Thanks, Migraines!
So...it looks like just about everything that's wrong with me could quite possibly be blamed on migraines. I've known that I had migraines for a while, but I never connected them with other symptoms that I've had throughout my life.
When I was a kid, I often had an unexplainable stomachache with some nausea. I can remember having them almost every day in second grade. Some of it might've been anxiety, but I just found out there's something called an "abdominal migraine" that kids have and it's often a predictor that the child will have ordinary migraines when they get older. I can see how having the stomachaches all the time would have made me anxious, and that would have caused more stomachaches, and so on.
Tonight, I had an experience I've had a few times before, of numbness/tingling in my face. I generally reacted to this by making sure all my facial muscles are working correctly - and they are - and that my brain seems normal - and it's no worse than usual. So it probably wasn't anything serious, but it was still weird and vaguely worrying. But then I thought - I wonder if that's a symptom of migraine aura? And lo and behold, it is! It's not the most common one, but it's a recognized one, and it makes sense because now I'm starting to develop one of those lovely one-sided headaches.
I mean, migraines aren't fun at all, but I've been asking myself for SO LONG "What is wrong with me?" and to finally have a probable answer for that question - and one that isn't life-threatening - is something of a relief. And I could be full of bullshit on this, self-diagnosing via Wikipedia, but if it gives me a little peace of mind, that's the important thing.
When I was a kid, I often had an unexplainable stomachache with some nausea. I can remember having them almost every day in second grade. Some of it might've been anxiety, but I just found out there's something called an "abdominal migraine" that kids have and it's often a predictor that the child will have ordinary migraines when they get older. I can see how having the stomachaches all the time would have made me anxious, and that would have caused more stomachaches, and so on.
Tonight, I had an experience I've had a few times before, of numbness/tingling in my face. I generally reacted to this by making sure all my facial muscles are working correctly - and they are - and that my brain seems normal - and it's no worse than usual. So it probably wasn't anything serious, but it was still weird and vaguely worrying. But then I thought - I wonder if that's a symptom of migraine aura? And lo and behold, it is! It's not the most common one, but it's a recognized one, and it makes sense because now I'm starting to develop one of those lovely one-sided headaches.
I mean, migraines aren't fun at all, but I've been asking myself for SO LONG "What is wrong with me?" and to finally have a probable answer for that question - and one that isn't life-threatening - is something of a relief. And I could be full of bullshit on this, self-diagnosing via Wikipedia, but if it gives me a little peace of mind, that's the important thing.