Migraines like to incapacite, don't they?

I'm not sure anymore if mine even qualify as migraines or tension headaches, or headaches caused by lack of sleep and overexposure to sun, or all of the above.

My nerves are at an all time crap - and I'm pretty sure my puppy just pissed on the kitchen floor.

Been severely tired recently - but it doesn't mean that I actually get to go to bed like normal people. The headaches keep me awake and running where as I should be sleeping like a baby. Pregnancy and all that kind of require it.

Waking up in the morning is too easy. I open my eyes, then just lay there for the next few hours unable to go back to sleep then fall asleep for a couple more hours. So on and so forth. It's quite annoying.

Auras make driving ten times as fun, and who can say no to sparklies when they're sitting staring at the wall? It's never ending fun time.

A lot of things must get done tomorrow however, so I'm going to give sleeping a good college try once more and see where that takes me.

Hot weather, headaches and tribulations.

High temperatures are a horrible thing to experience while you have some sort of a cold and have a migraine to boot.

Yesterday my husband and I went to the doctor. Had to wait - unusually - for an hour and a half before we got admitted - and after everything was said and done, our minds were not put at ease about whether the AFP test results are something to worry bout or not.

However we made an appointment with a genetic counselor already - to go for further testing. Our initial appointment should take approximately 2 hours. So that should be educational.

Hopefully everything is alright. We cross our fingers and wait til Thursday.

No sleep and a migraine equals to bad temper.

Well we all knew that. Even if we don't have migraines - and don't get enough sleep we're prone to overeat, get tyrannical on our spouses and generally cause mischief on grand scale. Especially if we have to be put in any kind of stress. Like having to stay up the previous night, but not due to an evening of playing out sexual fantasies.

It's quite common however. And I'm pretty sure most pregnant women - especially those who brave working during this stage in their life and have to miss out on sleep - do know just how cranky it makes them.

My morning was just that - horribly wrong. Mood seemed to sweep me with the power of one of those tornadoes from Alabama. I couldn't even stop myself, nor could my honey stop himself, since he was the one in incredible amounts of pain and missing out on all kinds of good sleep the previous night.

Well, heads roll, but love prevails, and it does so with the power of the nap. After sleeping just mere hour or so during the day we were able to gather our brains about us and get on with the day.

However my silly tension headache is still there. And my annoying overproduction of mucus, that's very common during pregnancy to begin with, but also common with cold/allergy season, seems to be choking me out every morning.

Can't breath through my nose after a night of sleep. Can't stand air hitting my face directly - like being near a fan that points straight at me. Have a unique need for cold air in the room, and my ears feel like they're under pressure. Tomorrow I get to talk to my pregnancy doctor about the baby, the elevated test results:

Between 15 and 20 weeks’ gestation, the mother may be given the option to have a screening test for Down syndrome and open neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. Included in the screening panel are tests for alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), unconjugated estriol, and sometimes inhibin A—a marker that turns the triple test into a quad test. This blood screening panel provides an opportunity to assess the risk of these conditions occurring without performing the more invasive amniocentesis procedure.

I'll also run my discomforts by her. All kinds of crap goes into my head and I start thinking negatively. Which in turn isn't good either. Cause I work myself up and then suddenly get a kick from the youngin that sends me into the closest couch mumbling irresponsibly every four letter word I can remember in English.

At any rate, I feel pretty tired, cranky and am craving something extremely hot and spicy. This kid will grow up loving horseradish and hot mustard if I have anything to say about it.

It's a cold... It's an allergy... It's a migraine!

Either cold, annoying allergy or both have seized me in the last couple of days. Painful to swallow, sneezing more often than usual. My husband and I have a couple of fans constantly blowing on the bed during the day/night - since we don't have central air and heating it takes that much to cool us down. But I'm beginning to suspect that night time temperature cools us way down too fast. Therefore perhaps - should be avoided.

My auras are back full force as well. Only thing I'm not seeing is my childhood imaginary friends, but feels like even those are just around the corner.

The baby hasn't been kicking much at all today either. Which always makes me wonder. Is he okay? Did he get bored? - Tomorrow I have an appointment with our doctor, so we get to find out if it's really boy or girl, and then later I have to schedule an appointment with a genetic counselor.

Worries about the baby and my husband spending last night thrashing around in pain from his shoulder - they're about at an all high. There's some need for meditating, if my afformentioned love and joy turns off Korn, ever.

tension headache, throwing up and all those little auras

Almost confused my tension headaches with a migraine.

Well who wouldn't - you get a headache with auras and throwing up - you'd think it was a migraine.

Although I called my sibling Raingem and was promptly notified that it indeed is a tension headache. Which of course isn't helping anything - but whatever.

I took the rest of my vitamins for the day and settled in behind a computer to do my usual. Ah squiggly line... how I've missed you.

In order for me to deal with the whole headache thing - I'm not taking any medication - but perhaps a loving rub from a loving person. Also dog walking helps. Clears those nasal passages being out and about.

Still need to post a picture of my pup here, not the one I'm carrying - the actual pup :)

Irritability and migraines.

It seems once you have one - the other one is just around the corner.
My migraines are almost always paired with green ugly irritability, and my latest road-rage like attitude towards anything that moves is somewhat... crazy.

It's possible that it's due to the fact that my sweetheart has been somewhat less than himself lately and successfully has given me grief on and off frequently and on daily basis.

It could be that I'm losing touch with reality and am myself becoming something that makes other people around me a little more edgy and nervous, and sets me up for a fight.

Or it could be that I'm lacking some special vitamin B complex.

Recently been taking some better set of vitamins just to make sure that I'm on the right track. And been supplementing as much as I can.
But today due to some harsh change in schedule I failed to take several helpings of those vitamins.

It's totally possible that I'm just lacking proper nutrients and my body is rebelling.

Perhaps some good night sleep will put me at ease, and tomorrow back on track.


On the brighter note - I definitely felt my baby move yesterday. That didn't feel like cramp. Didn't feel painful, just slightly weird as if I swallowed a fish alive, or had a pain free charlie horse below the belt.
Our kitten moved around a couple of times during the day, and surprisingly I'm still not showing my pregnancy too much. Even though I'm on my fourth month. I suppose it's normal. In a week we'll be going to my doctor's again and this time we get to find out the little tyke's gender and if he or she's doing alright.

Awesome feeling I tell ya.

It's been almost a month! Migraines are back!

We finally moved. And along with the move we lost one kitty, found my migraines and experienced debilitating pains together with my husband. Him being the chronic pain sufferer and myself carrying on the migraine end.

Perhaps in time we'll find a cure for what ails us, but today we try to concentrate on taking all our right vitamins and eating healthier.
My husband actually eats healthier than me at this point because I get too hungry for my own good and start eating anything that's edible. That particular category unfortunately includes fast food, so that might be a reason alone for the increased frequency of my migraines.

Auras are the worst as of late. Permanently blocking my eyesight from anything discernible, making everything one muddy inkblot on top of another color inkblot. Paired with a tiny man stabbing me in the roof of my left side of my head with an ice pick - it's quite an experience.

It's possibly due to the fact that I've been consuming a lot more carbs in the past two - three weeks, also could be the fact that my magnesium intake has been suffering in the last couple of weeks as well.

I'm not exactly sure but definitely going back on track with magnesium and attempting to sleep more often. I hear sleep is actually a cool neat little thing to do in case you want to feel better.

I'm glad to be finally back however, and to make up for my prolonged absence I shall post a picture of a kitten. Enjoy!