November redux

[tamaranth]

An update to New Month's Resolutions:

Since Saturday I have:
- written nothing, due to migraine
- read nothing new, due to migraine (occasional half-hours of quality rereads)
- eaten very little, for values of 'eat' that include 'retain'
- veered between calling myself a slacker and wishing this would STOP.


I haven't had a migraine for ... I don't know. Years. After having them every month, 11am on a Thursday, and occasionally at other times. I really don't want to start having them again. And I don't know what triggered this. Wine on Saturday night? There was a definite gap between hangover and migraine, and they are substantially different.

What makes me sure this is a migraine is how it feels. Severe pain in a specific part of head. Nausea, not just when eating but at the thought of eating. Or of smelling food. Or smelling anything much. Visual disturbance (thank heavens K could drive back from Novacon: I couldn't deal with lights, or be sure that what I was seeing was actually there). Emotional upset (though perhaps it is reasonable to cry helplessly at the thought of all this starting up again). Aching all over (to do with muscle tension). Sleepiness but can't-sleep-'cause-of-pain.

On the other hand my migraines never lasted more than 24 hours (though I'd feel wrung out and beaten up for the next day or so) and this has been coming and going since Sunday afternoon. I quite like the bits when it goes. I hate the bits where it comes back.

And yeah, 'cause I'm a slacker at heart, one bit of me is saying it's not so bad to be tucked up in bed with (very grateful) cats, and books for those times when it doesn't make me feel sick to read, and Nanowrimo if I could be bothered.

Then I try to actually think about Nanowrimo -- or I open the file and start to read what I've written -- and the nausea comes back and the words warp on the screen. And maybe I'm not slacking and skiving after all.
(This LJ post, by the way, has been composed in several sessions. And I may have to have a lie-down once I click [Post].)


This morning I turned on my writing laptop and it died. Luckily, after several safe-mode reboots and some auto-file repair, Windoze fired up and I could save my 8K of Nanowrimo onto the USB stick. So I am now online on werk laptop (though 'online' is making me feel sick) looking at new laptops. Though it would probably be better to just use the werk laptop until I can go somewhere and shop properly.

Comments

[melusina]

::hugs:: I think you ought to call a doctor.

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: I think fabu is right.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

You are not slacking!

I could take the morning off to take you to the doctors, if you can get an appointment tomorrow (or if it's ring on the day). Just let me know, so I can be sure to get up early enough to come over.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Lots of hugs, Ms T. Your post brought back memories of my own 3 year phase of migraines -particularly the bit about flashing lights when driving and the smells.

It sounds like you've changed your lifestyle to avoid the triggers. An isolated attack is probably just that -is there anything that has changed recently? -but I do agree that you should see your doctor just in case.

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

General advice is that when it hits three days you should go to the Doctor and check that it is a migraine and not something else.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Hugs. Have emailed.

Doctor *does* sound like a good idea unless you're sure this is exactly the same as what you've had before.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Ow, and many sympathies. I've been lucky enough never to have had migraine, but plenty of people I know have.

[lj_stowaway]

{{{hugs}}} Piling on the "call the doctor" bandwagon.

Hang in there.

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

I know your previous migraines were hormonal, but haven't you just come off some meds, and rather suddenly at that? Could there not be a connection there?

I seriously hope you feel better soon - I've never had a migraine and I really never want one, they sound absolutely horrid. I get knocked out bad enough just with tension headaches!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

My best friend gets two+ day migraines. For her, they are tied to dehydration, which is hard to fix with the nausea side effect. But she recommends sipping ginger tea very slowly.
Lots of sympathy.

[elinor.livejournal.com]

::hugs::

Go see doctor. Seconding ivory_goddess with wondering if there's a link to stopping meds.

::more hugs::