A Good Kind Of Headache
There are positive things about headaches? Well, yes, in very few instances — and I don’t mean faking one to get out of a family reunion or other horrible event — a headache can be helpful. Since I am headache prone (I get both headaches and migraines — lucky me) I have learned to recognise what some of the pains mean.
I get a peculiar headache about 2pm if I forget to take my Prozac in the morning. Now, I need my Prozac, and the rest of Western civilization needs me to as well (just trust me on this one). Prozac helps me to eat regularly and sleep regularly, which has made a tremendous headway on my recurring endogenous depression (which used to be called clinical depression).
In other words, remembering to take my morning Prozac is pretty important. And yet, somehow, I manage to forget.
Headache To The Rescue!
I can’t be the only Prozac-taker who gets a mild pressure over my right eye as a reminder to take my Prozac. (”Yes, Rena, you ARE!”) Do you get any peculiar symptoms that means you forgot to take your vital medicine (or remind you to eat, which is a malady that befalls freelance writers and video game enthusiasts a lot)?
Getting a headache because you forgot to take your medicine is a form of rebound headache, whish means your body is going through a withdrawal symptom. Rebound headaches are very complex and will later get posts devoted just to them. but they are cureable.
And, in my case, occassionally helpful.
And…oh God…there’s that pressure over my right eye. I couldn’t have forgotten to take my pill AGAIN, could I?
I better go!
July 20th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
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