Well, the "very important field trip" did not come off.
My migraine came back around noon, even worse than before. There was NO way I could safely drive a 15 passenger van feeling the way I did. I went home to lie down, and I left word with the secretary that if I hadn't called her by a particular time, would she put up a note cancelling lab.
This will complicate matters considerably but as I was on the verge of vomiting at the time when I was supposed to be picking up the van, I think it was best.
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So now I have the evening. I'm kind of wiped out, I think I'll work on a couple of simple stockinette-stitch things I have going.
Migraines stink.
I feel really guilty cancelling class - I know I shouldn't feel that way, and I know there was no way I would have been effective OR safe teaching class this afternoon, and migraines sort of count as a disability. I did take my medicine, I just either didn't take it early enough, or (as sometimes happens), this was an extra-powerful migraine the medicine couldn't cope with. (I know at one point I could not even roll over in bed without massive amounts of pain - I could not move my head. And at one point I was wondering if it was a migraine or something worse, like an aneurysm. Well, obviously it was "just" a migraine as I'm better now.)
2 comments:
I hope that you are feeling better. I too have had terrible headaches, probably small migraines, though I have not been officially diagnosed. But never as awful as you had it. I am glad that you choose to stay home.
I go around preaching the Gospel of Imitrex (a.k.a. Sumatriptan) to anyone I encounter who has migraines. The stuff works like a charm, though (at least for me) it takes about 45 minutes to kick in (which can seem like a loooooong time when you're in pain). But 15 minutes after that, all the pain is gone. AND you can take it anytime, even after the headache is well under way and it still works.
I've only had a few of the real "killer" migraines, but I used to have medium-sized ones a couple of times a month, and now it's more like two or three a year (and even those few are helped by the stuff, even if not cured).
BTW, the results of experiments I've seen on electronic treatments for migraine look really promising -- the theory being that in some ways migraine works like epilepsy, i.e. it starts as a local "error" and then propagates through the brain. I'll be interested to see if it actually works well enough to go commercial.
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