Woke up yesterday morning with a headache from hell. Tried to get it under control, as we had a United Way workday planned for our team at the college, helping the Red Cross 6-S some of its storage areas, and I didn't want to miss out on that.
By the end of the workday, about 1:30 PM, I was in misery and ready to hurl...so I went home to hibernate in The Woman Cave.
So home to the Cave, blinds down, ice pack on, blues on the teevee machine radio station at low volume...ventured out only for nature calls, more saltines and ginger ale.
By about 10:30 pm, I was starting to feel a little better, so had something more substantial to eat, and tidied up the Cave a bit, but in the process, knocked over a shelf and shattered two pieces of glass. By the time I got that disaster cleaned up, the headache was back with a vengeance, and I was done. Went to bed.
Slept until 9:00 am this morning, and woke with the headache worse than it had been yesterday, great...got some coffee and some toast, and some Tylenol3, and by 10:30 am was so dizzy and nauseated and tired I went back to bed, and didn't stir until 3:45 pm. Out. Cold.
Housemate K apologized when I emerged, for making noise in the basement, cleaning and shop-vacuuming, and I told him I heard not a thing, and I hadn't...took 4 ibuprofen and went back to bed with another ice pack.
By 6:30 pm, the bitch had run its course and moved on. Just dealing with migraine hangover now, feeling a little disoriented and off-rhythm, since it feels like it should be about 2:00 pm or so since I slept so much.
Now that there's a generic version of Imitrex, my insurance company wants me to pay the difference, not between the generic copay and the name brand copay, but between the generic copay and the RETAIL COST of the Imitrex, and the generic does NOT WORK FOR ME, I am screwed, because nothing else really works for me. I tried some leftover Vicodin once, that had been prescribed to me for a tooth infection, and it didn't touch the migraine. Retail cost of Imitrex is something in the neighborhood of $53 PER TABLET. A month's prescription is more than my mortgage. There is no way I can afford that.
Even though I'm feeling a little more normal, the thought of the next one coming, and not being able to deal with it effectively, makes me want to go back into hibernation. I can get the "Formulary Brand" letter from my physician and all that, but the insurance company just says, "Sure, you can have the name brand. YOU pay up."
I better stop thinking about it, it's starting to give me a headache.
sigh