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.  

[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