A Migraine Mardy
Monday, May 17th, 2004 17:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeWell that wasn't a very good weekend. On Saturday I felt a bit blah, and then on Sunday I woke up with a migraine. I staggered out of bed and took a couple of Migraleve, but I knew it was doomed to failure as the migraine had already taken hold. I fetched my jell-filled eye-mask from the fridge and lay down again, but although it relieved the pain a little it never stays cold very long. So as it was hot weather, I lay on top of the duvet with a corner of my dressing gown over my eyes and the radio on. I got up for ten minutes in the afternoon and half an hour in the early evening, but still felt too rocky and went back to bed. I eventually got up for a couple of hours in the late evening. This morning I had the remains of a headache, a stiff neck and that spaced-out post-migraine feeling, but I made it into work.
That is my usual pattern for weekend migraines, but weekdays tend to be a bit different. If I wake up with a headache that I suspect to be a migraine, but go to work anyway in the hope that it will get better then I wear my prescription sunglasses and spend half the morning in the loos thinking I'm about to throw up and the other half trying not to look at my computer monitor. After a morning of doing almost no work whatsoever, I throw up in the loo (usually twice) and then go home sick. I tend to walk most or all of the way home, as the thought of getting on a bus is too nauseating to contemplate. But I normally feel better by about 3 o'clock, as if the strain of getting up and going to work has hastened the course of the migraine, making it worse but over more quickly.
That is my usual pattern for weekend migraines, but weekdays tend to be a bit different. If I wake up with a headache that I suspect to be a migraine, but go to work anyway in the hope that it will get better then I wear my prescription sunglasses and spend half the morning in the loos thinking I'm about to throw up and the other half trying not to look at my computer monitor. After a morning of doing almost no work whatsoever, I throw up in the loo (usually twice) and then go home sick. I tend to walk most or all of the way home, as the thought of getting on a bus is too nauseating to contemplate. But I normally feel better by about 3 o'clock, as if the strain of getting up and going to work has hastened the course of the migraine, making it worse but over more quickly.
