My feeling poorly went from bad to worse Tuesday night.
I went to bed with a headache forming and I woke up at around midnight with the urge to vomit and every beat of my heart sent spasms of pain across my forehead; it literally thrummed with my pulse. I knew right away what it had turned into.
A migraine.
It wasn’t gone yesterday morning, so Adam took the day off work – when he did the same for half of the previous day – and I slept almost the entire day.
The pulsating feeling left at about 3pm. The headache itself was a dull thud by 10pm, although I still have it this morning as I type this.
What I guess is a small bit of irony is that when the headache first struck I was reading Richard Hammond’s biography and I was at the part of his car crash and recovery in hospital. So I lay there and the thought crossed my mind (in the times when I let them pass, because it was better to leave my brain a shell to ‘get on with’ recovering), “Well maybe this isn’t ‘just’ a migraine. What if something is dreadfully wrong?”
And then I thought of dad, who DID have problems with his brain thanks to his MND. He also was prone to migraines during his life. Maybe this was how it started for him?
And that freaked me out.
What if I end up the same way?
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Today, however, is a new day. We won’t be doing much or going anywhere, I don’t think. Adam has gone back to work and I will rest as best as I can with two children underfoot.
Yep, I’m not feeling too optimistic about that…
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*hugs* You poor thing, I hope can rest as much as is possible with kids today and see off the tail end of the migraine.
Thankfully I have never suffered from them, must just terrible for you. Especially when haunted by such thoughts.
I wouldn’t worry too much about any link between MND and migranes. If there was any then it would have been discovered by MND researchers a long time ago.
Thanks Leigh xx mwah
Fingers crossed, shelly!
I get terrible migraines too. I don’t know about yours but mine are usually bought on by stress. I hope you feel better soon. I know its hard trying to recover and look after kids at the same time
Did you get to the doctors? Maybe you ought to ask about it next time you’re there, set your mind at rest.
Glad you’re feeling a little better. Lets hope it only improves.
Hope you are feeling better soon – I have never suffered with migraine but my cousin suffers terribly making her passout. Very scary!
Hope you get some rest
Hope that migraine has gone or is on it’s way out.