Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required) (Content TV-MA)

[mlooney 3,811]

I have a  migraine aura.  Taking aspirin, caffeine, and acetaminophen now, and will take imitrex if I have a soul-crushing pain phase.  Instruction on imitrex is to wait until the pain phase, which sucks.

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/sumatriptan/how-and-when-to-take-or-use-sumatriptan/

[mlooney 3,811]

55 minutes ago, mlooney said:

I have a  migraine aura.  Taking aspirin, caffeine, and acetaminophen now, and will take imitrex if I have a soul-crushing pain phase.  Instruction on imitrex is to wait until the pain phase, which sucks.

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/sumatriptan/how-and-when-to-take-or-use-sumatriptan/

And there is a pain phase that ACA isn't fixing.  Taking imitrex now.  Hopefully the dizzy will not last long.

[mlooney 3,811]

Finished my appointment with Sandra; no change in drugs; see her again in the 1st week of December.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,352]

Most annoying. For the second time in the past week, I've woke up and couldn't focus on anything. My glasses didn't do me any good. It took about 20 minutes for my eyes to settle down and start focusing on letters that I normally can see without much problem. My wife checked my blood sugar, just to be sure. It came in at 139 - a tiny bit high, but not enough to cause this kind of problem. You'd expect numbrs in the 200s to cause this.

[Don Edwards 579]

Prof, it sounds like a good time to visit (and hopefully see) an ophthalmologist...

[ProfessorTomoe 1,352]

1 hour ago, Don Edwards said:

Prof, it sounds like a good time to visit (and hopefully see) an ophthalmologist...

I just saw one about six weeks ago, and he didn't see any major problems with my eyes. He said I had cataracts in the extremely early stages, but nothing to worry about. He definitely didn't say anything about the yellow tint I get on waking up sometimes. Anyway, my vision came back to normal about 5 minutes prior to me typing in the above complaint. If it happens again, I'm going to see my primary doctor and get a referral to a different eye doctor.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,352]

My turn to ride the crazy Migraine train. It hit with no warning, despite me taking my preventative 60mg of Qulipta last night. I took a Nurtec ODT 75mg as soon as I realized it was a migraine. Forty minutes later, nothing had kicked in yet, so I took a Sudafed and then, a few minutes later, a capsule of medical-grade caffeine (200mg). It's now almost 1 hour and 50 minutes past onset, and the pain has subsided from a 9 to a 6.5 or a 7. Most of it is on my right side, as usual, but it has hit both sides, albeit unequally. As long as I keep the lights off and the television muted, I think I can live with the current level, but I wish I didn't have to.

I've started tracking it on Migraine Buddy to see if that helps me any. Simultaneously, I'm using a tracking chart that's part of a Word document. Same goal.

[mlooney 3,811]

So far, I've been lucky, in that Imitrex has stopped every migraine I've had since I've started taking it dead in its tracks.  Of course, it leaves me unable to function really well due to dizziness, but that is a far better option than soul crushing.

[mlooney 3,811]

Mental health appointment over, no changes; see her again 1st week of January

[mlooney 3,811]

Please, all things lawful good, may I not have to take my last dose of Loperamide before the next one shows up on Monday. I have better things to do.

[mlooney 3,811]

The sore throat I had yesterday during my D&D game has gotten much worse, plus I have a runny nose that is not responding to the drugs I normally take for that. So, I'm taking cold and flu Alka-Seltzer and going back to bed, like I have a choice in that after taking C&F drugs. See y'all in 6 hours.

[mlooney 3,811]

On 12/6/2025 at 11:33 AM, mlooney said:

Please, all things lawful good, may I not have to take my last dose of Loperamide before the next one shows up on Monday. I have better things to do.

For the reason you take loperamide, I took my last dose this morning.  The new bottle arrived 15 minutes later. Somehow  I ordered the small bottle of it, but I normally don't need it enough to worry about that.

[mlooney 3,811]

I just got the bill for my prostate biopsy. It was $6,159.60 after insurance. One painful call to their customer “Service” and I got a 3-year payment plan set up, but the net effect of this is that my “mad money” per month has been reduced to zero. Of course I'm getting a little bit of an increase in my disability payment starting next month, but not enough to cover this.

Fuck. At least my more recent medical stuff has been covered by insurance. The sleep study wasn't cheap, but it only cost me $30.