Had a slight headache behind my right eye for most of today. I think it was just from focusing on trying to write all day, but who knows for sure. 

I was right in that the migraine would last into the early hours of the morning.

Thankfully it had mostly faded by the time I officially woke up, though I ended up taking an Excedrin not long after waking up when the muscles in my shoulder started to tense up again. 

Mostly I've been keeping it pretty mellow today. Keeping a heatpack on my shoulder and drinking some Dr. Pepper consistently throughout the day since the caffeine seems to be helping currently. 

I'm honestly not surprised to end up with a migraine today.

I've known that I've been running on fumes, basically staggering to the finish line where I will finally be able to take a long break from work.

So it makes sense that the exhaustion would hit me. That the stress of the day and just overall...tiredness with the whole pandemic scene would cause an ache to form behind my eyes.

One where it indicates that I need to get sleep. Desperately.

But also a faint ache behind the eyes that indicates that I'm already at the rock and a hard place point. Where if I take a nap...I'll end up with the migraine anyways. And if I don't...I'll still end up with the migraine.

I tried to take a nap anyways to help it go away.

It didn't quite work. Because my hearing got more sensitive than it's normal sensitivity soooo the various sounds throughout the house prevented me from relaxing throughly.

Meds weren't helping either, and my stomach was unsettled enough I couldn't eat much or drink much besides water.

A shower didn't help either.

So mostly it's been an evening spent trying to doze off and trying to not feel like I'm dying when I'm going through sudden hot flashes and cold spikes and my breathing is quick and shallow while my heart is pounding rapidly in my chest.

Yah....it's not fun and I expect it will last far into the night...hopefully it doesn't hang around in the morning.

 Had a headache start up while at work, so I took some meds to try and get rid of it with soso results. Pretty sure it's just the stress of the managers and annoyance at customers that's causing it there. 

I've had a slight headache switching back and forth between being behind my left eye and my right eye.

During work it was mostly hanging out behind my left eye, but when I got home from work, it switched to behind my right eye.

Not quite sure why.

Well...I'm pretty sure the headache at work was just me picking up on my manager's stress as we have a Regional Manager dropping by to visit on Thursday and the managers --one in particular who is known for stressing- are stressing about it and being a bit more...terse than usual. So yah...I did my best to try and keep said headache at bay with Advil/Tylenol and a heat pack/nap on my breaks. After my lunch break it mostly helped to go away.

The one behind my right eye that's currently pounding away may be from the tension and stress my roomies are giving off. As they're going through various stressors as well.

It may also be a need for sleep. As I haven't taken a nap yet and the stress of the day is probably getting to me. *exhales* I need more sleep I guess. 

Maybe need to go take more meds.

We'll see.

Had a bit of a headache forming behind my left eye today.

It's probably from work stress as I had to do a bit of training today for a new coworker and the store was busy. 

So many people came into work today it felt nearly like Christmas Crazy and that's not good when we've had two days of over 1,000 cases diagnosed in the state. 

So it was stressful seeing so many people coming into the store.

Hard to relax really.

Woke up with a migraine behind my right eye today.

I'm guessing I slept stressed...or tense...or well didn't let my muscles relax before I went to bed as I had been doing a bit of cleaning right before as I decided to clean my fish tank that I've been semi-neglecting for the past couple of months. Oops.

But that's at least squeaky clean.

What isn't 'squeaky clean' is definitely my headache. 

I was a bit more limited in my usual methods of trying to chase it away, as Daddoo has recommended that I take Aleve morning and evening to try and help the tension in my muscles as the Tylenol and Excedrin and occasional Advil I have been using were only treating the 'surface tension' and so he wanted me to take Aleve for a week to get those muscles relaxed down.

Of course...this recommendation never lasts longer than like...two or three days (today is the third day) before a get a headache.

So I do wonder if my body doesn't like Aleve.....

In any case. Because I had taken Aleve I couldn't take Excedrin or Advil until after the Aleve wore off this evening. Leaving me to take a single tylenol and to rely on drinking caffeine (first Mountain Dew, then Coke) and having a heat pack on my shoulder/neck when I took my breaks at work and use those breaks for a nap.

It helped off and on. Kinda like a roller coaster with the ebb and flow of the migraine.

Thankfully, with me now able to finally take an Excedrin, it seems to be doing the trick to getting the migraine to go away.

So hopefully it behaves and I won't have to worry about having the migraine continue into tomorrow. We'll see. 

I've had a slight headache trying to form behind my right eye again today.

Probably work related stress.

The stress of having to talk to customers about wearing masks when we have no masks currently to offer them if they don't have one themselves.

The stress of having our DM in the store.

Yah...the stress of customers in general....especially the ones with hordes of energetic children.

Yah....

Though drinking some Mountain Dew and taking a Tylenol has seemed to help keep it mostly at bay today so yay.

 I woke up with a migraine this morning.

I'm guessing it was caused from the physical, emotional, and mental stress I ended up having yesterday at work because it was...a hard day to say the least. Very draining and I suppose it drained me more than I thought because I'm thinking my muscles tensed up during the night and I didn't sleep very relaxed.

So when I woke up this morning just before 6am it was to a pounding headache behind my left eye. *exhales*

I got up long enough to grab a tylenol and get some heat on my shoulder from a heatpack and went back to bed for another hour...but the headache was still present when I had to actually get up to go to work.

I ended up taking an Excedrin....

And a 15 minute nap on my break.

And another Excedrin...

To no relief. :( 

And I apparently wasn't as recovered from yesterdays turmoil as I'd been hoping because everything just seemed....harder.

Especially with a pounding head. 

And unfortunately...I couldn't last. 

It was getting to the point where I was feeling sick to my stomach, where it was difficult trying to focus on talking to customers.

So I called it.

Three hours into my shift I had to leave work early because I knew I wasn't going to last the entire 8 hours. 

And so I came home and jumped straight into the shower to have the hot water pound on the back of my neck for like 20 minutes or so before I grabbed another heat pack and crashed in bed to sleep away the pain.

Which helped.

By the time I woke back up I was feeling better, my head wasn't aching as much like...barely at all, but I felt...unstable and weak. Sooooooo yah I spent the rest of the day just resting to make sure the migraine stayed away. 

Had a headache this morning, again, for like the thousandth time in a row even though it's not quite that often.

But still. Headache is not fun. 

I ended up calling my Daddoo in the middle of work because I'd taken some Tylenol and Excedrin for no relief and wanted to know what else I could take or do while I was stuck at work.

The suggestion ended up being to get a soda lol. Get some more caffeine into my system.

Since I'd had Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew recently I decided to try a different caffeine source that I don't have as often, and grabbed a Coke from the vending machine we have in the store.

It seemed to do the trick as I managed to make the migraine go away before the end of my shift so woot finally some success!! 

 It is rather disheartening. That I was managing to get my migraines down to only like...a handful of times  a month. 

Which considering all the crazy the pandemic has been giving off...it's rather amazing that my migraines had decreased rather than increased.

Cus usually stressful situations can set it off.

But it seems like getting more sleep definitely had helped to decrease said headaches.

Now though, it seems like I've taken two huge steps back.

Because it feels like for the past two weeks, I've had a headache form basically every day.

And I can't tell if it's the contacts.

I can't tell if it's sleep.

I can't tell if it's just a reaction to all the smoke from the fires burning in and out of the state.

But my muscles have tensed up to the point where it's a constant ache on my left shoulder and my neck.

And like...it's usually okay first thing when I wake up...but as the day progresses...so does the appearance of the headache. 

So is it eye strain? Is my right eye once again rebelling and wanting to cut back on the power of my lens? 

Is it the smoke?

Is it just me not sleeping as restfully as I should be?

I don't know.

And it's bugging me.

I don't want to have a constantly aching head.

But I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong to cause it.

And like...if it is simply the smokey air that's triggering it...there's not much I can do but wait for that to blow away. 

*exhales*

It's just frustrating. 

 Another day, another headache behind my right eye.

Is it the contact lens?

Is it the smoke in the sky?

Is it just me sitting in bad positions for too long?

Is it just subconscious stress?

Who knows.

At this point who knows. 

The headache behind my right eye came back again this afternoon.

I have to wonder if it's from like eye strain or something. Which would be frustrating if that was the case since I just recently switched to a new pair of contacts in the hopes that it would help the week of headaches I had last week.

Which the pain did lessen a bit after taking the contacts out. Plus taking like a hot shower and doubling down on Excedrin and having a heat pack.....

But if my eyes are doing that thing again where the right one decides it no longer likes the stronger prescription and wants the weaker one again instead....I may just have to bang my head against the wall. As it seems to like to flip flop every six months or so and that's just....hard to keep having to switch between strengths. *exhales*

Who knows...it could also just be I'm not sleeping the right amount. Or I'm just being tense at work. Or not eating enough though I have been trying to do my best with keeping myself fed, hydrated, and not sleep deprived.

But there's a definite ache behind my right shoulder blade that's radiating tension up into my head.

And I'm not quite sure how to get rid of it for the long term....

Maybe I need to adjust my posture or something....

 Had a migraine for most of the afternoon and evening.
Which is rather irritating because without fail, they seem to occur on my days off.

Which probably means that they're caused by the change in my sleep schedule, or else the fact that I spent basically all day reading.

But there's a tension in my right shoulder that I can't seem to get rid of. Not with meds or heat or sleep.

It's just...tense.

And said tension means that I have it travel up from my shoulder to my neck to rest behind my right eye and just...well throb there.

*exhales* Hopefully a good nights sleep will help it fade.

But we'll see. 

I've had a migraine/headache try to form almost every day for the past week.
And it's getting frustrating.

Like some causes are easy to pinpoint. Like Monday where I had a 5 am shift and only around 5 hours of sleep. The slight headache I ended up getting after coming home and taking a nap would make sense as my sleep schedule has been thrown off and I've realized that getting less than 7 hours of sleep makes me more prone to having headaches.

Work has also been on the more stressful side with customers being a bit more grumpy this week and my managers stressing over inventory happening tomorrow so ending up with headaches in the morning while I'm at work also makes sense if I end up...idk absorbing my coworker's stress. Plus just like dealing with unhappy customers can stress me out sooo again headache makes sense.

It's just frustrating.
To know that I can prevent these migraines from occuring.
And yet my usual methods aren't quite working?
*exhales*

Maybe I'm just exhausted in general. Maybe I need a break away from work.
Maybe I need to sleep a lot longer.
Who knows.

But I was rather liking not having a headache every day so this trend needs to stop. Soon.