Living with Migraines

It’s Friday - where did my vacation go?!?! I swear I feel like it zipped by in the blink of an eye, and it feels incredibly unfair. I have a few more days, counting New Year’s Day of course, but still I’m already feeling like I’m in mourning for another vacation having gone by. I had to do some work today. I can’t decide if I procrastinated by waiting until the day the reports were due (today) or consciously avoiding it out of principle and respect for my supposed vacation. It’s probably a little of both. In any event, I got the work done, and it took only about an hour, as predicted.

What’s bumming me out the most right now is that for two weeks of vacation, I still feel really tired and somewhat grumpy. Aren’t I supposed to be feeling refreshed and rejuvenated now? Aren’t I supposed to be sleeping in and just hanging out, enjoying the natural rhythms of life? It doesn’t seem to be happening that way. Maybe my expectations are out of whack. Maybe I shouldn’t be having any expectations at all.

My hands and feet have been freezing cold lately. I can’t seem to get them warmed up. I’m wearing socks and slippers and sitting on ym feet right now, all to no avail. I think it’s a lost cause.

In headache news I felt kind of crappy last night but seem to be OK today. I really, really need to eat better and get off the sugar addiction I’m currently on. It isn’t helping anything.

So far so good - made it through everything relatively pain-free!   Didn’t miss any performances, didn’t miss Christmas Eve or Christmas Day this year.  Very good indeed.  Our weather can’t seem to make up its mind, however.  It was supposed to rain today, and I think it did rain last night, but now it’s incredibly windy with a chance of lightning and thunder in the midst of bright blue skies.  Weird weather.

I need to drink more water.  I’ve been doing too much coffee and too little water, along with too much sugar and too little protein.  Today I’m going to refocus my attention on my diet and watch that I try to eat more of a balance of nutrients today.

My emotions were running pretty high a couple of nights ago, and I need to make sure I deal with some of those issues and feelings instead of shoving them down and dealing with them in unhealthy ways.

I also need to try and get a good night’s sleep - I haven’t slept well in several nights now.

It’s Christmas Eve and I wanted to log in and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.  We’ve got family things going on today and tomorrow, and I’m looking forward to a somewhat restful week next week on vacation.

Happy Holidays!

I’ve been doing alright this week.  I have to take better care of what I eat and drink; I’ve been getting a tad lazy about it, not having to think about it the way I do when I’m going to work and am more conscious of filling my water bottle, eating a good lunch, etc.  I’ll be at the theater with my daughter tonight, tomorrow night and most of the day Saturday, so I’m planning on bringing plenty of water as well as a good selection of snacks that aren’t messy.  I’ve been getting decent sleep and have been able to get up after 7 each morning.  That feels soooo good.   I’ve been trying to get things done early and avoid procrastinating.  If I’ve learned anything from migraines it’s that I may not have that “last minute” in which to do things if I put them off!

Did I jinx myself yesterday?  I must have, because mid-morning today I started  feeling rotten.  Lying dwn this afternoon, getting warm and trying to relax helped.  I’m felling so-so this evening; well enough to go to my ballet class, but not so great that I was all smiles all night.  At one point it felt awfully warm in the studio and I started feeling a little nauseated, but it passed.  I can’t go again for three weeks now, so it was really important to me to go tonight if at all possible, for my mental wellness as much as anything.

I’m on vacation now.  Let’s hope it’s a pain-free one!!

I’ve been feeling pretty decent since my last update.  The weather still can’t seem to make up its mind, but at least it hasn’t been going to extremes once the winds died down.  One more day of work and then it’s vacation.  I think my body knows a break is coming up, as I’ve been feeling more and more tired in anticipation of being off for a while.  Still lots to do and lots of running around with Nutcracker and Christmas, but at least the mornings have a prayer of being less hectic (and maybe even starting a bit later!).

Saturday’s strong winds were too much for my head.  What was bearable Saturday became completely unmanageable Saturday night and Sunday, and I was in bed all day wxcept for when I was in the bathroom being sick.  What an awful day.  I feel alright today, except that I feel achy and hungover, and I could really use a good night’s sleep.

I really hate wind.  For all the things that I can control, change in the pressure just isn’t one of them, and I feel it very drastically sometimes.

Maybe that’ll be my only bad headache for the month; wouldn’t that be nice?  I need to check where I am in my cycle and plan accordingly.

The winds have kicked up something fierce today - it’s hot, dry and very blustery out.  Bad, bad weather for me.  When the pressure changes I feel it in my head, and when it’s windy, I feel it in my mood too.  Makes me want to crawl into bed lest I be too grumpy too often to too many people.  I’ve run several errands already today and need to go out once more, and then I can call it a day and do something relaxing.