Hi Larsy,

Thanks for replying, it's nice to meet you. Welcome to the board! I haven't ever tried that drug before, but I am grateful imitrex works for me and this morning I have the beginning precusors to a migraine but I am gonna wait to take one later AFTER I eat, because it really tears up my stomach. Glad you like my little turtle, he's the coolest! I really should get some new pics up...

I know Mari, it's awful! The good news is the trazadone is keeping me from suffering insomnia SO far...I hope it doesn't stop working, I still feel zero creativity...Haven't been able to write in over two months now so that is bothering me, I wonder how long it's going to take for my ability to write creatively to return. Part of that now is that Jackie is home for spring break, but MONDAY he goes back to school! HURRAY!!!!

We actually got a soccer ball for him because the behacior analyst brought one over earlier this week, Wednesday I think, and she let us play with it, and we went through the normal kicking play with it but we moved on to playing catch and he LOVED it! She had me play with him and I was stunned by his ability to focus on the game for an HOUR and a HALF! Seriously that's phenominal! (Just to let our newer members know my 12 yr old son is autistic so that's why we have a behavior analyst and why his focusing on the game for that long impresses me so much!)

We've been doing a lot of new things and it's helping him, plus we're weaning him off the risperdal slowly, I want him off that drug and all like it ASAP, I think they've served their purpose over the years and it's time to get him to work on coping without it's 'help' as he's becoming a teenager and understands practically everything we say to him now. I am glad to say while typing this post out the precusor has gotten better, I think the coffee I had really helped along with the pain meds I take for my pinched nerve in my neck, which sadly is getting worse somehow it's like snapping or crunching when I have my arms up shoulder high and bear weight with them, like pouring drinks, or cooking or washing dishes....

I have to talk to my pain management dr about it at my next appt. Hopefully it's okay, I don't know why it's worse, I got up from bed one morning and it hurt like hell when I turned my head and it seems it's been since then that it's been worse, I hope we don't need another MRI, I HATE sitting still for those tests...So a lot is going on...Not all bad, but not all good.