I woke up at four o’clock yesterday morning already in the throes of a migraine.
I do not think that this is fair.
How can you have a migraine in your sleep?
Admittedly I was dreaming that Gok Wan and I had decided to raise chickens on our small holding. This was quite stressful in the dream. I imagine it would be more stressful in real life. I don’t think Gok would be very handy around chickens, unless they needed more cleavage, or a clutch bag for a red carpet event.
A migraine, as I have said before, is not your usual type of headache. I knew it was a migraine immediately, because not only was my brain trying to escape out of my skull via any route possible, but everything in the room smelled funny and my stomach was going churny, churny, churny.
I adjourned to the toilet whereupon I promptly threw up.
Sometimes this makes me feel better. Other times not.
This was a not time.
I was absolutely roasting hot. I am not the type of person who runs hot. I am the type of person to adjourn to bed in June clutching a hot water bottle.
I staggered downstairs, opened the lounge windows and lay in agony, throwing up for several hours.
It was clear I was unfit for anything when everyone else got up. Jason had an absolutely crucial meeting he could not miss. My mum surged forward in an heroic way and came and took the children to school.
Then she surged back at 3.15 and picked them up. Jason then took over the reins, picking them up from mum’s when he got home from work.
I started to feel better at 10 last night, after a spectacularly awful day.
At regular intervals I would wake up, think I might be better, get up, and then throw up everywhere, at one point all over me and the sheets. And then I was too ill to change them, and had to lie there until the next time I felt well enough to stagger upwards from the pit.
It was no fun at all.
This morning I have a splitting headache, as a residue of the migraine. It is agonising, but I am hoping a large pot of coffee and some Nurofen will see it off. If not it is back to the pit I go.
Rubbish.
Poor you
Hope the assorted drugs work quickly.
Oh dear Lord. I’m SO pleased I don’t have migraines like this any more. I’ve had them in my sleep as well. It’s extremely disconcerting to wake up and find you’ve got the visual aura going on. I’m very lucky, though, because I managed to find out in my 20s what caused mine (mechanical, i.e., spinal misalignment, rather than hormonal or food-based) so when I feel the headaches starting to get closer together and more intense, off to the chiropractors I go.
Hope you feel better soon, lovey.
Very gentle hugs – get better soonest, please! And medals all round – to you as well as Sue and Jason.
Oh dear God, that sounds spectacularly awful even for one of your migraines. Hope you’re on the up by now. Hugs. xxx
I am sure you meant your title to read, “I am *in* pain” not “I am *a* pain” – I truly doubt any of your loved ones feels anything but sympathy for you – it sounds miserable. I have been ill for the last week with nothing even close to migraine and – while DH is wonderful – would have loved to have had my mom nearby…one of the worst things about living abroad. Hats off to your family and feel better soon.
So awful, you poor thing. I suffer also, but only about once a year. generally it coincides with something lovely I’ve planned (like a trip to NY before xmas, pah). My sister is like you, gets them v often, and is knocked flat for days, vomiting, room spinning etc. She’s recently discovered some amazing prescription drugs (suppositories in fact – I suspect the shock of having to stick something up her own bum takes the edge of the migraine) Would you like me to get details and pass them on?
I would love the details please. That would be enormously helpful. I don’t care if I have to set fire to my own hair if it makes things better frankly. Thank you.x
Difene suppositories. She buys it over the counter in Ireland. In my experience, Ireland is a bit more lax than the UK for over the counter stuff (a bit like Thailand, only colder. and poorer.)
She completely ignores the recommendations for doses and takes one Difene, and supplements it with one migraleve (orally). She takes them as soon as she feels a bad migraine coming on, goes for a nap, and wakes up feeling normal.
Hope it works for you too.
(OFF the migraine, OFF… (now that I’m an editor/ proofreader I cannot afford ANY typos) )
Brilliant. Thank you. Will go and make apt with the dr next week.x
How horrible for you… I do sympathise……I get them too and the gp recently started me on angina tablets to see if they could help ……..the visual distortion and nausea is just horrible isnt it? at least I don’t actually vomit…you poor thing…feel better x
So horrible. Hope it has resolved by now and you’ve recovered from the after-effects. That is a very grim combination of migraine pain and symptoms that nastily recreate food poisoning, only without the microbes. Lovely of your Mum to help out.
All better now. Thank you for all your kind wishes everybody.xx