My care team knows that taking Benadryl more often as needed for severe migraines does help.

At least to some extent. And I’ll very happily take that.

The question is now a matter of how often it needs to be taken… when I have severe migraines, or as more of a preventative every four to six hours? I guess we’ll be figuring that out over the course of the next several weeks to months, though I can’t say that I’m annoyed at the fact that it actually works because it, well, does.

I’m actually surprised that it works because this is me that we are talking about, but hey. I’ll take the W.

…but this time, it’s migraines.

The Fioricet is having mixed results, but since I’m having more of a difficult time keeping it down I’ve taken to taking it earlier in the whole… sequential process of migraines (slightly black humor here, but what can you say?). If I have to, I’ll start taking it as a preventative every four hours as often as I’m able to take it, and if the nausea and vomiting or pain get to the point where I need to be seen by a medical professional, I’ll do that. I’m also in the process of having some of the medications that I take changed around to reflect the fact that the ones I’ve been on haven’t been working as well as they have in the past, or as well as they even should.

It’s getting to the point that I can’t even do what I want to do with monumental effort, but “I’m smart”, right?

I can adapt, right?

I can adapt to blistering pain, and almost cyclic nausea and vomiting? That’s not how any of this works.

Good news: I am completely at baseline, am making steady progress bridging my oldest son into adulthood although he will continue to need lifelong assistance, and am waiting until Thanksgiving holiday and the following weekend are… done with before I call my primary care physician about possibly, probably needing to be put on Plavix (aspirin is a no-go for me for a number of reasons and has been untenable for years), and touching base with a neurologist about my epilepsy rather than having him handle it as admirably as he has handled it in the past. I don’t mind this as long as I don’t get the most recent neurologist I had before I switched migraine care to the local pain management clinic, because all she did was throw triptans at me telling me that I would “have to get used to the (migraine) pain” when triptans are contraindicated in people with cardiovascular issues and this was something that she did not even bother attempting to look at or confirm, come to find out that triptans were causing significant problems in me unrelated to my migraines and that I shouldn’t ever have been put on them in the first place. But no, it was triptan after triptan from her, and I’m glad not to have been in her care for as many years now as I… haven’t. I’d really like that to continue.

That’s all I can think of to update this with right now so I suppose I’ll update with more when I think of more!