Just stopping by for a little right/left brain report:

• I am getting one kind of a migraine or another everyday;
• I am going to acupuncture twice a week. Between the treatments and herbs, now finished, the episodes appear to be shortening, but I still get thirty minute episodes; it’s unpredictable;
• I had a double dose of Botox at the neurologist, six vials. There was a new “configuration of placement;” all over the head and into the shoulders and neck. Now I have a stiff neck. Still waiting for an impact on frequency of episodes. I had two retinal migraines where I lost vision in my right eye, one time completely, for twenty minutes. Weird feeling, like a curtain of  red- brown paint spilling down and blocking everything out.

I decided to spring for a new FDA approved device called Cefaly, $300 with medical prescription, seems to be made in Belgium The device is worn twenty minutes a day across the forehead. It has an electrode in the center which stimulates the trigeminal nerve in the face.

Through Twitter I came across special glasses which I might try. They are expressly for heavy computer users and gamers and supposed to reduce migraine. I am not sure yet if they can help me. They are made by Gunnar Optiks.  The frames are cool and the lenses are engineered to reduce eyestrain.

I am trying everything I can.

The worst thing that could happen is that if this doesn’t work, I can walk around looking like something out of Battlestar Gallactica. Keep your fingers crossed.

It is 2014. Something has to work.