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Things I really need to do but can't seem to make myself do them:
there are clothes rotting in my washing machine. I had a migraine and couldn't hang them up, and the migraine lasted about a week, and now there's fungus growing on them. I've read online that this can be fixed by washing them 3-4 times and then hanging them in the sun to dry. Adding vinegar to the washing machine can help. The washing machine is right next to the bathtub, and I can't bathe properly because the smell is overpowering and makes me dizzy and light headed.
1) I'm still sore and constantly on the verge of a migraine. There's no guarantee that if I start a load I'll be able to hang it up.
2) Medicines sometimes help the migraines but not very much. I mostly have to ride them out. It may be a week yet till I can be sure that I can hang it up to dry.
3) There are noise restrictions in my building, so I can't make lots of noise after 8pm. This means that I'd need to get up early in order to wash the clothes. I got up early for a few days, but it made the headache worse, and it rained anyway, so not much sunlight.
4) I think the real reason is that when I do eventually take them out of the washing machine (having been washed X more times), I will have to touch them with my hands.
5) I can't really afford to replace them. Some of the items in the washing machine I could get over losing (I do have other shirts), but others are items I don't own enough of as it is.
6) i am very allergic to bleach and have trouble breathing if i walk through an area where it was used within the last half hour. so i cannot use it on my clothes. but vinegar should do the trick.
7) if i leave it much longer, the fungus will eat holes in my clothes. and leave stains. but some of the articles of clothing may not be too stained any may be wearable around the house, once they are fungus free.
Similarly, the floor in the apartment is filthy. Absolutely filthy. Covered in all sorts of stuff. It's a really hard carpet to clean (you have to brush it to coax the dirt out before you can vacuum it, or the vacuum doesn't do anything). But vacuum cleaners are loud and the noise would drive my pain levels up even higher. i can't vacuum, because i would have to devote an entire day to it (literally. have done so in the past and it still wasn't fully clean, just cleaner), and i dont have the stamina for a day of it. this is really the same problem as the laundry except that it's less bad and less urgent.
On 2: What kind of drugs are we talking about that don't help? If you haven't tried triptans, that could be a thing.
drugs that don't help:
1) anything over the counter (aspirin, ibuprofin, acetomenicin (sp?), etc.) do not touch my pain levels.
2) coffee can lower my pain levels by a small amount, but i am sensitive to caffeine and use it sparingly.
3) i have some (expired) tramadol, which gave me rebound headaches, so i stopped taking it.
4) promethazine used to help a lot, but i think my body got used to it, and now it does nothing.
5) Quarelin (metamizol-sodium, caffeine, drotaverin-hidrochlorid), which is available here, but was taken off the market in most western countries because of a few deaths, does help, but i'm wary of taking it too often or too much. it won't make it all better, but it can take me down from a 7-8 to a 3-4 on my pain scale. i can function at a 4, but stlil have to be careful. I'm useless at an 8.
6) i think they tried some antidepressants as well as a teenager, since i was depressed in addition to the migraines back then, and some antidepressants have been found to help with migraine. (I am no longer depressed), but they didn't help (neither with the depression nor with the migraines). 14 different psychiatric medications were tried, most of them were not approved for use in children, all of them caused bad side effects, and i still have facial twitches which started when I was a 12 year old on zoloft. (i am 27 now). this has made me wary of medication, since most meds cause harm even when they do good, but i am willing to try medications with a patient doctor who understands that if there is a rare side effect (lactation, aphasia, sleeping 18 hours a day, extreme paranoia), I will probably get it and deem it worse than the condition it was meant to treat.
i've never taken the preventative meds for migraines, just the PRN ones.
My access to medical care is somewhat limited by not having insurance (€25 a month), but I know a doctor who is willing to see me even though I don't have a health card and who might be willing to help me access medication at health card rates. Deciding whether to see her and take advantage of this is a moral quandary. On the one hand, I believe this to be stealing and I believe stealing to be absolutely wrong by standards I hold myself to. (It is a black and white issue with regard to my own conduct. I admit to grey areas for other people by assuming they are doing the best they can and making their own choices based on their own moral reasoning.) On the other hand, the citizens, of which I am one, who cannot afford to pay €25 a month for healthcare are the ones who need it the most, the ones for whom preventative healthcare would have vast and far reaching effects beyond their (our) class. And perhaps I would be able to pay the €25 a month for healthcare if I were healthier. The doctor would be at risk for helping me and others like me if they were found out, but the chances of their being found out are small, especially since I have no intention of telling someone who it is that is helping me, and it is their decision to help.
I have accepted help in getting Quarelin in this fashion (it is prescription only, but I prefer the other method of accessing it: going to the pharmacies where the employees won't ask the prescription). But for experimenting with new medications, I would need to make the decision to see a doctor regularly who can evaluate my progress and make adjustments as needed.