Back Again

We just got back from Pennsylvania again. We went up on Easter, spent that day and Monday with the family, and then yesterday, Stephanie and I headed off to Philadelphia for my doctor's appointment. The reason for the appointment as you probably know was because things haven't been getting better, they started me back on one of my old meds, and they wanted to see how things were going.... also it was a follow up appointment after having the facet block shots in my neck.... which by the way, didn't help any.

The short version on this recent visit is that they took me off of 3 of my medications, started me on one new one, gave me 2 new meds to try when I get the severe headaches (which is becoming more and more frequent) and also they want me to have a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) done. They want to see if I have too much pressure around my spinal column, which if that's the case, that's a whole other kind of medicine that I need to be on instead of the migraine drugs that I'm on now. So I'm gonna call and try to set up that procedure tomorrow, and hopefully we can figure out the answer on that.

The next steps if the spinal tap is normal, is perhaps the Occipital Nerve Stimulator which I wrote about before, or maybe Botox injections. Both of these are very expensive, and may or may not be covered by insurance. Hopefully it will be, as I have pretty good insurance despite having to fight with them a couple weeks ago after they cancelled my coverage and didn't bother to tell me.... but that's a story for another day.

Thanks for all the continued prayers.... I know there's an answer out there somewhere!