Surgery time!

Going in for surgery this Wednesday, for once it is not for my brain. My lower to wisdom teeth are impacted, one is growing horizontally forwards into my other teeth and the other is growing horizontally backwards into my jaw. Hoping they can remove it without taking any of my jaw bone which they were worried they might need to, or without any nerve damage. They were only going to take half of one of the teeth as it was situated so close to a facial nerve but have decided to take the whole thing, so there is a 50/50 chance of a small amount of nerve damage. Also hope the anaesthetic works oky. After my decompression it had a paradoxical effect on me, leaving me wide awake and in pain, this lead to me getting distressed because I was in so much pain and then my blood pressure bottomed out and I was really quite sick for several hours. 

In chiari news, I have been still having bad heads, the past 2 days being really quite sore and I've spent lots of time lying down flat. Hoping I get my next blood patch out of the way soon, to see if it will offer any relief. Also, I have finally got my pain clinic appointment for 12th December so hoping an adjustment of meds will lead to a happy Christmas in the gibbo household! 

xxx

Yet again

Saw my neurosurgeon yesterday and I am waiting to have another blood patch to try and treat my low pressure headaches

Appointment

Neurosurgeon Monday! Wish me luck.
I'm hoping he will be able to do something about the chiari symptoms. I counted the other day how many times a chiari type headache was triggered. Overnight I woke 7 times and between 8am and 12.30pm, so 4and a half hours, I had 54 chiari type headaches (12 and hour), triggered but things such as coughing, laughing, standing, bending, sneezing, shouting. I can't even begin to guess how many times it would be in a 24 hour period but it was happening so often I had to stop.
So, hoping for some relief.
Then next Wednesday I'm having my wisdom teeth out! Hoping that doesn't hurt my neck too bad!

Apple!!

Now I normally don't bother with moaning about stuff about products and stuff and normally just review. 

Now this isn't a review!

I write this post on an iphone 5, I also own, currently, a MacBook Air and a iPad and have previously owned a 3GS and a 4G. Not a boast but rather to just highlight that I'm normally a big apple fan. 

However, since owning an iphone 5, which I got last October I've bought 6 charging cables, all legitimate ones from Apple store. Each time it has broken within a few months, this one I have now has lasted the longest at almost 3 months. Each time I've not been offered a replacement as they say it is MY fault they have broken. Now my charging cable gets used almost every night, overnight, and when not in use is tucked under my bed to prevent it being trodden on. My phone is flat when charging. Yet still they break. I've also had 3 MacBook chargers in 2 and a half years!  So Apple, why are you so shit at making chargers?!

Chiari is a real pain

So I'm off to see my neurosurgeon in the next week or so to talk about the continuing intensity of my chiari symptoms. I've had a return of the cough headache since not too long post op but it is just getting worse and worse. I'm getting it just from the pressure of laughing, coughing and even standing up, I feel the pressure or force of doing so and that creates a headache. I'm also having continuing low pressure headache and just generally feel like shite.
Sorry for lack of posts but you know, when you feel crap it just stops you wanting to do anything =\

Busy month

Yep, I've been gone again for a long time. Been feeling really rubbish so haven't had the motivation to blog =\ I am, in the next month, having my wisdom teeth out, an appointment with my neurosurgeon, an eye appointment, a pain clinic appointment. Fun times!

I'm so sorry

I'm sorry I've been absent. I've been feeling really run down and terrible over the past few weeks. I'm now on my 3rd coldsore since the day after the wedding, all 3 in various stages of healing and they are not helping make me feel good! 

In health news I've been back to my eye doctor twice in the past week and I have finally, almost, been referred for my strabismus (squint) surgery. I've just got to go back in 3 months to see the consultant and have a thorough check that my squint is still relatively stable and I will be put on the waiting list! FINALLY!

Chiari news: my low pressure headache continue so I will probably be having the blood patch done again soon =\ my chiari type headaches are getting worse and I'm dizzy and sick just standing up or laughing or sneezing or rolling over in bed. I'm not sure what will be done, if anything about them. Fed up of them to be honest. They are worse now that presurgery in the intensity and frequency. Ah we'll. 

In better news my little brother started school on Monday. (Yes I have a brother 21 years younger than me) he loves it! I'm not working in the build up to going back to study so am bored but using it as we'll earned rest as I seem to be tired even after 15+ hours of sleep. I will be seeing my doctor as I wonder if it might be to do with my B12 as the tiredness and mouth sores are signs that I'm low, it was so common before I started on the injections. 

I'll start updating more now. My laptops been playing up and wouldn't charge and apple are arsing around trying to fix it, so to make do I bought a new ipad so am now able to be online much more frequently and with much more ease. 

Anyways, I miss blogging so speak soon!