Posts filed under “Migraine”
Double bind, medical edition
If I look bad at the doctor’s, they think I’m exaggerating. If I look good at the doctor’s, they think I’m coping well enough that I don’t need treatment.
Perhaps a sign I am not fully recovered from yesterday’s migraine
On my way to work, I got on the bus going the wrong direction and did not even notice for a very long time. I suppose I should say, on my way away from work. I’ve lived here for four years. Guess I’ll work from home today.
A surprisingly awful thing about triptans
I’ve found doctors tend to brush off most complaints about side effects, despite how unpleasant they can be all on their own. Even many innocuous side effects are very difficult when combined with the symptoms of illness or a particular lifestyle. For example, many triptans have a strong diuretic effect. For me, this kicks in […]
Thank the allgods for git and backups
Sometimes the first sign of a migraine is forgetting the dry run flag.
Except that it is.
I told a friend that I couldn’t get together because of a health crisis. This scared her. When I said it wasn’t life-threatening, she responded that she was glad it wasn’t serious. Except that it is.
Things all my real life friends find deathly boring
Let’s talk about pill splitting. Sometimes you don’t want to take your full dose for some reason, or sometimes it’s cheaper to buy a higher dose than you really need and then split the pills. At some point, half blind from a migraine at 2am searching for the half that shot off the counter when […]
Working through a heart attack
The other morning I started feeling weird and not very good. I ignored it for several hours, but I kept feeling worse. I very recently started taking a new supplement for my migraines, and I realized that I hadn’t done very thorough research on its interactions with the other drugs I take. Maybe I shouldn’t […]