Don't You Have Sunglasses You Can Wear?

I've had a moderate to severe migraine going on 8 days. It ebbs & flows-evil little monster. The problem is once a pain cycle digs in, it gets very hard to break. I did the usual things: 

Extra rest

Extra hydration

Less screens 

Less stress

Imitrex

Ice packs on my head

Ssshhhhhhhh

More imitrex 

Repeat

Probably other stuff I have forgotten

By Friday, I decided that I did not want to go into the weekend with the pain. My DR had said that if 3 days had gone by with a headache that wouldn't go away, I should come in. So I did. 

After being put in a bright room & requesting the lights be turned down, my dr came in & ordered a toradol shot. I told him it wouldn't do anything. It never does. Shot was given. 20 min, 30 min, nothing. I went back. The medical assistant was sent out to tell me that it could take up to an hour to feel an effect. (Really? How weird. You're the same person that told my husband 15-20 min 20 min ago.) ok, so an hour was basically 15 min away by then & I felt EXACTLY  the same. I was also sitting in a fully lit and fully full of people waiting room. The medical assistant went away & an RN came out. She had me go back into a very, very bright room while talking to me in a loud voice. I was answering in a whisper. I requested that she turn down the light. She said--and I am not making this up--"don't you have sunglasses you can put on?" WHAT?! "no", in my whispering voice "I don't but that light turns off". She then proceeded to inform

me that I had to wait in the waiting room for 2 full hours from the time of the toradol shot before my dr would do anything else. Or, she suggested, in her not inside voice, I could go home, lay down in a dark, quiet room and see if that might help. I started to cry then as I pointed out that I had tried that (ummm for 15 years) and had already taken max doses of imitrex. Sunglasses.....

My dr had her give me a DHEA shot which made me violently sick to my stomach but did nothing to my head. I was then told that if I wanted any other help I could go to the emergency room. 

Review: I went to the dr on day 5 of a migraine as he suggested. He tried 2 things that didn't work but only spoke to me once for about 15 seconds of my 3.5 hour visit. He then decided it made sense to send me to be triaged at the ER where I would be at the back of every line, there for hours, spend hundreds of dollars & I'm not even sure what they would do that he couldn't. He's capable of writing a prescription for Vicodin the same as an ER doc. Ergh.