Living with Migraines

Well, I have had my first bad migraine in a while. I could go back and try to figure out how long it’s been, which is a good thing, I guess, that I can’t remember offhand. But this was bad. It started yesterday morning around 10 a.m. I took my prescription, but it didn’t work. Around noon I tried to nap with my daughter, but that didn’t help. I powered through two tutoring appointments in the evening, but it got worse and worse. I slept on the couch with an ice bag to my head, so that I wouldn’t wake anyone up with the ice cubes rolling around, or with my trips to the bathroom to throw up that I knew were coming. And they did - 3 times. Yuck. My husband took our daughter over to his parents’ house for the day, and now it’s 4 in the afternoon and I am finally ready to face the day. There’s still the dull throbbing on the side of my head, deep inside, that tells me that the migraine isn’t gone yet. I hate this part in some ways because I feel relief that the intense pain is gone, but at the same time it could flare back up. And it’s way too late to try my medication. If it doesn’t work at the onset of the headache, it’s not going to work. I’m fortunate that my in-laws are able to watch our daughter for us on such short notice like this. Side note - I ordered some of that MigraSpray that I mentioned in my previous entry, along with a supplement that has both B2 and magnesium in it. So I’ll only have to take two pills a day instead of 6 to get essentially the same amounts of the two supplements.