The Whine thread.

[Aquarius]

My suggestions as a concerned friend (and not to be confused with the advice of your actual doctor, yada, yada, yada...):
1. Call in sick at work. Nobody wants to work with someone who's in excruciating pain. Your coworkers will thank you.
2. Eat something if you can and then take 4 Advil at once. A maximal strength antiinflammatory might dull the pain enough so you can drive safely.
3. Drive to the student health center if it's safe to drive. If not, and you're sure it's a migraine and not an intracranial aneurysm or something, take 2 Benadryl and try to sleep it off.
4. If that doesn't work, go to a walk-in clinic tonight and see if they have samples there.

Good luck. I hope you feel better soon.

Thanks, Dis. I really do appreciate this. Unfortunately I was already at work when I read it, from my phone. I tried not to be cranky and unpleasant and stayed out of everyone's way. We were short and I wasn't busy, so mostly I covered the phones where they couldn't see I was suffering. There was just some weirdness between me and the friend who owes me the pill, because...well, damn! I sacrificed one of my pills because I didn't want her to suffer because I know what it's like, but when the tables are turned all I get is "Oh wow, that sucks, sorry."

Any way, it was kind of starting to go away a little by the time I left work at 7:30, but I went ahead and picked up some generic Advil and took 4 like you said...and it's pretty much gone now. I think the original cause was already gone by the time I took it, but I had all kinds of inflammation and irritation left over so it still hurt.

I don't believe it's an aneurysm. I've been getting them since my early 20s, and they've mostly coincided with my monthlies or something I've eaten. Most doctors I've seen agree that it's nothing a good healthy dose of menopause won't get rid of. Joy. So I won't get migraines any more, but I'll turn into Ms. Road Rage like my mom.

Sleep usually doesn't help me, it's more like a "pause button" on the pain. Before I was diagnosed years ago, they usually lasted about 8 hours (at least the head pain did; the stomach upset and digestive difficulties lasted about 4-6 hours more). If I was in pain for 4 hours and then took a 2 hour nap, I'd still have about 4 more hours of head pain to go, so I eventually learned that it was better to just stay awake and get through it.

I'm mostly better now, I just feel clobbered. Fell asleep in the chair before 9pm tonight, that was fun. But at least I know I get to wake up normal tomorrow.

[WarpGirl]

Stupid Wirelss, Stupid e-mail, Stupid internet! I finally FINALLY polish up my next chapter to submit and now the stupid attachment won't uplod into my e-mail! I hate wireless! Who developed it? THEY DID NOT MAKE IT RELIABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT It sent good! But everything I said before still applies. Wirless is evil.

[Alelou]

If you're using IE8 and it's closing on you, it might be the new update being anal-compulsive about security. It likes to shut down when I try to transfer data. All I can say is try Mozilla Firefox instead.

[WarpGirl]

I am using Firefox. It's my network adapter that's the problem.

[Distracted]

I'm mostly better now, I just feel clobbered. Fell asleep in the chair before 9pm tonight, that was fun. But at least I know I get to wake up normal tomorrow.

I'm glad you feel better. You know, if these are menstrual migraines there are treatments for that. If I were in your situation I'd talk to my GYN about trying continuous contraception. JMO.

[WarpGirl]

Yeah it's a wonderful concept. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. BUT if you can get it to work for you, I highly recommend it.

[Aquarius]

I'm mostly better now, I just feel clobbered. Fell asleep in the chair before 9pm tonight, that was fun. But at least I know I get to wake up normal tomorrow.

I'm glad you feel better. You know, if these are menstrual migraines there are treatments for that. If I were in your situation I'd talk to my GYN about trying continuous contraception. JMO.

I am on the pill...the only thing it did for the migraines is regulate when I get them, like everything else. I also get a few here and there that seem to relate to what I eat/drink and when I do it.

[Distracted]

Yep. Most people have more than one migraine trigger. What I was referring to, though, was the continuous pill, where you don't get periods. I've occasionally had good success with that in patients that only get migraines when they're on their cycles. You'd have to be lower risk for hormonal side effects like blood clots, though, and some OB GYN's (mostly the older ones) still won't do it even though it's been proven that making a woman bleed every month by stopping her hormones really has no clinical usefulness other than to reassure her that she's not pregnant.

[Aquarius]

Yep. Most people have more than one migraine trigger. What I was referring to, though, was the continuous pill, where you don't get periods. I've occasionally had good success with that in patients that only get migraines when they're on their cycles. You'd have to be lower risk for hormonal side effects like blood clots, though, and some OB GYN's (mostly the older ones) still won't do it even though it's been proven that making a woman bleed every month by stopping her hormones really has no clinical usefulness other than to reassure her that she's not pregnant.

I'll check in to that. It seems I'm most vulnerable to the food/drink triggers right before I start or the week,week and a half after I finish, the rest of the time I can mostly eat whatever I want whenever I want. Weird. I mostly try to control those by paying attention to the calendar and what time it is...hey, it's not like skipping a late-night snack is a BAD thing, right??? I just look at it as my body's way of telling me it doesn't WANT that cup of ice cream or chips and salsa or whatever. And if I do miss dinner, I try to limit my snack to a small portion of "real" food and minimize the carbs, and most of the time I'm okay if I do that.

The other thing I thought I'd look into, if I could afford it, is botox. I've read studies that women who get it report fewer migraines, and the ones they do get are less severe. Ii don't have wrinkles (knock wood and bless my vampire-pale skin for making me avoid the sun!!) but if it stops the pain that would be awesome, too.

[WarpGirl]

My migranes are still giving me grief, go in for another nerve blocking shot tomorrow. I'm going to ask about botox for spasams in my neck and shoulders. And the stupid wireless only works at night. Go figure.

[Aquarius]

Let me know what they say about the botox. I'm very interested in it as a possible solution.

[WarpGirl]

IDK how it would help you. I mean my CP makes me very atypical. So it's more likely anything they tell me might not be so good for you. I'd rather not have that happen.

[JadziaKathryn]

Whine: the guy who was being all flirty with me over Facebook especially suddenly changed his Facebook status to "in a relationship" and since that usually doesn't happen after the first date I feel like he was just playing me. And the dining hall's menu promised crepes tonight but didn't deliver.

[Aquarius]

Hey, I'm not gonna base my whole prognosis or course of action on what they tell you. I'm just curious what they say is all. Don't worry, I'll filter it through what I already know and do some more research. I just don't know anyone personally who's gotten it/contemplated it, so I'd like to talk to someone else in the know is all.

[WarpGirl]

I didn't say you were going to decide based on what they might tell me Aquarius only that my condition would most likely make any information useless to you. JadziaKathryn that is why I never flirt online unless it was with my ex whom I knew in person before we started chatting.