Just As I Thought

Just another migraine Monday

As a doctor-hating, self-diagnosing kind of guy, I’ve decided that the reason I’ve had a migraine for two straight days is the weather.
I’ve started to notice that when there’s a drastic change in temperatures, my head starts to feel like someone’s sticking an ice pick in my temple, my stomach gets unsettled, every quiet whisper seems like a shout, and even a glimmer of light might as well be a beacon shining right into my optic nerve. And since I haven’t been to a doctor in several years, I don’t have any of that miracle drug Imitrex around.
Frankly, it seems to me that the best way to deal with this would be to get a pressurized suit of some kind, so that the changing high pressure/low pressure systems wouldn’t get to me. I could always be in a nice high pressure environment — in the air pressure sense, that is — and maybe my brain would settle down.
For now, though, I’ll spend a couple more hours here in bed tossing and turning, trying to get the light out of my eyes (those who have seen my bedroom[in pictures, get your mind out of the gutter, would ya?] will now realize why I have it painted a very dark teal with dark gray room-darkening curtains) and find the elusive cold side of the pillow.
This really sucks.

2 comments

  • Boy do I know that feeling. Living 10 miles from two major waterways (this Missiouri and Mississippi rivers) takes a big toll on my sinuses.
    Here’s a hint- what seems to work best on soothing my migraines is a nice Tuscan Red Wine, chased with a fresh spoonful of black-tar heroin injected straight into the eyeball. Umm?. heroin. It works so well, it’s almost like it’s actually destroying the very part of the brain that hurts.

    Take THAT brain!

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