Tonight, all of a sudden, I had a migraine headache...
the kind where the lights are even too bright.
I was working and felt it coming on.
Then within minutes, it was FULL force, like a hammer banging constantly on my forehead.
I had no idea why I was getting one or when it would disappear.
I remember my sister-in-law telling me when she was pregnant last year, she would get headaches and just let them be.
She never took any medicine for them.
So when I was pregnant, at the same time as she, I decided I was going to try that same technique.
Even though I would get migraines before pregnancy, I, for some stupid reason, thought this new technique would work.
The first one I got, I kept telling myself, Hold out, HOOLLLDDD OOUUUTTT.
Well, it didn't last long before I knew THAT just wasn't going to happen! I took something for it...
and for EVERY.
SINGLE.
ONE after that during my pregnancy.
I got so many that I would take something at the slightest inkling of one.
They would still come FULL force, but the medicine would keep them in check.
After I gave birth, I got them often when I wasn't eating regularly.
I deduced that I have to eat every 2-3 hours or the migraines will attack in full force.
I'm not sure if this is my body telling me something or what?! I haven't had one in a while until tonight.
I don't know if it came on because I didn't eat enough when I ate last or because I am exhausted (baby boy hasn't been sleeping through the night for the past three weeks and I have no idea why).
Medicine didn't work.
The lights were straining my eyes.
Any noise was WAAAY too loud.
And my head was killing me.
Someone offered me food.
I took it.
It didn't help.
I drank water; it didn't help.
I ate a little more.
Then very slowly, it started to subside...
just a bit.
The issue I have with headaches, is that I don't ever want to do anything when I have one.
That doesn't really work when you're a single mom.
You have no choice but to take care of your sweet baby that needs and depends on you.
So no matter how much my head hurts, I have someone that relies on me.
There is no break, no time out, or no let me just lie down for a few minutes.
You have to do what you have to do and work through the head pain.
Even as I'm writing this, I still have a headache.
I'm hoping it will go way as soon as my head hits the pillow.
The problem is...
every time I've ever gone to bed with a headache, thinking sleep will "cure" it, I always wake up with one.
There's NOTHING that starts off a day worse than a headache.
I'm hoping that won't be the case this time.
What causes your headaches? How often do you get them? What helps relieve them?