Posted by Dinah on December 23, 2004, at 7:39:56
I went in to get permission to take Frova more often on those infrequent occasions where I get a series of migraines that *feel* like a one week or two week long migraine with breaks from pain interspersed. I know that's not accurate, they just recur frequently for a period of time then everything goes back to normal. I got that permission.
I also let her know that I'm having visual disturbances that disrupt my ability to tough out the pain and continue to work. Increase in the frequency of migraine aura.
She said I had some bulging of the eye cup that wasn't there last year, and wants me to be checked by my eye doctor to rule out glaucoma. I was planning to see the eye doctor anyway in early January, but I didn't want to be anxious about it that long, so I called to see if they had an opening. The receptionist scared me all over by frantically trying to fit me in right away. I have work commitments today so she's squeezing me in Monday.
I can see from my research that it's treatable if caught early. And I see that I am at high risk for chronic glaucoma - over forty, diabetic, nearsighted.
It feels like I'm just falling apart since I got diabetes, and I'm wondering if I'm going to be one of those people where the diabetes really progresses rapidly rather than like my mother who is just now at 72 starting to feel the really bad effects of a lifetime of not really behaving like a diabetic should.
I don't mind *dying*, I suppose. But I don't want to be blind, or missing parts of me, or a burden to my family.
Oh well. I suppose I only need to worry till Monday. That's something, right?
poster:Dinah
thread:433235
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