Author |
Topic: A Headache Story - Part 3 (Read 1811 times) |
|
Ace
New Board Newbie
Gender: 
Posts: 42
|
 |
A Headache Story - Part 3
« on: Jan 25th, 2008, 8:28am » |
 Quote  Modify
|
After the kidney infection, I had trouble coming off the opiates so I was put on Zoloft. Two weeks on Zoloft and no headaches but my hand began to swell. I came off the Zoloft and headaches returned. More it did't releive the selling in my hands.
I went 6 months trying to diagnose what was looking like a rheumatoid condition on top of my headaches. Finally, I was prescribed Prednisone. And it forever changed my life.
At first, it worked like a charm. No headaches, no morning stifness in my hands or other joints. I started with a 3 week trial and went on and off of it for 6 months as I was being tested by various physicians. (As we know a doctor won't run any test while your on Prednisone. )
I came off the Prednisone and the headaches returned along with my other symptoms. There was a trend occuring and I didn't realize it and my doc didn't warn me about it...I was becoming resistant to the steroids (i.e. it was taking longer and longer for the steroids to work...1 day then 3 days then 1 week then 2 weeks, etc.)
Also, each trial was making life worse for me when I would come off. With each course of prednisone it seemed to be amplifying my disease and my headaches.
And a third problem came into play...I was having some kind of rebound reaction when I first started my Prednisone taper. I would swell up and go into a cluster headache. Plus all the side effects going on the drug were horrible.
Now let's go to the week and day that change my life.
In late 2001, I had been going from specialist to specialist and going on and off Prednisone frequenlty. In April of 2002, I said "fuck it". Nobody was helping me and I needed to get back to work...I was rapidly running out of "living expense" money.
I put myself on 30mg Prednisone, Xmg of Celexa, Aspirin, Vitamins, and who knows what else. During the week I noticed my sking was changing. My forearms were as white as Porcelin. The veins in the back of my hands are usually quite prominent...they were gone..I couldn't see them.
Half-way during the week...my head was just ringing so bad I couldn't stand it..I couldn;t sleep, think, anything. I figured this was steroid psychosis. I was wrong. At one point, I smoked a cigarette. It made the ringing worse and I had a shock zip through my brain and almost knock me off of my feet.
I called a doctor because I was in trouble with this problem. I was told that I was just being over concerned about my health and to ignore it.
At the end of the week, I still had not slept all week. My headache had dissipated. But I had the veins in my left lower leg collapse. This also cause my whole leg to be black and blue. Yeah...It's all in my head.
I started taking myself off the medications....starting with the Celexa...Within 2 days I was feeling a whole lot better. Then it happened.
I got up on Monday, April 14, 2002. I started the day like I always do, with coffee and a few smokes. I noticed my veins were still constricted. I was tapering off the steroids and I was down from 30mg to 10mg. I took the Prednisone (10mg) and went to take a shower. Just as I was about to get in the shower, my head felt "funny"...then my heart started racing and it felt like boiling water had been injected into my veins. I had to lay down very quickly. I had my girlfriend call 911. EVERY THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY CONTACT ON A HUMAN BODY contracted. Blood Vessels, smooth muscle, regular muscle, etc.
At the hospital the missed the JVD which is when my jugular sticks out due to a strain on my heart. OSU treated me like shit but they probably saved my life by pushing two huge bags of fluid through my system. They admitted me and said my EKG showed Peridcarditis. The discharged me a day later not knowing anything of what I been through.
I went home and suffered for 3 more days. I had acid building up in my stomach non stop. I had to take Prevacid to keep from getting an ulcer. I have never had stomach problems.
My skin on my arms and legs was damaged like what happens in eosinophil fasciitis (per emedicine). My muscles were damaged head to toe.
I saw my doctor on day 4 after this happened. I had to take my girlfriend with me because my head (brain) was ringing and I couldn't think. (The only thing running through my mind was that I looked like my Mother after she has an episode. My mother has schizophrenia)
My doctor just wrote off the whole thing as e bad reaction to steroids. And he didn't realize that I had suffered tissue damage head to toe. All due to Prednisone which I took to control my headaches and the ringing in my head.
________________________________________________________________________ __________________
At this point of the story we are half way. The point of this first half is to learn a little bit about me and to warn you about the dangers of steroids. I see emedicine currently has 2 articles on cluster headaches and one of them suggests steroids as a treatment. I can not tell you enough how dangerous steroids are and it will change your life and your body's chemistry PERMANENTLY!!!.
|
|
 IP Logged |
My Head Hurts Too
|
|
|
Dape
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Old Timer
WHY BOTHER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
Gender:
Posts: 494
|
 |
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #1 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 8:38am » |
Quote Modify
|
You may want to look HERE
|
|
IP Logged |
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F ???
Well i used to 
|
|
|
George_J
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Gender:
Posts: 4222
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #2 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 9:19am » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 8:28am, Ace_Sterling wrote:After the kidney infection, I had trouble coming off the opiates so I was put on Zoloft. Two weeks on Zoloft and no headaches but my hand began to swell. I came off the Zoloft and headaches returned. More it did't releive the selling in my hands.
I went 6 months trying to diagnose what was looking like a rheumatoid condition on top of my headaches. Finally, I was prescribed Prednisone. And it forever changed my life.
At first, it worked like a charm. No headaches, no morning stifness in my hands or other joints. I started with a 3 week trial and went on and off of it for 6 months as I was being tested by various physicians. (As we know a doctor won't run any test while your on Prednisone. )
I came off the Prednisone and the headaches returned along with my other symptoms. There was a trend occuring and I didn't realize it and my doc didn't warn me about it...I was becoming resistant to the steroids (i.e. it was taking longer and longer for the steroids to work...1 day then 3 days then 1 week then 2 weeks, etc.)
Also, each trial was making life worse for me when I would come off. With each course of prednisone it seemed to be amplifying my disease and my headaches.
And a third problem came into play...I was having some kind of rebound reaction when I first started my Prednisone taper. I would swell up and go into a cluster headache. Plus all the side effects going on the drug were horrible.
Now let's go to the week and day that change my life.
In late 2001, I had been going from specialist to specialist and going on and off Prednisone frequenlty. In April of 2002, I said "fuck it". Nobody was helping me and I needed to get back to work...I was rapidly running out of "living expense" money.
I put myself on 30mg Prednisone, Xmg of Celexa, Aspirin, Vitamins, and who knows what else. During the week I noticed my sking was changing. My forearms were as white as Porcelin. The veins in the back of my hands are usually quite prominent...they were gone..I couldn't see them.
Half-way during the week...my head was just ringing so bad I couldn't stand it..I couldn;t sleep, think, anything. I figured this was steroid psychosis. I was wrong. At one point, I smoked a cigarette. It made the ringing worse and I had a shock zip through my brain and almost knock me off of my feet.
I called a doctor because I was in trouble with this problem. I was told that I was just being over concerned about my health and to ignore it.
At the end of the week, I still had not slept all week. My headache had dissipated. But I had the veins in my left lower leg collapse. This also cause my whole leg to be black and blue. Yeah...It's all in my head.
I started taking myself off the medications....starting with the Celexa...Within 2 days I was feeling a whole lot better. Then it happened.
I got up on Monday, April 14, 2002. I started the day like I always do, with coffee and a few smokes. I noticed my veins were still constricted. I was tapering off the steroids and I was down from 30mg to 10mg. I took the Prednisone (10mg) and went to take a shower. Just as I was about to get in the shower, my head felt "funny"...then my heart started racing and it felt like boiling water had been injected into my veins. I had to lay down very quickly. I had my girlfriend call 911. EVERY THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY CONTACT ON A HUMAN BODY contracted. Blood Vessels, smooth muscle, regular muscle, etc.
At the hospital the missed the JVD which is when my jugular sticks out due to a strain on my heart. OSU treated me like shit but they probably saved my life by pushing two huge bags of fluid through my system. They admitted me and said my EKG showed Peridcarditis. The discharged me a day later not knowing anything of what I been through.
I went home and suffered for 3 more days. I had acid building up in my stomach non stop. I had to take Prevacid to keep from getting an ulcer. I have never had stomach problems.
My skin on my arms and legs was damaged like what happens in eosinophil fasciitis (per emedicine). My muscles were damaged head to toe.
I saw my doctor on day 4 after this happened. I had to take my girlfriend with me because my head (brain) was ringing and I couldn't think. (The only thing running through my mind was that I looked like my Mother after she has an episode. My mother has schizophrenia)
My doctor just wrote off the whole thing as e bad reaction to steroids. And he didn't realize that I had suffered tissue damage head to toe. All due to Prednisone which I took to control my headaches and the ringing in my head.
________________________________________________________________________ __________________
At this point of the story we are half way. The point of this first half is to learn a little bit about me and to warn you about the dangers of steroids. I see emedicine currently has 2 articles on cluster headaches and one of them suggests steroids as a treatment. I can not tell you enough how dangerous steroids are and it will change your life and your body's chemistry PERMANENTLY!!!. |
|
Edit to add:
There ya go, JEG_43MD .
|
| « Last Edit: Jan 25th, 2008, 9:20am by George_J » |
IP Logged |
Ah! The foreigners put on such airs
Wearing the tangerine suits
And their harlequin eyes.
The pain they inspire
Draws in harmonica melodies
And the feathers of birds
Which flame up at their touch.
It all comes to light in the sheer
Debonair.
(Ellen)
|
|
|
starlight
New Board Hall of Famer
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Gender: 
Posts: 604
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #3 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 9:26am » |
Quote Modify
|
AceSterling,
You sound like a total hypochondriac.
Not because you say you have headaches.
Because of your "observations" of things going awry in your body that are obviously figments of your imagination--one example would be your arms turning to porcelain, EVERYTHING in your human body collapsing like "smooth muscle"--what the heck is that all about?-- tissue damage head to toe from meds, the feeling of water boiling in your veins, your jugular sticking out because of a strain on your heart....
Dude, you need to get a reality check OK? If all those things had actually happened you'd be in a coma. You're not right? You're sitting at your computer typing away describing this outlandish story. You need to go see a psychiatrist for hypochondria if you actually believe this stuff is happening in your body. Good luck.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
NJRik
New Board Junior
Gender:
Posts: 54
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #4 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 9:40am » |
Quote Modify
|
I feel sorry for you dude, but I won't even read porn if it goes on for more than two parts.
|
| « Last Edit: Jan 25th, 2008, 9:42am by NJRik » |
IP Logged |
Live well - Laugh often - Love Much
|
|
|
Guiseppi
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Gender:
Posts: 2703
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #5 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 9:54am » |
Quote Modify
|
Wssup JEG...you haven't PM'd me in almost 24 hours????
Guiseppi
|
|
IP Logged |
Why are all sensors, seeking intelligent life, pointed AWAY from earth?
|
|
|
Brew
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Low Four!
Gender:
Posts: 6515
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #6 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 9:59am » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 9:54am, Guiseppi wrote:Wssup JEG...you haven't PM'd me in almost 24 hours????
Guiseppi |
|
God-dammit! I've never gotten a PM from him. I may have to relinquish my tard status.
|
|
IP Logged |
Always remember that you're unique, just like everyone else.
|
|
|
George_J
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Gender:
Posts: 4222
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #7 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 10:02am » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 9:59am, brewcrew wrote:
God-dammit! I've never gotten a PM from him. I may have to relinquish my tard status. |
|
I'm feelin' kinda left out--alway's a tard'smaid, never a tard. 
|
|
IP Logged |
Ah! The foreigners put on such airs
Wearing the tangerine suits
And their harlequin eyes.
The pain they inspire
Draws in harmonica melodies
And the feathers of birds
Which flame up at their touch.
It all comes to light in the sheer
Debonair.
(Ellen)
|
|
|
PollyPocket
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Someone I am is waiting for my courage.
 
Gender:
Posts: 2496
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #8 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 10:22am » |
Quote Modify
|
Yep, its JEG. What a waste of dna.
Edit to add: ROFLMAO Dape!
|
| « Last Edit: Jan 25th, 2008, 10:29am by PollyPocket » |
IP Logged |
“Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.” - Stacey Charter
"If I don't remember it happening, it never happened.  " - Tori
|
|
|
Jimi
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Who loves ya baby!
Gender:
Posts: 2286
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #10 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 10:42am » |
Quote Modify
|
JEG, if you don't send me a nasty pm, I am gonna find you and know the reason why. Nobody sends mean ass pm's and leaves me out. 
|
|
IP Logged |
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
|
|
|
vietvet2tours
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Team MOOSE DROOL Stinky Stuff on a Hook Prostaff
Gender:
Posts: 1499
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #11 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 10:46am » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 10:42am, Jimi wrote:| JEG, if you don't send me a nasty pm, I am gonna find you and know the reason why. Nobody sends mean ass pm's and leaves me out. |
|
Let's hope jimi finds ya before I do.
Potter
|
|
IP Logged |
Kill em all let God sort em out
|
|
|
hotprestwich
New Board Junior
Fuck the devil
Gender:
Posts: 100
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #12 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 11:11am » |
Quote Modify
|
so your saying that this guy jeg is using mutiple user names? i guess i can belive it cos ive never read so much shit, and all the new people seem to write exactly the same style and offer the same advise, coincidence??
seriously i feel sorry for ya dude to have to come on here and tell us what, well to be nice a bunch of crap, i dont buy story 1, 2, or 3,
|
|
IP Logged |
In heaven there is no beer so why not drink it while we´re here
|
|
|
starlight
New Board Hall of Famer
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Gender:
Posts: 604
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #13 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 11:16am » |
Quote Modify
|
He is under at least 10 different user names split between the top 3 boards. In some he is saying he is a woman.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Brew
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Low Four!
Gender:
Posts: 6515
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #14 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 11:17am » |
Quote Modify
|
Perhaps someday I'll get around to actually reading this trilogy. Right after I polish the rafters in the attic.
|
|
IP Logged |
Always remember that you're unique, just like everyone else.
|
|
|
chewy
Guest
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #15 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 11:26am » |
Quote Modify
 Remove
|
I have to finish painting the grass blades in my yard before reading the first part. Each blade is being numbered.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Jonny
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Give me a shovel Ill dig my own grave!
Gender:
Posts: 26213
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #16 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 10:38pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 9:59am, brewcrew wrote:
God-dammit! I've never gotten a PM from him. |
|
LOL...These pricks never have the balls to PM me....LOL 
|
|
IP Logged |
It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
- Guiseppi
|
|
|
Ace
New Board Newbie
Gender:
Posts: 42
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #17 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 11:25pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 9:26am, starlight wrote:AceSterling,
You sound like a total hypochondriac.
Not because you say you have headaches.
Because of your "observations" of things going awry in your body that are obviously figments of your imagination--one example would be your arms turning to porcelain, EVERYTHING in your human body collapsing like "smooth muscle"--what the heck is that all about?-- tissue damage head to toe from meds, the feeling of water boiling in your veins, your jugular sticking out because of a strain on your heart....
Dude, you need to get a reality check OK? If all those things had actually happened you'd be in a coma. You're not right? You're sitting at your computer typing away describing this outlandish story. You need to go see a psychiatrist for hypochondria if you actually believe this stuff is happening in your body. Good luck. |
|
Thanks for viewpoint. I have got that before...especially with the "boiling in my legs". Diffrence being I don't actually think my blood is boiling, something else is going on.
As for the JVD thing, I had a sane witness with me.
|
|
IP Logged |
My Head Hurts Too
|
|
|
Ace
New Board Newbie
Gender:
Posts: 42
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #18 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 11:27pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 11:16am, starlight wrote:| He is under at least 10 different user names split between the top 3 boards. In some he is saying he is a woman. |
|
Not me dude. I'll cop to the JEG43MD thing. But that is all. Don't know who those others are.
|
|
IP Logged |
My Head Hurts Too
|
|
|
George_J
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Gender:
Posts: 4222
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #19 on: Jan 26th, 2008, 1:02am » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 11:27pm, Ace_Sterling wrote:
Not me dude. I'll cop to the JEG43MD thing. But that is all. Don't know who those others are. |
|
|
|
IP Logged |
Ah! The foreigners put on such airs
Wearing the tangerine suits
And their harlequin eyes.
The pain they inspire
Draws in harmonica melodies
And the feathers of birds
Which flame up at their touch.
It all comes to light in the sheer
Debonair.
(Ellen)
|
|
|
Ace
New Board Newbie
Gender:
Posts: 42
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #20 on: Jan 26th, 2008, 11:38am » |
Quote Modify
|
And What...
|
|
IP Logged |
My Head Hurts Too
|
|
|
LeLimey
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
OUCH-US - Less "ME" and more "WE"
Gender:
Posts: 11720
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #21 on: Jan 26th, 2008, 11:39am » |
Quote Modify
|
I assume you mean the "and what?" to George's quoting of you?
|
|
IP Logged |
The arsehole I'm divorcing needs to get a life and stop stalking mine
|
|
|
chewy
Guest
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #22 on: Jan 26th, 2008, 11:43am » |
Quote Modify
Remove
|
Why do you do that George?
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
LeLimey
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
OUCH-US - Less "ME" and more "WE"
Gender:
Posts: 11720
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #23 on: Jan 26th, 2008, 11:45am » |
Quote Modify
|
I think I know Chewy..
Do you think you know too?
|
|
IP Logged |
The arsehole I'm divorcing needs to get a life and stop stalking mine
|
|
|
deltadarlin
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Gender:
Posts: 1485
|
|
Re: A Headache Story - Part 3
« Reply #24 on: Jan 26th, 2008, 3:40pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Jan 25th, 2008, 11:17am, brewcrew wrote:| Perhaps someday I'll get around to actually reading this trilogy. Right after I polish the rafters in the attic. |
|
I have dustbunnies that need corraling, anybody want to help me? They're a bit on the wild side, so it may take awhile.
|
|
IP Logged |
If it weren't for the gutter, y mind would be homeless.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v123/tribander_3/
You pretend to pay me, I pretend to work.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Home
Help
Search
Members
Member Map
Login
Register
Reply
Notify of replies
Send Topic
Print
test rss