my silent screams

i haven’t been keeping this up-to-date, so here’s the update so far.

another headache. dull persistent pain that started in the middle of the day while watching ada. tried to wait it out but eventually gave up and took medicine. it was gone within 2 episodes of charles in charge (i was watching them on my roku netflix box). for breakfast i had sesame chinese-style pancake and [...]

recently i’ve developed a weird… development.

woke up 9/14 morning with a slight throbbing on the left side. it somehow switched to left right side later in the day, and then after some time it wasn’t really localized on any speficular side. it was minor, so at first i didn’t take any medicine. it started getting worse in the afternoon, so [...]

i either had three headaches or one that kept coming back.

i’ve been asked how a “mild migraine” differs from a regular headache. i actually wasn’t sure, so i looked it up in wikipedia.

i woke up with a moderate migraine on the left side of my head, with some nausea.

i had a short, mild migraine in the early afternoon. it was on the right side of my head, again with no nausea.

i woke up today with a minor migraine. it was focused on the left side of my head, with no nausea.

it is suggested that migraine sufferers keep track of their migraines and the surrounding circumstances in an effort to figure out what their “trigger(s)” is (are). so that’s what this new category is for. i will try to include as many possible triggers that i can think of and hopefully a pattern will appear.