I was just thinking about you today as I had a short-lasting (maybe 8 hours) debilitating headache, and I thought, how did Pasta Queen deal with this for a whole year? Mere mortals might have offed themselves.

congrats again!

Before February of 2008 I did have a history of headaches. When I was 21, in 2002, I got a similar headache that wouldn’t go away, but I was prescribed a beta-blocker that made it go away. I tried going off of the beta-blocker once or twice and the headache returned, so I stayed on it. In February of 2008 it stopped working, even when we increased the dosage.

I hope that helps, and good luck again finding some form of relief.

and congrats!

I think you are now having two different audiences: one searching for dieting tips and the other one searching for pain cures.

And probably all searching for a funny, cool writer.

Myself, I am about to join the exclusive CDH club as mine headache is going for 3 weeks now. But since I am no stranger to chronic pain (I have something called Interstitial cystitis – remember your conference about pain and the second topic about pelvic pain – ok, that will be me, sort of like permanent UTI for 6 years).

Yes it sucks but here is a good news.

The IC I have is manageble, in fact, I have been in 2nd remission for over 1.5 now due to pregnanacy and brestfeeding. (so 0 pain!!) Yes I am aware it can stop anytime. But I enjoy this while it last and don’t think about it much.

Now to my headaches story..I feel that the two chronic pains are not related…although for a super healthy never sick person with no depression – it is kanna strange to hit this jackpot twice, no?

My symthoms are just like yours (I actually hated to realize that reading your blog).. mostly nose and cheeks, most days the pain level from 2 to 3. So the MOST important blog I read from you was a “Different before and after” I know that feeling to be scare to answer in fear of jinxing it – but if you can : can you tell me: Are you still around 2 pain level on most days? That would tremendously help in my research. And just one more question you did not completely explore – before Feb day 2008, were you prone to headaches/migraines? Were you already taking something? Why – did you before had daily headaches? It is not completely clear – it will help so much!.

Looking forward to more blogs and book.

Susan