Keep Taking the Tablets

Your doctor will probably put you on a course of prophylactic medication. These are tablets that you take all the time that are intended to prevent further episodes. Keep taking the tablets. 

Keep taking the tablets. They may, or may not be effective at preventing further episodes. This is not the point. The reason to keep taking the tablets is that it keeps the doctor happy. And if you do get another episode you need a happy doctor; you need a happy doctor immediately; and you need that happy doctor on your side. So you keep taking the tablets. 

Keep taking the tablets. I have been taking prophylactic medication for over 20 years. I had episodes during this time. I had my doubts about the efficacy of the medication, but I kept taking it. It had no noticeable effect that I could discern. Recently, when I changed my medical insurance, there was a period when I could not obtain the medication. I doubt it was just a coincidence that my first episode in eight years occurred while I was not taking the tablets. (I should have paid for the medication myself and claimed it back on the insurance later.) I shall keep taking the tablets, probably for ever and ever. Amen.