The sound of frying synapses

[hirez]

Of the several less-than-wonderful things that happen when a chap has a migraine, one of the non-obvious ones is that you come to think that your life is being led by someone else. I mean, it clearly isn't... Well, semi-clearly anyway.

But that feeling of watching from the wings remains. I was staring into space earlier and thinking 'That fellow needs to pull his socks up'. It took many seconds to realise that I was the fellow in need of some sock-pulling.

Most odd.

Comments

[drumiller.livejournal.com]

Yup. Though my favorite from my earlier years was pottering crazed around the house for over an hour looking for my glasses, when I finally realized the reason I was able to search for them in the first place was that they were on my face.

Or the colliding with corners coz your spatial sense is all shot to hell, and you think you've got plenty of space and really don't.

I still prefer these to the "sparklies" and hurl-o-matic sound/light sensitivity.

Makes me want to put in for a new brain or at least a neurochemical flush of some sort.

[pxcampbell.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you've had another migraine.

On the bright side (if there is a bright side) -- you probably know better how to describe out-of-body experience than most people. Yes?

[outerego.livejournal.com]

I am a recent convert as to how hidcous migraines can be...
...I've known many sufferers and was, quite frankly, skeptical of their suffering (to be truthful, I still am).

I had a dental induced migraine once - a side effect of the treatment I had - classic tunnel vision, pain that is at the same time *locatated just there* but everywhere at the same time. It passed. Put it down to the drugs... The heck with those mallingerers, I said - mine was real, pharmaceutically induced!

Then the past year - eighteen months - I experienced something awful, narrowing of vision, extreme pain, could not even bear the sight of a scented candle. Even fainting. A footfall sounded like an an amplified omen of death from JG Ballard.

One of the things my doctor pointed out was (you know the usual blather about what causes a migraine) but I might be suffering from a "rebound effect" - some people get migraines from stress etc, some get it from the lack of what fights the causal effect - I stop exercise/training/riding and bang! all that that I was working off came back like a bad elastic band and I spend a couple of days in The Dark Room.

Must ride harder.