Several weeks ago, when I explained the symptoms I was having to my neurologist, he nonchalantly recommended an MRI to rule out two disturbing possibilities: MS and brain tumor.
I managed to put one foot before the other, and maintained a false-calm demeanor while I waited.
When the neurologist called with the results, Hubby and I were sipping coffee and eating coconut-inspired Baklava in the area of the backyard I refer to as Paris.
“Your brain is pretty.
“All is clear, and there are no signs of MS or brain tumor,” he said.
Hubby let out the breath he seemed to have been holding in his chest the entire week.
And my entire body smiled.
I was grateful for the answer.
But I was still living in a question. What then, is happening in my head?
The headaches had come out of nowhere.
They woke me from sleep in the middle of the night.
The pressure started in the lower part of my head and crawled like spiders atop my head,
across my forehead and at times tickled my lips.
A few minutes after the headaches began, it sent a burning sensation down my neck, into my chest and down my arms. The upper portion of my body became a collection of burning, tingling, and pressing pain.
“It could be occipital neuralgia.
“I can prescribe a medication to reduce the inflammation or irritation and if the medicine does not help, we could do a nerve block,” the neurologist suggests.
The thought of either of his recommendations sent me into panic mode.
Medication has never been good to me.
My sister never took birth control because of the adverse effects they had on me.
I had recently weaned off Gabapentin because it tightened my chest and sent me to the Emergency Room, twice in one month.
The only medication I currently was on was Ropinirole.
I had been taking it for a few months now and it was helping to calm the tingling in my
feet, but …
it struck me then…
I was two months into taking Ropinirole when the severe headaches began.
I’m currently weaning myself off this medication and all I can say is, I haven’t slept peacefully in two months.
The nights are long and lonely… but today, I am hopeful.
If you are having new or unexplainable symptoms, the answer might be in your medicine chest.
Read the side effects of the medicines you are putting into your body.
Stay Healthy.
♥
Kadine Christie