Ugh

[queerbychoice]

There aren't a lot of gifts that I need to receive in order to have a happy Big Overhyped Fake Christian Holiday, but the gift of Not Being Kept Awake All Night with a Skull-Splitting Migraine would be a really helpful start.

I've only ever had about three migraines in my life. However, if I had them any more frequently than I do, I'd already be dead from bludgeoning myself on the head with an axe.

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[annaclaire.livejournal.com]

hot showers help when this happens to me.

[roses-rejoice.livejournal.com]

If you get them that infrequently, you could goto the hospital and get a shot of Demerol. If you were getting them a lot obviously that wouldn't be such a good idea.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

They go away in 24 hours, and this only started happening to me at midnight, and I do not like shots or hospitals anywhere near enough for sparing myself a mere 8 or 16 hours of pain to be worth facing a doctor or having a needle stuck in me.

[cappucinogrrl.livejournal.com]

There's a disease where women get migraines before and during their periods. I am one of the lucky few. I feel your pain.

Feel better.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Most women who get migraines get them right before or during their periods. Women in general also get more migraines than men. And on the rare occasions when I get migraines, yeah, that's when I get them too.

There are other contributing factors though - there's a particular yellow food coloring that I know gives me migraines if I ever make the mistake of eating it at the wrong time of the month. It seems to take a combination of more factors than just the time of the month to induce a migraine in me, though I'm not sure what other contributing factors were involved this time. But there are lots of lists on the internet of foods that are known to contribute to migraines.

You don't know me.

[(Anonymous)]

And you prolly don't want to know me.
But I once had migraines. All the time. Like twice weekly.
After some experience with Midrin (I may have that name wrong.)and Demerol and Cafergot and a slew of weird side effects, I went to an "alternative healer."
So, I had expected this eighty year old asian dude to either tell me not to eat nuts or drink red wine, or to say my chi had become locked in my third chakra. He did neither.
He told me that I was an asshole. And the reason that I had headaches was that I was afraid to express this. And, if I acted on my inner-asshole, I would no longer have headaches.
But what about the others? I countered.
So what? They're motherfuckers.

Yep. Now, I may be an asshole you are glad you don't know, but at least I don't have migraines.

Re: You don't know me.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can't even recall the last time anyone ever advised me to be more of an asshole. Um, thanks, I guess.

Then again, since I only get them once every three years or so, maybe I'm not that much of a non-asshole. :p