Starting this week

When I started this blog I vowed to give people a look into my life.I wanted to show what it is like to live with chronic pain, and my attempts at a semi-normal. Since I started writing I have not kept my promise and I have just used this as an outlet to vent about the horrible days I have had. What I forgot to write about is for how every bad day there are good days. I have been passed through the healthcare system for ten years, and have grown quite jaded but I  have not lost hope for a better tomorrow.-

 So now I want to show the other side of how I cope with daily chronic headaches. I am still fighting the good fight because no matter how disturbed I am by the system, I have the same amount of faith in it. In the past ten years I have prob. seen about 100 doctors at some of the best hospitals in the country, some of the doctors are completely clueless but they are called practicing physicians, and they are doing just that- practicing!  Ten years ago they said I had TMJ and started me in several orthotic devices, to which I saw NO improvement. From then they treated me with several major operations, which now I know I may not have needed.But that is all in the past & I cannot change what happened then. 

 Once I made my way to Scottsdale I found a neurologist willing to take me on as a patient & he found a medicine that I am responding to for the first time in ten years. It has many side-effects but it is starting to point me the direction of a diagnosis. Ten years ago the medical community was not as informed on this type of headache as they are now. So even if I don't get better in the next few months I know new discoveries are being made every day and that eventually I am going to find my cure, and do amazing things with my life. So basically I just want to tell everyone that even when your day is at its darkest, and you are hurting.. emotionally or physically you must keep faith in yourself & those around you, because tomorrow the sun may shine radiating warmth across your face. And your smile will return. I am now also working with a pain specialist, trying some natural alternatives to some of my medications. I will try to update more often about how these treatments are going. I give this Dr. Rotella a lot of credit for his confidence in these new therapies in which many of his patients testify to turning their lives around. I am attaching a link to his website so if anyone else in this area is dealing with a headaches, I think you should also give him a shot.
www.scottsdalemedcenter.com/aboutus.php