March 2011
I've had a headache every day since February 14. Not really a headache each day - one continuous headache. It is my constant companion.
Email back from the Midwest doctor and he knows of no one in Utah. Call the headache specialist / neurologist and she won't see me without a referral. I explain that I was referred to her by another doctor, only that particular doctor isn't my physician - he's her colleague and co-worker. No good.
I call my own primary care physician to request a referral and get the answering machine. (By the end of the day they haven't returned my call - this is typical of them. Sometimes they never call back.)
I start calling around to other places and some doctors won't see me until June! I find another neurologist - literally pick the place out of the phone book and plead my case. The woman at the other end of the line says that maybe, just maybe, because I've been under a neurologists care in the past they might make an exception for me, but she needs to submit my case to the doctor where it will be reviewed and then they will call me if I'm approved. It could take a week. Don't call us - we'll call you.
I continue my search for someone, anyone, in Utah who knows about occipital neuralgia and trigeminal neuralgia because I am quite convinced there is an excellent chance I have one or both of these.
No luck.
No doctor wants to see me today, tomorrow, next week, some don't even want to see me next month. I don't have any medicine I can take for the pain. I'm afraid to go to the ER because I'm afraid of the shots they've given me in the past.
Every phone calls feels a defeat.
I begin to wonder how much longer I can deal with this pain. And I begin to think - I bet a bullet in my head wouldn't hurt this bad.
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