get that baby off my ceiling!

Ever since going to the headache doctor, I've had more frequent than usual headaches. Right now my head feels stuffed with cotton (but like, more cotton than can fit in my head) which is not my usual type of headache. My Usual Headache is one-sided, like a point boring into the side of my skull. And they're fitting the other symptoms of a rebound headache (Eg. wake you early in the morning, which is what happened today.)

I think it's because I stopped taking any tyl with codeine, and now my inner heroine addict is rebelling. I also mentioned to Fernando yesterday that I feel like I've been on the verge of a cold for a few days, but without actually getting sick. And apparently a lot of codeine withdrawal symptoms are like being sick (though I'm not, like, going through a Trainspotting sort of experience here. Ease.)

Fernando (who went to get my new meds today) asked the pharmacist, who confirmed that I should continue taking some tyls-w-codeine, but half what I would usually take.

Apparently triptans (my new meds) cause rebounds too, so now while I use triptans to get off codeines, I have to be cautious of my triptan use! Phew. So confusing. Hmm this website has some useful advice.

(Sorry for long dull posts about headaches, but I get fascinated by any illness I have.)

cookies and architecture

Pretty cool office--it's an architecture company in Spain. Of course, in Canada... one good snowstorm and no one will make it out of the office!


In other news, I made another raw cookie recipe today, from my favourite cookbook. They're alright, but first, the recipe was huge, I've got 36 cookies sitting in my freezer! And the recipe used carob instead of cocoa, which has a slightly bitter taste. I like carob, but not as much as cocoa. But they're so thick (like a thick cookie dough) that they're not really conducive to pigging out!

my new drugs drugs druuuugs

I had a headache when I went to bed last night, but I didn't take druggies in hopes it would go away. But when I awoke at 8 AM is was worse, so I took one of my triptans. My headache was at the point where normally it would take more than 2 Tyl-Codeines to subdue, but my triptan lessened it enough within the first hour that I could fall back asleep. And now I wokes up today and it's gone. Coooool.

Off to work now.

It's nice to have kitty company

Sittin' here doing some work for work. (The manager schedule. When I'm newly in charge of a task, I spend hours doing just in prep work, so that in subsequent weeks I can do it quickly and accurately. But the initial setup is long. It's allll very magical and mysterious. I can't imagine what my life was before Excel.)

Anyway, it's interesting the way kitties like to have company, even if they're just sleeping. If I was watching TV right now, Nombly would be sitting on his current fave spot (a pair of slacks that now Fernando can't move), Haley would be in her box or on top of her shelf, and Sherry would be on his triangle pillow.

But since I'm working in my bedroom, they're in their current Fave Bedroom Spots: Nombly on the blanket by my bed, Sherry at the foot, Haley at the top.
(And no, I don't ever ever make my bed. I am philosophically opposed.)

organic foodz owned by *the man*

http://vegandad.blogspot.com/2009/06/food-for-thought.html

corn corn coooorn

All drugged up and no place to go

I went to my headache doctor today. She didn't change my preventative med, because I'm basically happy with it. But when I told her I still get a few headaches a week, and take Tylenol with codeine, she gave me new pain meds to try--because the codeine will suck me into a lifelong spiral of headache rebounds, and become increasingly less effective.

She gave me two freebies to try, to see which works better:

Zomig: zolmitriptan
Maxalt: rizatriptan

They are "5-hydroxytryptamine agonists".

How glamorous. You're supposed to take 1 pill, it takes 2 hours to work, take another if needed, and then it should last for about 24 hours.