I completely understand! Everyday I feel so blessed to not start my day and end my day with a headache. I have gotten used to vomiting over the years- lactose intolerance and as you said, PTC. I will send a huge prayer your way and that it was simply an over due it kind of day. That tomorrow, as well as many days in the future, continue to look bright and pain free :)
Hugs!
Mallory

As I sit here at 3 am unable to sleep, with peppermint oil on the back of my neck and temples, I sincerely hope that you have only caught some type of bug. I know that in this place that is a hope that can appreciated for what it is. If we have to not feel well, I hope it's just the flu.
I too despise vomiting! I had hyperemesis (excessive nausea and vomiting) all 9 months I was pregnant and for a month afterward and had to spend a ton of time hospitalized. Now every flu is terrible and I have a constant supply of phenergen that I have to take just to be able to eat.
Just remember, you don't have to put on the brave face in here if you don't want to or feel too tired to do it.
Great big hugs for ya hun!
Brandee

I will keep everything I can crossed for you. I totally understand. As a new comer to this and trying to get this under control. I can totally understand that once it's there you want to keep it there no matter what. . You are in my thoughts and prayers. Hugs.

Thank you, you three. It meant a lot to see those messages when I got on here today. Really. :)

My only thing is that I had an MRI not too long ago and yes, my shunt was reset afterward, but my anti-siphoning device was not (said it is "fixed" and does not get reset by MRI's) so, just the last few days, I have been a little (not a lot!) skeptical about that. When I have over-drainage, I get sick like yesterday.

I am still so tired and sore...hoping it is a bug, but it just scares me to think that any of that pain could come back. I know it can and for some it has, but I will say I am not anxious to be one of them. And I post it in here because none of my friends understand that. They will say, "you'll be fine!" But they do not understand how hard and painful PTC is to deal with daily! So I just don't go there...

Brandee - I have to keep a brave face on. Even when I was at my sickest, I had a brave face on and made jokes, laughed, etc. If I was to have started to cry, I never would have stopped. So I laugh everything off...this does not mean I do not take anything seriously, trust me, I do...I just do not let others see it. That is just me, though. I will admit that it has made me more of an easy-going and fun person...when I am feeling good! And I took Zofran twice yesterday. Once after I vomited because it was out of nowhere, and the second time was when I took my seizure medicine, before I went to bed. Didn't want to have to get up again to vomit!

Jessie - That is exactly it. No one but you all here understands it. I have been through it. I have been at my worst with it, and my best with it. I know how I felt. I do not want to feel that way ever again! So frustrating... :(

Thanks y'all!
Heather

Heather I am sorry to here that happened yesterday. I hope it passes and hope you continue to feel better today. Everyone unstands the terror of the pain coming back. My shunt revision surgery was supposed to yesterday and was rescheduled for tomorrow, 7:30 am! I have been so worked up over the surgery, and not because I don't trust my doctor, or that surgery scares me, it the PAIN I will be in, probably for months again. I am terrified. And I know it is different from the PTC pain, but it may because I went through one kind of life debilitating pain, into another kind of debilitating pain, that I am so scared of starting down that whole path again. Because my shunt is not working properly I have had some of the pangs come and go. It's a terrible feeling to think it was gone, and could come back.

Your reservations are completely understandable :) If you don't feel better call your doctor!!

Hugs
Amy