Migraine
Michelle on Dec 22 2007 at 1:34 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
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The last time I had a migraine with an aura, I thought I was seeing angels. How else to explain the twinkling lights around me? This time, I was sitting at a table with my students, facing a window. It was like the light was coming through fragmented glass. I inexplicably felt like I needed a pair of sunglasses. If you don’t know that you are about to get a migraine, it is a strange experience. Well, it’s strange anyway.
About half an hour after the whole thing with the lights, my students were in the other room and I was trying to send an email. My right hand would barely work. I thought “stroke?”, but I could make it work, with effort. After about half an hour, that feeling went away. Then the headache kicked in. I have felt like I have knives sticking in my right eye for a day now. Advil and Tylenol doesn’t make a dent in it. Still, I can’t just sit around in the dark, because then the pain seems even worse, since I’m focusing on it. I’m just glad I’m not in that category of migraine suffers who throw up. Ick. That would suck.
I’ll be glad when it goes away!
Oh geez, Michelle! I am so sorry. Having a migraine in class is a teacher’s worst nightmare. I have them too and I keep a Maxalt pill, caffeine pills, and naproxen in my desk just in case it happens. I’ve only been hit by it in class a few times but I wanted to crawl under the desk and die when it happened. *Hugs* to you. I hope you feel better by now. Are you off for Christmas break yet there?
Evocative description.
Ya-h-ouch!
Oh, that sounds really bad! The last time I had such a bad migraine was years ago when I spent a semester in London. I had one that lasted about a week and a half. I felt it in my sleep and nothing helped. It may have been the air quality there - we all had gray boogers for a while.
What about caffeine?