I have not had a migraine in awhile, at least not like the beasts I have suffered from in the past. I have had migraines since elementary school. Not a headache. There is a BIG difference. It frustrates me when I see people out and about, complaing they have a migraine. Listen bucko, if you really had a migraine you wouldn't be doing anything but struggling in some dark room or shower pleading for life.
You see a real migraine is like this: first there's the ghostly swiggles of the wind demons that invade your pupils, swirling around in small whirlpools of nauseating shimmering...a prophetic sign of the head splitting mayhem about to descend upon you. Then as pastor pain puts his malaise into your bloodstream and you run for the bathroom, you will find yourself hugging the toilet, puking the last remains of yesterdays breakfast out of your lower intestine. Meanwhile the fire devil has his spiked talon planted deep into the baby soft tissue of your cranium and has set your internal wound on fire with bolts of continuos lightening straight from Thor's hammer. You will be gasping for air as you choke on the remains of the last thing you ate and those pills you popped in hopes to stay off the oncoming mental locomotive. You would be rubbing one side of your face with an odd sense of horror because it feels like your skin is slowly melting off your skull in a scattered fizz of numbing nerves. There you will lay...no lights on...no sound...grasping your head or banging it with your fists, rubbing on and on as you try to unplug whatever seems clogged in your throbbing brian. You will then try to lay down and sleep, only to be sent scambling for the can as yet another wave of stomach bile decides it just cant stay in your gut anymore...thanks yet again to the jackhammer trying to break out of your head from the inside out.
So what does that leave you feeling like...well here I am on day three, still feeling the lethargic, slightly nauseous, hangoverish aftermath of this monsoon of pain called so politely a migraine. So please don't ever tell me you have had one, unless you can testify to this trauma.
3 comments:
That was the best description I've ever heard! One of the most heavenly places is laying in an urgent care bed, needle poke in the booty and a saline solution IV...it's beautiful really. It has been 1 year, 2 months and 4 days for me :-)
Lisa
Yes Migraines run on my mom's side of the family. Ours however are heart related. When we use heart medications then the migraines go away. (Nitro "imdur") Migraines can be caused by your blood being thicker and your brain when you have a migraine may have thinner cells. Well imdur thins the blood and opens the blood vessels so blood can flow easier. That is why many migraine meds work because it has meds that open your blood vains.
Anyway after my mom started using this 2 years ago she never got a migraine again.
Something to look into!
Mary
Ah yes. The migraine. It's been awhile since I had one, but your description makes it seem like yesterday.
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