I covered the fact that she as my primary caregiver actually severely medically neglected me as a child, and neglected me in general.

I suppose I should come up with some kind of tag for this to make organizing it more easier.

I guess that will happen in time.