Sorry you are feeling bad! I laid in bed for 5 days...finally went for the blood patch...and felt good immediately. They advised me that I COULD have continued laying down for up to 12 days or so......I think not!!!

Hope you feel better when you get home!!

I feel your pain. Definitely get the blood patch asap.

My bozo doc (10 yrs ago) listened to me complain about my headache for 2 weeks. I couldn't work, a shower was a stuggle. It sure didn't start my life w/MS very well.

My relief took a good nights sleep to be felt. I woke the next day feeling like a million bucks and cursing the @#$% doctor.

Please don't wait.

YACK!

Glad to hear you are at the ER! Let us know how it goes when you get back!!

I let them talk me into waiting for another 24 hours. The ER talk called the anesthesiologist who said he "could" come in but maybe one more day would do the trick. Ugh. And I was feeling kind of yucky and powerless and said okay. So I'm home, still of course have a horrible headache when I move around. Thankfully, I really am okay when I'm flat. I think because it's Sunday, they pushed me off a day. They offered me drugs which I said no to and gave me IV fluid.

So I guess I'll just go back in the morning. The big drag is just that now I have to go through the ER routine all over again. The nurse had no idea about spinal headaches and was trying to take my blood pressure in a variety of positions.

The doc was really nice and was trying to be helpful. Why can't I be pushy when I need to be?