Pizotifen

When I began blogging I had one blog specially to post about my health. By the time I’d done about four postings even I got fed up of the whingeing so I got rid of it. Nevertheless, I have found the occasional post on the sites of other chronic sufferers (of all sorts) to be quite helpful. They either make me realise how fortunate I am or they make me think – Hey, I’m not alone in this!

So, here’s my blog posting about health for today. And it’s a positive one! Amongst other things, I suffer from around fifteen migraines a month. Sanity (such as it is) is only retained thanks to Imigran (Imitrex in the States, Beckiwithani informs me) which kills off many of them quite quickly so long as I take it early enough. They are brought on by lack of sleep, heat, various foods (all the best ones of course, like cheese and chocolate) and some other cause or causes that even after fifty years I haven’t managed to determine. Mum always consoled herself that they would go when I was middle-aged as hers did – no such luck.

I have tried various medicines which are designed to stop them coming along in the first place. The latest on my agenda was Pizotifen (which brought my tablet consumption up to 26 or so a day – poor system!). At 1.5mg a day it was having no effect so my Doctor upped it to 3mg last month. It may or may not have had much effect on my migraines. They have been less this month but since they come and go in clusters to some extent this is not a reliable measure as yet. What the increased dosage has done is improve my sleep pattern. I’ve had a few nights when I slept for much longer than normal. Normal for me being about two hours at a stretch on a very good night. Last night ,for example, I went to bed at 10.30 after a fairly tiring day and got straight off to sleep. I woke at 5.30 for a quick trip to the loo and despite being in a lot of pain got straight back to sleep (and lots of strange dreams – or, as GB would put it, night ponies). The next time I woke it was 8.30 a.m. Wow! I don’t think I’ve slept that long for years. The sun was up – I missed the dawn.

The fact that I awoke in agony is nothing special but then again it’s nothing unusual either so I can live with that. The only problem I foresee is a complete revision of my computing habits could be necessary. No more posting and reading in the middle of the night. That would be really strange!