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Woe is me. I've had so many migraines lately, I've lost count. I get the type with the aura first. My vision gets blurry, progresses with floaters, and generally is a pain in the butt. Periphrial vision?? What's THAT? This is what it's like...I can look at you, focusing on your eye, and your other eye is in a blind spot. I can't look at your whole face at once. Nono.
And reading! HA! How well can you read when you can look at one word at a time and sometimes not even that much.
That only last about 30 minutes or so. Then the migraine comes. Oh what fun! Pain lovely pain. Unless I managed to take medicine beforehand. Then it's just mild pain. But the dizziness and the nausea... yeah.. that's there no matter what.
So, I'm going to the doctor on Tuesday. Hopefully he'll tell me what's wrong with me. I keep on thinking Brain Tumor. More likely it's related to something a lot more mundane.
I had these in high school. Then they went away. They came back for a while in December, but they went away when I switched back to my old BC pills. Now they're back. I don't know why, so I need to whine about it.
It's therapeutic.
Do you want to whine about something, too?
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I thought packing was bad. Unpacking is MUCH worse.
But migraines are worse than packing and unpacking put together.
Katarain, do you take prescription migraine meds for them? Mine are triggered by hormones (my doc wanted to put me on BC to try to get rid of them -- I don't get them while I'm pregnant, go figure -- but man I hate BC pills), stress, poor eating habits and/or lack of sleep. But I take Zomig when one strikes and I'm pretty well good as new within an hour.
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Cool. Best of luck. I hear that Imitrex works great for some people. I've only ever tried Zomig, but understand that it doesn't work for everyone. It's a miracle in pill form as far as I'm concerned, though.
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Migraines are indeed horrible. Mine are usually pretty mild and are more aural than visual (like there are no background noises, everything is foreground noise). Like jeniwren, mine are also triggered by hormones (as if periods weren't bad enough by themselves, I have to deal with migraines at the same time), as well as stress, and allergies (a few of my food allergies trigger migraines).
Both immitrex and zomig worked sometimes for me. I get better results with a more generic headache medicine - Midrin.
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Have you ever read Everyone's Normal 'Til You Get to Know Them? There's a section on conflict that I love... It's a very comforting book, I think.
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Katarain, I'm sorry about the migraines. That would so suck. *hug*
My whine? Um...I like packing...I like my new apartment...nice and nonthreatening guys are going to help me move so i don't have to carry the heavy boxes...I like my job...we are having a reception with cake and cookies this afternoon...school is taken care of...there's a party tomorrow night...I love signing on to my computer in the morning...
I got nothing. I'm sorry. *runs away very, very quickly*
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I could use your help, too, Mack, and I bet I'm a lot closer than Rivka and have more stuff for you to unpack. You can even have a bunch of it in compensation!
Thanks, Jeniwren... I might need to read that one.
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You can come out here and unpack the stuff from our 1,000 square foot apartment into our 750 square foot apartment for us, then. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Oh! I have something. I got a haircut last week and the lady cut off three inches. >_< It's still past my shoulders, but just barely. Posts: 26077 | Registered: Mar 2000
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There are medications, like Beta Blockers, that are taken to prevent frequent migraines. Maybe the doc can hook you up with some of those.
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In a nice house... no more apartment. A house that we actually own! With real furniture!! And a yard! And a porch and a deck... *sigh* And many rooms...and hardwood floors...
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What I really want from the doctor is an extensive battery of pain-free tests. Like an MRI. It would really put my mind at ease.
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Rivka, remember that I recently moved a large number of (admittedly smaller) people in with me. we have you heavily outnumbered!
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More whining from me. First, I had to listen to a 75 minute long story about a woman who bathed in virgins' blood in one of my classes today. Next, I get a call from my mother saying that she still hasn't seen a bill from the school. Apparently the school decided a) not to send me a copy of the bill (I guess since I owed $0 they thought it wasn't important) and b) not to send my parents a copy despite the fact that I had signed a form saying I wanted them to send my parents a copy. Stupid crap that comes from attending college Posts: 1960 | Registered: May 2005
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I've realized that I shouldn't talk to boys this week of august, two years in a row I have been hit on by guys that I'd been friends with for a while but couldn't imagine anything else with, ugh. I guess this year it's a bit better if he weren't suggesting "friends with benefits" no i really don't need any suggestions, the whining fits me best.
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My back hurts like heck. And a stupid hurricane is hitting me right now. I won't have power for long. My boss still wants me to open the store tomorrow. I thought I'd at least get a day off.
I lost my service to my cell phone today because no one will hire me so I can pay to continue using it and now I feel like I've lost an arm. Stupid, I know but I've applied to at least 30 different places this summer, I have a BA (which I thought was supposed to make this easier), have had a few places get my hopes up without hiring me and it's really starting to depress me. Okay, so maybe it's not all about the phone.
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: Oh! I have something. I got a haircut last week and the lady cut off three inches. >_< It's still past my shoulders, but just barely.
I'll join you in that whine. I went in for a trim last week, which for me is 4-6 inches (My hair is past my waist...or at least it used to be). The woman took off 10 inches! I suppose I should have been worried when she didn't know how long 6" was, but I thought we had established that it was the length of her comb. I've never had such a disastrous haircut before, so I really wasn't prepared for such incompetence.
The moral of the story: run away from any "hairdresser" who doesn't understand length measurements. And if you happen to be in Tucson, AZ, stay away from Planet Haircare at the Park Place Mall.
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I swear some stylists itch for the chance to chop it off. . I used to go to my sister-in-law, but I had to quit when my hair reached above my shoulders. Of course she cut it that way - her own hair is chin-length, and she clearly thinks chin-length hair is cute. It is cute! It's also not what I want. I think that's why I prefer guys - they don't cut everyone's hair to match their own.
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Where are you? Maybe we could trade...[EDIT: locations, not hairstylists...]
It's still hellishly hot here, I don't recommend it. Actually, we're hoping to move away next year, to someplace with normal seasons, cold winters, and a distinct lack of urban sprawl. I don't yet know where that place will be, but I suspect somewhere in the midwest.
To give an idea of the amount of sprawl, I live around 30 miles (straight line) from downtown Tucson, yet the city limits are less than a mile away. If I weren't lazy I would go look up how many square miles Tucson is. (Was that proper use of the subjunctive? I can never tell, it just looks horribly wrong to me.)
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I'm now in southwestern AZ, but I lived in Tucson for 4 years while I was attending the UofA. It's downright peachy in Tucson compared to here, where I'm pretty sure our average temperature is usually about 5-10 degrees higher. I loved the seasons because I can't handle cold all that well and I thought winters in Tucson, if you can call them that, were cold enough.
I have to say I agree with your sentiments on urban sprawl, though. I never really liked the look of it...but I do miss being there. Probably because I had more freedom there and not because of the city itself.
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Ah, somewhere in the vicinity of Yuma, I'm guessing. I was just there last weekend, and I agree it was miserably hot there. Especially since Corona de Tucson (where I live) is often 5-10 degrees cooler than metro Tucson. I think I'll pass on trading locations with you, then *G*.
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Yeah, I'm in Yuma now. And it looks like we did trade locations, though only temporarily; I was in the Tucson area last weekend. Glad you enjoyed my part of the state so much.
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I know there are other Jatraqueros (did I spell that right?) in Tucson. Some of them might even be real. There could be a whole southern Arizona cascade of realness...
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If we're going to whine about the hideous temperatures in Arizona, can I whine about how awful our electric bill has been lately? The sad thing is that when I look at suggestions for reducing energy costs, they're all things I already do. Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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I hate being stuck in the house because there are no drivers currently in my house and because of the stupid storm.
And I strongly dislike the characteristic in most of the other students in my grade where they absorb anything that's told to them by a teacher, regardless of whether it even remotely makes sense, just because they think teachers are all-knowing and must be brilliant and because they can't think for themselves anyways. (Yes, just recently something like this happened to me in class and I still can't get over it) (And I WAS RIGHT!)
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My problem was and continues to be my lack of money and transportation. It would have been easier while I lived there since I'd at least be in the same city as other Jatraqueros and could ride the bus. Now I'm not sure when my next chance to go back will be. Oh well. Such is life.
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I haven't had one of those 24 hour headaches that feel like a halo of pain in some time. They are excruciating. Starting over the right or left eye, they make my head feel like I am being slowly trepanned as the pain reaches and connects to the back of my head... Right now I am gloomy over various things, especially my birthday tomorrow. I so dislike birthdays. Perhaps because I want attention and no one will really give it to me.
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More whining: It's way too hot outside. The school thermometer said it was 104 to give you an idea. I think it's actually 98 or 99. Still, walking 10 minutes or more across campus with no shade in that heat is not fun. I'm all sweaty and nasty. It's just bad.
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Yesterday I forgot my checkbook 30 minutes away at home, I forgot to use my store credit and they wouldn't just refund me at the register and no one was at the desk for customer service, and then I tried to leave only to realize that I'd lost my keys.
Today I have a headache, don't like the book I have to read for school, and am thoroughly frustrated with my poor attempts at quilting. Oh, and a gift I'm trying to get my best friend that I really adore costs 70 dollars more than I'm comfortable with. And my teeth are sensitive from bleaching and there's no comfort food in the house.
Yup, that pretty much covers it .
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Hey whiners-about-heat, it was over 100 here the other day, and humidity in the 90%'s. Dry heat is quite pleasant in comparison!
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[EDIT: D'oh, I could have sworn I was in the telemarketer thread when I posted that. Moving it now...]
Yes dry heat is better than humid heat, but it gets pretty humid here during the monsoon. This year it hasn't been too bad, but some years are horrible. Even though it's only maybe 75% humidity, the temperature is closer to 115 degrees.
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Houston can get that bad, or at least I've recalled it getting that bad. Dallas doesn't, but it's still not fun. According to weather.com, it's 98 degress here with 40% humidity, meaning it feels like 105 degrees. Fun stuff.
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quote:Originally posted by Jim-Me: Rivka, remember that I recently moved a large number of (admittedly smaller) people in with me. we have you heavily outnumbered!
And my three (with their incredible assortment of I-don't-even-KNOW-what-some-of-that-is) don't count?
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Another beuatiful day at the beach...but I'm bored out of my skull. And I'm tired. And I'm hungry. But mostly I'm bored. I have to work tonight. I'm out of smokes. Gwen didn't call me back. My roommates are moving to Santa Monica. My mom is moving to central Cali. I'm running out of money faster than my next payday is coming up. And anyway, my next check goes entirly to rent. My laundry needs to be folded, and then I need to put the wet, clean stuff in the dryer, then put in another load. My stomache hurts. My hands smell like bleach. My roomate's dogs won't stop barking. I have to use the bathroom, but I'm too lazy.
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quote:Originally posted by theCrowsWife: Yes dry heat is better than humid heat, but it gets pretty humid here during the monsoon. This year it hasn't been too bad, but some years are horrible. Even though it's only maybe 75% humidity, the temperature is closer to 115 degrees.
--Mel
theCrowsWife, where are you that you talk about monsoons? I mean, I have monsoons (Sri Lanka gets both monsoon seasons) but not many people here do. So, fess up.
Katarain, I have major sympathies. I've taken just about every drug that exists for migraines. Imitrex was a bad one for me - my side effects sent me to the hospital - and so was cafergot. But the one ketchupqueen recommended *digs around in purse* tramadol, when combined with ibuprofen, works like a charm.
For me, my worst migraines were during puberty. And now that I'm going through perimenopause, it's the same dang thing all over again. Sigh. Is it possible it's hormonal fluctuations for you, too?
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She's in AZ, quid. They do get a monsoon season with flash flooding and everything in the south every year.
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