Migraine Chain Strikes Again
If you've been following along, you may have noticed that I put some pieces together regarding my health set-backs recently. Every time I get Covid, it seems I get a mild sort of cold along with some loss of taste, but only in one spot-- and THEN, after the cold is over, I get migraines for anywhere from a couple of days to several weeks. In general, though, the time period for the chain of migraines I get afterwards is trending shorter.
And... yeah, I got it again the week of my birthday, and I've had a few migraine days afterwards. Although now I know that if light just hurts even a little, I need to avoid light and take medication and I can avoid most of the migraines. Not always, but mostly. I can plan a little and save myself a lot of hurt. So I am adapting. It's another dink on my suckage list, but I'm figuring out how to deal with it.
Cat's helpful [she said sarcastically] suggesting that I will probably have to get those ugly old-people wrap-around sunglasses.
... le sigh...
I already have wrap-around sunglasses and use them a lot (that look pretty okay, if I do say so myself). But honestly, when light hurts enough to trigger a migraine, a dark room is the only thing that will do. Sunglasses don't block out enough light to prevent a migraine trigger, and those that do-- blind me. Cat wants me available to run errands more, but if I can't see at all-- I'm useless anyway. Besides, it's light that triggers it in the mostly quiet area where we live, but noise could be a trigger, or smells, if I'm out and about. I'm afraid there's no easy fix for this, and I know that drives Cat pretty wild, because she's trying to problem-solve and the idea that there's no fix doesn't land well with her.
I get it. I'm not liking it much either, but I've had 40 years to get used to the idea that sometimes my body and/or brain won't cooperate with me and often there's not a lot I can do to make that better. Cat's been living with me for almost 7 years now, and she's figured out a lot of stuff about me and how I work (or don't) but some things are taking longer to hit home.
Right now, I'm just out of commission on light-sensitive days, and if I'm too distracted to notice the mild light sensitivity, by the time it graduates to acute sensitivity, it's too late and a migraine will strike and then it will take the rest of the day and part of the next to get back to functional-- or not, because fatigue is still pretty prominent these days, especially after yet another round with a Covid strain.
Frustrating as FUCK!? You betcha!
And... yeah, I got it again the week of my birthday, and I've had a few migraine days afterwards. Although now I know that if light just hurts even a little, I need to avoid light and take medication and I can avoid most of the migraines. Not always, but mostly. I can plan a little and save myself a lot of hurt. So I am adapting. It's another dink on my suckage list, but I'm figuring out how to deal with it.
Cat's helpful [she said sarcastically] suggesting that I will probably have to get those ugly old-people wrap-around sunglasses.
... le sigh...
I already have wrap-around sunglasses and use them a lot (that look pretty okay, if I do say so myself). But honestly, when light hurts enough to trigger a migraine, a dark room is the only thing that will do. Sunglasses don't block out enough light to prevent a migraine trigger, and those that do-- blind me. Cat wants me available to run errands more, but if I can't see at all-- I'm useless anyway. Besides, it's light that triggers it in the mostly quiet area where we live, but noise could be a trigger, or smells, if I'm out and about. I'm afraid there's no easy fix for this, and I know that drives Cat pretty wild, because she's trying to problem-solve and the idea that there's no fix doesn't land well with her.
I get it. I'm not liking it much either, but I've had 40 years to get used to the idea that sometimes my body and/or brain won't cooperate with me and often there's not a lot I can do to make that better. Cat's been living with me for almost 7 years now, and she's figured out a lot of stuff about me and how I work (or don't) but some things are taking longer to hit home.
Right now, I'm just out of commission on light-sensitive days, and if I'm too distracted to notice the mild light sensitivity, by the time it graduates to acute sensitivity, it's too late and a migraine will strike and then it will take the rest of the day and part of the next to get back to functional-- or not, because fatigue is still pretty prominent these days, especially after yet another round with a Covid strain.
Frustrating as FUCK!? You betcha!