{"id":60,"date":"2018-03-08T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2018-03-14T03:28:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:28:22","slug":"treating-iih","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Treating IIH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I have <a href=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=38\">previously complained about my IIH headaches<\/a> and the fact that they can&#8217;t really be treated with most forms of pain relief medication, but I didn&#8217;t really explain that in any depth.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some evidence that opioids like codeine can raise intracranial pressure, and I can testify to that. I&#8217;ve tried both immediate release and prolonged release versions, and neither were helpful. Last time my headache reached 7\/10 level pain, I went to the emergency department at the hospital, and they tried me on codeine&#8230; an hour later, my headache was worse, more like 8 or 9 outta 10! So yeah, flag that.<\/p>\n<p>Paracetamol and ibuprofen, when layered correctly, can take the edge off, but as you&#8217;re not supposed to take them continuously, having non-stop headaches for over a month has these less efficient.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my methods of coping:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I take 25mg of Topamax three times daily. It makes me sleepy, which is fine because when I&#8217;m unconscious, there&#8217;s no pain. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>I sleep on a ramp of pillows, so that my head is elevated. This helps prevent my ICP from rising and making the headache worse.<\/li>\n<li>I use ice packs, including a gel eye mask that hubby searched multiple pharmacies for, to cool everything down whenever I have a chance to sit.<\/li>\n<li>Every 3 days, I take a pain break and use Panadol &amp; Nurofen to get some relief. I also have some harder stuff for when the pain is 8\/10 but I&#8217;m very wary of opioid addiction, so I avoid it if at all possible.<\/li>\n<li>I practice breath-focused meditation, which is fantastic for surviving chronic pain.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve made a herbal-infused massage oil that either I or hubby can massage into my temples, forehead or neck &amp; shoulders to ease tension and some pain.<\/li>\n<li>Kitty snuggles. It&#8217;s amazing how much better you feel with a purring kitty cat on your lap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I have previously complained about my IIH headaches and the fact that they can&#8217;t really be treated with most forms of pain relief medication, but I didn&#8217;t really explain that in any depth. There&#8217;s some evidence that opioids like codeine can raise intracranial pressure, and I can testify to that. I&#8217;ve tried both &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?p=60\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Treating IIH&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,10,11],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-health","tag-iih","tag-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}