No foolin’, this a real thumper and it’s…ergh!..driving me to distraction. But it’s giving me some fantasik, fandas…nnngghh… fan-tas-tickly different insights into the human condition so…gah! Fukmerunnin!..ask away!
THuMP…THUMP…THUMP
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How often do you get headaches?
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What brought this one on?
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Are you one of those people like my mom that takes like 50 Tylenol pills to “cut off the headache at the pass”? That is, instead of taking two in a four hour period of time, she takes three right at the beginning because supposedly three makes the headache away and two won’t.
You just want to be left alone, huh? I mean, when you are sitting there, with your head down, you just want people to stop asking, “Are you alright? Can I get you something? Everything ok?”
Where’s the ******* Excedrin?
How would you feel about someone who has never had a headache in their life?
I went home early with a headache today. Good thing those migraine meds work for me, though, or **Lobsang **would be getting a beating. (Or maybe just a pained expression.)
Fact, I would envy them but I wouldn’t wish a headache on anyone.
- Can you describe the headache for me? Have you had anything similar in the past?
- On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate the headache (10 being the worst pain you’ve ever felt in your life).
- Was it a sudden onset headache, or did anything precipitate this (any auras, trauma/injury, or dizzy feelings?)
- Any other signs or symptoms?
- Anything make it better/worse?
- What do you think it is?
Wow, an ‘ask the’ thread than doesn’t contain any information I don’t already know. Really, really well.
(Feel better, Inigo Montoya.)
Are you at work?
Because if not, if you’re at home – Get off the computer and go lie down, young man! :dubious:
(I hope you feel better, Inigo. I had a nasty post-seizure one last week – I know how bad headaches suck.)
Lobsang: Just for that I’m having a particularly neurotic cocker spaniel sent to your next-door neighbor’s house. BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK!
**Bees: **1: Maybe once a month. 2:Who knows–feels like a weather change and some emo-issues, but I’ve got a pretty tender spot on my left temple like maybe I smacked it on something. Or maybe I’ve got a botfly maggot. Or not enough mayo on my tinfoil hat. 3:I’m a 3 Ibuprofen kind of guy. Dido is doing the trick tonight but it’s still keeping me awake.
Nzinga: In my mind I’ve run at least five people through with my father’s sword for that very offense. You’d think that the pile of cooling bodies would make the point that I’m a little antisocial today. Or at the very least the way my eyes are throbbing out of my skull with every beat of my little heart would be …nnnnnnnrrrggh…what was I just saying?
Purgatory: I “loaned” it out to other people in the office who’ve had headaches. Now mine’s all gone and … oh here comes a depression tsunami!
Fact: How I would feel about them would depend entirely on where they get their cornpone! Or at least if they were bringing me a drunkenliversquirrel.
Alpine: I’m in Denver, is it winter in the real Colorado yet? Oh wait…I think I remember getting an elbow to the head Sunday afternoon when the room went nuts at the end of the game!
Ro0sh: 1: bruised feeling on left temple with a dull ache, eyeballs are pulsing, huge hand is wrapping around the back of my head and climbing up over the right…squeeze…yeah, I get these several times a year (except without the temple thing which I’m beginning to think is from a blow to the head from sometime since last Friday)
2: it is a very persistent “3”; imagine for a minute that you like dogs just fine normally but there’s a dog in the background barking at a constant but unpredictable cadence and it just.won’t.shut.up. It’s sort of like that.
3: I just sorta noticed that I’ve had it for longer than necessary. My head feels a little like Iraq: worthless at its core and beset from all sides by a bunch of minor nuisance headaches.
4,5,6: Apart from the blunt trauma to the side of my head, which I believe I sustained in a battle with a cave troll during a misadventure this weekend, I associate this kind of headache with bipolar depression. Unconnected with anything in real life, I will get this overwhelming urge to cry vigorously from time to time. I know it’s just pathology and that to give in to it is the kiss of death so I suppress it and my entire face tingles and feels like it’s swelling. I force it back the energy seems to transfer back into my head. It’s a little like plugging your nose when you sneeze–I internalize an inappropriate emotional response and instead have to deal with a headache and a sinking spirit. But hey, at least it’s not ruining my life anymore, eh?
koeeoaddi: Didja know that the depression struggle was sometimes a physical one?
Guin: I was at work, will be again soon though. A fresh new day with the same symptoms and a growing abyss before me. And my work requires me to balance compassion, reason, deadlines, and hard-assedness. I can totally see me using the line: “That’s all I’m going to offer for the injury, and I think it’s already too much. Accept it or sue my insured–I’d love to see you convince a jury that you’re actually even hurt.”
What is the square root of 27 + 59 + 634 + 82 + 454 + 368 + 73 + 529 + 834 + 1038 + 272 + 3293 +992 + 666?
Do you want me to fax you a Vicodin?
Lieu: do you mean the square root of (27 + 59 + 634 + 82 + 454 + 368 + 73 + 529 + 834 + 1038 + 272 + 3293 +992 + 666) or the square root of 27 + square root of 59 + …nnnnrrgggghhh!.. aneurism. Damn it, now my brain’s gone all slushy.
Sigmagirl: I have to stay away from drugs, the make me talk backwards.