Saturday, October 31, 2020

 I had a slight headache start late last night around midnight behind my left eye as I was trying to focus on finishing a story. Since it was getting worse I decided to call it a night and head for bed.

Unfortunately the headache turned into a nuclear migraine during the night and proceeded to wake me up every hour or so. I tried to take a 4 am shower, tried heat packs, coke, tylenol, sleep...nothing helped it.

And it got bad enough to the point where I ended up making friends with the toliet...so no fun.

The worst of it had faded by around 830 this morning so I did my best to go to work and try to keep the migraine at bay, but it steadily got worse as we neared the lunchtime hour and by the time the afternoon crowd came in, I was done for the day. I ended up coming home, warming up my heat pack again, popped a couple of advil and took a good hour nap.

It seems to have helped, especially after getting some real food into my stomach as well after surviving the morning on just crackers and granola bars.

Hopefully it stays away the rest of the night so I can enjoy Halloween...but we'll see.

Thursday, October 29, 2020

 Woke up with the same headache I went to bed with last night. Bleh. At least it wasn't a major migraine or anything and I think that getting distracted helping people at work was the main cause to help it fade a bit though I did end up taking some Excedrin to try and keep it from getting worse.

Also probably grabbing some food after work might have helped it go away as I still had a faint ache behind my right eye when I got home, but it finally faded sometime after I'd eaten my food.

So yah. Maybe need to keep a better lookout on what I'm eating throughout the day as maybe not eating enough is affecting my head since I am doing better getting more sleep....


Wednesday, October 28, 2020

 Ended up with a headache this afternoon, I'm guessing from spending too long trying to work on a story I've been trying to write...while also trying to multi-task as I was also watching shows and interacting with my roomies too.

Meds didn't seem to help, nor did heatpacks so I'm hoping that sleep will make it go away.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

 It may be a stress response but I have a slight headache already starting behind my right eye and I haven't even gone into work yet. *exhales* It may be stress from staring at my computer screen, or just preparing for having to do a closing shift as the closing manager again...who knows...hopefully being at work will distract me from my headache and it will go away on its own. 

Monday, October 26, 2020

 Ended up with a headache today after dealing with the stressful energies of multiple people in a row. But taking some excedrin and drinking Dr. Pepper helped it to go away. So yay that. 

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

 I've had a slight headache behind my right eye for most of the day it feels like. I'm pretty sure it was partially caused by my contact lens as taking it out did help to lessen the headache though it is still lingering. The rest of it was probably caused by being stressed/tense last night from being the only closing manager and my body probably sleeping tense despite efforts to relax before bed. I may have not slept the right amount of time either as I've been feeling tired most of the day which may also have contributed to the headache. 

I'm hoping it's not one of those migraines that's gonna stay with me all night though it just may be one of those since Excedrin isn't helping the headache to go away. 

Saturday, October 17, 2020

 Ended up with a brief headache this morning...I'm not sure if it was again from sleeping in later than normal or staring at a computer screen first thing in the morning...or just needing sustenance....I'm guessing I needed food?

As eating breakfast, and drinking some mountain dew....and then just hanging out upstairs where it's lighter...has seemed to make it go away. So yay! Hopefully it doesn't come back. 

Friday, October 16, 2020

Ended up with a headache behind my left eye today a couple of hours before heading into work.

Not sure if it's just...sleeping different hours...or staring at a computer screen earlier in the day....or just the stress building up knowing that I had to work an evening shift....but I had a headache behind my left eye for around half of my shift.

Thankfully it managed to go away though idk if meds and Dr. Pepper helped it or if I just got distracted enough to forget about the headache. But at least it was gone by the time I got off work so yay.


Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Ended up with a headache behind my left eye about an hour before I had to go work my evening shift. Tried to take a brief nap, eat a larger meal, and took some meds before heading to work. The headache persisted throughout my shift going through ups and downs with the intensity of the headache.

It got to the point where it felt like a sleep deprivation headache or an overheated headache as it moved to be a dull ache behind both eyes that was soothed a bit when I went outside to get carts and got some fresh cooler air into my lungs, but I also grabbed some excedrin as well to try and make it go away.

It managed to go away by the time I got home from work which was a relief. 

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

 Woke up with my whole body tense which is not a good sign for having a headache free day as most of my headaches are caused by having too tense of muscles.

Unfortunately...despite my efforts to negate a headache from starting by taking some Excedrin, drinking more liquids -water/mountaindew....the headache ended up forming behind my right eye. XP

I managed to make it decrease a bit by drinking pepsi insead and taking naps during my breaks with my heat pack on my shoulder.

But it was doing more of the roller coaster wave of pain today where it would get better then worse then better again. *exhales* I ended up coming home and taking a nap...which helped a little...but it looks like taking another shower finally has helped it go away...for now. 

Monday, October 12, 2020

 The migraine from last night did last into the early morning hours though I was able to get some sleep without getting woken up every hour after about 1 am. Still had a faint ache behind my left eye for most of the day though which was annoying when I was a work and was trying to focus on learning things....but at least it never got worse so that's good. 

Sunday, October 11, 2020

 Ended up with a migraine behind my left eye today...though I halfway think it started behind my right this morning when I woke up...but by the afternoon it had firmly settled behind my left eye despite taking Excedrin and drinking some Caffeine and having a heatpack on my shoulders to relax me...it didn't help. Which is not good when I had plans to socialize this evening...so it was kinda hard to do that with a migraine and once company was gone I ended up taking two showers over the course of the night to try and relax myself enough to sleep....didn't help...the migraine is probably in for the long haul. XP 

Friday, October 9, 2020

Managed to avoid getting a major migraine last night as I noticed that my muscles were getting really tense and there was an ache behind my eyes from the potential of not having the right amount of sleep, so I ended up taking a Tylenol and when that didn't help I took an Excedrin despite the late hour and then jumped in the shower to let the heat beat on my muscles for a good twenty minutes before heading straight to bed and calling it a night early.

Grateful that I managed to avoid the migraine as I really didn't want to have to deal with it today. 

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

 Ended up with a headache at work today which is frustrating because it's my first day back after vacation, but not totally unexpected because it's my first day back after vaca and I usually end up spending a lot of it getting things back in order.

Thankfully taking an Excedrin helped to make the headache go away before it got more annoying so it wasn't too big of a deal. Pretty sure that helping customers also helped to distract me from the headache sooo yah.... fun times. 

Saturday, October 3, 2020

There was tension in the right part of my neck this morning when I woke up that extended down into my shoulder. And because of that tension I had a bit of a headache behind my right eye...but I managed to distract myself from it as it ended up fading away after a while. 

Friday, October 2, 2020

I think it was irritation from my contact lens as I ended up with a slight headache behind my right eye.

And after finally finding a moment to take out my contacts...the headache has significantly decreased, though it's still hovering around as having an irritation in my eye has tensed up my neck muscles and moved the tension down into my shoulder so until I can get the shoulder to relax...maybe with a shower or something, I expect I'll still have a bit of an ache behind my right eye.