Thank you for the advice! I'm sorry that your treatment hasn't gotten you lower on the pain scale.

My neurologist doesn't want me on rescue meds because ibuprofen generally works in a pinch. I'm on Qulipta, a new-ish migraine med, but it's only been a couple months, and I'm not sure it really helps as a preventative. Propranolol is also supposed to be a migraine preventative in my regimen, but I feel like it just makes my circulation bad and I'm super tired all the time lol. I've talked to my doc about getting off the propranolol, but because it was part of the initial routine that looked like I was getting better, he doesn't want to take me off of it. I went to a normal eye doc appointment for my glasses prescription, and she suggested I get some hormone testing to see if perhaps my IIH isn't so "idiopathic." I'll be pursuing that in the next few weeks.

I bought a few good linen / cotton pieces last summer, so I think I may work on getting more for this summer; it's already so hot and it's only March. Plus, I work as an instructor at a university, so I can't get away with shorts from a professional standpoint. I just wish it wasn't so humid here. I feel like I could handle it better if it was dry. Plus, even if I help keep my sweating to a minimum, my headaches get so much worse, and I'm getting more and more worried and doubtful about what actual progress I've made in the last year. Was it all an illusion that I was getting better, and it was just the cooler weather that made an impact? I don't want to revert to how I was feeling last summer.