About this Blog

~Hi, my name is Courtney. I was a full time college student, starting to be a dancer, and used to work with kids part time, living on my own until my illness disabled me.
~I became sick in 2005. I created this blog in the summer of 2006 to record my "headache" diary and to see if anyone finds it interesting.
~12/2006 I lost my job then after, failed a year of college.
~2/2007 Dx Lyme Disease with Bartonella: prescribed 8 months of oral antibiotics. I'm not even sure if I ever had the Lyme Disease.
~11/2007 The doctor took me off medicines while I was still improving but not fully recovered.
~6/2008 Dx Chiari I Malformation by a neurosurgeon in Beverly Hills.
~8/2008 Decompression and Lamenectomy helped 80% of my problems.
~2/2009 Dx Hypermobility by an Orthopedic Surgeon/School Doc: Started PT, dancing, going to school and working.
~6/2009 Started working full time as an Infant-Toddler teacher, which requires lifting. Dancing part time, maybe I'll finish school eventually...lol
~12/2009 Dx Chronic Sinusitis: Stopped dancing due to constant infections.
~2/2010 Sinus Surgery & complication: Severe Epistaxis: Became severely anemic.
~3/2010: Dx Ehlers Danlos Syndrome: by Geneticist
~4/2011: Switched jobs, now work at a Pre-K teacher for 3 and 4 year olds. Less lifting!
~5/2011: Started PT and exercising again

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

up late cant sleep


for the first time in oh lets say 2 years! coffee keeps me awake. I'm all expecting a no prob the caffiene will only work for the pain i'll be sleepy soon type of response like usual. nope. i'm STILL up!!! And I drank only like 3/4 a mug at about 9:30. (I had a headache and this was a common remedy of mine okay!)

So since I'm up I'll be sharing about some other bothersome symptoms:
1) the upper right part of my scalp feels like its swelling but there are no signs of redness.
2) I'm tingling every few seconds for a few seconds sometimes painful tingling on my scalp (mostly in the prementioned area)
3) I'm studddd-dd-ering on some words
4) I'm gagging on my own saliva like 2x a day.

The PRESSURE HEADACHES now have gone. and they have found an accurate cause. Sorry Christina who once said maybe it was stress. Duh I was stressed but this was it! :-)(PS: I know you were trying to help) It only took 2 1/2 years! :-)
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