Saturday, June 18, 2011

June ain't springin either - health update

Dear friends,
Please forgive me for the delay in getting an update. As the end of term closed in on us I faced a number of challenges. My health was failing, with me getting weaker and my breathing difficulties and pain increasing. My one goal was to finish the term and everything took a back seat to that. 

Part of the problems were driven by an attempt to switch me from one prescription to another. Namely from neurontin (which I had first started taking for the trigemninal neuralgia, and then was also useful for the neuropoathy that is being caused by the remodulin)  to lyrica. The lyrica did not agree with me and gave me a number of negative side effects (headaches, nausea, and unfortunately a resurgence of the trigeminal neuralgia). So after a month of worsening symptoms I am now titrated back to the neurontin.