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[bubosquared]

So I went to bed with a slight headache last night at about half past eleven, and was awoken at around five by a blinding migraine headache. And when I say "blinding", I mean that pretty literally. By nine, I could barely see out of my left eye anymore, and I was nauseous from the pain to the point of nearly vomiting. I vaguely remember sitting at my computer after taking the max dose of painkillers, waiting for them to kick in, calling work and leaving a rather disjointed message on the answer machine, apparently even commenting in people's LJs (huh?), then stumbling back to bed and blacking out until about five PM, when the pain and everything was just ... gone.

I'm hoping like hell this isn't actual migraine, that it was a fluke, that I can avoid future attacks by avoiding certain types of food, anything that doesn't mean I've inherited my mother's migraine, because those didn't go away until my youngest brother was born.

Maybe it's hormonal. Which of course just adds to the fun, since my cycle is about as reliable as British public transport, ie not very.

I hate my body.

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[darksong.livejournal.com]

I've had a few migraines, and while they're not fun at all, they at least don't occur with any sort of frequency. Sometimes they've felt random, but most of the time they've been stress related.

They can be controlled, though, if you do end up getting them regularly, through diet & lifestyle. I wouldn't worry too much about it at this point.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get the tenstion-induced ones, which is why I thankfully have specific medication for them, but this one was just a) kind of random and b) a hell of a lot more intense than any of the other ones I've had.

I know my mum's weren't controllable through diet, although they got worse if she had certain things, like red wine -- something I've known I inherited since I was twelve.

I'll be avoiding foodstuffs that are known to trigger attacks, except I'm not sure if caffeine should fall under those, since, um. My painkillers contain caffeine. Huh

[darksong.livejournal.com]

Caffeine is a strange one because it can be a trigger, but when you're having the actual migraine it can help open the blood vessels back up (same principle for when you're hungover).

I've had migraines where an entire side of my body would go numb, and uh, that's not too much fun.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I can imagine. It was bad enough already, especially since I kinda freaked upon first realising I was blind in one eye. Owie.

I guess I'll have to see by trial and error which foodstuffs are triggers and which aren't. (Interesting factiod of the day: foodstuff is an actual word. huh.)