(fucking) Migraine

[hirez]

[ I am logging these with at least one specific tag. At least I think I am. Given the state of my brain, it's hard to tell. Thus you are not expected to respond. Although it is jolly nice when people do. ]

Anyway. Woken at 4am from the folded position by my brain exploding. Which was a bit bleedin' previous.

I think I'm back to what-passes-for-normal now. In that it seems to be the C21st and I'm looking forward to watching Meades on the tellybox, rather than staring balefully at things and wondering about a casual vomit. Well, I say 'staring'. I mean 'not using my eyes too hard because their interface to my brain has basically stopped producing useful output.'

(Note for future self which I will ignore/misplace when this happens again: Give up. Go outside and carelessly observe things in the middle distance. Go for a walk and view the things around you, not allowing your head to remain in any one position for too long.)

On the other hand, I have just found a Stylophone (very old) and a DR-110 (less old).

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[sammason.livejournal.com]

This sounds awful. Awful.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think I'm getting used to it. Well, there's always the thing in the back of one's mind - 'What if it all stays broken this time?'

[drumiller.livejournal.com]

You can manage outside light during migraines? Makes me want to remove my optic nerves by force and typically kicks the visual auras into high gear. and now with more vomit.

My current anecdote on migraine joy, VitD levels seem to have some relation. Lower incidence (n>0) while supplementing to get blood levels. Typically would have had at least 8-10 in the past 2 months, down to one for past 60 days.

Hope the recovery is going well. And yay that you've managed some level of productive within the day. Noise-making joy with the purchases!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I can these days. Mostly due to necking Imigran at the right time.

Hm. You're the second person in a week to mention supplemental vitamin D. I think that's a sign.

When I say 'found' I mean 'I tidied the computer room, unearthed a box, and there was kit I'd not seen since moving in.' Which, um, yes.

[reddragdiva]

I've been taking Vit D at half-toxic level for a while now. I feel enormously less sluggish in general.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Migraines, like the female reproductive system, aren't actually proof against intelligent design. They are proof of malevolent design.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of answers to that. Neither really fit for a public post. In short - Pontrilas.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yikes, being woken by a migraine sounds heinous. I usually look on them as a great way to end a day.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's the thing when you're feeling that miserable--you know there are things that will help, but lack the volition to do them. (((hugs))) Hope your brain has unfolded by now.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Honey, I'm worried by the frequency of these. What does your doctor have to say?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Nothing useful the last time I went. My experience of GPs is either really good or absolutely piss-poor, and the piss-poor stuff is, um, yes.

It's mostly fucked-up neck (which had been massaged this very AM) and old glasses prescription (about to be sorted). And me forgetting to stop and look at far-away things.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Ugh, sympathies on the migraine front. Mine turned out to be the post-ictal phase of epileptic seizures. What I thought were migraine auras were actually simple focal seizures in the visual cortex. If it happened in my sleep, I woke up with the migraine. If the seizure crossed over to the other hemisphere of my brain, I fell over with a drop attack.

The anti-epileptic the neurologist put me on (lamotrigine) for the most part controls it; I was seizure - (and therefore migraine-) free for 6 months, though I had 2 last week - I suspect stress is a major factor there. (Not to mention hormonal upheaval after the miscarriage.)

It's been a vast improvement over the August a couple of years back which was just one long migraine.

I do find vitamin D levels affect things too, but then neurochemistry is such a complex thing and the more we learn about it the more we realise how mysterious it all really is and we actually know very little.