I’ve heard singing the out loud helps some people.
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream
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I’ve heard singing the out loud helps some people.
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream
You'll grow out of it.
FM vs AM?Google did not reveal...
lol. radio stations would be better
One of the links I posted said for some people, getting the tune in your head had to do with listening to part of a song, and that listening to the entire song would stop it, which really does not sync for me as I typically have heard the entire song on the radio recently, thanks to my local Classic Rock station, whom I blame.
And My impression is that if you listen to a different song, you may end up just replacing one tune with another.This morning, Round and Round by Ratt is playing (in my head). So as an experiment, I looked it up on you tube and listened to the entire song, which afterwards seemed to disrupt it, but I must specifically avoid thinking about it because it’s trying to come back, snippets are still there and popping up, and I could slip back into it easily. Nope, it’s still there, and I have to focus on something else to keep it away.
Gosh, I love that song, powerful atmosphere and emotions. Or do you mean as far as getting embedded?
Hey, this may have changed the song playing (in my head).
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I hate everything about that boring ass song then and now. It drives me up the wall. Yep, it can be a worm too.
This is my least hated version.
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So after intense pain for the past few months, seeing multiple specialists, I'm at one of the last options here.
I'm having a laparoscopy.
I might have endometriosis.
I've lost 30 lbs over the last few months. The pain isn't improving. I thought for sure it was just IBS or something with fibro. Perhaps even an issue with my horseshoe kidney like a stone. Nope.
I've been to a urologist, gastroenterologist, and rheumatologist.
Saw a new obgyn yesterday and he's going to schedule me in the next two weeks for the laparoscopy.
I'm simultaneously scared he'll find something and that he won't.
I'm having a laparoscopy.
I might have endometriosis.
I've lost 30 lbs over the last few months. The pain isn't improving. I thought for sure it was just IBS or something with fibro. Perhaps even an issue with my horseshoe kidney like a stone. Nope.
I've been to a urologist, gastroenterologist, and rheumatologist.
Saw a new obgyn yesterday and he's going to schedule me in the next two weeks for the laparoscopy.
I'm simultaneously scared he'll find something and that he won't.
Please keep us updated.So after intense pain for the past few months, seeing multiple specialists, I'm at one of the last options here.
I'm having a laparoscopy.
I might have endometriosis.
I've lost 30 lbs over the last few months. The pain isn't improving. I thought for sure it was just IBS or something with fibro. Perhaps even an issue with my horseshoe kidney like a stone. Nope.
I've been to a urologist, gastroenterologist, and rheumatologist.
Saw a new obgyn yesterday and he's going to schedule me in the next two weeks for the laparoscopy.
I'm simultaneously scared he'll find something and that he won't.
So after intense pain for the past few months, seeing multiple specialists, I'm at one of the last options here.
I'm having a laparoscopy.
I might have endometriosis.
I've lost 30 lbs over the last few months. The pain isn't improving. I thought for sure it was just IBS or something with fibro. Perhaps even an issue with my horseshoe kidney like a stone. Nope.
I've been to a urologist, gastroenterologist, and rheumatologist.
Saw a new obgyn yesterday and he's going to schedule me in the next two weeks for the laparoscopy.
I'm simultaneously scared he'll find something and that he won't.
Hope you are OK and make a speedy recovery.
I'll update after September 6th. That's when my laparoscopy is scheduled.
@Septembersrain I’ll second that. I hope this is resolved for you.
Well, let’s see......I’ve had three strokes, any number of pulmonary emboli, kidney stones so numerous I can’t keep track and a few so big they wouldn’t leave the kidneys, (4 uteroscopies in the last 5 years) but nary a migraine over the last 30 years. I’d say I’m winning. S
Sending you good thoughts from Minnesota, but i’m keeping the rain.
Seriously, best wishes.
Eek! It's a toss up on whether ovarian cysts or kidney stones hurt worse. Glad you are still here and being pretty optimistic. I don't get migraines often, like one every few years or so usually caused by some random medication a doctor throws at me.
A good sense of humor will get you through almost anything. A really warped sense of humor will totally get you through anything.
Well that explains how I'll still alive!
I don't say half of what I'm thinking humor wise most of the time or I'd be banned everywhere!
I had suffered with migraines from about 6 years old right through to my 40s or so. I never seem to get them anymore. I always got a real kick out of seeing people at work sitting at their desks saying “they were having a migraine”. Well I call BS! As any migraine sufferer will tell you, if you are still sitting at your desk then you have a common headache, not a migraine! Anyone I know that actually gets migraines runs to somewhere dark, lies down and tries to go to sleep before the ‘shimmering blindspots’ stop to avoid puking your guts out inside of the next hour, for the remainder of the day. Mine were like someone was sticking an icepick into your eye. After you recovered you felt ‘something’ at the location for days afterwards.
I worked with a guy who got them so bad they kept morphine at home and his wife (a nurse) would administer a shot when he got one. They’d hang in for days otherwise. (God help him if he got one at work....just couldn’t make it home. The symptoms of one coming on are fast) I never had one that ever lasted beyond a day. My entire family gets them. My kid really gets them. Her mom gets killer ones and I guess she inherited the affliction from us. She also gets my kidney stones. Just Lovely.
S
I, too, used to get excruciating migraines roughly once a year, or, perhaps every 15 or so months. Fortunately, it was an annual, rather than a weekly, or monthly, horror.
Yes, they can come on quite suddenly, but you do (or rather, I did) have around an hour here you know what is coming, or about to happen.
Very, very occasionally, in the past, I could head one off, if I managed to react with heavy painkillers in that first hour. Think of it as the Hangover from Hell, but worse, as it is actually a different kind of pain.
Darkness, lying down, stillness, closed eyes, were absolute necessities - light of any kind was agony. Once they - the migraines - a migraine - kicked in, they had to run their course - and yes, sometimes a migraine was accompanied by vomiting. The pain was usually only on one side of my head, an absolute agony behind my eye and throbbing temple, and one which almost invariably lasted three days from start to finish. You fell asleep with it, and awoke to it.
Once they had started on their course, no standard painkiller had the slightest effect on them, and seething industrial or nuclear might deaden the pain slightly, but didn't eliminate it.
Suspected triggers included stress, perhaps the menstrual cycle (although I was on the Pill), fatigue, fluorescent lighting, and - I also now suspect - my impacted wisdom teeth; every so often, again, around every fifteen months or so, I would develop an infection in one of my impacted wisdom teeth, which was agonising.
In 2012, I had my impacted wisdom teeth attended to (i.e. removed - my dentist had called in a surgeon) - by then, advances meant that a local anaesthetic could be used, rather than the general anaesthetic that I had been told would be required when the procedure had first been suggested to me, a few decades earlier.
I have had one migraine since, and that was not even a full blown one, a baby one, threatening to develop, just a nasty reminder of what they used to be like.
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Good luck and take very good care of yourself.
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Especially when you typo.
I think I'm losing my language skills and proofreading abilities.
Im ay torrable speler!Especially when you typo.
I think I'm losing my language skills and proofreading abilities.
It’s also possible, auto spellcheck is your nemesis.Especially when you typo.
I think I'm losing my language skills and proofreading abilities.
Or your saviour if your dyslexic like me!It’s also possible, auto spellcheck is your nemesis.