Ended up with a major migraine today that spiked towards the end of work.

I'm pretty sure it was mostly having to deal with my coworker's energies.
As they were being...stressful.
And I can be sensitive to how other people are feeling.
And when everyone on the closing crew has intense energy for various reasons....it can overwhelm my defenses.

Though it probably didn't help at all that I also had spent the last couple of days basically just reading a couple of stories that were rather intense and had me forgoing food and sleep in favor of seeing what happened next.

But it is interesting to note that the headache only began to form after the closing crew came in for the evening.

Despite my attempts to keep it at bay by taking Tylenol and Excedrin and using a heatpack/naps on my break...
The migraine was pounding merrily away behind my right eye by the time I was finally free to clock out for the evening.

Thankfully as soon as I was in my car and driving away from work, the intensity of the migraine faded to a more manageable level. Which does lead me to believe that work and my coworkers were stressing me out to a certain extent. 

I came home and grabbed more meds and a hot shower and then after warming up a heatpack went to my room and crashed for a few hours.

Woke up feeling better though the migraine is still present.
Hopefully a night of sleep will help it to fully fade.
But we'll see. 

I had a brief headache form behind my left eye today while I was at work.
Which I'm guessing is mostly me just trying to navigate through the stressful energies that many of my coworkers were giving off as they were encountering problems that were stressing them out.

But I did what I could to get rid of the headache at work. Taking excedrin, having a heatpack on my breaks, resting my eyes, eating food when I could.

And about midway through my shift the headache got twice as bad. Like that pounding nail into the skull sort of agonizing pain.

That quickly went away (not sure if it was meds caused) because I ended up getting distracted having to deal with a rush of customers that lasted for like an hour.
So I don't know if the meds helped it to go away during that time, or just getting my mind off the ache and onto other problems helped to make it fade.

In either case, I was grateful that it didn't last my entire shift. 

I think I stressed myself out attempting to write something for most of the day.
As I have quite the headache forming behind my right eye.
Which usually happens on days when I try to write and I make very little progress. 

So I'm thinking I may need to call it quits for the night.
Take out my contacts to relieve the slight strain there.
And go to bed. 

Woke up with a migraine behind my right eye today instead of my left.
Which is frustrating because I had an earlier shift today at work which meant I didn't really have the opportunity to get it gone before having to go in.
So I ended up suffering with the ache behind my eyes throughout the eight hour shift.
As it never really faded away despite my efforts to make it do so with advil and tylenol and dr. pepper and heat packs during my breaks.
It didn't go away when I got home either. Tried eating more food, taking more meds, more heat packs, even a shower.
So it's probably a sleep related headache since that's about the only thing I haven't tried yet.
So hopefully a good night's sleep will help it go away.
We'll see. 

Woke up with a slight headache again behind my left eye this morning.
Which was rather frustrating as I was hoping that by getting it gone last night it would stay away today.

I ended up taking more tylenol and then an excedrin right before work to try and keep the migraine at a one and not get any worse.

And thankfully, work was less stressful today, and I was able to stay busy in a good way that distracted me from my migraine so it managed to vanish sometime during my shift.
Which is great.

Hopefully it stays away this time. 

I woke up with a slight headache behind my left eye this morning, which isn't a good thing to have before you need to go into work. But I took some Tylenol and then some Excedrin a couple of hours into my shift as I attempted to keep the headache down while I was working.
It didn't really work.
The headache got worse for a bit and I ended up taking some advil as well and taking an early lunch to try and rest my eyes enough to make the headache go away.
My manager even gave me some cream to put on my neck to try and relax the muscles there.

And like...everything I tried would help for a little bit....
Only for the headache to come back again.

So I guess it was less of a headache and more like a migraine.

The last half hour was torture as the migraine seemed to spike to the point where it felt like spikes were being drilled into my skull.
Which makes it difficult to focus on customers.
And just my luck there was a rush of customers who needed help and were rather needy needing to know everything about things like in the last fifteen minutes.

So by the end of my shift I was basically dying.
I came straight home and ended up taking a long hot shower before spending the next four hours in bed/couch with a heat pack resting my eyes and trying to make it go away.

Thankfully just before midnight it faded so woooo.

Hopefully I can keep it at bay.
but we'll see. 

Had a slight headache form behind my right eye again today.
Probably due to tense muscles as my right arm has been aching for most of the day.
But been doing what I could to keep it at bay and I'm hoping sleep will help to get rid of the rest of it.
But we'll see. 

Ended up with a faint headache behind my right eye this morning.
Probably a combination between stressing about trying to write and then stressing about meeting up with family later today because family can be stressful at times, but also because the drive up north usually tenses me out to the point where i get stressed.

But thankfully the headache faded pretty quickly after I got to Daddoo's place and I think getting distracted with conversation and hanging with the family helped it to go away. So woot. 

Woke up with a migraine pounding away behind my left eye this morning.

I'm guessing it was caused by my body rebelling against having to work a late shift yesterday where I worked until 10pm. And perhaps I didn't relax the tension in my muscles enough before going to bed because I could see tense muscles causing the migraine to form during the night.

I'd hoped by taking some Excedrin that it would help the migraine go away so I could function at work.
But no dice.
It was one of those migraines where it was easily triggered to stick around.
As I was struggling to wear a mask at work today because the ear loop around my left ear was giving just enough pressure to make it unbearable to have on for long periods of time.
Which I know it's not a good sign if I can't wear my mask as most of the time I can wear it without any issues.
I tried drinking some caffiene, both mountain dew and dr. pepper to help get rid of the headache.
Had heat packs on my neck when I took breaks.
But unfortunately I couldn't get any 'alone' time in the breakroom on said breaks and coworkers were being noisy (chewing noisy, talking noisy, slamming things noisy) and the constant sound got on my nerves and made the migraine worse. *exhales*

It was getting to the point where even though the ache in my head was probably only at a 4 or 5 on the pain scale...I was feeling sick.
My stomach was feeling nauesous but who knows if that was from not eating well and me being hungry or the 'need to go throw up' sort of sick. 
I was also experiencing some hot flashes too where it just felt too warm in the store. 
And when it's difficult to talk to customers and stay upright...

I figured it was time to call it quits for the day.
The migraine wasn't bad, but the other symptoms were. 
And so I clocked out of work two hours early and went straight home where I took a long hot shower to get some heat in my muscles before taking like a four hour nap.
And it helped mostly.
Helped enough I could function a bit in the evening.

But yah....
headache is still lingering so I'm hoping some more sleep will help it. We'll see. 

I ended up with a migraine today.
Not quite surprised about getting one though.
As I only got about 4.5 hours of sleep last night due to staying up late and then getting up early. 
Which, having figured out that I do tend to get more headaches when I'm sleep deprived....I figured this may be the case.
Though I did try to prevent one from forming by taking Tylenol and then later Excedrin.
I knew my chances of avoiding one throughout the day were slim.
As I also had about a 10 hour dive to accomplish. 5 hours up and 5 hours down.
In the middle of which was a few hours spent outside in the sun.
And without having proper intake of food....

Yah. It was basically a recipe for a migraine to form.
And one did once we reached our destination.

I managed to negate it for a bit by taking a brief nap and more excedrin and eating more.

But yah.
Stress of driving. Stress of interacting. Stress of the heat. Stress of lack of sleep.

All in all. 
Not good.

Hopefully getting more sleep tonight will have it go fully away.
We'll see.