Yep Again

I'm apparently back to that stage where taking a nap results in a headache. 
*exhales*
At least it was just a brief one upon waking and getting some liquids and food helped it go away quickly. 

Poof

Whelp....it's apparently setting up to be a rough week headache wise for me.
Because yep, you guessed it.
Here came another one.

This one though I think was just tension caused.
A sudden build up of stress and AHHHHH!!!!
Combined with unexpected loud sounds and frentic energy...

Just kinda pushed the headache into throbbing in my head.

Thankfully it didn't last too long. 
Managing to go away with heat, liquids, and some distractions. :) 

Barking Irritation

I'm really hoping that March isn't trying to mimic January. 
Because ending up with another headache today is totally not ideal. 
It's horrible.
Stop. 

*shakes head*

I'm guessing the major cause of this headache was stress.
Worry.
As a project I finished and expected to do well and get a lot of feedback on.....
Is giving me very little feedback.
So I'm being plagued with the usual self doubts that accompany that sort of thing. 
*exhales* 
Worry that I'm not good enough, that I'm a failure, that I did something completely wrong.....

It's kinda an overreaction really. I recognize that not everything I write will get the same amount of applause as previous works...
But it's stressing me that this one...this project that I loved working on....is apparently doing poorly. 

So that was the stressor niggling in the back of my mind today.

And due to me suffering from headaches the past two days....
It's not like my energy reserves are all that high either. 

So the tipping point to the ache behind my eyes??
A stupid dog barking at work. 

Honestly, I don't get how customers can just let their dogs bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and you know....just let their pet bark their heads off without making any effort to stop it.
Like do customers not realize how annoying it is?

And this dog was particularly frustrating because the barking went on for 15 minutes at least it felt like.
And the dog had such good control over it's vocal quality that it managed to echo LOUDLY through the entire store. 
So no matter where you were standing, you could hear the stupid barking as if it were right next to you.
And it was frustrating to me because like...I have a quite voice.
And that dog barked so loudly that I couldn't even hear my self speaking. 
Which when I'm trying to tell customers about their pets and things that the store can do for them and our return policy....
It's freaking difficult to do.
And only increases my stress and frustration.
So it's not surprising that I ended up with a headache just from that because a) Loud. Repetitive Noises. and b) irritation/tension building.

*shakes head*

It's still here unfortunately. 
The headache.
It went away for a little bit, but is again making it's comeback. *exhales* 

Hopefully some sleep tonight will help it vanish. Hopefully

Aftershock Sighted

Am I surprised to end up waking up with a headache this morning?
Nope. Not at all.
Considering I couldn't get to sleep last night from my mind whirling over a story idea, and being tense about needing to get to sleep so I could wake up for church....

I'm not surprise that I got an aftershock headache today.
After all yesterday's migraine had been pretty...well horrible. 

And the one today.
Stupid. Stubborn. Thing.
I took meds, I did heat packs. I tried to rest. I ate food. I drank water.

And it only finally went away when my amazing sister gave me a massage to help relax the tense muscles, a couple glasses of water, and an Excedrin. 
Ah. Sweet relief to not have that ache behind my eye anymore. Such. Sweet. Relief. 

The Trigger Point

The setup for today's mind melt probably started yesterday.
Yesterday, where I had a stressful visit to the dentist.
Yesterday, where I basically ate only bread and nuts and probably not even enough of those to satisfy the needs of my body.
Yesterday, where I went out to a social situation where, while I had fun, I also was slightly stressed out by the strangers I had to interact and be surrounded by.

But the Trigger?
Started today at work. 
The Trigger happened in the beginning of my work shift,
When the store had only be open for like an hour maybe.
And I took a phone call for a customer who got miffed at us that we still didn't have a particular fish they were looking for in stock.
A customer who was like "Why do you even say you carry this fish if you don't have it?! Take down the tag if you don't have it!" 
And then hung up before I could properly explain why the fish weren't in stock.

A) More than likely our breeders don't have any ready right now or b) the cold weather snap we've been experiencing makes shipping said fish impossible if we want them to live.

But the negativity of the phone call.
Definitely was the trigger. 
As I was actually pretty energetic and happy before that point.
But then the tension hit. 
And despite my best efforts to eat food at work and take meds and rest with my eyes closed and a heat pack on my face to relax my muscles....
The headache never fully went away.
And about 45 minutes before I was off...it spiked.
Hard.
Going nuclear
To the point where I was nearly in tears
And ah. It was so difficult to continue to help customers and not show them how much agony I was in.
Seriously I just wanted to curl up in bed and die.

Which was basically what I did when I got home.
I took more meds, took a long hot shower, ate food -which my sister amazingly made for me- had multiple heat packs all over and crashed for a good couple of hours.

And thankfully that seems to have helped.
Getting more nutrients into my body.
Getting more rest.
Relaxing.

The headache is still lingering barely the tiniest of bits there.
So hopefully I can keep it at bay and not have it come roaring back tomorrow.
*fingers crossed*

There In The Dark

"I just gotta feed the cat." I told her as I went to step into the darkened room. 
"No!!!" My sister screeched, jerking me backwards. "You can't go in there. The monsters!"
I frown to the darks pace where I can see the little white kitty hanging out near her food dish. "There's just a cat there." I shook off her hand and reached inside. "Nothing else is in there besides it." My hand fumbled for the lightswitch. I knew it was there somewhere. I turned to the wall, searching. 
"LOOK OUT!" My sister screeched just as I felt a pair of cold clammy hands grab onto the back of my neck. 

-Inspiration from a nightmarish dream I had last night

After Work

I ended up with a slight headache after work today. 
Possibly because I spent half of my shift trying to find ways to keep from being bored out of my mind. (It didn't really work.) 
And of course, I usually get really tense when my coworkers are late and all I want to do is go home and rest and *exhales* 
Yah, got a bit tense there with a slight ache behind the left eye.
Though thankfully some caffeine, food, and distractions seems to have helped it fade away quickly. :)