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[the_rck]

I woke with the headache still giving me trouble. Scott gave me a bit of a massage, and I’m wondering if a serious massage might help. That would be pretty expensive, though, and difficult to schedule.

I ended up getting up a couple of times during the night to change my cold packs because those, combined with not moving, helped a lot. I’ve got three usable gel packs. I’m trying not to go through them too fast because it takes hours for them to get cold again. Pity we don’t have an easy, fast way to remove heat the way we do to add heat.

I’ve taken an Ativan on the off chance that that will help. I think it might actually be doing something. Maybe. It could be wishful thinking. I really can’t think what would be so stressful/anxiety inducing as to give me a headache like this from the things that Ativan can help with. The next step is an Amerge and some Tylenol. I may try naproxen again considerably later on. I don’t know.

If this is a purely stress/anxiety thing, alcohol would likely help, but I really don’t want to deal with that. Alcohol is pretty repulsive unless it’s buried in other stuff, and I’m not even remotely set up to do that. It’s really, really hard to get the dosage right and not make things worse, and alcohol interacts badly with so many other medications.

The only thing that’s reliably but briefly helping is orange juice. That gives me a little bit less pain for ten to twenty minutes. I’m not sure what’s going on with that because other things that I’d expect to spike my blood sugar haven’t had any effect.

I had my morning coffee (not great in combination with nausea) and a bagel. I probably ought to rummage and see if I can find something better, but it’s very hard to make myself do it.

I turned the thermostat down last night because I felt that it being so warm and humid (Scott still hasn’t finished with the dehumidifier. We need it badly enough that, if he doesn’t finish this weekend, I’m going to insist he replace it) was making things worse for me. I think that the two degree difference did help me.

Showering this morning also helped, at least while I was still in the shower. Maybe a long bath? I really don’t know.

Scott’s mother wants us to commit to solid plans for Monday. Scott’s not going to deal with it; I know that. And my ability to do so is, um, kind of compromised. It’s hard for me to think about anything except that this headache is never going to end.

Comments

[kyrielle]

Orange juice helping but other things not - did you try water? OJ, vs most sources of sugar, would be helpful if there was some dehydration involved (and coffee would be unhelpful/countering in that case, which is theonly other liquid thing you mention having).

[the_rck]

I've had 16oz of water in the last two hours, so it's not just coffee and oj. Most days I drink between 60 and 80 oz of water, and yesterday was no exception.

Scott's theory is vitamin C. I'm not so sure.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I hope the ultimatum about the humidifier works. Being uncomfortable is certainly not helping.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Have you tried herbal tea with honey? Sis gets headaches sometimes and that seems to help her...