Look...it's hot and I'm getting migraines....huh....
Yup, yup...it's lovely. The problem is, they aren't all full blown, stick through the eyeball migraines all the time. They are the nagging, aching ones that I pretend to myself are regular headaches because I haven't eaten yet. Or that I drank too much soda and am having caffeine withdrawals. And so, I ignore them until finally it gets to the stick through the eyeball stage and I can't sleep because it hurts so bad it won't LET me sleep, and my meds make me stupid and icky feeling (my throat swells up and I am completely drained of energy).
And none of this is new to anyone. It's just frustrating to me because the last time I saw the neurosurgeon, he was all excited that I hadn't had a migraine in weeks and I said "Well, yeah... but the weather has been cool...it's different when it's hot" and he seemed to wave that aside and feel that I was "cured".
Yet, here we are. It's been hot. And I've been having migraines. I need to try to write down all these little pains and figure out which are migraine related and which are stress related and how the hell I take care of all of it. I'm stressing just writing about it, which I can feel is making my jaw tighten up, which is making it hurt, and transmitting said pain along those facial muscles to my eye and ear and if I'm not careful, will likely trigger a FRACKIN' MIGRAINE!!!!
AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok. Deep breath. Happy thoughts. Kittens and puppies. Fluffy clouds in a pretty blue sky. Disney World.
We will not speak of this again tonight.
And none of this is new to anyone. It's just frustrating to me because the last time I saw the neurosurgeon, he was all excited that I hadn't had a migraine in weeks and I said "Well, yeah... but the weather has been cool...it's different when it's hot" and he seemed to wave that aside and feel that I was "cured".
Yet, here we are. It's been hot. And I've been having migraines. I need to try to write down all these little pains and figure out which are migraine related and which are stress related and how the hell I take care of all of it. I'm stressing just writing about it, which I can feel is making my jaw tighten up, which is making it hurt, and transmitting said pain along those facial muscles to my eye and ear and if I'm not careful, will likely trigger a FRACKIN' MIGRAINE!!!!
AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok. Deep breath. Happy thoughts. Kittens and puppies. Fluffy clouds in a pretty blue sky. Disney World.
We will not speak of this again tonight.