Dealing With Headaches

I have a new head pain. It’s been in my left eye (not my right, as usual) for the past two or three days to varying degrees. I go to sleep with it and wake up with it. It eased off tremendously after I finished my Christmas shopping (Oh, God — I HOPE I’m done!) and I feel better know than I have in days — but what the heck happened? I still feel a dull ache, and my stomach is gradually getting used to food again, and I’m afraid it’ll come back.

Rena, You Should Go To The Doctor

I know I should go to the doctor. There’s no way I’m going to the doctor. If blood spurts out my eyeball, THEN I’ll go to the doctor (via an ambulance to the ER). Otherwise, I’m too scared to go to the doctor. I’m nearly as scared of the doctor as I am of the dentist. I live on poverty income, and so go to the welfare doctor, which means a visit to Collingdale can last an entire day. Last time, Jerry Springer was on the waiting room television and no was allowed to touch the Sacred TV Remote. The show was “I Pimp Out My Neice”. Oh, the humanity!

Besides, I’m the one who gives advice. I’m not supposed to take any advice. I’m not paid to take advice, but to give it. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

So, Google The New Head Pain

That’s a very good point. I can get paid to look up my worrisome internal turmoil. Let’s look together on Google, shall we?

First off, I’ll try “migraine left eye”.

Well, there’s a lot of adds and blah-blah-blah. I’m skipping people who ask questions in forums (although that can be a good source of information, but trying to interpet some people’s grammar is painful in an of itself). Here’s one — oh, I mean, click here.

Hmmm, seems we’ve landed on a forum — the very thing I was trying to avoid. Let’s see — according to the fine forum members, my pain could be sue to sinuses, complications from a catscan or trochleitis (inflammation of the eyeball! Isn’t that a comforting mental picture) Well, I haven’t had a catscan in a couple of years, so that’s out. My sinuses definately have been bad this past week.

So, perhaps this new migraine centered in the left eye could just be a head full of snot. I’ll try taking sinus draining medication for that.

Don’t try this at home, kids. If you have a head pain that you can’t figure out and it lasts more than a day, then for God’s sake go to the doctor. Just bring earplugs in case Jerry Springer is on.