How’d Your National Headache Awareness Week Go?
Mine went crap, thanks. I became more aware of my headaches this week than I have in the past month. My apologies for the smaller than usual number of blog posts this week. If 451 Press wasn’t down, then I was. Perhaps 451 Press or Word Press or the server gets migraines, too. I had some real beauties this week.
Keep a Headache Journal
I think I’m going to have to start keeping a headache journal again. I thought I was done with that crap years ago when I lived in England and decided, one fine Boxing Day, to do an experiment. I had a suspiscion that lack of caffeine was giving me the migraines. So, I stopped ingesting any caffeinated product cold turkey.
Not something I recommend.
I’ve been assured by authors, anti-caffeine activists (which I’m sure exist on some corner of the web) and everyday people that the migraine goes away after four days. A mere four days. Of course, in migraine-time, four days is the equivelent of one year in real life time.
I’ve cut back on my caffeine intake to about six cups of black tea a day. So, why did I get such blinding headaches this week? That’s the six and a half dollar question.
Theories
One of the theories I have about why I get so many headaches and migraines is that it’s other peoples’s fault. Somehow, their stupid thoughts float through the air like so much ozone and infect all of us who happen to have at least one thought in our heads. And the originators of the thoughts don’t get headaches or migraines because their brains never can hang onto an idea. Those painful thoughts just slip away into the atmosphere.
I also couldn’t help but notice that, except for a few internet sites, not one thing has popped up in the local or national media about National Headache Awareness Week. Way to go, guys. Then again, you did pick a bad week, what with natural disasters, NBA finals and that Presidential election bugaboo.
So I had a great National Headache Awareness Week. I even was too ill to send a submission in to the June Headache and Migraine Blog Carnival, darn it!

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