Headaches, art and other assorted ramblings

[bubosquared]

Reunion Countdown: 16 days
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Today's a slow day. Catching up on some stuff I've been putting off for ages, like updating our mailing lists and database. I finally have coffee again! Yay with the hey!

Also, I have a headache, which is a bit concerning. It can't be a caffeine withdrawal headache, because it's been three days since my last cup. And I've been getting an insane amount of sleep lately (gone to bed before midnight three nights in a row, now!), so it can't be that, either. Frankly, I'm beginning to suspect I might have inherited more of my mother's migraine than I thought. Nooo!

This is not a completely out-of-the-blue suspision. I know I get bad headaches from red wine, which is a trigger for a lot of migraine-sufferers, including my mother. My mother used to have migraine so bad she'd be confined to bed in a dark, quiet room for days on end. (This is one of the few things I remember from my early childhood. She didn't used to have it that bad, but after I was born, thing got worse. Apparently it's hormone-related, because she got better when my brother was born, and hasn't really had an attack since the youngest one was born.) So, yeah, my mother has it, I think some of my aunts on my dad's side have it as well, and these headaches I've been having exhibit all the signs of mugraine headaches: the pain can last for several hours, even several days; it tends to be worse on one side of the head (oh, yes); it pounds/throbs (which is why I know it's not just a sinus headache, because those are much sharper); pain can be localized around one eye; pain disrupts, or is aggravated by, normal activity (any abrupt head movement causes it to flare. ow!); ...

I really, really hope this isn't actual migraine, and that if it is, it stays at this level and does not get worse, because the only way my mother got better was by giving birth to two sons, and that's a bit drastic for me, thanks. (Not to mention the risk of it getting worse by having a daughter.)

In more cheerful (sort of) news, all the Grammy-talk makes me sad I don't have TV anymore. Edge! Touching Bono's ass! Brian grabbing AJ's crotch! Argh! Wanna see! Want TV! Actually, I just want a VCR so I can have my parents tape what I want to see. There's maybe three hours of TV a week I want to see, and most of that is BBC stuff. I am Melle's complete disinterest in All Things Popular.

I kind of want to make a tarot set with all my original characters. ('This random bout of art-inspiration brought to you by sandradelete. :) It'd be a weird mixture of SF, furry, High Fantasy and contemporary, but well. I like the idea. Plus, it'd give me a concrete project to work on instead of just a vague feeling of "Must. Draw!"

... and now I want to get my tarot books and cards, which are still at my parents. Oi. I used to like doing tarot readings, even if I still can't bring myself to really believe in them. I'm weird.

Also have half-hearted desire to start writing/reading keyfic. Sae, this is your fault, dammit, with your recc for The Willow Key!

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[verylisa.livejournal.com]

I used to like doing tarot readings, even if I still can't bring myself to really believe in them. I'm weird.

Well, if you're weird, so am I, because I'm the same.

Hang on, I am weird.

Oh.

Thing is, you don't have to believe in tarot readings to get value out of them. It's a neat way to give your subconscious permission to say stuff that might be worthwhile, but that your rational brain normally dismisses as drivel.

Or something.

[kkscatnip.livejournal.com]

HA! i LOVE keys! ive loved them for a while. i have one that i need to begin by april.. lalalala.. still havent... ^^;; ..i remember when tayla was just starting out on the willow key... [yes, still one of my favorites.] the game used to be based around the YSML, but now it has its own ML..

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/keyfic

should be the offical keyfic group.. if you want an unoffical key, i can make one for you ^_~

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thankies!

Actually, I've a vague idea for a key myself already. (Because I need more original characters. Sigh.)

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Could still be caffeine withdrawal, it can last for days to weeks. Great news, I know.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Really? I mean, I didn'thave it before today, and it didn't go away with the coffee, either. Also, it didn't really feel like a withdrawal headache to me. :/

[tavella.livejournal.com]

If it didn't go away with application of caffeine, yeah, not withdrawal. They react really quickly to that.

I've heard people say that caffeine withdrawl can trigger migraines, but I don't know too much about that.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, argh, brilliant! I've heard say caffeine itself can trigger migraines! I'm hoping I'm one of the first kind, if I do have migraine. Life without coffee? Noooo!

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Worse, if you are the type for both, and then you get to do one of those agonized withdrawal scenes, like in every junkie movie ever made.

Just hope it's a stylish one like Trainspotting instead of a cheesy one like Starsky & Hutch.

I asked you this before but now that you mention your

[icanreadyourmnd.livejournal.com]

leaning toward migraine's, am gonna ask again. Do you have Kinethesiologist's over there? A good friend of mine here in LA had a continous headable (of teh kind you describe) for about a year or two and the doctors couldn't do or find anything. Finally, as a last resort she went to the "K" doctor (they're not doctors but more like herbalists) who examined her and gave her a vitamin kind of supplement and after taking the doasge required (like a bottle of sups over a few weeks) the headaches are gone. Whenever she thinks the headaches are gonna come back, she goes back to the K-doc and gets sups again. Apparently according to the K-doc many of us suffer from a variety of physical problems because there are supplments missing in either our diets or in our bodies and when the supplements are prescribed, it switches aroudn teh symptoms. I'll be going for my allergies at some point (as soon as I get off my lazy ass).

Anyway - just a thought - AND better still, knowing your non-proclivity for wanting to take antibiotics, there are no antibiotics involved. You get the sups in health food stores.... :>

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Hm, not sure. I may end up looking for one, if it cmoes down to a choice between that and drastic medication (or, you know, pregnancy), but for now I'm waiting it out, and if it gets worse, or the headaches get more frequent, I need to make sure whether it's migraine or something else they can determine.

If it is actually migraine, I need to know so I can at least find out what my triggers are.