Migraines

On Monday night I had a mini-migraine. It was pretty bad. I don’t know if you’ve seen that Advil Liquigel Migraine medicine commercial where the lady tries to turn off all lights and sounds in her environment but that was kind of like what I wanted to do. Unfortunately though the migraine started ramping up while I was still at work so I had a 30+ minute drive to deal with before I could lay down in the dark. Luckily for me the drive wasn’t too bad; I flipped the mirror into night mode and tried not to stare into any headlights. I was home within 30 minutes. I laid down for about 30-40 minutes before dinner and then I took it easy for the rest of the night. The migraine was better but was still lurking around the corners of my brain.

This wasn’t a full-blown migraine. I’ve had only 2 of those in my life. I was nauseous and completely immobilised for several hours because of them. At least I could still eat and move around with this mini-migraine on Monday night. I’m not sure what caused this one but if I had to guess I’d say it was the weather change between Monday and Tuesday – warmish to quite cold. That kind of pressure differential can play a big part on my brain.

I think that I should buy some migraine-specific headache medicine though just in case another one of these episodes were to occur (and they probably will). Just so that I can keep functioning through the day I think it would be worth the price.

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