I’m starting to wonder (worry?) if my troubles with my meds at all lately are due to the fact that I’ve been taking them for too long (the daily meds), and if my “rescue meds” (the ones that I take when the pain gets really bad) are starting to lessen their “rescue” effect because I’ve had to use them so much lately…
Has anyone had any experiences with meds that had been providing enough relief to keep taking them, all of a sudden stop giving as much relief as they previously had?
This is sort of random… I had a crazy day, and my head has been B-A-D. Woke up at 6:30 (after being able to sleep in a bit since my job ended mid-June!), left apartment at 7:30, hit the highway to connect to other busy roadways to get on public transit “trolley” in the “Big City” to get to my first 10am-1pm graduate course. I made it with about 20 minutes to spare, but I thought I’d have even more time than that! Grr. Sat through class, head started hurting (randomly, of COURSE) during it, got back on “trolley” to get back to my car to get back on the highway to drive just over 2 HOURS to be with my family around 5:30 for dinner.
O to the Y is all I have to say about THAT. Did my head bother me while I drove? Of course. It was a glorious drive. My rescue med that I took when I got here didn’t touch it at all… I’m sure I could have taken something else, but it would have probably been the DHE shot, which hurts like the dickens… and that’s putting it nicely, folks.
…. ‘nite 
July 3, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Oh dear girl – I am so sorry to hear about your head. Or as my Scottish grandmother would have said “yer wee heed”. Thanks for posting on my blog and adding me to your blog roll. I will read and catch up on your posts soon. Sounds like things are tough. Sadly (or happily?) I don’t post much about headaches lately. I’ve had them for almost 10 years and the blog was getting boring (since I have chronic tension-type with a minor migraine component), and there aren’t as many drug options effective or available for me. So the blog turned into the same old story every day, which worked for a while as I needed the community support. But then the headaches improved a bit and I found other things to write about (our new house), so I changed the content of my blog. I will write about headaches again, and more regularly, as they are still chronic (20-25 days out of 30), and I am missing the headache bloggers, who no longer read me now that I talk about decorating my house.
Stay well and I will read your posts often. Terri
July 3, 2007 at 3:30 pm
hmmm…i had a similar experience w/toradol; i never took it more than 2 or 3 times a week, but after about 2 years, it just didn’t work very well.
of course, if you’re taking it more than 2 or 3 times a week, you run the risk of rebound headache – medication overuse headache. i hope that’s not what’s going on, i’ve heard it’s a bear to get out of.