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Alas, I hope I don't keep whittling away at what I can eat. *sniff* I like chinese food. But, the night before last I had yummy chinese buffet and then yesterday I had finger numbness and headache, then this morning with the little bit of aura spots. Maybe related? Maybe not. I'll keep paying attention to what I do and eat around headaches and see if I can track it better. I do know that when I gave up things with aspartame, that couple week long headache went away. Anyone else have anything to add? Here's a link to something on Chinese food and headachealso, this guy seems to have similar sounding symptoms to me: from: this pageI am a 36 year old male. I have been getting migraines since I was
about 15 years old. I had few migraines throughout high school, but was
relatively migraine free thoughout my 20's. However I haven't been as lucky
during my 30's. In the past 3 years I have had approximately 20 episodes of
migraine.
I tend to get an aura before the actual migraine sets in. My field
of vision becomes fragmented, similar to looking through a kaleidoscope. I
also get a numbness in my fingers or sometimes in my mouth. I often have a
difficult time "thinking" during the aura period. I don't no if this is
caused by my anxiety or the headache itself. I am actually relieved when the
pain in my head starts, because I know the aura part is over.
I also know I have a migraine, because it hurts if I shake my head.
I have been taking Imitrex injections, but I hate to give myself the shots
(chicken). I tend to wait until the migraine is in full bloom, before I give
myself the shot (dumb). I recently began taking the tablet form of Imitrex.
On the positive side, the Imitrex seems to prevent what I use to
call migraine hangover, I would feel out of sorts for a few days after a
migraine. With the Imitrex I don't feel that way. One thing I am curious
about is whether anybody else tends to be obsessed with migraine. I know
that after I have a headache, it is all I can think about for days,
sometimes weeks. If anybody as a solution please let me know.
---Larry
P.S. Exercise seems to help after the migraine.Tags: head ow
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Yesterday after we had dinner Mike and I walked down to the park and were sitting on the picnic table. He usually tells me about when he keeps the dog from chomping something and told me he had two more "for the bank". He mentioned that they were unusual additions (typically it's bunnies or squirrels) and that he had kept her form chomping kittens. Little kittens. He told me that they had been at SVSU and at this one part where there's construction and there were two kittens in a dangerous type spot. So he put them under a tree figuring the mama would come back for them. So at this point I'm thinking they're toddler size and followed the mama and lost her for a bit. But I was still worried cause it was an unusual place for them to be so we went looking for them. We found them, just where he had left them. But they weren't toddler sized. They're itty bitty - few days old - cords haven't dropped off their tummies yet newborns. And they were so encrusted in fly eggs that I didn't know how I was going to get them all off. I had never seen so many on anything. They were covered thickly from neck to tail. None had hatched yet so I'm thinking the flies were laying them, waiting for them to die and then their offspring would have had a good meal. I put a stop to that plan quickly enough. We got them back to Mike's and I spent a looong time washing them, with B&BW cucumber melon hand soap - the only thing I had handy, until they were completely egg free. Then Mike used his hair dryer - super gentle, quiet, low heat - to dry and warm them. I took them to my grandma's and started feeding them there but she wasn't going to be able to keep them because she had a doctor's appointment this morning and had to go to bed and then would be gone and they needed to be fed every few hours. So I took them back with me and was up throughout the night with them. Eventually I got a water bottle filled with hot tap water and wrapped in a fuzzy sock to keep them warm in their box. They slept for longer at a time then. So I got back a little before 12, took a shower, got to bed at 12 in the bedroom with them by my head in the box, no bottle yet. They woke up at 1ish and 2ish. This is when I figured they weren't warm enough and switched to the tv room with them and nested them with the water bottle and warm from the dryer towels. Then they were up again at 4ish and then I got up at 5:15. They slept until I woke them up at about 6:30 before I had to leave for work. I brought them to work with me but left them in the car, figuring I'd leave after a couple hours. I didn't feel very well today anyway (still don't actually) and so it worked out. Officially, I went home sick. While I was at work for those couple hours, after I finished my morning deadline stuff, I made a ton of phone calls trying to track down a nursing mother to foster them. Every call I made seemed to lead to other calls. I left a lot of messages, got a few call backs and pretty much nothing. Until I called Bay Valley Animal Hospital. They said they had a mama with 6 week old kittens they were just about ready to leave her. They said they couldn't guarantee she would take them but that I could try. I took them there and they put them in the cage with her. She didn't growl or hiss but she ignored them. They said I could call about 4 or 5 to see how it was going. After that I met Mike at SVSU where he was walking the dog. I gave him the update and let him reassure me that they were good peeps there (it's the vet where he takes Patch). I hadn't eaten yet at that point so I met him at his house and he made me lunch. I had a slight headache. I took a nap and woke up a couple hours later with the headache really really worse. It sucked. I took two Excedrin. Half an hour later, it wasn't really better. So I figured maybe migraine and took half of an Imitrex. I called the vet, found out that the mama cat still was ignoring them (they had been feeding the babies though so they were fine, just weren't going to find the new mama as I had hoped) so I was going to pick them up. I wanted to see if the Imitrex would help so I decided to lay down for a half hour or so. By the time I got to the vet's office my headache was mostly gone. I've felt nauseated today though so I think that might be something separate. I've felt like that all day. I feel rather icky now too. So I went and got the babies and the bigger one mewed all the way home. I knew they weren't hungry though because they fed them right before I took them so I got them all warm and nested in a new box with a new warm bottle of water and they have been sleeping since then. I figure if they haven't woken up by about 10:30 I'll wake then up, get them fed and re-nested and then get some sleep until about 2:30 when I'll get up, repeat the process, and go back to sleep till I have to get up for work. I'm going to have to leave them for about 6.5 hours while I go to work but I figure and hope they'll be ok. I'll rush straight home and feed them then. I will try to work out a better schedule after tomorrow. It will probably require help for one of the feedings but I'll try to get that worked out. Tags: critter tales, head ow
Current Location: saginaw, 48603
Currently feeling:  nauseated
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Yesterday I woke up from my nap with a headache and it did not want to go away. Even with drugs. My head still hurt when I woke up this morning but not as much. I didn't really have trouble sleeping, though I woke up more than I would have liked. Pumpkin behaved herself as far as I know. I think she might have climbed on me or jumped on me once but I moved and she ran away. This morning I had some toast with extra crunchy peanut butter, a banana that did not look ugly, and a smoothie made with some frozen berries and a banana that did look ugly. Poor ugly banana. But it worked in the smoothie. Now I have mail to sort. Wee. Tags: head ow
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Had a headache yesterday. My head still feels a little tender today. Perhaps it was migraine. Yesterday was good. Gathering with food at my house. Yay to that. Was me, Steve, g-ma, Mary, Tom, Mikale, Barb, Harry, and Matt. We cooked food n the grill. Had a good time preparing stuff. In addition to meat we did up veggies- some on sticks, some in packets. Lots of garlic. My hands still smell like garlic today. Hopefully it's just my hands and not just me in general. I did eat a lot of it. And the mosquitoes mostly left me alone. Hmmmm. We played a lot of badminton (sp?). We don't keep score though. We just like trying to get it going back and forth well. Apparently, I'm not too bad at it. Nice to find out. My arm is a little sore today but I had an excellent time. And I even managed to not get a sunburn. Last night I had such a dreadful headache and drugs wouldn't touch it. I felt rather nauseated. I ran a cool-ish bath as soon as we walked in. Cocktailed a French Kiss buble bar and a Golden Slumbers bomb. I didn't stay in long though. I just wanted to crawl into bed. I fell asleep quickly in spite of the head ouchyness and all the caffeine I had through a couple doses of different excedrin. Tags: head ow, lush
Current Location: 48603
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Had a dreadful headache last night. Couldn't figure out why. Today I'm all crampy bleah so I wonder if it was migraine. Head still has that wanting-to-hurt feeling today so it would fit. But it would be the first time, as far as i can remember, that I haven't had the aura spots first. While I don't like the spots, they at least give me warning. And that is a good thing. It finally went away as I slept but it took a while. I'm almost all the way through the Without a Trace DVDs. I think I only have one left. Then it will be back to reading. I certainly have plenty of that to do. I don't know where all of the books are that are on my to read list. In my house somewhere. Tags: head ow
Current Location: 48607
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My foot still hurts. My head hurts. I don't know if that's sinus or caffeine or some of both. It didn't occur to until last night when i was trying to go to sleep with a headache that I hadn't caffeinated. My head protested. But I hoped it would let me sleep anyway. And it did. We had a couple thunder storms. The first I barely noticed. My grandma came and turned off the fan for that but it wasn't too hot by that point and so I was alright. When she came and shut the window at 5, however, it made me sad. I was hot then. And that made it hard to sleep. So for that last hour it wasn't good sleeping. The rest of the night I had a lot of dreams. Weird dreams, not good dreams. I woke up with my head still hurting and my skin still being horrid. Will keep hitting the C and water though. it takes time, I know. I need to get a fan for the bathroom window. It takes me so much longer to get ready in the morning than it should because its hot and I sweat and then can't get anyhitng on my face. It's frustrating. This morning it felt like it took me forever just to do moisturizer and powder. That's all I want and need in the morning. Just moisturizer and powder! It shouldn't be so hard! So I was running late *again*. Like I always seem to be. I think today I will attempt to get a window fan for the bathroom. If I have success, I will buy two. One for my grandma too. She will appreciate it. Today I should also look for another shirt or two. And wash some clothes. I dont want to stink. Tags: head ow
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So today I was all grumbly and listing out in my head all the grr and bleah points to this morning and right now. it occurred to me that it all sounded suspiciously like Loser Mode. But some of it wasn't mood. So it sounded like i have some sort of rain cloud. Go away stupid rain cloud! I have a blister on my foot. I'm sniffly. my head wants to hurt in a sinus sort of way. My grandma washed a shirt that i've only worn once or twice and now it has little bleach spots on it and is ruined. I don't even think it needed to be washed. Since I didn't know until I put it on i had to find something else to wear and so i ran late AGAIN. I'd be more surprised if i weren't running late one of these days. Plus i feel all chubby and full of water. I have a scratch on my cheek and I dont know where it came from. So go away Loser Mode *and* stupid raincloud. Tags: head ow
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