Migraines.

I'm finally getting over today's migraine. Or yesterday's migraine. The migraine I've had for the last 16 hours.

For those of you who have never had a migraine - good for you. These things are miserable, but fortunately they do seem to be less frequent as I get older. When I was in my teens, I got one every month it seemed.

I suppose when I'm dead, they'll completely stop. :-)

I can tell right before that it's coming. They call it an 'aura', which for me is a bit of a sense... not visual or hearing. It's a feeling. So if you're smart (which I usually am...), you try to get to sleep during this period so maybe you get lucky and miss the whole thing. Or part of it. But not this time. No, this time I said, "I'll work through it!". Nope. :-(

It's sort of like having people taking little atomic sledges to the neurons in your brain - all of them - at the same time. Most people with migraines get only one side of the brain... I get it on both. And no, it's not a tension headache. Oddly enough, I rarely get those.

The trigger event for me is actually relaxation after stress (in this, too, I am strange). If I wind down too fast, I get these things... and a few things in the real world had me at a pretty high level of stress yesterday.

It's like the 'Bends of the Stressed Brain' for me.

Anyway... hopefully I can get some writing done. I have some catching up to do. I have to do some writing on Sahana, and a few other things.

Time to get stressed :-)