I'm frustrated and a little nervous!

[LeaAnn807]

Hey guys!  Hope you are all having a good day.  It has stormed here for so long that I am expecting animals to start going by the house, 2 by 2!  So I am hoping to have some better weather.

Now...I am kind of frustrated by these headaches that I am having and am seeing my doctor for a post op visit tomorrow.  It has been 6 weeks since my hysterectomy. I don't know much about meds to treat headaches, as I have never really had too many of them.  Ibuprofen, BC Powder, Tylenol, Sudafed, Excederin.....not working.  That is the strongest thing I have taken.  If you guys have any ideas, I can ask my doctor about them.  I know he will let me take something, but I have no clue what to ask for.  In the past, I would have just taken the strongest thing he would give me!!! : )  I would usually just listen to whatever HE wanted me to do and not taken any responsibility on myself.  I would just really like to go in there a little more informed!  

I'm also a little nervous about it, so keep me in your thoughts tomorrow.  I have to be able to say NO if he offers "a short term opiate solution" until my hormones kick back in!  I'm thinking maybe that is why I am having the headaches.  We will see.  

[vicki595]

Nope...I didn't get headaches after the hyst.  But,as I said,I premedicated all the time
back then...UGH!!  No pain though...

Hey,you know,it's sooo windy again here. 60mph gusts. Allergies going crazy...dust everywhere...

I'm more than young at heart...I'm young everywhere...and have not grown up yet!!! And
don't intend to....LOLOLOL

[LeaAnn807]

Pharmacist or doctor.....whatever works!!!! : )

You're young at heart!  But here's the thing.....I just read that you didn't get headaches after your hysterectomy???????  A handful of pills will help that ya know???????????

[vicki595]

Well,yeah,"back then" when I was in school.  No,I'm not THAT old but it was a long, damn time ago!!!  Yes,I love the PDR,too,and always wanted to marry a pharmacist.LOL

My Mother LOVES DWTS...she calls everyday to "discuss".

I love "24"...

Actually,I'm not exactly young...LOLOLOLOL

[LeaAnn807]

Back then?  Back in the fossil age when you were in school?  How DID dinosaurs become extinct?  LMAO...you aren't THAT OLD! : ))))  Yes, I KNOW it's a book, however I liked the PDR.  It always helped me to know if something was worth taking......LOL

No I don't watch the show.  I stick to REAL tv like Dancing with the Stars!!! : )  

[dominosarah]

Maybe you have a sinus infection.  Weather in Minnesota blows.......

[LeaAnn807]

It is just nasty here.  We took the cover off the pool, and THAT day it was 90 degrees and sunny.  It has been raining since then, and it didn't get over 50 here yesterday!  Welcome to weather in the south.  If you don't like it, wait 2 hours....it'll change!!!  That could certainly be the cause of the headaches.  I am just confused and don't even know if I should say anything to the doctor at all, because it may just be sinus........

uggggghhhhhh!

[vicki595]

Oh...grow up!!   LMAO

Gray's Anatomy is a text book...and it was expensive back then!!!!

Do you watch that show?   In the real world,there's not THAT much sex happenin'....

[dominosarah]

I thought there was something with the adrenal gland!!!!  My dad's was full of cancer.  

tramahater......dont think you are alone with this weather thing.....it has warmed up to 43 here and raining.....

[vicki595]

TH~  Going to the doctor is likely a trigger for you. So face it head on so it becomes
more pleasant.  Can someone go with you?
V.

[LeaAnn807]

The book or the TV show????!!!!!!!!!!

HAAAAAAAAAA HA! Kidding!

[LeaAnn807]

Thank you!  You are right!  They may be caused by weather.  It's yuck here!!!  The only thing I know to do is to let the professionals sort it out tomorrow.  But I bet I get some questions answered one way or another, unless they want me to become a permanent fixture at their office! : )

[vicki595]

Sara~  Yup...an amount of estrogen is secreted by the adrenals in females and a lesser amount in males, per Gray's Anatomy.  Glad that's cleared up...what was the topic???
LOLOLOL

[dominosarah]

I had mine in 1985.....

[Painkillernightmare]

well I suffer from Migraines and what I found helped me was just a straight anti inflammatory like Naproxin I take 550mg twice daily and they do help me however everyone is different.  My migraines are from the air pressure going up and down and with this crap weather being all over the place that tends to make them worse...so it may not have anything to do with ur surgery...get ur back looked at as well some woman who have had the same surgery are complaining of the same thing and it turns out its caused by ur back being out for compensating for painin the front...good luck hun!

[LeaAnn807]

I'll let you swim in thunder....but not lightening!  

I'm cheery.  Just scared!  I'm still the same....just have a little wrinkle in my forehead now!  I hate going to the doctor anymore.  What's up with that?

[vicki595]

You would let me swim in thundering weather???   Thank goodness I know better...

Noah,huh?   How's he looking?

Don't answer that.

Cheer up!
V.

[LeaAnn807]

Whatever!  Yeah, go ahead and bring a swimsuit.  It is thundering right now, and I'm pretty sure I saw Noah with some sort of lumber outside while ago!

[vicki595]

OMG Sara...that's young!!   Well,I'll check my books because now I'm wondering...
I had a hysterectomy in '95. Never had a headache...but then again,I was treating myself
for potential headaches (LOL) so one didn't have a chance!!!

TH~ I'm calling the airlines now...I'll go with you to the appt. I feel strong and don't like opiates. I'd be perfect. Should I bring a bathing suit? Oh...I'll just wear it!

Stop thinking so much!!   Try one of the triptans.  You can so no. If you don't,trust me,you'll feel like the worst crap.  Remember what you went through with me?? Don't
go there...it's ugly.    
You'll be fine~
V.  xo

[dominosarah]

I remember something that does produce some amounts of estrogen when my dad was sick.......better search the archives of my memory bank!!  I think most doctors now realize that leaving the ovaries if possible is better.  Complete hysterectomies are hard on a person.  I was 25 when i had mine........

[vicki595]

Jacky...LOL it's okay.  I'm not at all sensitive to that...I'm so over it...but I want to save the world from it now and TH knows I'd be p*ssed !!     And,yeah,I know the doctors can be so blase' about it. That's how I was able to get it for so many years and years.Not their fault...I knew better.

Love ya ~
V.

[LeaAnn807]

I really think it'll be ok, but I have been rationalizing all morning how it would probably be ok to take something for a couple of days, if he offers, since my head has pounded so badly.....WHAT?  I can't even believe I had that thought.  My mind is a messed up place some days.  That is what makes me so nervous.  I have a hard time saying no.......OBVIOUSLY!

[vicki595]

Hi Sara~~    Primarily it's the ovaries and then the estrogen travels to the uterus after getting the message from the follicle stimulating hormone in the ovary where the estrogen is hanging out in the oavarian follicles. None of this happens without our brain and pituitay gland but there's no estrogen there. Adrenals have cortisol...  I just can't think of another organ or gland that produces estrogen. I don't think there is one. That's why so many gals are on HRT.
With hysterectomy,so many assume that it's the removal of everything when it's not.
So...that's all I've got.
V.  xo

[cleanmom]

I am so sorry Vicki! I realized after I posted that it was you DOC. I already did know that, i'm sorry! I guess it was just the first thing i thought of because that was the first drug that was offered to me on one of the rare occasions that i was suffering headaches, which is usually only during my pregnancies!

Love, Jacky

[somachick]

Sorry to hear about the headaches.  I have had success with Imitrex and it is non addictive.  I have also taken Norco (similar to Vicodin) with some success, but it can be addictive.  Good luck