The Austin Special

From Tuesday, March 25, 2008

I went to see a new doctor today. My normal doc is on maternity leave, she just had twins. Woooo. She already had two kiddos under 10, she’s gonna have her hands full now. Anywho, a friend of mine at work with whom I commiserated about my migraines suggested her doctor saying he is excellent and he would be fine with signing FMLA paperwork which my work requires when you have been out of work for a certain amount of time. Anyway, it took two weeks to get an appointment with him which was finally today. I explained what was going on, 36 days of one continuous migraine, lots of medication, work lights, grocery store lights that make everything twenty million times worse, etc. He asks me some questions and does a basic exam. Turns out, he believes I have a serious chronic sinus infection that I was unaware of that somehow created some chain of events and irritated the same nerve/s that are irritated during migraines, thus, creating a migraine. He called it the Austin Special. All those allergies and sinuses building up and people don’t notice which it just gets really bad.

Hopefully in about a week I should know whether or not the anti-biotic, anti-inflammatory, and pain meds are working. If not, I’ll be on steroids too. Lord I hope not on the last one. Last thing I need is more hair. lol. That’s the current situation. At least I feel like this doctor takes me seriously and understands I’m actually in pain and doesn’t just throw medicine at me and says see how that feels and call me in 6 weeks. And I bet if I call his nurses they actually call me back. FFS!