I Could KISS My Pharmacist

I have a new friend named Clint at the Target Pharmacy. What a nice guy. I've called him 3 times now since he started working there as their pharmacist a couple months ago. I've never called a pharmacist before other than to get a refill! So, either I'm getting old and my health problems are becoming my main source of conversation, or Clint is just the guy at the right place in the right time for me. He downloaded ALL my Target pharmacy history, Utah stuff even, he is a genius on the computer, all the other Target people are like WHAT?!, he had a nice word with the South Franklin Target people and said no matter what, when my dr accidently calls them, I no longer slum down there, that I only go to him now up in Cool Springs, and he made me put his number in my cell while I was standing there. What a guy. I got out into the parking lot before I remembered a good question, and I actually called! He calls me Sweetie. I love it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's gay. Gay guys are a girls best friend.

So, the migraines have been going on...and on...and on. Mostly, they weren't as severe. But that new migraine med that Clint tried to tell me not to discount before I gave it a chance?! Well, it's outta there baby. I gained 7 pounds and had as many migraines in one month, not to mention the fact that I could not wake up in the mornings or function until after 11 a.m. I did get alot of sleep, but those 7 lbs make me homicidal.

I'm a week into my new migraine preventative Topamax. Let's hope this one works. And get this, even if it doesn't, the side effects are almost opposite of the other one. Excessive sweating is now decreased sweating (to the point where if you are outside and mowing the lawn in August you may not even have a sweat mustache) - OK that could be bad, but c'mon, I have lawn guys, so my exertion level outdoors is already taken care of. Next up - no balding; that's always good. And the biggie - weight gain is now weight loss. Oh, I could only get so lucky. I had to laugh when I read on the side effects to call your doctor if excessive weight loss occurs. Yeah Right! Excessive occurs when I blow away at a stiff breeze and not a moment sooner. So maybe it was the excitement, but I lost 3 lbs in 5 days! Could be that I could actually get up and move in the a.m., who knows, who cares?!

But the real reason for the title on this post is because I had the Killer Migraine From Hell today. There's some funky system moving in. I think I was starting to get it last night but I was too exhausted to stay awake long enough to determine if it was tiredness or migraine. Mike said I was moaning around 5 a.m., and when I surfaced at 6 a.m., and took a migraine pill, it was waaaay too late. Once they get ahold of you like that you are a goner. So to make a long, horrible, story short (I'll skip the part where I contemplated suicide), when I exhausted my 24 hr limit of Zomig-usually-the-wonder-drug; I called Clint. Mike had called my dr and asked for a nasal spray Zomig that I had just heard about while chatting up a nurse at the Bone & Joint Clinic yesterday. They picked it up at Walgreen's but I didn't know that. So, anyway, after waiting 20 minutes for some other hoggy customer to stop talking to my favorite pharmacist, I asked, no, really, I begged, pitiful but with dignity, for one shot, just one. Clint said, Hey, I didn't give you any nasal spray. I said they just picked it up. He sounded a little insulted and said, Not from me. So being the sweetie he is, he got on the computer and researched for me. But the answer was still a big fat NO. Couldn't do it. So, I dropped all dignity, "Clint, I'm dyyyyying" I whispered, and revealed the druggie I am, "I've got lots of stuff man, what can I take?" He says, "Whaddya got?" So, prepared to name 'em all, I hit pay dirt on the first one. Midrin. Clint says I can go back to Old Faithful even though I'm pumped full of Zomig and Phernegan to keep me from barfing (didn't work). God Bless You Clint. I seriously may grab his little white pharmacist coat and lay one on him next time I see him. 15 minutes later I was whole again. Yeah, my scalp feels like it is separated from my body, but my eyeball is back in its socket, the ice pick has been removed from my frontal lobe, and whoever had their finger down my throat is gone.

Can you believe reading this that just 3 hours ago I could not open my eyes, much less form a complete sentence. Clint says next time I wake up with a migraine I can snort the Zomig (not my favorite thing to do at all, but I will refer to this post and just do it) and will feel relief in minutes and, brace yourself, it could last 24 hrs!!!!! And if it doesn't work, there was something about getting to use the other nostril. Yahoo!!! If the Topamax can't completely stop the migraines, maybe I can get a little skinnier, they won't be as bad, and armed with the right arsenal of medication, I can live a full and complete life.