March 10, 2003

• My Migraine and I

  
  

  I have yet ANOTHER migraine.  WHY? WHY?  AAARGH…I hate my migraines.  I don’t know what triggers them, so i don’t know what to avoid.  *whimper*  Whenever I tell my mom, she says, in that soothing soothing voice, “Ugh, you always get headaches (then she does that sucking on her teeth sound)”.  Oh, that sympathy…how do I live without it.  And whenever I mention it to my physician, she replies, “you just don’t sleep enough”.  Hmmmm.  Well, I get an average of 8 hrs. a night.

  
  

  My migraines start out innocently enough.  A little tension in my neck…seems like nothing.  Then slowly it works it’s way up.  A slight ache in the base of my head (the left side, always the left side).  Then it spreads its way up to my temple and behind my eyes.  Still the left side.  And there it rests…dancing crazy dances in my head.  Fun.  Then I start seeing things a little brighter through my left eye…and it feels like someone is trying to push it out of my socket from behind.  And it just gets worse and worse.

  
  

  How do i cope?

  
  

  Well, if I have excedrin migraine around, I’ll pop two in as soon as I feel the neck tension.  That usually squashes it.  But for times like these, when I have no drugs on hand, I just sit quietly…with my head tilted to the left.  And i walk like a traditional Chinese dancer…mincingly small steps.  And I try every headache cure I’ve heard of, short of drugs.  I try pounding my “third eye”…I try rubbing the spot right behind my temple…I try squeezing the webbing between my thumb and pointer finger.  Since that usually doesn’t work. I just sit and wait for the pain to get so bad that i go to the bathroom to throw up.  Lovely.

  
  

  How much did I throw up?

  
  

  I actually threw up quite a bit as a kid.  I would tell my teachers i have a headache.  They would be asses and refuse to let me go to the nurse since I was “not sick enough”…not even to get Tylenol or Advil.  Then I would sit in class with the pain and then throw up.  Then they’d be sorry.  I threw up a lot in elementary school cuz that was before I was allowed self-access to painkillers.  After that, I managed to limit myself to one throw up session per school…once in JHS, once in HS (CaffeineNicotine, you were there…i don’t know if you remember or not), once in college.  Oh, and I did it once at church too. 

  
  

  So, if you have any easy-fix headache cures, holla back! 

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