(This is my doctor, Ulrich Duffner. He's German) Imagine the worst migraine you have ever imagined, and then imagine it 10 times worse than that. A medical mystery I always seem to be, it's almost like no one believes me at first, it takes something truly terrible to happen to me in order for something to happen that will stop the problem. This week was migraines, which I was experiencing as an in patient, but not as frequently. This week in renucci I was woken up in the middle of the night with some of the worst pain I've experienced in my life. All week, I took Norco like a mad woman and would run out within two days. They would only give me eight at a time. Eventually the Norco stopped working and I was begging my mom to take me to the ER for IV Dilauded, that's the only thing that I knew of that worked, so she took me and unfortunately at the same time I got there, a horrible trauma accident arrived too, so my migraine wasn't on their top priority list. Eventually I received my drugs and the pain faded as fast as it had come on, and I could smile again. My doctor came to see me and admitted me, so I ended up back in the hospital where I could received IV Dilauded around the clock, but they weren't hardly giving me enough. They ran tests took pictures but nothing looked off with my brain. They tried medications and they failed. I think they thought it was all in my head, or that I wanted pain meds. I always want pain meds, but I wasn't faking it, and I needed them. Then they suggested that it might be a pressure thing, so I got a spinal tap (ouch). Sure enough the spinal tap revealed aseptic meningitis,caused by the medication IVIG. Once they found out I wasn't faking it they sent me home with a script for Dilauded, I didn't even have to ask. They ended up fixing the problem with steroids, one dose of prednisone took my pain from 8 to 0 within a few hours. It was amazing. I still feel good now and I hope that the meningitis is gone, and it never returns.
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