Posted by Torri (209.240.200.122) on July 05, 1999 at 02:20:53:
Please wish me luck! I see Dr. Kudrow at 8AM Tuesday. Will drive to Encino tomorrow and spend the night. I've really done my research - got my medical records and highlighted every HA notation and emergency trip. It's amazing, that in reading my reports, that someone didn't recognize that these were cluster headaches, All the signs and symptoms were there - staring you in the face!!!! Left sided, awake with excruciating - stabbing pain in the eye, eye swollen,red and tearing,did I say EXCRUCIATING PAIN - where it took three demoral shots to help just a little- pain so bad that I was vomiting- don't know if it was caused by just the pain or all the pain pills I took to try to get some relief. My brain feeling like it was swollen and trying to crush my head from the inside out. My entire right side in pain from my ear across my upper teeth and beyond the cheek bone ending in a major exploision at my right eye. Then there were the two surgeries to trim and clean the roots of a tooth - only to make the pain worse and to be told that it must be another tooth. I said "no thank you" to more suggested oral surgery. When the CH cycle ended so did the jaw pain - what a surprise! Not after learning about CH"s on this web site!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!
I'll let you know what I find out Tuesday-
Luv you all, Torri