April 10th 2019
email from me
Do you have any idea when exactly i had that fainty seizure at your place? Like, at least what month? I’m finally getting assessed for a CSF leak, and I’m wondering if that attack I had is when it first popped. Do you remember if my perpetual headache started right after that? I’ve been looking through old emails and pictures and trying to put together a timeline, but i havent found what I need.
Thanks.
April 12th 2019
email from Stefan
A seizure type fainting spell? Jog my memory a bit. I think i remember you almost fainting in bed. Is that what you meant? Or, was this like, in the kitchen or living room or something?
email from me
No.
I was at your house in Maywood, and we were outside having a post sex cigarette. I asked you to hold my cigarette for me, and promptly collapsed and started shaking. You caught me, brought me inside, and I kept fading back out. You got me up the steps and when you laid me on your bed, flat, I was then fine.
email from Stefan
Yeah, okay. That was after <Roommate> moved in and has been there for about 2 months. It was late May or early June
emails from me
And was I living with my Aunt Mary at that point? Or in OG?
(and how did you figure when it was?)
email from Stefan
I was talking to <Prime Roommate> about eating an individually wrapped birthday cupcake of mine that was sitting in the fridge a few days later when i was telling <Roommate> to mind his business when he was mentioning you coming down to get something out of the fridge one night.
Im like 95% sure that was during that few days. I’m pretty rock solid on those events all taking place in those few days.
April 13th 2019
email from me
Huh.
I was wondering if that was was started the onslaught of headache, but the headache started right around Halloween 2009.
email from Stefan
You’re saying you think that’s WHEN it started? Or, you’re saying you think something caused it to start?
I’m that not sure what “it” is. You’ve been having debilitating migraines periodically since then?
email from me
Yes and no.
There was a perpetual headache that left me literally bedridden for months at that time. I had to lay flat on my back or the pressure in my head was unbearable. They gave me antibiotics which made the headache recede, but never fully went away for years. I’ve been on antibiotics ever since. When I stop taking them, the perpetual headache at the back of my head returns. Now, they think my issue is actually a leak of cerebrospinal fluid causing that headache.
I also have been getting migraines since around the same time. Weeks or months at a time. The migraines are coming from my nerves in my neck being crushed, I think. The DSF leak adds pressure to my neck, keeps it less buoyant. The last ten years have been a blur of headache.
The antibiotics increase the CSF pressure (not DSF, sorry, typo), so they’ve been balancing out my head while it leaks, masking the actual problem.