I want a new head
Aug. 26th, 2002 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianWhat is worst about this is that I think to myself, "owww, this really hurts!" -- but it doesn't. It just feels fucked up. If it were pain, yeah, it'd really be hurting like crazy, but it's this weird unfocused twisty thing that doesn't really hurt. And why is it suddenly feeling like this? Did I just start parsing it as migraines and it was always like this, or did that last bike wipeout mess something up permanently? I didn't injure myself at all, and I had my helmet on, but it was the only time I got that neat prismatic aura.
On the other hand, some things do hurt. Anywhere you press on my head, it hurts. My cheekbones feel awful. Using the vibrator on my face feels really weird; there are too many complicated things inside there that rattle. The back of my head, where there is only a simple brain, loves it! At least, it numbed the hurty bits long enough for me to get to sleep last night. Short on sleep, again. Sheesh. And after I exhibited actual willpower and stopped playing FFT when I said I would, too.
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Date: 2002-08-26 03:34 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about it not being just, I'd say that's describing a different place in the migraine trajectory/timeline but maybe it's not like that for you.
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Date: 2002-08-26 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-08-26 03:45 pm (UTC)justpainno subject
Date: 2002-08-26 04:15 pm (UTC)I do have a spiffy book on Headaches and natural methods for dealing with them (pressure points, aromatherapy, all sorts of stuff like that) if you'd like the reference.
Mostly what I do is use either a hot bath or a cold ice pack, depending on which one feels right. And go from there.
When I was getting the aura without pain for longer periods of time, my doctor at the time suggested a short course (one month) of blood pressure medication (even though my blood pressure is usually slightly low now) - he said that it often gives the blood vessels enough chance to get back to normal, and gives lots of people (including those who get aura symptoms but not much pain) relief for a longish period of time (6 months or so, often.)
Dunno if you want to look into any of that.
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Date: 2002-08-26 04:40 pm (UTC)I remembered that about you and the blood pressure stuff. I keep denying that it's as hard as it is; I might start keeping a chart of how bad the head feels like I did with my emotional state when I was in the SAD study. It's dreadfully informative to do that.
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Date: 2002-08-26 04:57 pm (UTC)"Headaches: Headaches can be eliminated using natural alternative therapies" by Robert Milne and Blake More.
Big blue trade paperback with gold letters and a head on the front. I got it at the Whole Foods (natural foods store) in Minneapolis last summer.
Published by Alternative Medicine.com
It mostly talks about stuff you can do at home, rather than stuff that needs training to do, but it does say things like "You might want to try chiropractic or acupuncture treatment with someone qualified." The back section has a grand overview of the techniques covered, with some other resources, and the basics of things to try that won't hurt you to try on your own.
The blood pressure thing really did help me, even though I kept doing the "It's not that bad" for a while. I was ok trying it because it had few side effect issues, and the actual meds have been around for a long time.
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Date: 2002-08-26 07:14 pm (UTC)now I take imitrex, which for me totally erases the headache and almost all memory of it to the point where it sometimes makes me a little nervous. still, not nervous enough to STOP or anything, jeez.