Brain hurts. Someone else needs to be in charge.
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That's fair. I'd like to read in tomorrow's news that the Library of Alexandria was saved by an oddly dressed woman who held everyone off with a laser pointer.
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As long as I don't have to do anything, I'll do it.
Hope you feel better, soon.
That sounds like a good plan all around.
I will!
It takes a while, but I think the medication - ALL the caffeine and two doses of Imitrex are about to hit at once. Oh boy!
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RX medication can cause a lot of problems. I know someone who is addicted to sleeping medication like you have never seen before. I did not know it was possible; until I moved in with her...
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what happens then? is it wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee or zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz?
You misspelled Robbed and attacked
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I am pretty resistant to most medications. I just got a crapload of Vicodin after surgery and I can't imagine anybody wanting to take that stuff for fun. I can't even drink enough alcohol to meet a daily requirement.
It appears my brain is already pretty damned uninhibited and needs no assistance.
I'm not addicted, it's just an unhappy fact that a person with a migraine experiences not just the brain sorta shutting down, but the gut shutting down as well. The only thing I can really do is to keep trying to take meds and food on a four hour schedule while trying not to throw up, and somewhere between 9 to 13 hours later, my body might catch up, at which point it notices all the medication at once.
This is much better than the otherwise unhappy prospect of untreated migraines going on for 72 hours while I pass through the stages of wanting to die, hoping to die, thinking about bringing about the circumstances that would equate death, being to weak to do so, and then forgetting the words and concepts involved anyway. Then I forget all the words for a while. They do come back eventually, but it's much more like a seizure and a post-ictal state. Bridge is out to many parts of the brain. I had an MRI done and I'm the fun recipient of a bunch o' scarring from untreated migraines.
Just be sure to fill the tank and set the parking brake; the last time you used it, I found it had rolled to the Permian extinction and it took weeks to get the smell out of the leather.
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It's not really bad, as long as I took enough food with the caffeine, otherwise it's a shaky ride.
The Imitrex kicking in is a huge "Wheeee!" to the extent that all the endorphins my brain wants to put out to counteract the pain finally make it through the backed up paperwork and get released into my bloodstream at the same time as the rest of the medication.
I just get light headed, really. And wide awake. Sometimes the Imitrex itself can make me sleepy (this is from a generic version of Imitrex, but I'll take it) and it just sorta balances out to lightheadedness. Most of the wheeeee is from the relief of the sledgehammer stopping and the mood and confusion clearing.
So it's not like being on drugs, it's just like getting my brain back. I like my brain. I hate it when I lose her in the fog.
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There were all sorts of weird gods running around at the time. You can't get much weirder than taking on the form of a swan to assault some poor girl. Go for it.
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let us hope your wheeeeeeee is pleasant and makes the time spent wide awake worth every minute.
so, i thought the newer meds you were on put the migraines behind bars... was it just a case of not taking them on time?
*hope you feel good asap*
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The pine-scented air freshener I left on the dash didn't mask the smell of everything dying?
My bad.
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Thank you! I'm not feeling nauseated and the pain is receding from the one side of the head. Most of the morning I just hung out on the couch, and I'm just beginning to be able to tolerate light. The loopiness remains for a while, but I'm really in no danger as long as I'm not attempting to do something superhuman like drive.
This is why I work at home.
The daily stuff I take cuts the migraines down from half of my life to maybe 1/10 of my life, which is a much better ratio.
The model is apparently about me going into withdrawal from my own estrogen. It's just that good. Backhanded genetic compliment. Some of them can be treated fully with Excedrin if I catch them early enough while my digestive system is still functioning. Last night I noticed one coming on and I took an Imitrex, but didn't fully process the medication overnight and ended up with a blooming headache in the morning.
It's nice to know that my own estrogen is perceived as heroin by my system, but less fun to go through withdrawal at any time based on factors I can't control. This is theoretically why more women suffer migraines than men. Hormones. But men get more cluster headaches, which I think suck even worse than migraines.
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The brain is the only true friend anyone will ever have. It talks to us every moment of every day about pain it can never feel itself.
I'd go back to the moment of the big bang and say "this is about to get real."
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I'm thinking we should just go ahead and close early.
Okay. I'll flip the sign. There are "Gone Fishin'" signs and then there's mine: "Gone Comatose"
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You'll forgive me if I just think it's a stupid way to run an existence.
"Ow."
"What? How can I help?"
"Ow."
"What did I do, is God punishing me?"
"Ow."
"You have all this processing power and I don't even get a hint?"
"Ow."
"Fine. Fuck you brain."
"Ow."
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Can't. There'd be no vantage point.
Well, mine mostly just thinks of girl parts.
Maybe I actually did go back in time to the moment of the big bang, and my unexpectedly popping into the void actually caused the event.
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That's one of 'em! I'm on amitriptyline daily, which helps with this persnickety bit of my brain chemistry.
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