"And if I fall
I'll never fail
I'll just get up and try again"
I have given up hope before and plenty of doubt has crept it's way into my mind. It is a very dark, hard, and desolate place to dwell...hopelessness. It is not a place where I intend to travel back to. Today, I am feeling the pressure of losing hope as I woke up with another grueling migraine. It is day thirty one with pain and I have only had brief moments free from it. As someone who is no longer taking prescription pain or preventive medications to treat my disease, I feel the stuck in what it is I should do. After the medical ordeal I went through a few years back and how all of the medications I was on for migraine, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety and insomnia had almost wrecked my body, I vowed to stop trying to fix myself with useless band aids. I needed to heal myself from the inside out by taking care of my body. I have found success in that my fibromyalgia is in remission and I am able to manage my depression, anxiety and insomnia naturally and with therapy. My neurostimulator actually works better for me now that I am off all of those pills. I have moments where I have less than fifteen migraines a month depending on the season. Now that summer is here, unfortunately I can count that out. Hence, the thirty one day never-ending migraine.
Yet, after everything I have endured and have committed to, I am still here fighting and persevering. I cannot give up hope. Hope is what has gotten me this far. Hope in trying new approaches and wholeheartedly putting my faith in progress. I believe that I have done well without medical intervention because I have strong hopes in it working for me. After all, how we treat our bodies is key in how well we feel. I'll still have Migraine disease, but maybe it will become better managed and I won't be chronic anymore if I take care of what I put into my body. I am considering giving Botox another try to see if it'll work this time around. Adding that to my treatment is something I can live with rather than being on medication daily. As a matter of fact, I'll be emailing my neurologist today asking him to set that up for me. I have hope that it may actually be successful. Sometimes all it takes is for you to be at a different station in your life for something that failed you in the past to work for you now. As the lyrics in the song say, "And if I fall, I'll never fail. I'll just get up and try again." And if it doesn't work, that's okay too. There is always something new on the horizon.
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