Are they live eels, dead eels, cooked eels?
Quit O’clock eels!
Congo, what happens to your health insurance if you withdraw?
My health insurance is paid up for the year and came from my community college. It’s active until the end of August.
How far into the semester are you, and where is the drop/add policy right now?
Hon, if your headaches are that debilitating, there shouldn’t even be a question.
Add/Drop ended in January. Midterms are next week so we’re just about half way. If I drop anything right now, I’ll get a W on my transcript. I’m waiting on a response from the office that handles these things. I asked them what the consequences of withdrawing for one semester are.
I wouldn’t call the headache debilitating. It’s persistent and really friggen annoying. I’ve discovered that long-term level 3 pain can be just as distressing as short therm level 9 pain because it feels like my tolerance for it is dropping every day.
Congo, unless there are tests pending that will give you both a diagnosis and a firm treatment, I’d say drop the classes and retake them during the summer. The stress of dealing with both classes and headache may actually be fueling your headaches.
My MRI supported the diagnosis of Pseudotumor Cerebri but I have to see the Neurologist for final confirmation. I can’t take classes during the summer because I’ve reached my max for federal funding for the year and I wont ask anyone to cosign an alternative loan.
By the way, every time I look at the thread title I see TITS! Please tell me I’m not the only one.
And they’re Norwegian Blue eels, pining for the fjords.
So, I’m both blurg and revolting against the stacks of books waiting to be shelved. Time and space demands that I just shove them up there in any old order, while offends my sensibilities. In the meantime, I have a desk, a hutch, and a chair to put together, computers to set back up, and tons of paperwork for my tutoring job to do.
All I want to do is curl up with a book and read all day long.
Dad is recovering from his trans-ischemic attack. And I don’t care what they say - just because the clot went away doesn’t mean there was no permanent damage. He slept pretty much all day Thursday through Sunday and is just now starting to get back up and around with any energy.
His short term memory is fried. He has no memory of being in the hospital at all, which was a full day and a half. We’re having to constantly remind and guide him (Okay, Dad, it’s time to get ready. You need to put your shoes on. Go get your shoes, Dad.) He’s mostly in a good mood just now, but any challenge or frustration changes that. He gets attached to activities or ideas, and it’s extremely difficult to shift him.
I swear, it’s very much like dealing with a toddler - a tall, fragile toddler with a much larger vocabulary and a sense that he really should be in charge. Mom, older bro, and I are now starting to deal with it like he’s the President and we’re Secret Service. We tell him what he needs to know, where and when he needs to go, and we try to do everything else behind the scenes. We make sure there’s one of us available at all times, and I’m even starting to say “I have the conn,” when I get back from running errands, so the one on duty knows they’re relieved.
It’s sad. It’s achy. Right now, we’re dealing with it pretty well. If Dad starts to fight us, that’ll be a whole 'nother problem.
What’s the prognosis for pseudotumor cerebri? Is there a medication or treatment which can make it possible for you to continue going to school without interruption or is it a wait-and-see-QUICK!-wait-and-see, maybe it’ll work thing?
If you’ve got a good chance of treatment and resolution, and it won’t necessarily interfere with schooling, I’d say stay with it. Short of that, I’d look at dropping the semester.
Whichever way, make sure you not only tell all your teachers, but stop by whichever office handles students’ special needs. I got blindsided by a bout of depression, and because I hadn’t gone to them and gotten documentation beforehand (uh, depression?), I could not get any consideration. Very frustrating.
Well, it’s Monty Python. I’m sure they’ll have no objection to tits.
I wish I were there Phouka. I LOVE organizing bookshelves. You could curl up with a good book and I could spend a few hours being anal-retentive.
Yet another condition I have vicarious experience with via VWife. I was about to ask why the quacks haven’t done a lumbar puncture on you yet because that is the definitive short term treatment, but you just answered the question.
I suppose the long term cause has not yet been identified. For VWife, it was long term use of prednisone; the condition went away after two punctures and being weaned from the steroids.
For the rest of you who don’t know, Pseudotumor Cerebri means the patient has too much cerebrospinal fluid, and the increase in cranial pressure acts like an HTG brain tumor. A spinal tap will draw off enough fluid to relieve the pressure and the symptoms.
It’s not bad actually. The normal treatment is what I’m already doing, which is taking the diuretic. Sometimes it helps a lot and sometimes it doesn’t. What it doesn’t do is work for 12 hours and I’m only supposed to take it twice a day. I’ve heard that doing a spinal tap to check cerebro-spinal fluid pressure actually cures some people. For other people, they have to actually have some CSF removed. I could go blind if left untreated but I definitely wont be letting it go untreated. Losing weight is supposed to help it get better and I’ve been working on that but unfortunately I have about 90 pounds to lose and it’s not going to come off over night.
I also have some Imitrex in case the pain gets migraine bad. The trouble is that I’ve never had a migraine so I have no clue what migraine bad is and I was also told that taking it needlessly can do unpleasant things. I’m kind of afraid of the Imitrex.
Tits are Benny Hill’s department.
Back in 2005, when they first noticed that my optic discs were bulging they thought it was caused by the cortisone shots I had had injected into my back 5 months earlier. They did a CT scan that showed that I didn’t have a real tumor but never did anything else (which kind of pissed off the school doctor).
Basically, they say it’s most common in:
Women under 40 (yep)
Overweight people (yep)
Women with PCOS (yep)
Women on oral contraceptives (yep)
So it’s entirely possible that the cortisone had nothing to do with it.
Other than the bulging discs, I’ve had no other symptoms and regular eye exams so no one was really concerned until I developed the never-ending headache.
Monty Python certainly liked them too. The only link I can find though would probably required a 5 click rule though so I’ll just say, Meaning of Life Part 7 - running naked girls.
My own migrainettes feel like someone has split my skull with an axe down the middle, then inserted one ice pick in each eye, and is pushing a second axe in through the ice picks. If I don’t take my meds, eventually light hurts, sound hurts, and moving my head too fast sends the world into a Ferris-wheel spin (as opposed to when I’m having The Stuff That’s Not MS, when the spin is around a vertical axis).
Congo, that sounds awful. Good luck.
I drove three hours to my RenFaire Guild meeting for the year on Saturday. Then we did singing practice. On the way home I stopped at a couple of antique stores and got a folding wood table that is fabulous and some small stuff. Then stopped and spent more money than I should have on a GPS unit because I kept saying I should get one. I meant to put it on my credit card, but apparently pulled out the wrong card. Oh well, I’m not supposed to be using the credit card anyway.
My right knee hurts from driving so much. I really should use cruise control more often.
Sounds like you’re trying to talk yourself into staying, congo…
Found another that would require the same number of clicks…The dull life of a city stockbroker.
My grandpa’s coughing alot today. 
I called the doctor and am waiting to hear back.