[migraine] boooooooooooored

[kaberett]

Hands up everyone who's surprised that, since I started paying attention to this after my last migraine, I have discovered that I... have a permanent headache. It's at a level where I can (and mostly do) tune it out, and it only spikes up enough for me to actually notice it spontaneously for probably a few non-consecutive minutes a day, but... every single time I have checked in with myself for the last (non-migraine) ten days or so, yep, headache.

The Migraine Trust defines "chronic migraine" as

having headache on at least 15 days per month, with eight of these having migraine symptoms, for at least three months. People who have fewer headache days with migraine symptoms have episodic migraine.

Ditto NICE:

Headache occurring on at least 15 days per month (with features of migraine headache on at least 8 days per month) for more than 3 months.

I'm unambiguously hitting "at least 15 days per month" of headache. Up until last migraine, they were lasting up to 3 days, but they've been steadily increasing in duration and intensity/severity since January; last migraine was very definitely four days, and I'm not particularly interested in waiting til the end of this one (and then another two fucking months) before I sort out making a GP appointment.

Which means I need to lie again about the intensity of symptoms so as to actually manage to make it through the fucking e-screening tool instead of being sent directly to A&E, but fuck I am so bored with this. I wanted to submit the final version of my thesis today! I should categorically not be doing that with this level of dysphasia and cognitive impairment! So instead I will sit in the dark with my sunglasses on and sulk.

Comments

[chiasmata]

RUDE of your body. I’m sorry; perma-headache is beastly. I’m assuming it’s not some weird rebound painkiller effect? (I know you can work painkillers; I am musing aloud like the problem-solving autistic that I am, and hope it is not unhelpful.)

[kaberett]

Nope, I am absolutely nowhere near the threshold for medication overuse headache -- I actually stopped continuous mefenamic acid + paracetamol, which I'd been on for Multiple Years, several months back when the upward titration of amitriptyline hit the point where I could go without. I am taking them PRN, but I'm nowhere near the thresholds for MOUH <3

[chiasmata]

I figured :) Woo for no longer needing the continuous mef and paracetamol!

[silveradept]

That is entirely rude of your body, deciding that it needed to interfere with your tasks.

[worlds_of_smoke]

crud. :(