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Hi everybody it’s tracy and i hope you’re doing well as you can see today is amo big day and i’m actually pretty excited because this is month 11. i can’t believe that after this month i will only have one more month and i will have been taking aimovic for an entire year and if you’ve seen my previous videos you know that i cannot express enough how thankful i
Am for this drug and how life-saving it’s been it has given me my life back i mean literally um i do have you know some side effects that i’ve been dealing with and so far they’re fairly manageable right now i guess i’d have to say the one side effect that’s kind of antagonizing me the most is the chronic fatigue and i literally can’t get through any day without
Taking a nap which is just absolutely crazy and mind-blowing and it’s just kind of hard to i mean it’s hard to strategize a day when you have to take a nap but my neurologist prescribed me cymbalta two months ago almost two months ago which is an older antidepressant that is currently used for nerve pain and chronic fatigue so i’d say the first few days maybe even
The first week i noticed a difference it was not like i had like a huge burst of energy it was more like it’s kind of um not the best feeling but it was kind of like um i can’t think of the word right now but basically it kind of felt like i needed to kind of jump out of my skin like how i feel when i’m on prednisone and i was previously prescribed prednisone for
Almost two solid years for my migraines back i think in 2014 and 2015. and if i’m in a really bad episode i’ve actually had to take prednisone in the last i think year and a half just one time but it’s just not not good for you to be on it that long but anyway i will be speaking with my neurologist very soon and if we decide that it’s best for me to try something
Else she said that i can try emgality that will be the next one that i’ll be trying so it’s also an anti-cgrp medication and i just wanted to give a vig an honest full 12 months before i made up my mind because i really do love it it just works so well for me in fact this month i only had one migraine and it wasn’t even like a full-blown migraine it was just i
Was headachy because there were two days i was working i spent i think eight hours in the yard two days in a row so i was a little dehydrated and i was just headachy and then the day after i got my first no my second covet vaccination i got a little even more headachy in the night so i just took my ubrelvi which is the board of medication for migraines and it went
Away and i haven’t had any more problems no more headaches at all this month so i’m actually taking the injection a little bit later in the month than normal just because even though all of my doctors said it was fine for me to take my injection with the covert vaccination i just wanted to give my covert vaccination the full two weeks before i gave myself the
Amove injection just because i just felt more comfortable and that’s choice i made and i’m thankful that even though i’m taking it a little bit later that i haven’t had any migraines so yesterday was the two week period after my second code vaccination which i’m even more excited about because i just feel happy that i can help do my part to keep myself healthy
And also keep people’s people around me healthy as well so this will be my 11th injection for the year with a moving you see i have the injector here make sure that the fluid is clear at all times if it’s cloudy you’ll have to take it back take the little front cap off i’ve really enjoyed actually um giving the injection in my stomach because it’s actually been
Less painful for me which is pretty cool considering it’s not really that painful anyway so i’m just going to grab some of the flesh here in my belly press the injector down and then press the button and it clicks and then you can also see the yellow indicators all the way across showing that the medication has been fully injected put a little band-aid just in
Case some of it comes back out sometimes it does can’t even see where it is there it is and now i’m good to go so now you have just witnessed me give myself my 11th shot of amove and again if you’re considering taking this medication or if you’ve tried everything else out there on the market and you just don’t know what else to do i highly recommend you speaking
With your neurologist to see if a move would work for you and best of luck i hope you all are doing well and i look forward to see you next month bye
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My Brain Pain! Aimovig Month 11: My Migraine Journey. By Traci Wilkerson Steckel
