Today I have another migraine, well this is a continuation from one that I’ve had all weekend only today it is getting worse. I do not know how much more of this pain I can handle. I am at work again with this migraine just like last Monday. My boss; he is great, he is a chiropractor that does acupuncture, gave me an adjustment this morning to help. The adjustment seemed to help for a short time. Then it was lunch time, so I ate lunch and now the migraine is roaring back.
I can’t think. I can’t focus. I’m even having a hard time writing this right now, but I want to get my thoughts down before they get lost because all the medications, I’m on make my brain mush sometimes and I can’t remember a lot of things.
Today I had some new symptoms to go along with my pain, numbness and tingling in my hands. Both hands. First it started in the right hand and only lasted a couple seconds then about 10 minutes later it was in my left hand, that is when I had my boss give me that adjustment. The numbness and tingling have gone away, and I have not felt it since this morning. I hope it stays away.
This evening as I finish this post; those weird pains, the numbness and tingling, that I was feeling this morning has not returned, I’m glad for that. However, being a mom is hard when you have a migraine especially when you must get on to your kids for not doing their chores that you specifically told them to do this morning. I love my kids very much but sometimes they make it hard. Today, being MLK day, they did not have school, yes, they stayed home by themselves, but they are old enough to do so. Simon, being the oldest at kid at home, is a very responsible young man. All my kids are but sometimes they just don’t listen, and I must get on to them for not doing their chores.
As the day went on, my migraine did too. It kept getting worse. I did not want to cook tonight so I took the kids to the grocery store to get some TV dinners for tonight and after we got home from that I took my handful of medications that my neurologist prescribed me. You know, it is funny some of my migraines are funny. There are days that they just knock me out and all I want to do is sleep and that is what I wanted to do while I was at work but when I got home, it was a different story. The pain was unbearable, but I was not in the mood to lay down. I needed to find something for my youngest daughter and noticed that it had fallen between the fridge and the cabinet. So, I did what any good mother would do and moved the fridge to get it for her but while I was there, I noticed that it had not been cleaned in what seemed like ages, so I cleaned under and behind the fridge. :/ That’s what you do when you have a migraine, right? Well, I did, and I don’t feel any better but as the night wears on, I am feeling ready to go to sleep.
This migraine has been a weird one. It started on the right side where as my migraines are usually on the left side. The pain was in my lower back of my head and in my neck on the right side. It also moved into my jaw, not as much as a couple days ago though. The medications, there are 4 that I take at once when I get a migraine, I do not think are working very much. They work for a short time to kind of dulling the pain but not to get rid of the pain like the doctor told me they would. After a short time, the pain comes back although not as intensely as before.
I really need to figure things out. I want to be free of these pains. I want a normal life. I really do not remember what a normal life is anymore. I have been in so much pain for so long that I do not know what it is like to not be in pain. On top of the physical pain of the migraines, there is the pain that is never seen, depression and anxiety. You know, I think it might be crazy, but I think that my migraines and depression might be linked. I have had both for as long as I can remember. I should talk to my neurologist about this.
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