Dealing With Headaches

You ever discover what was the cause of a major pain in your body and felt let down? For example, I had a rather excrutiating migraine in my left eye last week. I thought I’d grown a tumor, or something equally dramatic. But then I took a pill for draining my sinuses, and that was it with the migraine.

One the one hand, I’m glad the pain is gone. On the other — clogged sinuses — that was ALL? And it was that painful? Am I a total wuss? How will I be able to handle something REALLY bad? So, in a way, I can feel a bit let down after a migraine cure.

And, perhaps more importantly, who is going me any sympathy for developing a migraine from clogged sinuses? On the one hand, it was almost better when it was this pain hit out of the blue, and the source of the pain was a total mystery. People would gasp, cross themselves and mutter “There for the grace of God go I.” Even my Mom eventually said, “Will you get OVER it if you won’t go to the doctor!”

You can’t get much sympathy from a stuffed up head. At least, I can’t.

Of course, I don’t help myself much from refusing to go see the doctor. But when you have migraine pain, you have absolutley not ability to stay upright, let alone wait for a day in a doctor’s waiting room blaring Jerry Spinger so I can have the privilege of being ignored for ten minutes by the Great Doctor Him/Her/Itself.

And You Can’t Get Out Of Work

One of the disadvantages of telecommuting is that I don’t have a good excuse for missing work. When I was in retail and I had a migraine, I’d have to spend all day/night in bed in a dark room with my eyes closed — but at least that’s all I was responsible for. Now I’m telecommuting and get a migraine in the moring, I can’t quite call out and know how the rest of my day is going to go. That’s definately a letdown after a migraine cure.

Nope. I have to wait a few hours until the pain dies to a dull roar — and then realize I’m now about six hours behind schedule and have to type like a maniac in order to get an entire day’s work done. I used to relax and watch some TV at 7pm — no more, I’m still at work.

The best help for a leftdown after a migraine cure (or any other kind of cure) is a good round of complaining!

Back to the usual “Dealing With Headaches” chatter tomorrow.