Archive for the Migraine category
September 11th, 2005
I have been sick the last few days. I think it’s a combination of insomnia inspired by the need to get the hurricane katrina website up and running (stayed up for 24 hours) and nightmares regarding the hurricane, evacuating, and trying to get back into New Orleans. I figure I’m suffering from some sort of survivor’s guilt and this hasn’t helped my usual depressive state. I plan to discuss with a doctor. This has also resulted in migraines and nausea.
I was fortunate to sleep most of the day today but it wasn’t restful due to
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Tags: wellness, depression, Hurricane Katrina, blogs
August 29th, 2005
Well, I visited the doctor today. I had an appointment to get my Depo shot on Wednesday but the daily headaches had become a 3 day migraine that left me bent over my toilet at 2am last night, so I called and got an appointment with her. Obviously the vicodin no longer works.
The Bad news, of course, is the migraine and nausea. The doctor has given me a prescription for Zomig. We’ll see if that works. It sometimes takes a while to kick in if I remember right. She also gave me something for
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Tags: migraine, Depo Provera, Zomig, blood pressure, wellness
August 27th, 2005
- I tried to explain to a lesbian friend why women like the Baldwin brothers, but since they aren’t my type, she just looked at me like I was nuts.
- PW’s beaux is arriving in New Orleans in time for them to evacuate for the hurricane.
- El is worried that the hurricane will interfere with our Thursday flights to Atlanta as the weather system might be there by then.
- I think I heard on the news that there were two more incidents with planes last night.
- Maybe I’ll take the valium to get on the plane after all this time rather than do what the
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Tags: discombobulated, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, DragonCon, fear of flying
August 22nd, 2005
I started off feeling o.k. this morning despite having overslept. I was fine on the ride to work and after I arrived for a while.
It was really weird because I was halfway through eating breakfast when suddenly there was a stabbing pain in my head and I felt ill eating. It’s very frustrating because I always used to look forward to my shredded wheat/yogurt/fruit breakfast, but I really felt that I’d throw up if I ate another bite.
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Tags: migraine, Depo Provera, Ultracet, Vicodin
August 15th, 2005
Trepanation was used a long time ago for a headache cure. Evidence from neolithic skulls dating from 7,000 to 3,000 BC showed our ancient ancestors attempted to let the headache demons out by a procedure known today as trepanation. It’s actually pretty simple. All you need is a hard pointed object and a skull. Using the hard, pointed object, a hole is made in the skull. Simple, n’est pas? [“Playing With a Full Deck”]
In the movie Pi, Max Cohen has these horrible blinding, dehibilitating migraines and he often contemplates using a power drill on his head to put an
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Tags: migraine, trepanation, wellness
August 9th, 2005
I’ve been told that sometimes I’m too negative. So today’s discombobulated thoughts will try to focus on happy things…
- Discovery landed safe and sound. The child inside me who wanted to be an astronaut is quite relieved. I didn’t want to say anything before in case I jinxed it.
- My headache/migraine appears to have gone away for the moment.
- I bought ice cream on Sunday and haven’t had a bite.
- I feel better now that I’ve made a to do list.
- I love my iPod mini.
- I spent 2 hours sorting and packing up clothes. My closet is 2/3rds done…though I
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Tags: discombobulated
August 7th, 2005
There’s a company here called Rent-A-Husband which is kind of like hiring a Mr. Fix-It. I may hire them to come install my A/C now that I have the back issue. Anyway I always get a kick out of their sign because, of course, my dirty mind first interpreted it the wrong way and I was like “Wow, these New Englanders are progressive!”
This morning, I’d like a Rent-A-Mommy kind of company. I have a horrible migraine, the worst in a long long time. My forehead seems to have rocks behind it and my brain is torn
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Tags: migraine, Rent-A-Husband
August 5th, 2005
I’m having one of those blue days, I guess. I woke up with one of those morning migraines, which is still nagging at me. My cat had thrown up all over my bathroom counter. My pants are too tight. The news is depressing me and quite frankly I didn’t want to go to work today. I certainly dont’ want to take the cat to the vet.
I feel like I’m on the verge of tears and for no particular reason or perhaps for every reason. Reading/Listening to the news is certainly no help. It
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Tags: migraine, depression, Me, hypocrisy
August 3rd, 2005
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June 10th, 2005
My headache is only slightly better but now I have a sore throat and I feel like someone has turned the heat on right above my cubicle. The last time I saw N2, I had a horrible migraine, which in part could have been the stress of being in an unfamiliar area and in charge of driving and in part could have been the stress of meeting her in person for the first time and in part could have been the weather, which as I recall went through phases of being hot, cool, and wet.
I couldn’t finish my tofu
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Tags: wellness, fear of flying, migraine
June 10th, 2005
Well, I’m feeling fairly ill this morning. I’ve got a migraine and I feel nauseated and quite frankly, I can’t decide if it’s the anxiety over flying today or my recent Depo shot or the switch from Prozac to Effexor yesterday that is causing it. Granted, my doctor did warn me that the switch in drugs might make me feel jittery and a little ill for a couple of days, and maybe I should have thought about switching after the trip this weekend.
I was unable to finish my bagel this morning and I don’t even want to think
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Tags: migraine, Prozac, Effexor, Depo Provera, fear of flying
May 27th, 2005
Since I now have the capability to categorize my posts, I went back and sorted the 150+ posts converted from Greymatter. To do so, I, of course, had to at least skim, if not read them all.
What I realized is that while I’m still suffering from anxiety and depression, I no longer have dreams about losing my job and I am financially better off than I was a year ago. I’ve also been reminded that the frequency of my headaches and migraines has significantly decreased. My blood pressure is down. I am still a lazy procrastinating
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Tags: anxiety, depression, wellness, migraine
October 7th, 2004
I remember that the first time I really sat down and said, “This is it; I’m going to lose weight!” it really wasn’t about the uncomfortableness of being overweight or the humiliation of having had to go to the “fat lady” store or the horror of seeing myself in photographs.
I had been to the ER in October for a migraine. My blood pressure at that time was 163/90-something. I was put on blood pressure medicine to help my ever-present migraine and yet my blood pressure was not going down. Two months later, I climbed the side of
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Tags: obesity, migraine, blood pressure, wellness
October 5th, 2004
Life has been going on. Obviously.
I’ve been working — got myself a second nice raise and start being on-call this Thursday. I’ve been going to class — spent 10 Wednesdays building a stained-glass display case for my chess set and several Thursdays in a writing class.
I’ve been mostly trying to avoid political discussions because they frustrate me. I absolutely can’t understand people who don’t research the issues and form their own opinions; those people who rely on talk radio and supposed “newsreporters” to feed them their opinions are impossible to talk to. I’d much rather talk
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Tags: wellness, Depo Provera
August 7th, 2004
Since arriving here and “settling” into my new apartment, I’ve kind of dragged my feet about getting a couple of things done. For example, I’ve not finished unpacking my office, I’ve not re-arranged my kitchen after my mom unpacked, I’ve not taken my “diet” seriously, I’ve not hung up any of my wonderful art collection, and I’ve not bothered to get my license changed. Maybe the feeling that it’s all temporary has enabled the procrastination.
However, I don’t have that temporary thing to be my excuse any more. Yesterday I found out that I’ve been a permenant employee
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Tags: insomnia, sleep apnea, migraine, wellness
August 2nd, 2004
Well, I don’t have that weird feeling of unease anymore.
The truth of the matter is that I ate something on Saturday (probably lunchmeat) that didn’t agree with me. I started feeling a migraine late Saturday afternoon and thought nothing of it since I’m used to the more than occassional migraine. In fact, I thought it was the high humidity that triggered it.
Sunday morning, I woke up feeling worse. The migraine was much much worse. After a couple of hours, I got up and stumbled downstairs to take an Ultracet with some caffeine. I thought eating
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Tags: migraine, wellness
July 16th, 2004
So, I went to the new doctor today. I really like her and apparently I’m really lucky to get her as she has few patients personally; she’s a teaching doctor and usually works as the “backup” for the residences. She’s really great and attentive.
We have a lot of things to work on but we’ve decided to focus on a few things right now and think about other things. First on the list is the insomnia/sleeping issues and the migraine. I’m being scheduled for a sleep study which will involve at least one night spent in the
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Tags: wellness, insomnia, migraine, Amitriptyline HCL, Ultracet
July 16th, 2004
I’m thinking about donating some time and volunteering to the Democratic Presidential campaign. I’ve been thinking about it for a couple days or so. I’ve never done anyting like it. I know Peter personally gets a lot out of volunteering for campaign work, though he’s a die-hard Republican (which is OK, I guess :P), and I am generally an independent. This is the first time in 10 years I’ve been registered as anything but Independent, but I feel very strongly about this election in particular.
Plus, it would be a good way to hopefully meet some
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Tags: Volunteer, politics
