Living with Migraines

In between getting up to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters, I thought I’d update my blog.  October really hasn’t been a very good month for me in terms of migraine.  I have had to take Maxalt or Frova nine times this month.  Part of it was weather related - we had Santa Anas earlier this month and then yesterday we swithed to rainy weather.  Part of it was being sick - sinus congestion that was triggering headaches and then  migraines.  There was a little bit of work stress one week and a few nights of poor sleep.  And then of course there were the usual times when migraine was likely.  So all in all, I’d like to put October behind me and hope for a much better November!

I have a visit scheduled at the headache clinic later this week.  Before I go I need to put my journal into a format that I can turn into them.  I think I’ll just use a calendar and show when headaches happened plus what I took in terms of medication, and indicate my monthly cycle as well.  This far into the game, where things are fairly status quo, well, that ought to suffice.