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I woke with a migraine today. Sadly, Amerge hasn’t helped much. I’m not sure what to do at this point. I’ve got issues with nausea on top of the headache. I’ve been up for two hours. I think I’m going to take some naproxen and lie down again. I’ll update further later on.

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Lying down helped. I think it was actually the lower light levels. When I came out here and opened my laptop, that hurt. I’ve turned down the brightness of my screen considerably, and that seems to be okay now. My head still hurts somewhat, but I can’t think of anything much that I want to do that doesn’t involve the laptop or a book or something visual. I think I’m going to be trying podcasts and audiobooks to see if I can keep myself occupied that way.

I took a cab to my appointment yesterday and then took the bus home. In between, I saw the gynecologist and had my IUD removed. I’m not entirely happy with doing that because I don’t know how my body’s going to respond. (I’m a little worried that this migraine is related to that. I’m not sure why it would be, but who knows?) I’ll go back in about four months, and we’ll see where things are then.

After leaving the clinic, I did some Ingress stuff in terms of hacking and capturing some new to me portals. I stopped at the Espresso Royale on State St, mainly because I wanted to use the bathroom. I got a scone and a ginger dragon. The barista didn’t ask me if I wanted it hot or cold and just gave it to me hot. I hadn’t thought to specify because, in June, I assume that I’m going to get it cold. Having a hot drink meant taking about three times as long as I’d expected to because I had to wait for it to cool enough not to burn my mouth.

I ended up catching the bus home at the stop near Division and Liberty rather than trying to go all the way to the central bus station. It would have taken me long enough to get to the station than there was time before the next bus left.

I had a baked potato with green beans and pulled pork for lunch. That meant that I wasn’t very hungry when it came time for dinner. I ended up having just a bit of cheese and a small bowl of ice cream for dinner. Weirdly, I had reflux when I went to bed. I guess I need to eat a bit more at dinner time or something.

I tried still another Stash tea yesterday. This one is very berry, a caffeine free herbal. Hibiscus is the first listed ingredient, and I could definitely taste it. Fortunately, I like hibiscus. This was a bit astringent in a way I didn’t love, but I would be happy to drink it again.

I think I’ve got two or three samples from that batch left that I haven’t tried yet and then another three that are things I’d had before I bought the sampler. I’ve got another sampler that I really haven’t touched because it’s all green tea variants which I find more challenging to prepare properly.

I’m trying to decide whether or not it’s worth spending $10 to get a used copy of the first season of a show I don’t much like but very much want to write fic for. The library has it, but that means pre-planning when I need to watch (and not being able to go back to spot check things) and managing to watch everything in a short time. If it was streaming somewhere, I’d go with that. $10 really isn’t all that much for the convenience, right?

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I’m still headachy and nauseated. I’ve just taken a second Amerge. I took naproxen about 2 and Tylenol about 5. Lying down with a cold pack is the only thing that helps. I’m frustrated because, at this point, there’s nothing I can do about the headache if it doesn’t go away on its own. I have no options for talking to my doctor until Tuesday. I don’t expect this is going to go to the point of the ER making sense, but there’s nothing else available for three days.

At this point, I need to eat something, but everything looks terrible and unappealing to the point of making me feel worse. I kind of want Scott to just give me something and tell me to eat it, but he’s not willing to do that. I really don’t know what to do. Not eating will make things worse, and eating will make things worse.

I’ve found some discussion online of a 'post-Mirena crash,' but 90% of those are people talking about things that happened weeks after the removal. I can’t find anything at all official talking about what happens after removal except with regard to how fast one is likely to be able to conceive.

At any rate, even with the brightness turned as far down on my laptop as I can without having it go completely black, doing computer stuff makes me feel worse. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep myself away, but if the headache goes on, I probably shouldn’t open the dratted thing. So if you don’t see me here this weekend, it’s probably that.

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I'm able to look at my phone without pain. The laptop is still a problem, however, and I've been keeping the lights off (which kind of freaks Cordelia out).

I ended up eating dry cereal for dinner.