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Monday, April 21, 2003 Happy Easter Indeed... Had a very low-key weekend, including the whole Easter dinner thing at the in-laws. It was very nice until a very tenacious and very acute migraine headache started to set it. By the time I got back home it was too late for my Rx medicine to make any dent. In my 13+ years of suffering from the random migraine, It was probably the worst I'd ever had. I could do nothing but lay in the dark and hurt. At one point I could actually SEE the veins in my wrists, tensed with the pain, throbbing in time to the throbbing of blood in my head. I don't really like talking about them because I feel that a lot of people view migraines and just a bad headache, and often times people seem to think that I'm a wuss and should just take some advil. But let me tell you, these beasts are no ordinary headache simply turned up a notch. They can be completely debilitating, and unimaginably painful. My first serious migraine that I remember occurred my Softmore year of high-school. I was in the middle of the PSAT reading section when a small blind-spot developed in my right eye. Within 5 minuets I was nearly blind out of one eye, doubled over in pain, and on the verge of vomiting all over the test-taker in front of me. It was scary as shit. I think that it was triggered by a combination of MSG (I had consumed 2 large chili-cheese-fries from Weinershnitzle the day before) and stress from the PSAT. To this day MSG can bring on a head-ache from hell if I'm not careful. I have to watch my curly-fry intake and shy away from cheap chips. But the weird thing is MSG doesn't always trigger a headache. Stress is another obvious trigger... Though again, it usually needs to be stress AND something else. Beyond that I haven't identifies any other triggers. Though, since moving to Santa Cruz the frequency of headaches has been greatly reduced. Unfortunately the severity of them when they do happen has increased. I have an Rx for an older drug that is basically a cocktail of Aspirin, Caffeine, and Butalbital, but it doesn't seen to be doing the job anymore, as the 2 I took last night hardly dented the wall of pain I was living behind. So I'll be looking at a Doctor appointment and a new 'scrip for some 21st century super-drug. Mmmmm super-drug. Enough of this, "John is sick" shit. I'm all fucking better now, and I'm going to stay that way! Oh, and the upside to the attack is I got some interesting ideas for a story while in the throes of agony last night. A sci-fi flick about a guy with migraines was done in π, but I have some new ideas that will be cool. Oh and the interesting euphoric fog that I seem to be in today. No doubt from all the endorphins left over from last-night, still zipping around in my blood stream. posted by JMV | 4/21/2003 01:01:00 PM | |
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