I Hate When I Wake Up With A Headache

There is nothing worse than starting my day with a pounding behind my eyes and a sensitivity to light and noise.  But, that is what I woke up to when my alarm went off at 5:15 this morning.  Or yesterday morning, since it is technically tomorrow.  Or today.  Oh, crap, I don't know.  Can you see what migraines do to me?

So as soon as I got the kids on the bus, I tried to go back to bed.  I couldn't sleep.  I didn't want to take the Excedrin on an empty stomach, so I got up to get something to eat.  (Let me just say that I love the Excedrin Migraine medicine.  It is the only thing that works when my head feels as bad as it did this morning.) I finally fell asleep when the medicine kicked in.  I slept for a couple of hours, and when I woke up. my head was pounding again.  After checking my email and updating my facebook status, (because let's face it...that is what is important people) I settled into my recliner with my blanket and a movie.  (I watched My Sister's Keeper, which looking back was not a great choice, because the sobbing didn't help my headache at all...man, that was a sad movie) I also drank a bunch of diet Pepsi, instead of my normal sprite zero, because the caffeine usually helps my head.  Eventually it did, but now I am paying for it, because I am wide awake, and it is 1am.  I have to get Junior up for work in an hour and 15 minutes, so there really isn't any point to trying to sleep at this point.  Maybe after I get him up I'll head to bed.

Hopefully I will be able to sleep.

Another Migraine

Junior turned the heat on for the first time yesterday, and the house had that smell most of the day. You know that smell I am talking about, where the dust and stuff burns off the heating elements.

I am pretty sure that smell gave me a migraine. I woke up this morning with a slight headache, and I was hoping that a couple of ibuprofen would head it off, but no such luck. I laid back down once the kids were on the bus, and when I got up for good my head was pounding. I tried to see if maybe a few Tylenol would help, but they didn't. I usually take Excedrin tension headache when I feel a migraine coming on, and for the most part they work fine. But, as luck would have it, I didn't have any today.

I spent most of the day sitting in the dark, watching television quietly. I tried to get some work done online, but the thought of having to compare directories or write blog posts made my head hurt worse. When Brandi got home from school I talked her into letting me lay back down for a bit. I ended up sleeping for a couple of hours, and now my head is finally starting to feel better.

I wish I knew exactly what makes my head hurt so bad. I really do think this one was from the smell, but I have been getting them fairly frequently lately. Do any of you suffer from migraines, and if so, do you know what brings them on? What do you take to help ease the pain?

I am hoping tomorrow will be migraine free, because I have a bunch of baking to do for Brandi's birthday on Friday.