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Soo this weeks been real fun..um my head has hurt all week. So Tuesday I decided to take a nap around 5..didn't wake up until 11:30 so I quickly did my spanish homework and went right back to bed to end up getting 12 hours of sleep. Yet when I got home from school&sidekicks on Wednesday..I still managed to fall asleep around 6..only this time not waking up until 2am totally confused on how long I had been sleeping and what had happened that day. So I just rolled over and went back to sleep..to get another 12 hours of sleep before school. You'd think after getting 12 hours of sleep two days in a row I'd have trouble going to bed on Thursday. Nope not at all. I feel asleep once again at 6..and didn't wake up until Friday morning..giving me yet another 12 hour sleep. Then Friday nite, I was out w/ Sara and honestly was ready for bed around 6..but I sucked it up and watched my all time favorite movie, White Chicks, w/ Ryy, Scott, and Sara. And completely crashed 20 minutes after they left at midnite. Soo last nite I only got 10 hours of sleep..and could hardly stay awake watching dance today. I made it through 5 and 1/2ish hours of work and I'm still not sure why I'm sitting at my computer typing this when I'm half asleep&my bed sounds really nice right now. Butt I guess it's cuz I've been meaning to put a couple excerpts from this book my mom got me, The Headache Sourcebook, on here..just so maybe it'd help people realize that I'm not just overreacting about a "lil headache" and that I'm not doing this all for attention and shit.
This is from the "Common Myths and Facts about Chronic Headaches" section..
"Myth: Headache is not a real medical problem like diabetes or thyroid disease.
Fact: According to the National Headache Foundation, society has not always viewed headache as a serious disability. Many prominent headache reserachers like Dr. Richard Lipton of Albert Einstien College of Medicine in the Bronx and headache specialist like Drs. Seymour Solomon and Ninan T. Mathew of the American Council on Headahce Education have shown that headaches are a genuine biological disorder. The proliferation of headache clinics and their large-scale success are further testimony to the legitimacy of chronic headache pain."
"Myth: Chronic headaches result from hypersensitivity to pain: 'You must be one of those people who are overly aware of every little sensation in your body.'
Fact: Anyone who says "it's just a headache" obviously has never experienced the throbbing, debilitating head pain of a migraine that makes it difficult to work, attend school, or enjoy a close family relationship. It is true that the degree of pain sensitiviy varies from person to person, but there is no scientific proof that chorinic headache sufferes are overly sensitive to pain. In the book Migraine: The complete Guide, the American Council on Headache Education states that "considering the instensity of their pain, many migraineurs have learned to be exceptionally stoic, carrying on many of the functions of everyday life despit a level of pain that would demolish someone experiencing it for the first time.""
"Myth: It's all in your head; ignore your headache and it will eventually go away.
Fact: To be sure, headaches do affect the head. Headache pain, however, is as real as the pain of stomach ulcers and arthristis. Headaches can be a symptom of a litany of medical disorders, such as undiagnosed high blood pressure...or a migraine disorder that involves a series of physiologic changes in the brain, blood vessels, nerves, and other structures in the head and neck..."
Another section that helped me was the "Headaches in Children and Adolescents"..
"Children with recurrent headaches report significat depression and anxiety. They are depressed that their peers consider them "weird", "different", "weak", and "undependable". Missing school, getting poor grades, and possibly flunking out add to the sufferer's misery. Anxiety stems from the uncertainty of not knowng when an excruciating episode..will strike. Small wonder many childhood headache sufferers miss lots of school and usually lag behind their peers in schoolwork...A complete explaination of migraine headaches, as well as its prevalence, effects, treatment, and prognosis, will likely help others understand and empathize with the young sufferer."
Sooo basically that last sentence says exactly why I typed all that out..maybe people will understand now..