Living with Migraines

Made it through another week.  I felt on the verge of a migraine last night - temple pulsing, neck and shoulders tightening, sinus pressure - and I did all I could to stave it off.  I took two Advil, warmed up my herbal shoulder wrap and put it around my neck to help relax and warm the  muscles and went to bed before ten o’clock.  I felt fine this morning, so those measures all worked.  The shoulder wrap has several herbs in it, along with flax seed (I think) and can be warmed up in the microwave.  I’ve had it 2-3 years now and it still smells good.  It often helps ease tension and particularly helps when I’m also cold (which is often the case!).

I’m feeling pretty low tonight, though.  It’s been a particularly heavy week here at home, and the one thing this evening that normally brings me joy and an escape from the world (a ballet class) left me in tears, frustrated and angry.  I look forward to my class all week, and normally I come home happy and energized, feeling good as I head into the weekend and try to shrug off the week as best I can.  Tonight was awful.   I need to figure out what I’m going to do to make sure that I don’t feel this way again.  I left class 15 minutes early and it was all I could do not to cry before hitting the pavement of the parking lot.  I cried the whole way home.  Not a good night for me.

This weekend should be alright.  I had something to do Sunday that’s been canceled, so that opens up an hour or two that I thought would be taken up.  I love when things like that happen - it feels like genuine “free” time, time I truly didn’t think I’d have.