I know that everyone here has been thinking to their collective virtual selves *" Where the hell is Shirley?" *
Shirley has been suffering immensely since Saturday with a migraine that has threatened to melt what little gray matter she posesses.
This is not the normal run of the mill that time of the month hormonally related power headache that Shirley is accustom too. No-sir-ee, those four to five hour migraines were nothing compared to this pain o’thon lodged behind my left eye presently.
To quote Arh-nold, It’s not a tumor. I went to the doctor on Monday and was given some Imatrix and the pill form didn’t work speedy enough for me. I will be getting the nasal spray version of it tomorrow. My local pharmacy is out of it and I had to drive through blinding sunlight, down jarring roads to pick up a back up pain killer.
Thankfully, the inlaws have the kids and hubby worked helping a friend this weekend, so my only responsiblity was to let the dog out and in and filling my face with comfort foods that can be prepared in under 10 seconds. So far, only the ice cream sandwiches meet this requirement.
So, for now I am one with my bed, with my pillow on my face.
What I am getting at is *I want some sympathy * dammit.
I know how you feel and I am sorry. I also suffer from migraines, but when I get them (like yesterday) I go to bed and stay there, not jump on to the computer and tell everyone. The last thing you need to look at is a computer screen, so goodnight.
I’ve been there Shirley. Glad to hear the kids are taken care of and you can relax. Darkness, that’s what I like. Maybe a nice bubble bath. Feel better!
thank you for your kind words. (Yeah, that sounded sincere.)
Now if someone could come over and rip off the paper to the ice cream sandwiches and feed them too me, I’d be really happy. If only my dog had opposable thumbs.
My mom got killer migraines nearly every month for years. She finally went to the Headache Institute (I think it’s somewhere in Ann Arbor) and they got her good drugs. But I remember learning very early on that when I came home from school, if Mom was in bed, be quiet. Now that she’s had a hysterectomy & is going through menopause, the headaches aren’t coming nearly as often.
Migraines run in my family. Almost all the women get them during PMS, except for me. How did I get so lucky, you may ask. Ha. I didn’t. I ended up with epilepsy. Darn near every seizure I’ve ever had has been 3-4 days before my period starts, or 1-2 days after. Woohoo. My seizures are quite well-controlled with meds though, thank the Goddess (been seizure-free for almost 3 years now).
If I lived just a little closer to you, Shirley, you know I’d be over there unwrapping those ice cream sandwiches for you. Maybe you could just put them on your head instead. I bet that would feel good.
That sux, Shirl. Go to sleep–only thing that ever helped me. And it might not have helped, but gave me something to do that wasn’t too horrifying while the migraine went away on its own.
Shirley, I feel for you. Happens to me as well. Imitrex doesn’t work period on me except to make me drowsy. Hang in there. My mom made it through about ten years of migraines before they finally dissapeared, and I don’t plan on having to go through them that long myself. It’s a phase with most people I hear, so no worries babe, everything is gonna be awright!
I’d unwrap your ice-cream sandwiches, but my fingers can’t reach, sorry.
I am sorry… I hope you feel better soon. I know how bad they can be, not because I have them but because my sister does. I know just HOW bad they are from her. My sister is deathly deathly afraid of needles and getting shots… worse then anyone I have seen. But when she has a bad migrane she has a perscription that is a shot she has to give to herself in the leg. She will do it without a second thought, becouse it helps the pain.
Shirley, if it makes you feel any better, I was planning on starting another “What has happened to these people?” thread tonight and you were one the people I was going to mention. Seriously!
Well, now that I know, I would like to extend you a large bucket of sympathy. Here, have a fully unwrapped ice cream sandwich…let me wipe the ice cream off your chin…can I dim the monitor for you?..would you like some more pain medication?
I am still not dead and feeling tons better! Much is owed to the sympathy demanded and met here.
Imitrex spray nearly killed me…well, that’s extreme, it made my somewhat fading migraine swell up and feel like a raisin of pain get bigger like a ping pong ball in my head. Then it went away nearly completely.
So, now my kids are back and I still have a little headache, but I am happy the nippers are home.
I wonder how they will like ice cream sandwiches for 3 squares a day…my butt sure does
Cristi-phone - Dear Goddesses, that certainly sucks having epilespy. I’ll take ass kicking migraines any day.
Evilbeth, you are going to lose your evilness around these parts if you are so kind to what could easily become a non-virgin sacrifice.
Demo - you made me laugh.
Rysdad, hubby is desperately trying for the throbbing of a different kind. I am a firm beleiver that migraines and headaches are caused by dreaded sperm buildup.
Eh, doesn’t suck too bad. Like I said, mine are controlled by the drugs. But after so many years of seeing my mom suffer from migraines, I think I’ll stick with the seizures. They only last a few minutes.
[hijack]Hey Shirl, can you make it to the Dopefest at my house? Kids & SO’s are welcome! :D[/hijack]
Hey, Persephone: I read in an Oliver Sacks book that migranes are actually seizures of the temporal lobe in the brain, causing the lights and such. I get them (knock on desk) occationally, but they only last 4-5 hours, and if I can manage to fall asleep through them, I will be able to sleep them off. But it’s interesting that your mom had migranes and you have epilepsy.
Glad you’re feeling better, Shirley! Unless you have mutant healthy-food-freak children, I doubt they’ll be complaining about the ice cream bars much.
My GF used to get killer headaches. I got her a gell-filled mask from the cosmetic counter at some department store. You can either freeze it or microwave it depending on your needs. The GF said it helped. Give it a try.
This is possibly the weirdest week for me. I’ve have a near constant buzz of the non-alcohol kind in my head since I first reported. Minimal headache to ut-oh-here-comes-another-migraine-grab-the-Imitrex.
I owe it all to the craptacular overcast weather that has just socked in my little area of my state for, well, since my migraines began.
If they don’t go away when the weather clears up ( around Next May) I’ll go back to the doc.
It’s probably space aliens just shooting laser rays at my head again.
I have one of those gell filled masks that I use when I get migraines. Its definitely worth it. Although it doesn’t make the migraine go away, it helps! Glad to see you up and around Shirley.
