Migraines

I have mentioned before that I have been nauseous and a little lightheaded recently. Today while I was out, I started to feel a little nauseous and then a little later I started to get a strange feeling headache. I am thinking it might be migraine related. A couple docs have said they think some things I have complained about, like the pulsating pressure feeling in my head and the strange visual effect I have experienced, sound like migraine issues yet I never get headaches that I would even think is a migraine, from what I've heard of migraines, they are quite painful and sometimes debilitating, but who knows. I have had headaches since I was in high school so I don't know. Is it possible to have migraine symptoms without actually having the painful migraine headache? I set up an appointment with my G.P. The earliest I could get is Friday noonish. I will let you know what he says. I am also told that I have allergies so maybe it is allergy related. My doc might refer me to another ear, nose and throat doc or back to my neurologist. Who knows. Last night after I went to bed I started getting a bad headache, it felt kinda like a dehydration headache, you know how you feel when you are hung over! But I drink tons of water and had just taken some Tylenol PMs. Again, something I will mention to doc and see what he thinks. I don't want to overreact but I also don't want to underreact. Before my head started leaking and I was diagnosed with the staph infection I started feeling like crap but I never said anything because I wanted to be strong and keep working and have always been a bit of a hypochondriac (secretly!) If I had spoken up it might been found a little sooner and wouldn't have gotten as bad as it did.

Physical therapy has been going well. I am going twice a week and the exercises we did yesterday really helped a lot. Today I walked about two miles, I went to my friend's house and back. I almost tripped over my foot crossing the street at one point, I think I was walking too fast trying to cross the street. Last night I dreamt that I was able to run a little. Which is funny because all my life I have had the recurring dream that I could not run at all and now I actually can't run and I am dreaming that I can! Dreams about not being physically able to run is oftend thought of as an anxiety dream, usually about feeling stuck in life or not getting anywhere in life. I know that the dream I had last night I mentioned my weakened leg, but usually in my dreams I am like I used to be, totally fine. There are the occassional dreams that recognize my leg and my tumors, but I think for the most part I dream that I am like I used to be (I figure I should put it that way instead of saying NORMAL!)

FYI it has been 2 months since the gamma knife as of yesterday! Which means my hair might start growing back soon! I think I feel some stuble but my friend looked and said she can't see anything yet.

TTFN