Thursday, July 9, 2020

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. 

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