Tuesday, April 03, 2007

head and shoulders

I have had a headache every day since last Sunday, with varying degrees of intensity. It is very uncool. Thursday brought me a textbook migraine, complete with aura, blinding pain, and incredible nausea. Last week I thought it was because I was really stressed about some work stuff, but I'm not anymore and yet the headaches continue. I'm almost out of Imitrex pills. The bad thing about being prone to migraines (or rather, a bad thing, other than the pain) is that even a regular headache will freak you out because you worry that it's the beginning of a migraine and you get all tense and give yourself a migraine. Because you're thinking, not today, I don't have time for that today, then you do it to yourself. Or at least, that's how I feel. And I tense up my neck and shoulders and jaw so that I give myself a crick in my neck and some pain when I eat. Maybe this all just me. Maybe other people don't do that. I'm having trouble remembering how to function in spite of the pain. I know I used to do it all the time, before I started taking massive amounts of narcotics and Valium. By the way, May will mark 2 years since I have taken any narcotics or Valium. Although I do still take a little Flexeril from time to time for my neck and/or jaw. But I only take one, rather than taking two to three times my recommended dosage each day. So yay me. But I wish this one would go away. I was doing really well off all my preventive meds until now. I don't want to have to go back on them.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

That totally sucks! I hate having headaches, but I have had one for 2 days now. I took some meds this am though and I am feeling better. I hope that you can figure something out!