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Dear migraine, kindly go to Hell.
14 years ago
Migraines really do suck. I get what are called Basilar migraines.
For me this means the following.
I see auras. I don't mean in an 'is the spirit with us now' type either. In migraine sufferers, an aura can manifest as just about any kind of visual disturbance. In my case, this starts as a faint blur around anything I try to focus on, and worsens until the 'true' migraine (the pain part) kicks in.
If I medicate around the 'aura' phase, sometimes I can avoid the attack all around.
I get vertigo and nausea.
After the aura, I have at least an hour of vertigo, my perceptions warp, perspectives seem surreal, and invariably I feel quite sick in this phase. Sometimes the vertigo comes and goes either with or in tandem with the headache pain itself.
I suffer photosensitivity.
After the first hour of a migraine, unless I medicate to mitigate, I can't stand any kind of light for at least three hours. I have a sleep mask I will wear if it's daylight, or lock myself as best able in a room without any light. This part is accompanied by sharp pain any time I move my eyes, regardless of the level of darkness surrounding.
I can't speak or write coherently.
I'm not exactly full of comprehension on why this happens, but in the swing of migraine, throughout the phases of nausea, photosensitivity, and the tail end of the aura phase, I can hardly speak. It takes a great deal of collected concentration on my end to phrase sentences, and I often jumble not only the order of words, but the words themselves.
To liken it to another state of mind, it feels as though I'm blind drunk, and for some reason what I want to say doesn't come out properly.
This translates to my typing as well. When fighting migraines, it takes me ten times as long to write anything. What I am able to write is usually nonsensical, lacking in coherence and reads as though I don't understand the English language.
This annoys me to no end, being unable to communicate efficiently, and it ceases only when all other symptoms but the headache itself have passed.
Anyways, done my migraine rant, going to get ready for work now.
For me this means the following.
I see auras. I don't mean in an 'is the spirit with us now' type either. In migraine sufferers, an aura can manifest as just about any kind of visual disturbance. In my case, this starts as a faint blur around anything I try to focus on, and worsens until the 'true' migraine (the pain part) kicks in.
If I medicate around the 'aura' phase, sometimes I can avoid the attack all around.
I get vertigo and nausea.
After the aura, I have at least an hour of vertigo, my perceptions warp, perspectives seem surreal, and invariably I feel quite sick in this phase. Sometimes the vertigo comes and goes either with or in tandem with the headache pain itself.
I suffer photosensitivity.
After the first hour of a migraine, unless I medicate to mitigate, I can't stand any kind of light for at least three hours. I have a sleep mask I will wear if it's daylight, or lock myself as best able in a room without any light. This part is accompanied by sharp pain any time I move my eyes, regardless of the level of darkness surrounding.
I can't speak or write coherently.
I'm not exactly full of comprehension on why this happens, but in the swing of migraine, throughout the phases of nausea, photosensitivity, and the tail end of the aura phase, I can hardly speak. It takes a great deal of collected concentration on my end to phrase sentences, and I often jumble not only the order of words, but the words themselves.
To liken it to another state of mind, it feels as though I'm blind drunk, and for some reason what I want to say doesn't come out properly.
This translates to my typing as well. When fighting migraines, it takes me ten times as long to write anything. What I am able to write is usually nonsensical, lacking in coherence and reads as though I don't understand the English language.
This annoys me to no end, being unable to communicate efficiently, and it ceases only when all other symptoms but the headache itself have passed.
Anyways, done my migraine rant, going to get ready for work now.
pj wolf
~pyrostinger
hope it doesn't strike again.
