Psychotomy

So, since we got the amber necklaces back … 5? 6? months ago, my headaches receded from daily to just a few times a month. Unfortunately, those few times are the heavy duty ones that I can’t really do anything about.

For instance, I’ve had this headache for … 48 hours by now, a little more. Last night at one point it shifted and my left eye was throbbing and pulsing with the ehadache centralized right behind it rather than crushing my whole skull … and my comment was “well, thats better!”

We’re fairly sure it’s a pressure system moving in or through or whatever. Because it went from teens and twenties this week to 50 today. So I’m thinking there’s some collosal front moving in or something. I heard something about snow Monday, so maybe there’s more than one front.

But the pressure headaches … I can’t do jack about them. The month before the amber I was popping six to eight extra strength excedrin dairly to deal with my headaches. Now it does nothing. Tylenol, nothing. Advil. Aleve. Tylenol Sinus Pressure seems to help the tiniest smidge so I’m using up our small stack of that right now. I’m wondering if real aspirin would help, with the whole blood thinning thing. But we don’t have any because the Acetemenophin and Ibuprofen do the trick for everything and she can’t take aspirin pregnant, so we’ve simply not bothered to restock any of that since it ran out whenever.

I call them migraines, but I’m not 100% sure that they always are. I don’t have the “curl up in a ball” or “put a cold compress over your eyes and hide in a dark room” reflexes, generally. I mean, I’ve had them before, at times. I think the amber helped pare those back some too. But the pressure headaches just make me feel most of the way there without getting all the way there. Which is just as well, since I can’t do anything about it :/

alt.my.head.hurts … throwback gag :o

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