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[undeterred]

I have been sick with a cough for weeks and a migraine for a couple of days but I have no health insurance and nothing to take for the migraine. I can't afford to fill my prescriptions. My job ends in a couple of weeks. There's a driveway full of snow for me to shovel. And right now I can't find my car keys.

:cry:

[TZ]

1. for your scripts...

I would suggest you check with the manufacturers and see what kind of hardship plan they have. Most have low cost for people in tight financial circumstances..... I wish I could help you with the migraine....Try something with caffeine in it?:(

[undeterred]

2. I did that in June and it took me 2 months to get

something for migraines. I will have to do it again, and I will get something in February.

[Adsos Letter]

3. Have you tried...

going into the bathroom, leave the lights off (I understand migrines are sensitive to light) and putting your feet into a tub of water as hot as you can comfortably stand it? I have had good luck with this with regular headaches...I don't know about migraines though.

[undeterred]

4. You must be watching me!

I put my whole body into a tub of water as hot as I can possibly stand. It does relieve tension and makes it easier to rest, but it doesn't get rid of the migraine.

[Adsos Letter]

6. I am...

but rest assured, I am the very soul of discretion... :D

Seriously, I find that just putting my feet in draws some blood away from the head and reduces the headache, but as I said, I don't know about migraines...when my wife and daughters get them they usually just have to sleep them off.

I really hope things get better for you soon; I do believe they will get better, hard as that may be to believe right now. :hug:

[HEyHEY]

5. My career has stagnated and I don't want to even get out of bed in the morning.

[undeterred]

7. Are you sure you're not stuck to the ice?

[FarLeftRage]

8. I lost my job 2 months ago... I'm lonely and I'm old

and it can't get any worse than this...

Can it?


:(

[undeterred]

9. I hope not.

:hug:

[FarLeftRage]

15. I hope not either... thanks

Hope you're feeling better soon.

:hug:

[whistler162]

10. Well the good news on the migraines is....

http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/news/20081105/migraines-may-cut-breast-cancer-risk

"Migraines May Cut Breast Cancer Risk
Study Shows Women With Migraine Headaches May Have Lower Risk of Breast Cancer"

and since you can't find your car keys you don't need the car so you don't need to shovel the snow!

I have 1 month and 3 weeks until I am laid off.

[undeterred]

11. I still didn't find the keys

and no breast cancer shall strike me. But other stuff might kill me first.

[whistler162]

12. True you might be hit by a giant wheel of cheese!

or run over by a stampeding herd of dairy cows.

[undeterred]

13. Do they get mad if you drink milk or are they flattered?

[Systematic Chaos]

14. My life is a true paragon of suck.

I'm one of those fat people who have been so well-loved on DU lately. I'm doing my best to lose weight and it's actually coming off - at a trickle - but I still have a lot of weight-related health problems. My wife is working her ass off so I'll have insurance while I'm trying to get on disability, but even with the insurance I can't get half the care I need because of unaffordable co-pays. Also, I should point out that some of my worst problems aren't even weight-related so I would have a completely useless left arm and pain and numbness in my hands and wrists regardless, so even typing posts here or playing video games can be painful and uncomfortable.

So yeah, I am truly down with teh suck. :grr: