why do the gnomes have icepicks?
Who of my readers knows about brains and heads and headaches?
Right now I am having the most wretched 'icepick headaches' -- every 5-30 seconds I get a sharp stabbing pain in my head.
Over and over again.
In the same place.
Every time.
It sucks.
A lot.
Add to that some all-over soreness, more cognitive and manual dysfunction than usual, general irritability and wanting to break things, and certain sounds getting on my nerves more easily than they usually do ... it's not a good scene. Plus which, with every passing second I grow a little more tense and nervous, waiting for the next shoe to drop.
This is not the first time I've had these. But it's been a while. The worst I've ever had them was several years ago, when I had this same sort of thing happen for four days straight. It was a different part of my head that time.
I don't have any pills that help -- no pain reliever that I've tried helps, though I suppose a sedative would knock me out so I didn't care any more. But I don't have any of those anyway; the point is moot. I've heard that coffee helps, in that the caffeine acts as a vasoconstrictor limiting the supply of blood to the brain. I've also heard that alcohol helps in that it's a vasodilator, allowing more blood to the brain ... but I can never remember which helps more. And it seems kind of pointless to do both at the same time.
If any of my readers know anything about heads, headaches, brains or the treatment thereof, I'd love to hear.
Sometimes it's not easy being green.
Right now I am having the most wretched 'icepick headaches' -- every 5-30 seconds I get a sharp stabbing pain in my head.
Over and over again.
In the same place.
Every time.
It sucks.
A lot.
Add to that some all-over soreness, more cognitive and manual dysfunction than usual, general irritability and wanting to break things, and certain sounds getting on my nerves more easily than they usually do ... it's not a good scene. Plus which, with every passing second I grow a little more tense and nervous, waiting for the next shoe to drop.
This is not the first time I've had these. But it's been a while. The worst I've ever had them was several years ago, when I had this same sort of thing happen for four days straight. It was a different part of my head that time.
I don't have any pills that help -- no pain reliever that I've tried helps, though I suppose a sedative would knock me out so I didn't care any more. But I don't have any of those anyway; the point is moot. I've heard that coffee helps, in that the caffeine acts as a vasoconstrictor limiting the supply of blood to the brain. I've also heard that alcohol helps in that it's a vasodilator, allowing more blood to the brain ... but I can never remember which helps more. And it seems kind of pointless to do both at the same time.
If any of my readers know anything about heads, headaches, brains or the treatment thereof, I'd love to hear.
Sometimes it's not easy being green.