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(Message started by: randal on Feb 17^th, 2004, 12:35am)

Title: C-Collar Attack
Post by randal on Feb 17^th, 2004, 12:35am

Me and my Wife where out shopping for a dishwasher on Saturday and we had just gone to a couple of stores to do some comparison shopping. During that time the demon hit me with a whopper and I had forgotten my Imitrex. She took me to our clinic that is open on saturday for outgoing patients who are part of this family care of doctors I belong to. The docotr gave me some Imitrex and some O2 and sent us on our way. My wife was driving because I was still a little tired from the beast taken over. We where in the slow lane and I remember bending down to grab something when I heard my wife screaming that a ladder had just fallen in front of our car.She swirved to miss it and wound up hitting another car who tried to avoid this ladder. 6 cars hit or avoided this ladder and ended up wrecking all of are cars. I was pinned in the passenger seat and could not move because it felt like my neck and shoulder where broken.The ambulance came and put me in a C-Collar and stretcher and took me to the Hospital. On the way to the hospital I started to get a cluster and knew I could not move so I tried not to think about it.By the time we reached the ER my cluster was in full swing and this C-Collar around my head was going to have to come off some how or I would just explode.I told them I cannot have anything touching me at this stage of my CH and they needed to take it off now!!!With my Wife telling them she would take it off if they didn't. They said I would have to wait till I had X-rays first to see if my neck was broken.The Headache went on for over an hour when they came in to do the X-rays. 30 minutes later they came in and said my neck was fine and took the brace off-- but I wasn't fine.When they checked my blood pressure it was 210/150 and at that time was suffering a CH that had lasted more than 2 hours. The Doctors and nurses finally realized how much pain I was in so they had to give me a demirol shot for the pain and to lower my blood pressure. It was a strange day and I know this is one long borring story but the feeling of that C-collor around my head during the cluster attack gives me nightmares thinking about it.
PS:My poor jeep was a complete total--DAM [smiley=hammer.gif]

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by Cerberus on Feb 17^th, 2004, 12:48am

Geez Man.....

I dunno what to say, cept, Glad you and the wife are ok. But I would wring the EMT's neck if I saw him on the street......just out of principle....

Hope you get a new Jeep too,
try to stay sane, I didn't and still feel like hell.
Ramon

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by AlienSpaceBabe on Feb 17^th, 2004, 9:48am

Sorry about the jeep... VERY happy you and your wife are okay!!

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by Gena on Feb 17^th, 2004, 10:44am

glad to hear that you are at least alive. Sorry to hear about the Jeep. Wishing PF~~~~~~~~ days to ya

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by Woobie on Feb 17^th, 2004, 11:58am

Some days ya just shouldn't get out of bed, ya know?

Glad you're ok!

Did you find a dishwasher?? We need one too! LOL!

PF to you!
tina

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by justasound on Feb 17^th, 2004, 12:14pm

Wow. Well, I'm sure glad you guys are alright. Iread in the news once about a lady being killed by a ladder that fell off a truck, and came through her windshield. Good call to swerve. Hope you get new wheels soon.

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by bobkip on Feb 17^th, 2004, 4:00pm

Sounds like another fine example of the ignorence in the medical profession. Glad you guys were ok tho. Jeeps can be replaced.
Kip

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Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by PatFan on Feb 17^th, 2004, 4:17pm

CH and not being able to move! Sounds like a living Hell!!

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by Prense on Feb 17^th, 2004, 8:18pm

on 02/17/04 at 16:17:32, PatFan wrote:

CH and not being able to move! Sounds like a living Hell!!

A nightmare I never want to experience!

Glad everything turned out ok...hope you can get a new jeep out of it. ;;D

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by Kevin_M on Feb 17^th, 2004, 8:29pm

Cripes, that sounds like a nightmare.

Take time to recover. Sounds bad but, could have been worse. You're probably going to be sore awhile. Wife ok? I couldn't have dreamed up a worse day. Take care and stay tuned in.

Best to you.

Kevin M

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by randal on Feb 22^nd, 2004, 2:42pm

Thank you for the concern, everything is ok with me and my wife but the jeep is totaled.I will buy it back and trick it out over the next coming months. My clusters have been the worst I can remember in years and that is waht I need to focus on.
Thanks

Title: Re: C-Collar Attack
Post by Charlie on Feb 22^nd, 2004, 9:07pm

Yikes.

Glad to have you aboard but what a horror story. It's another case where a wallet card with cluster information might have made a difference. It is a good idea and maybe you can make something yourself on the order of a medic alert card.

Glad it was you that took the lesser beating. Sorry for the Jeep though.

Here are a couple links that may be helpful. The first being to a technique that worked for me:

http://www.netsync.net/~charlies/

This next one is to a letter written by a fellow cluster headache sufferer that is the best of its kind to help explain these attacks to families, friends and employers. Its author encourages copying. It’s well worth it.

"http://www.ouch-uk.org/ch/note_colleagues.cfm"

Let us know how you are getting along.

Charlie