Migraines are the worst. They are just so debilitating. Thankfully I've stopped getting them as often. I hate it when one hits you when you are at someone else's house. You just have to leave, because what are you going to do, sleep in their bed?
Oh it's awful when you're away from home. I got one at the gym once and didn't realize what was going on until it had worked itself up to a full blown migraine. I had to drive home and it was actually dangerous. I should NOT have been driving because I couldn't look directly at any of the stop lights, or headlights. I spent the drive looking out the windshield sideways. Learned my lesson not to do THAT ever again. If I was faking it, you know, I don't think I'd risk myself and others just to get home and hide. But people don't see that so they think it's just melodrama!
Oh, there is a girl in office that totally lies about her migraines and it makes me so angry. I've had them. You can't watch TV and post on LJ all day with one. You can't stare at a computer screen. She gives the true sufferers a bad name.
Oh wow, I've never known an actual faker. Bleh. I've known people that sort of bandied about the term because they thought it meant "bad headache" until I explained, that no yeah, there are definitely unique symptoms. Gah, that must be so annoying to be lumped in with the likes of someone like that.
I absolutely hate the migrain thing, too. People just assume you get headaches and are exaggerating/being a wuss. When I get a migraine, I have to go home. Period. I throw up, I need to hide in a dark room, I can't see straight, get dizzy, etc. It annoys me how misunderstood the migraine thing is.
I have two options, hours of agonizing pain, or going home and sleeping it off. I have chosen the latter every time except once. I'm actually a very lucky migraine sufferer is as much as I hardly ever get them, and when I do I can usually sleep off the worst symptoms.
But at the same time, it means that I don't have migraine medication lying around, or a good concept of how to cope with them. If I get one, I'm down for the count, flat out. I'm not exaggerating a thing, I just don't know how to deal! Some people get them more regularly and in dealing with it week to week they seem to be more together about it.
It's crazy. Pain is so secret and subjective that other people are always going to call fake, or tell you to suck it up without taking anything else into account. I hate it. =T
I get visualizations just like your brother. It's nice to have the warning. I'm very lucky in that it only happens now and again. I have gone a year or more without them. I'm taking this is as a sign to get good and healthy, start exercising again.
Thanks for the hugs, sug! I'm feelin' better now. Ready for a little crazy crack fic. =P
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But at the same time, it means that I don't have migraine medication lying around, or a good concept of how to cope with them. If I get one, I'm down for the count, flat out. I'm not exaggerating a thing, I just don't know how to deal! Some people get them more regularly and in dealing with it week to week they seem to be more together about it.
It's crazy. Pain is so secret and subjective that other people are always going to call fake, or tell you to suck it up without taking anything else into account. I hate it. =T
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Thanks for the hugs, sug! I'm feelin' better now. Ready for a little crazy crack fic. =P
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