Lurking....
It's building again.
The pressure.
No, not the stress. OK, well, yes, the stress is there like always. But I mean the pressure behind my eyeballs. I haven't had a headache for so long. I'd gotten complacent. However, I can feel one coming on. Right now it's just a minor ache on one side of my head. Yet I'm afraid it's going to get worse. You know that sinus pressure that builds when you have a cold and your nose is all stuffed up? It's kind of like that, except that I don't have a cold and my nose is perfectly fine.
My doom is approaching, and I'm casting about desperately in search of a way to ward it off.
It's not blood pressure related (not this one, anyway). My BP is actually quite reasonable and has been for days. It's not food-related, unless it's a hangover effect from the Renfest food yesterday. (Possible, but unlikely. I didn't eat anything terribly out of the ordinary.) I guess it could be sun-related. After all, I did manage to get a minor sunburn yesterday, but then I think the headache would have kicked in last night. Hormonal? Maybe, but again, the timing seems to be off. Dehydration? I drank a LOT yesterday. But just in case I'll probably guzzle a good deal more today. Maybe it's just the dreaded Sunday headache. I got a lot of headaches on Sundays as a kid. Possibly it's being in close quarters with everyone in church and their various perfumes/colognes/oils and such.
The goal is to keep this headache at defcon 4. I have to drive into the city this evening to pick Terence up from the airport, and M is NOT in a position yet to drive Phoenix freeways so I need to be as functional as possible. I'm tempted to try a nap-- but I don't have a long time before I need to leave, and sometimes a nap makes things worse.
You'd think after so many years, I'd have a better idea of what causes these things and how to get relief. Nope. I know that some are related to blood pressure and stress. Others have clearly been dehydration. As for relief, nothing has consistently worked. (And I've tried a great deal. You get desperate when you are flat on your back and whimpering from the pain.)
*sigh* Well, there are worse trials to have. I guess I will just grin and bear it. (Maybe from a dark room with a cold pack on my forehead.)
The pressure.
No, not the stress. OK, well, yes, the stress is there like always. But I mean the pressure behind my eyeballs. I haven't had a headache for so long. I'd gotten complacent. However, I can feel one coming on. Right now it's just a minor ache on one side of my head. Yet I'm afraid it's going to get worse. You know that sinus pressure that builds when you have a cold and your nose is all stuffed up? It's kind of like that, except that I don't have a cold and my nose is perfectly fine.
My doom is approaching, and I'm casting about desperately in search of a way to ward it off.
It's not blood pressure related (not this one, anyway). My BP is actually quite reasonable and has been for days. It's not food-related, unless it's a hangover effect from the Renfest food yesterday. (Possible, but unlikely. I didn't eat anything terribly out of the ordinary.) I guess it could be sun-related. After all, I did manage to get a minor sunburn yesterday, but then I think the headache would have kicked in last night. Hormonal? Maybe, but again, the timing seems to be off. Dehydration? I drank a LOT yesterday. But just in case I'll probably guzzle a good deal more today. Maybe it's just the dreaded Sunday headache. I got a lot of headaches on Sundays as a kid. Possibly it's being in close quarters with everyone in church and their various perfumes/colognes/oils and such.
The goal is to keep this headache at defcon 4. I have to drive into the city this evening to pick Terence up from the airport, and M is NOT in a position yet to drive Phoenix freeways so I need to be as functional as possible. I'm tempted to try a nap-- but I don't have a long time before I need to leave, and sometimes a nap makes things worse.
You'd think after so many years, I'd have a better idea of what causes these things and how to get relief. Nope. I know that some are related to blood pressure and stress. Others have clearly been dehydration. As for relief, nothing has consistently worked. (And I've tried a great deal. You get desperate when you are flat on your back and whimpering from the pain.)
*sigh* Well, there are worse trials to have. I guess I will just grin and bear it. (Maybe from a dark room with a cold pack on my forehead.)
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