Comments on: Not Tonight, Dear

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:22:10 +0000

That actually sounds like a good idea. Thanks!

By: martie

martie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:42:57 +0000

{{{Julie}}} I so feel your pain. I started with migraines when I was 7. Some years are really bad and some are really good. I’ve learned my triggers, but sometimes there is no good reason for my head to feel like it’ll explode. I hold my head that way too when it is bad. I can honestly say that, in the moment, I wouldn’t care if my head exploded so long as the pain stopped. Be careful, my friend, migraines like that can come back over an over again til they wear themselves out. Try to avoid your triggers (not easy as a mom) and try wearing sunglasses in the house as well as out. That is one of my new experiments with which I’ve had some success.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:32:40 +0000

Perfume is the devil. It is. EVIL.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:32:04 +0000

Doesn’t everyone?

It’s easier to pull them from there than it is to get them out of the stack in the cabinet.

By: Caryn

Caryn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:17:39 +0000

I feel your pain…I get them too. My main trigger is perfume. And since I work with the public it is kinda hard to prevent that. As soon as someone walks in with that certain something I know it, not all perfumes set me off, and it doesn’t seem to matter if they are expensive or cheap. I cannot imagine Having two loud kids while dealing with one….I think I’d have to pitch a tent far far away!!!

By: squirrelgirl

squirrelgirl — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:12:03 +0000

Ugh. I get bad sinus headaches (this year was a record one that went on for more than 6 straight weeks without going away, no lie) and I can’t even begin to imagine how much worse a migraine is. But I was heartened to learn that I’m not the only one who uses her dishes straight out of the dishwasher

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:56:04 +0000

That list is perfect. On that scale I was between 2 and 3 the other night. It waffled. Those moments of wondering if it’s just going to end up a stroke suck.

I didn’t start getting these until I was about 20. I can’t imagine being a kid with them. A good friend of mine started as a toddler and now one of her twin boys started getting them when he was a toddler too. How frigging awful.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:53:19 +0000

Yeah. It is. It’s also scary as all get out.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:44:48 +0000

Ahh, migraines. I got them when I was a kid. Thankfully, not so frequently anymore. Rick is prone to really terrible headaches (he’s a bit photosensitive, and having kids has by necessity put us on a day schedule instead of the night schedule we held prior), and every now and then he’ll be popping extra-strength ibuprofen like they’re M&Ms and retreating to take a bath where the only light’s a single candle that he half-blocks with the shower curtain anyway.

My peds doctor classified the severity of migraines this way:
1- The kind where you wish you’d die
2 – The kind where you’re afraid you’ll die
3 – The kind where you’re afraid you won’t die

By: padfoot1

padfoot1 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:44:24 +0000

So many girls I know in real life tell me they get migraines. I however thankfully do not. This sounds hellish.