Migraines

The Long Lingering Vacation is Over

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For me most of the month of December was nice short 3 day weeks. Unfortnatly the last one of those is over in a few hours. Tomorrow starts the normal grind of a 5 day work week. I am winding down the week and getting ready for the week, but I am a little sad that the holiday is over.

Thankfully I felt OK today. I went to bed early last night since I started getting a migraine and then was forced to lie down. That is never fun, but thankfully sleeping it off helped. That left me today feeling normal.

On my last day off I spent most of the day cleaning up the clutter around my apartment. It is amazing how after only 2 or 3 days the place can become really messy. I also continued (hopefully concluded) my early spring cleaning. I got rid of two large garbage bags of stuff so hopefully things will remain neat and tidy. I did the laundry, and got a bunch of online shopping done to bang through my task list. Now all I need to do is start banging through my work tasks tomorrow in between 6 and a half hours of meetings.

On the plus side the last few nights have been decent night sleeps. That is a change for me so I was happy. Lets hope tonight is good as well. Sunday nights tend not to be. I am helping the sleep along with a little Johnny Walker Blue over some ice as I sit here and write. Hopefully my writing tonight is as smooth as this drink!

Short Week

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Today I worked from home. That is part of my typical routine I have gotten into over the past 6 weeks. Tomorrow I am off to the office for about 6 hours of back to back meetings. That is the downside. The upside is that I have the rest of the week off. Even though my company gives me a half day (1pm we can go home!) on Friday, I decided that I wanted the full day off to make it a nice long weekend. I am going to my sisters Wednesday morning and wont come home until Friday morning. Then I get a normal weekend to hang out. Hopefully I don’t get the cold that has been going around that I have been semi avoiding for the past week.

Today was relatively uneventful at work. Lots of planning meetings, and following up from a release we had over the weekend. Nothing I can discuss here. I was battling a Migraine most of the day. The Aleve didn’t work, so I ended up having to take something stronger towards the end of the day. I was trying to avoid it but if I didn’t I would ruin the entire evening.

After work I ran out to the grocery store and grabbed a fresh filet for dinner. The new “fancy” grocery store virtually across the street from my house is spoiling me. I check out what I want for food and then get it fresh and cook it up. It beats thinking ahead several days and buy from Fresh Direct. I still use Fresh Direct and love it but the fresh stuff is too difficult to predict when I will eat it. I would rather go to the store right before I want something vs buying it and hope I will be in the mood for it. The filet was really good, and the peacan bars I got for desert will hopefully be really good when I eat one later.

John’s Wedding

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I went to John’s wedding yesterday. It was a nice informal party. I like that! I had a great time for a while. Then I got a migraine. For the first few hours it was a blast. We drank, ate, and I hung out with some friends I haven’t seen in ages, and others that I saw Friday.

I am glad I canceled the rental car. I was happy to be able to drink a bit. And then I started to get a migraine so I am glad I didn’t have to drive home in the rain feeling sick. I cut out right after the wedding since i was out of it. I didn’t get a chance to go back to John & Zee’s to hang out with everyone, but I hope to do that soon enough.

I did nothing but sleep after I got home. That part of the day wasn’t so fun.

Partial Work From Home Day

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I had a migraine today. By 11AM I didn’t think I was going to make it through the rest of the day. The medication I took didn’t kick in for a while. By the time my noon meeting that I couldn’t cancel rolled around I was feeling better enough to go out to lunch with the guy I was meeting up with. After lunch I did end up working from home the rest of the day. I had gotten approval to do that before I started feeling better, and it just was easier to spend the last few hours from home on the conference calls I had. I am glad I had a close call and didn’t have a major migraine melt down. I have had those before at work, and they are probably some of the worst things that can happen.

Sleeping Issues With a Twist

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I have had on and off (mainly on) sleeping troubles since I decided to start looking for a new job back in April. There is no question it is stress related. It had gotten better as I settled into my new job, but last week I started having problems again, but this time with a twist. I don’t know what I did but now my neck has been hurting really bad. I think it might have started by me sleeping on it wrong, but it also hurts during the day periodically. I have had neck pain before (I went to a chiropractor when i was like 11 for issues) but this hurts. I knew it was bad when my friends at the bar on Friday were wondering if I was ok because I wouldn’t turn in one direction. My dad says to give it some more time before I have it looked at, but I think that I need to do something about it really soon. I can’t sleep because it hurts when I lie certain ways, and I think it is causing minor head aches. Minor head aches are one thing, but for someone who gets migraines because of minor head aches I have to worry. Thankfully I have only had one incident today when i had to take my migraine meds. A good night sleep right about now would be really nice!

BBQ Weekend

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This weekend I went up to Jayson & Gretchen's new house for a BBQ. I went up Saturday afternoon so I could hang out and not have to travel on Sunday morning to the BBQ. I am glad I went up early because besides the hour and a half train ride, I didn't realize that the 7 train wasn't running at my station. That meant a 5 minute trip from my station to Grand Central turned into a 40 minute trip. I actually almost missed my train on Saturday because of the MTA's decision to do construction on a holiday weekend. Great job MTA.

Other than that near miss-hap the weekend was great. The weather was fantastic. There was tons of food. I saw a bunch of people I haven't seen in ages. Scott (not me another Scott) was there with his wife and kid. Kai was there with his wife and kid. Ian was going to come but he is expecting a new born any minute so he was a no show. There was tons of food. I am impressed with myself for not drinking that much. I don't drink allot normally but I am trying to cut back anyway because I am worried that more than one or two drinks of alcohol will trigger a migraine. I did mix up two or three Jack Daniel's Lynchburg Lemonades. They are really good.

I was able to get a bunch of photos with the new digital camera. Man that camera takes good photos. They will be up on Flickr soon.

I was originally going to stay over until Monday so I didn't have to worry about taking the train home late on Sunday night, or leave early due to traveling all that way home via public transit. Thankfully two of Gretchen's friends gave me a ride. I am glad they did because I didn't get home until past 1AM. I think it was better to do that than get a not so great night sleep at someone else's house and then still have to travel home.

Overall a fantastic weekend. I had a blast at the BBQ and got to see some people I haven't seen in a really long time!

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I Can’t Sleep Again

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I have been having trouble sleeping for weeks. I have a few ideas why, but I won’t go into them here just now. A by product of my lack of sleep is a noticeable increase in the number of migraines I am getting or rather the number of times recently that I have needed to take my migraine medication. I even left early from work one day this last week, and worked from home another because I wasn’t up to my normal 100%. I am hopped up on meds right now because I woke up not feeling so hot today. Normally on a weekend day I would just suffer through the head ache because I don’t like to medicate when I don’t absolutely have to, but you can only take so many migraines before you break down and just take something. Sleeping helps, but if you can’t even do that you have to take something. Thankfully the stuff I took is working and I have been fine since about 1PM. Today is wasted but at least I feel semi normal.

I am afraid that the Johnnie Walker Blue I had last night might have been the trigger for this mornings issues. It is the second time that I have woken up with a head ache after drinking some, but i have had other scotch’s and bourbon’s before without any problems so I can’t see how it is a problem, but I don’t believe in coincidences.

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Sick Day

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I woke up this morning with a head ache. For me that is never a good sign. It means a migraine is soon to follow. Because I knew I haven’t been sleeping well this weekend, and the head ache, I was pre-emtive and took a sick day off from work. I am glad I did. I went back to sleep and woke up at around noon. I needed the rest. I was bored the rest of the day though. I hate sick days. I usually need the rest but it is boring stuck at home.

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Back in the Swing of Things

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It is Thursday an I have successfully completed two days back at work. Both were filled with meetings and other stuff keeping me running around, so I am glad that I made it. Not much else going on in my life yesterday and today. I was glad I was able to make it through work. Jayson & Danny meet up Tuesday night for drinks. I missed it, but I was glad to get the rest. The trains ended up getting messed up so I was glad I I didn’t go out. The commute Wednesday morning to work was also screwed up from lingering issues related to Tuesdays train problems. Everything was back to normal today so I was happy.

I look forward to finishing the week without getting sick again and resting this weekend.

Out of It

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I have been offline for the better part of the week trying to get over some really bad migraines. Thus the no posting. My anniversary post was actually written about two weeks ago but just not posted. I am just now able to sit at the computer for longer periods of time. Aside from the flu I had 3 years ago the medication issues I had about 2 years ago this was probably the worst experience in pain in my entire life. The bad part is we still don’t really know what triggered everything. Probably couldn’t have happened at a worse time. I am only on month 2 of a new job, so missing any time is bad, but missing a total of like 3 days in a week is not good.

I am hoping to be bak to work tomorrow. I just hope I don’t have any repeat events. On the plus side I discovered (not sure why I never knew this before) that the ER has this nice cocktail on IV that can kill a migraine. It isn’t even pain medication, but whatever it is does the trick. Now all I have to do is be able to sleep normally again. I goto bed normal time or early and I wake up yawning. I still can’t figure that out, so I am still concerned about going back to work. We will see what happens tomorrow.

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