It's back.....
Feb. 4th, 2005 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hel_anaAfter absenting itself on Wednesday evening, and staying away through Thursday, the headache is back, and it's gone straight to the nausea stage.
Whee.
I had a bit of a discussion with Sam the other night, and realized that this is probably something a lot of people reading don't know about me, and thus makes great fodder for an actual content post. The thing about my headaches is this -- in whatever form they are taking (which seems to vary by decade), they are one of the most consistent forces in my life.
I don't remember getting very many headaches in elementary school, but I was getting them regularly by middle school, mostly sinus. By high school, I was getting what the doctor diagnosed as tension headaches. Three or four days a week, I'd get the most awful, stabbing pain. Sudden lateral movement, light, and noise made the pain spike. They were unrsponsive to medication, and the only way I could deal with them was to go to sleep. The doctor wasn't really any help.
They stopped around the time I turned 20, to be replaced with fairly straightforward sinus headaches. Except, of course, for the frequency -- generally at least once a week, often more. These were usually responsive to medication. I'm sure that they weren't helped by working full time at the Cambridge Len's Mill when I had a wicked dust allergy. I pretty much screwed up my ear/nose/throat system but good that way.
When I hit 30 or so, they changed again. Now, rather than a straightforward sinus headache, I tend to get sinus headaches + nausea. More often than not they last for 2 or 3 days, and hit a few times a month. They seem to have become a bit more rare since I started taking thyroid meds.
The odd thing is that it has become the state of normalcy for me to regularly get headaches. People exposed to me regularly for any length of time always express surprise at the frequency, which always takes me a bit by surprise, though it probably shouldn't by now. This is just how I am, and I've adjusted to it. I guess it always takes me aback to realize how much I've adjusted to it, since people are certainly right that it isn't normal.
So there you go -- an actual, real look into my life. I'd like to do more, the question is deciding what to write about. Is there anything anyone out there would like to know?
Whee.
I had a bit of a discussion with Sam the other night, and realized that this is probably something a lot of people reading don't know about me, and thus makes great fodder for an actual content post. The thing about my headaches is this -- in whatever form they are taking (which seems to vary by decade), they are one of the most consistent forces in my life.
I don't remember getting very many headaches in elementary school, but I was getting them regularly by middle school, mostly sinus. By high school, I was getting what the doctor diagnosed as tension headaches. Three or four days a week, I'd get the most awful, stabbing pain. Sudden lateral movement, light, and noise made the pain spike. They were unrsponsive to medication, and the only way I could deal with them was to go to sleep. The doctor wasn't really any help.
They stopped around the time I turned 20, to be replaced with fairly straightforward sinus headaches. Except, of course, for the frequency -- generally at least once a week, often more. These were usually responsive to medication. I'm sure that they weren't helped by working full time at the Cambridge Len's Mill when I had a wicked dust allergy. I pretty much screwed up my ear/nose/throat system but good that way.
When I hit 30 or so, they changed again. Now, rather than a straightforward sinus headache, I tend to get sinus headaches + nausea. More often than not they last for 2 or 3 days, and hit a few times a month. They seem to have become a bit more rare since I started taking thyroid meds.
The odd thing is that it has become the state of normalcy for me to regularly get headaches. People exposed to me regularly for any length of time always express surprise at the frequency, which always takes me a bit by surprise, though it probably shouldn't by now. This is just how I am, and I've adjusted to it. I guess it always takes me aback to realize how much I've adjusted to it, since people are certainly right that it isn't normal.
So there you go -- an actual, real look into my life. I'd like to do more, the question is deciding what to write about. Is there anything anyone out there would like to know?
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Date: 2005-02-04 07:32 pm (UTC)I am sorry you have to go through these headaches. I hope you feel better real soon!
If there is anything I can do for you, please let me know. Even if it means rubbing your temples a bit!
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Date: 2005-02-04 07:35 pm (UTC)It's just one of those things that makes me, me. But because of that, I figured I'd put it out there.
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Date: 2005-02-04 07:41 pm (UTC)The pain sucks, it really does. I wish there was something that would just kill it for you!
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Date: 2005-02-04 07:44 pm (UTC)Of course, I don't think my headache problem is as severe as J's is from what you're saying.
It's funny - when I was in the hospital after my surgery, the other woman in the room was having massive, massive pain -- constantly asking for her next meds dose, etc. On the second day we were there, I found out she'd been in for surgery to have her ankle bone fused, because of damage to it from an accident. It was her 5th or so surgery, and she was going to have to have another one as a result six months later. And I felt *awful* for her - there's no way I would have chosen to go through that rather than the surgery I was in for. She finally asked me what I was in for, and when I told her, *she* felt bad for *me*. It gave me an interesting perspective.
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Date: 2005-02-04 08:51 pm (UTC)I've had a headache probably 4 times in my entire lifetime. I'm sorry yours are so frequent! Even with the thyroid meds making them more rare, you still get them and that's not good =\
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