Day 5

This morning marks the beginning of yet another day with this headache.  I don't think it's my TN.  I think it's my occipital plate ( This is what I call it anyway)  I need to go see if the chiro can get it back in again tomorrow.  I'm also going to get a massage tomorrow.
This is the kind of head aches I used to have all the time before eye surgery. So I'm paranoid if I'm tilting again.  But someone took my photo yesterday and it didn't jump out at me that my head was tilted. So that's good.

1:30 a.m.

I don't care what you say.  Fatigue caused by my crazy schedule preceded by lack of sleep equals eye pain.
My rt eye was smarting pretty good.  I went to the chiro. today and I had too many other things wrong with me that he didn't do acupuncture on my eye, we opted for fixing my rt leg today instead along with my jaw. Anyway,   I took a tramadol before bed.  THAT WAS A MISTAKE!  Pain is stronger waking me up but now I also itch to high heaven and my breathing is real shallow. I took the dumb pill thinking I'd sleep like a rock and awake for the busy day I again have tomorrow. UGH.
Interesting though now that I think about it. I have been tilting a lot due to my fatigue, so around my left occipital I had pain the last few days then my jaw partially dislocated. Chiro adjusted both of these.  Both irritate the TN.  Every once in a while I create the perfect storm but don't realize it til moments like these.
Eyes!  Can't live with em, cant' live without em.
A few more minutes and the benedryl should kick in and hopefully the itching will subside enough so I can sleep.  Hope I'm not too groggy in the a.m. as I have to be up and at em early and do it all over again.  How am I going to juggle all of this if my friend comes to live with us while she is dying?Guess my eyes gonna hurt more. Oh well.

Tracking the pattern

I went for a short 20 min. bike ride last night.  The wind triggered the pain last night.  But when I stopped biking the pain went away about an hour later.  Now this morning it is back pretty strong under the eye starting mostly with the infraorbital nerve then across the cheek bone to my ear. The eye feels weak and like it just wants to close today. I just took 3 ibup. so should ease up.  You just can't prevent all things that will trigger the pain. That being said, I can live with this level of pain. It's not too bad and at least I can take ibuprofen for it.  The rest of me has been feeling great, I am 4 wks off of all sugar and grains and am surprised to see the decrease in the need for ibuprofen.  Grateful.  I always worry about how much pain meds I take and how my liver processes it.  Over all things are going great just wanted to track these 'episodes'.
8:30 p.m. - pain switched to the other side with a bit of a vengeance. Probably a strong 4 to 5 for pain. 3 more Ibuprofen and no action so I may take a Tramadol before bed.  Hurts to move my left eye too far.  I put my finger back in like last January. Seems to help. I better try to get in to Dr. Brent tomorrow. I haven't had acupuncture for a long time. 

It's back.  It just came on with no reason.  Starts with this headache that runs from the bottom of my eye to infront of the top of my rt. ear.  At least it's on the side that makes more sense.  I hate it on the left as that's just ridiculous!  I'm not complaining here just logging. So later I can see if there is a pattern.  I did have a good long stretch with out pain.  It was lovely.  Felt like a normal person again.
7/15/10 - The pain isn't too bad, with 3 ibuprofen at a time it pretty much disappears til the med wears off. I did have a few very brief stabs in the sup. obliq. that's as crazy as it's gotten so far.  Just the head ache is lasting. I think this is day 3.  I'll go to the chiro. tonight. Maybe that will help.  Pressure infront of the ear makes it worse, sunglasses and crazy hairstylist with their thumbs as they wash your hair.  It used to feel great, now I dread it a little more. Interesting how my eyes dry out tremendously when the pain flares up.