it was a good morning

[flamingsword]

This morning I was carefully gleeful that I only had a very mild headache and no nausea. The trick is to wake up early and takes meds then go back to bed and wake up when they've already taken effect.

This lasted 'til 5 o'clock, when the head pain came back and the nausea didn't but instead I had dizziness, confusion, time disorientation, the feeling that I was going to fall off the floor, and TRACERS. It was like being on sense-hightening drugs and then having someone inject battery acid into your skull.

I took one of the Imitrex and it worked enough that I could start my last client late and be coherent enough to work on her even if things don't feel quite real (am I a hologram?). I am glad I have so many years of doing this that I can give a good massage while not being able to stand steadily or talk coherently. Our brains are a wonder.

Other migraineurs: does your vision ever start making it seem like there are lines tracing patterns on carpets and wallpaper? Any repeating visual pattern has extra lines in it if I'm neurologically interesting. :( It's very distracting.

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[elucreh.livejournal.com]

That happens to me when I get migraines, which are blessedly rare. It helps me to sort of deliberately unfocus, so the lines blur? Then at least it's not like they're slicing my brain into ribbons. On the other hand I'm so blind that unfocusing is pretty easy for me, so it might not work for you? But try, I guess.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

Yeah, taking off my glasses is the usual solution, but then I'm walking around squinting like a shrew.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

I might have meant a mole. Possibly.