thanks everyone. sheesh.... welllll....... you know what they say about good intentions - the road to hell is paved with them...

did it all over again today. am home. that's 3 days worked, 3 days home, lovely.

this morning i did take my gob of food + ibuprofen (ibuprofen is faster acting than my usual med - gives results w/in an hour if it is going to work... IT DIDN'T even a little.

today and yesterday i had additional sx. headache a bit different too, so not sure it was a migraine. i think it is mixed migraine and cervical. there is definitely a cervical component. i tried ice on temple and hotwater bottle on my neck/back. it felt good but did not do anything lasting in terms of pain, on either account.

and something strange happened yesterday out of nowhere: i had a lowgrade-fever ... with 400mg ibuprofen at peak! my mom laughed said wonder how much it was before the ibuprofen.... but i shouldn't have had one AT ALL. pdoc said barring highly inflammatory conditions (not my case) there usually has to be even a mild infection, but added that fever is a general sign of ill-being and, as an isolated occurrence, could simply be one of the many "messages" that my body is sending in that regard.

I CANNOT GET MEDS TO WORK. nor MYSELF to WORK, either! i wonder if that is the solution get up an hour earlier and do stretches, tension-related pain would improve. migraine gets worse though. when i went to see pdoc i was "relatively ok" (800mg ibuprofen?) yesterday other than light-sensitive. by the time i got jolted there and back home, i was waaay more light-sensitive, had headache restarting, and nausea i wasn't sure i could "hold" all the way.... not pretty.

i am going to the doctor tonight (my typically useless GP who doesn't do much but write scripts or send you to someone else.) if he doesn't have any ideas besides mine as to causes or treatments, i'm going to request naproxen sodium to try. (cheaper by rx).

i cannot not call in sick any more. at this rate it'll go on the whole summer.

i did ask pdoc for some gabapentin but first i need to get off my sleep med... that will take a while. i don't know if it will cover a cervical component.

let's face it i don't know a whole lot.

~ waves ~