Categories: everyday-disasters
Tags: migraine
Date: 21 October 2007 23:26:16
Yes, I know that's a contradiction in terms, as 'migraine', from 'hemi-cranial'. means a one-sided headache. But it's the best description I can come up with for the headache I woke up with, and which I think has been building up for several days. It had that nauseous feeling that comes with a migraine, so I suppose I could just call it a sick headache. And it didn't respond to homeopathic migraine tabs, which usually work, but did respond to paracetamol.
What was migraine-y, though, was the general feeling of being 'out of it' that came with it, a sort of all over weakness and spaced-out sensation; and the weirdly pleasant floaty feeling after the pain wore off. I remember that feeling from when I used to have weekly migraines.
Officially I don't have migraines any more, since for the last few years I've been taking amitryptiline as a preventive (it's officially an anti-depressant, or at least anti-anxiety drug, but is also used for nerve pain). However I do still have a chronic pain down one side of my neck, and perhaps it's the osteopathy I've recently had for that, which has triggered this. It seems to be made worse by lying down, possibly because my lovely goosedown soft pillow is not really quite supportive enough. Today before church, our paid elder (nearest thing we have to a minister) was giving away pillows and cushions she didn't need any more since getting married (not that her husband resembles a cushion, just that they've merged their stuff and have some surplus). I took a small square cushion in hopes that placed underneath my pillow, it would add the necessary height. But all it seems to have done is to make my cloud-light pillow harder.
The strangest thing of all is that after I'd had an early evening sleep and joined my family to watch Robin Hood (recorded last night), I had a strong feeling of re-entering my body and feeling all its sensations again, as though I had been on some sort of astral trip. Perhaps migraines, or double-sided ones, make you live so much in your head that all the rest gets forgotten. Pretty much the same thing that dualistic religion does, then...
PS I could blame the Hat of More Than Oriental Splendour for the headache, I suppose, but I won't because the headache happened before I put it on.