Got To Keep Moving

I don’t update as regularly as I should. Especially now, with the health issues I’ve been having, it’s harder and harder for me to keep on track. But when I do remember, even when I’m braindead from an unexpected midnight shift at work and a dull, throbbing headache, I’m going to put words in my blog.

I never did go and see a chiropractor–my insurance won’t cover it. After spending a night with a migraine so painful that I couldn’t move, and the only thing that seemed to help even a fraction was keeping my hand pressed to my forehead, I went back to my regular doctor.

She has me on a different med. It’s a step-up drug, which means every week, I increase the dosage. If it continues as it has so far, that means that on the day before and the day of my increase, it will feel like I got hit in the face with a hammer,  but before and after that, the pain is at a tolerable level.

One of the worst things about the migraines is that it’s so hard to think. I don’t even want to think sometimes; it just hurts to concentrate. Anything more strenuous than putting my head down on a pillow makes me want to cry some days. That’s why it’s so important for me to seize the days like today, where I don’t feel great but I can think, and do something with them. Even if it’s only writing or editing a few days here or there.

I don’t know when my migraine issues are going to end, if ever, but I can’t let them keep me from working. I have to get back to it.

 

Status Sunday

I wish I could say things are different with my head, but that’d be a lie. I’ve been back to the doctor twice about it–once I was shot full of painkillers, once I was ordered a CT scan–and nothing has made a difference. I was prescribed anti-migraine meds, and they don’t make a bit of difference in how much pain I’m in.

I’m going to try going to a chiropractor after this. If the painkillers aren’t touching it, then maybe it’s a pinched nerve. If nothing else, it certainly can’t hurt–nothing else is helping. After that, I’m guessing I’ll have to go see a specialist.

Writing and editing haven’t happened. My head hurts too much to really concentrate on anything (this post has not been easy to do). Even the dayjob has been difficult; it takes me twice as long to do what I’m used to doing every day.

I feel really bad about it. I know I’m not well, but I should be doing something anyway, well or not. I just can’t seem to concentrate for very long without making my head hurt worse.

 

Right into My Skull

I think this might be the year of my body utterly falling apart. My earlier health problems are more or less gone, but the headaches are getting worse.

I used to have a huge problem with migraines a few years ago. I got them several times a week, and missed a lot of work because I spent so much time curled up in bed, just trying to get the pain to go away.

Now it seems like in having them again, and when I’m not having a migraine, my head is throbbing anyway. Fun times. I stopped drinking pop shortly after I had that first migraine; I’m considering starting again just for the caffeine. Pain killers aren’t touching it.

It’s making concentration difficult for me. It’s hard to focus on work, or writing or anything else, when it feels like there’s an ice puck being rammed into my skull.

 

Monday Music Roulette

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Status Sunday

I didn’t think I was going to get to do a blog entry for today. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I’m really just now crawling out of bed.

I was out pretty late last night (and by last night, I mean I dragged my ass in the door at nearly 5AM), and slept until about 11AM. A text, and then a phone call, woke me up then, so I got out of bed to try to get some stuff done. I had a massive headache, so I tried drinking three glasses of water, eating breakfast/lunch, and taking three ibuprofen. None of this helped, so I lay back down in my bedroom, thinking that staring at the computer screen was making it worse, and just passed out.

I have to work early tomorrow morning. Should be fun!

I’m looking at my schedule for the week ahead, and I’m pleased by all the free days I have (and I might have one extra; I’m debating skipping something). Writing is still very hit or miss for me, but I’m going to be trying something different, see what the does for me. I’ll talk more about it on Wednesday.

Well, I only have a few hours before I have to go back to bed. I’d better do something productive.

 

Balance

I’ve heard a lot of variations on the theme of you needing balance in your life to be happy. Everything in moderation, you’d get sick of cake if you ate it every day, and so on. I’m realizing that I have a real problem maintaining balance in my life.

 

Monday Music Roulette

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