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Welcome To My Migraine…
… I think you’re gonna dread it!
Ok, the Alice Cooper moment has passed… moving on!
Some of my friends and family know that I suffer from migranes. Usually, I may get one once or twice a month. Sometimes, two months go by without one and I count myself fortunate when that happens. I don’t know or recall any of my family members getting these killer headaches, other symptoms included with the package. Christine, my wife, is blessed with rarely ever having to deal with this particular agony. However, she has known me for eleven years and cannot count how many times she’s seen me with my eyes tearing, clutching my head, whimpering on my bed and praying to God to please “make it stop!”
Lately, I have had the unusual occurrence of migraine attacks for six straight days. The first day was just a moderate headache, quelled with asprin. Each day thereafter was another incident in growing severity. Today, two Excederin Migraine pills, which worked on the last couple of day’s attacks, had NO effect even after a couple of hours. I had to go home early from work and supplement with rest and two Aleve tablets. It did the trick, even though it made the nausea a little worse. That’s another unusual occurrence; I rarely ever have nausea accompanying a migraine… just sensitivity to sound, sometimes light and dizziness, and an inability to think properly.
An hour or so ago, I was feeling well enough to jump on Google and search out some info. I found M.A.G.N.U.M., which has a site devoted to “migraineurs”, and some of the info helped, if it didn’t scare me a little. I wanted to find out more about male migraine sufferers, but most sites on the M subject cater to women or are too clinincal for my tired and aching brain to read through. Women migraine sufferers outnumber their male counterparts as much as four to one. Also, one of the long-held myths is that men don’t get migraines. While being rare, I knew two male co-workers in the company I work for who regularly experienced attacks, one of them diagnosed as chronic. He even shared his supply of prescribed T-3 (Tylenol with codeine) with me when I had a bad episode on an overnight shift. Anyways, I also searched for blogs written by migraineurs. I found a good one, put a introductory comment in there, and thanked the writer for keeping up a good blog.
The whole point in all this nattering: This blog, in addition to being a vessel for whatever I feel like writing about (see the headline at the top of the page), will also be supplemental as a “migraine journal”. Hopefully through the entries, I’ll be able to pinpoint what works best for me in my battle with these head whallopers!
Time to rest some more. Thanks for reading my blatherings!
Tags: Migraines
