I am trying to find out what is causing my head pain. It started the middle of June this year. I woke up with it, and did not "getup". All day. My headache stayed the next day. I stayed in bed with this very unusual very bad pain in the top of my head! My natural blinking is different, just bothersome, not "painful", just not normal.. It is hard to describe.
The third day, I made myself get up and called my PCP. She set up a CT scan and then an MRI. Guess what? Nothing showed up abnormal in these tests. WOW!!!
Now, my memory is a BIG problem, and is getting worse....yet nothing shows.
The pain is still there. Also, more confusion in my everyday routine.
I must get up from a chair very slowly., or it will create more head pain. The pain is there even when I wake up in the morning.
What can be the cause of this? I eat well. I exercise. I am of normal weight.
Hmmm. I have taken different sleeping pills for 23 years. Of course I tried NOT taking the pills. Fine, I don't sleep, and the next night...same thing. Then I am almost "out of it"
I need to do something more! What??
My sleep drug now is Zolpidem. Anybody with a different GOOD sleep aid? Maybe it's that?? Years ago my OBGYN kept me on Prempro for 6 years. Every time I asked to be taken off, the Doctor's response was, " My wife takes it, isn't that good enough for you?" Yet year 7 he called and said "DO NOT take another pill. Like a dope I followed his instruction. Is that the cause of no sleep? Should have been gradual??
I have waited months to see a Neurologist. The Friday before the Monday appointment I was called to cancel my appointment. No explanation. Months to get a new appointment....now I need to see the intermediary nurse first (again). Problem is, I was told by one of my specialty doctors that there are NO GOOD Neurologists in my town of 125,000? I want to try a different sleeping pill. It is the only idea I have left. What has anyone else tried?? I would love some feedback!! Thanks for reading my tale of woe.