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More Headaches

So...continuing where I left off last week...

On the morning of my last final I got a cluster. It was a light one and I still hadn't returned my unused bottles of oxygen from my last cluster, so I took a hit of O2 and was fine. The unrealistic optimist in me hoped that it was a just a really late tail end headache from my last cluster, which I had thought ended about two weeks previous. Or alternately just a fluke random isolated headache.

Of course it was neither. The whole reason they are called clusters is that they cluster together. They don't happen two weeks apart, and they don't happen in isolation. My happy delusion of not entering another cluster fell away that night when I had another headache (again treated with O2). And then another the next morning (which O2 failed to even dent). Three cluster headaches in less than 24 hours. And no more doubt about the advent of a new cluster.

Fortunately, the intensity of the headaches in this cluster has been relatively low. Unfortunately, my Prednizone has been doing precious little to prevent new headaches. Surprising as it usually works well.

My energy, mood, and appetite have been going wild due to the headaches and the meds. Which explains my recent lack of posting (here or elsewhere).