Thursday, February 11, 2010

Migraine Advice?

photo: Celeste Carruth. PS. I can't find that headband and it's my favorite.

If 30 million Americans are affected by migraines... maybe some of you can help me out.

I've had migraines in the past, but very far and in between. In the last month I've had three. Yesterday was the worst of them. The symptoms included... blurry vision, numbness in my hand, then I was trying to read a website and couldn't put the words together, then I was talking to Paul on gchat about the situation.. and as you can see... I obviously couldn't put my thoughts down logically:


10:53 AM me: no, camie can just come me. if it gets bad before you left i'll call you. i'm trying to tought it uot
 Pauly: ok
  well don't be too tough
  what were those letters that you got yesterday?
10:54 AM me: letters? i'm having have a hard to think and type right
 Pauly: there were two letters that you received, I should have told you that.
  they were from delaware or something but sent from provo
  it was weird
 me: i didn't see thouse
 Pauly: you're spelling all of your words wrong
10:55 AM I'll stop bothering you
  take a break when you need to
 me: i have to read everything you read a few time days.
What is weird is that I remember trying to think of how to spell the word "day", but in retrospect... I obviously didn't even need to use it in the sentence. 

It was really bizarre and scary not to be in control. What I tried to talk, it wasn't much better than the typing, I knew what I wanted to say, and would plan it out in my head- but it would come out with the wrong words in the wrong places. 

After I took a long nap and some Ibuprofen I woke up with just a slight headache.
Any advice???

1 comment:

Jessica said...

Ok - I am totally blog stalking. But I figure since we know eachother it isn't bad - I hope. Anyway. My husband gets the WORST migranes ever - I hate it. He went and talked to his doctor about it and they put him on a asprin regiment (like they do for heart attack patients) he takes a small 80mg asprin every morning and is has helped quite a bit. They also did a MRI and a few other tests to make sure everything was ok. Maybe you should consider talking to your doctor about it.