Sorry this is not terribly interesting and sounds sort of whinging. Today is Day 4 of a fairly bad migraine. I’m not looking for sympathy or help, just noting the progress of the symptoms for my own future reference.
Day 1: Notice some blinking white spots in front of my eyes but they are not my usual visual disturbances. Feeling a little tired, assume it’s the hot weather. Don’t really twig that this could be a migraine.
Day 2: Nauseated. Pupils are unevenly dilated. Flat surfaces seem to buckle and melt. The left side of my head feels bigger than the right side and I can’t speak straight—the words come out in the wrong order. No bad pain, so I get on with the day, go to the beach, have a bbq with friends. No alcohol since I know that will make it worse.
Day 3: Sharp pains begin stabbing my head in the morning. Try to nap, but they keep waking me up. Spend the entire day in bed, reading. In the late afternoon, I discover I am slightly feverish. Fall asleep by 10:15.
Day 4: Wake to occasional stabs and cold explosions in my head. Some nausea, but tolerable. My entire left side feels dulled and swollen (of course it’s not any bigger than normal) Everything is too loud and bright. Still feverish. Pupils uneven again. Eyes hurt. Shiatsu took away some of the dullness, but none of the pain.
I am annoyed with how long this is going on. I have things to do but no energy to do them. C’mon body, behave.
Posted by kuri at July 27, 2004 12:29 PMkuri,
I had relatively close symptoms last week… Eyes hurt, headache, feeling tired, nauseated, fever even. I eventually agreed to see a doctor, and it was “just” natsu-kaze (on top of having been sick because of something I’d eaten 10 days before). It happens when it’s too hot outside, too cold inside, too hot outside, etc, etc.
Why not go see a doc, or try a cocktail of aspirin and antibiotics?
Get better soon.
Posted by: olivier on July 27, 2004 05:22 PMI think I mentioned, but I’ll put it here too, a remedy I heard about a long time ago: Pure Oxygen.
The treatment was to take a few good hits from an oxygen bottle at the first sign of the migraine. They sell small aerosol-sized bottles at Tokyu Hands for people who are going to climb mount Fuji - you might try grabbing a couple for next time.
Also be sure that you’re getting enough pure water - especially when it’s hot. Other drinks rarely are as good, in fact some like regular orange juice, can be worse for dehydration, as they need to draw water out of your body to digest.
Feel better, kuri…
Posted by: Jim O'Connell on July 27, 2004 07:13 PMI suffer from headaches (bad migraine) Any medicine sold on drug stores don’t work. I take a medicine from a clinic. If you are annoyed with them for more than a week, you should go to clinic.
Posted by: Mieko on July 28, 2004 09:50 AM