Bad news and good news, my fellow dysautonomians (hrm, methinks I just invented a word?) ...
The bad news is that my feeling of the fog rolling in yesterday turned out to be the impending doom of one of my really, really bad migraines coming on. For those who don't know, once in a blue moon I have these wicked migraines that put my "normal" migraines to shame. They drag on for several days at a time, laugh in the face of my usual migraine medicine, and leave me with cognitive symptoms that make me seem like I have severe Alzheimers (not exaggerating--it's BAD).
Well, at my last neuro appointment my doc had offered me a possible solution: migraine medicine administered in this needleless injection thing:
http://www.drugs.com/sumavel-dosepro.html
http://www.sumaveldosepro.com/
I'll admit that it was a little intimidating, but when you have migraines that evil (my fellow migraineurs understand), you're willing to try ANYTHING. I knew that in the mental state I'm in when these strike, I wouldn't be able to administer the injection myself so I worked with my home nurse and Mr. McDreamy so they would know how to give it to me when the time came.
Soooo, here's the good news. Last night, with the look of a deer in headlights, Mr. McDreamy mustered the courage to give me my first injection. A success!! And how!! Oh my goodness, does that stuff work FAST! I guess it makes sense, as it's heading straight for your bloodstream, that much like meds put in an IV you'll get that feeling of being WOWed by the speed of it working. In literally MINUTES I went from being unintelligible to talking normally, and likewise the rest of my symptoms just melted away one by one. In fact, within the first 60 seconds, I could taste the medicine in my mouth (if you've had IV meds, you'll understand that) and felt a slight tingling or stinging of it in my sinuses. In amazon.com terms, A+++++++++++++ would try again!!!!!!!11111!!!!!!!oneoneone!!!!!!eleveneleven!!!!!!11111!!!!!! ;-) Even though the injection creeped me out a little, if anyone else has considered this, or is looking for a different migraine medicine I definitely recommend talking to your doctor about this.
I guess it works so well because it works so quickly, and as many migraineurs know, one of the keys to getting migraine meds to work is how soon you take them once you feel the headache starting. The sooner you catch it, the better the medicine seems to work so maybe that's why this injection is better than the pills. If anyone else has tried it, I'd love to hear what you think--good or bad.
The company also seems to be primed to take their patent for this needleless injection delivery system and use it with other medications as well. I wonder what other meds will benefit from being able to be delivered quickly and easily by patients themselves this way ... ??