I've been having migraines since I was . . . 12 or 13 I think? My memories of junior high are jumbled. I'm not sure. I just tried to make coffee and the smell was so strong I almost threw up. That's not one of my normal symptoms! None of this is right; it's like I'm having someone else's migraine!
I don't have a daily preventive prescription because I've avoided sunlight, the most obvious and already painful trigger, for the majority of my adult life. I've been off gluten for a year now. I didn't get any gluten OR sunlight recently, and those are my migraine triggers, right? Or those have been the identifiable ones, and now that I'd had those sorted I was looking forward to never having another migraine.
I've had basically the same headache since February 10th and it keeps coming back, getting better without going away under aspirin/acetominophen/ibuprophen for a few hours, getting worse when my blood pressure goes up, I get goosebumps and my skin tingles when I'm in bright light. I have intermittent nausea, confusion, dizziness, my eyes feel weirdly swollen, and now I'm getting migraine-like pain with TRACERS. I'm full of emotions and the most identifiable are bafflement, betrayal, and bitter frustration.
But this isn't a series of migraines. It's one long headache that waxes and wanes like a fickle bitch.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2011-03-24 06:08 am (UTC)I don't have a daily preventive prescription because I've avoided sunlight, the most obvious and already painful trigger, for the majority of my adult life. I've been off gluten for a year now. I didn't get any gluten OR sunlight recently, and those are my migraine triggers, right? Or those have been the identifiable ones, and now that I'd had those sorted I was looking forward to never having another migraine.
I've had basically the same headache since February 10th and it keeps coming back, getting better without going away under aspirin/acetominophen/ibuprophen for a few hours, getting worse when my blood pressure goes up, I get goosebumps and my skin tingles when I'm in bright light. I have intermittent nausea, confusion, dizziness, my eyes feel weirdly swollen, and now I'm getting migraine-like pain with TRACERS. I'm full of emotions and the most identifiable are bafflement, betrayal, and bitter frustration.
But this isn't a series of migraines. It's one long headache that waxes and wanes like a fickle bitch.