It took a while, but my migraines are a lot better.

Part way into August I ended up with another Migraine that hadn't gone away for days. After exhausting all the prescription options I had been given, I booked another appointment with the Neurologist.

2 hours later I was in his office self-injecting myself with what he called a "miracle drug." Yes, I had to give myself a shot in the leg. He made me give it to it myself in case I get to take it next month at home. It's supposed to be a once a month injection, but it cost $900 per shot. He said, we'd see what insurance had to say about it. Frankly if insurance doesn't pay, I'm buying it for 2 more months. He suggested 3 month as a good trial length.

In the mean time, it took a few days, but by the end of a week I was feeling heaps better, just like he thought I would be. To make it through the week, he also sent me home with 3 more prescriptions to try.

The other thing that has really helped was a sort of muscle relaxant that he hoped would help me sleep through a migraine. Getting a solid night sleep is super helpful in managing my migraines.

Pain killers are just useless for me, and my biggest problem is auras which almost no migraine medicines address. I was super excited to see that the injection I took was actually marketed for "migraine with aura," in addition to migraine with pain; I'd never seen that before.

Private Health Care is kind of crazy! What took my sister in Canada 1 year and 5 doctors, took me 1 month and a total of 3 appointments to end up at the same point.

Where she had to do all her own research and search for a doctor who would bother to consider her research; I just had to sit quietly for a few moments while a Neurologist considered whether I might be a candidate for a new medication he'd heard of (I didn't propose it).

Check out the picture below of the line just to get in the hospital. It took 30 minutes. We all had to sign in with our phones, then sign a paper declaration form, then get our temperature checked. After that we were allowed in the hospital and then had to wait in a very lengthly line to get into the Lift (elevator).

Now that I'm on the mend we're getting out of the house more. Though we do find an outing wipes us all out in a way that pre-COVID didn't.

So more fun blog posts of our adventures are on their way.