I feel like a reanimated corpse after barely digging my way out of a long-buried coffin. Monday morning, I felt the stirrings of a mild headache. I didn’t think much of it, popped an Aleve, went back to work. Soon the headache slammed in like a punishing freight train, and if it wasn’t a migraine, I don’t know what it was. My head felt like it was being sadistically and mercilessly squeezed by giant iron fingers. When I couldn’t stand it anymore, I retreated to the bed and buried my throbbing head in the pillow.
I didn’t wake up until I felt my husband’s hand on my forehead, checking for a fever, since he had just gotten home and didn’t know what was wrong. The next day or so was a blur of agonizingly holding my head, taking pain medicine like candy, feeling sick to the stomach, and finally collapsing with my tormented head in my husband’s lap as he gently rubbed my forehead, trying desperately to ease the pain.
Yesterday the headache from hell finally abated enough for me to sit upright, put on some clothes besides pajamas, and turn on my laptop to pretend to work. Last night I was able to take a long, hot shower and start to gradually feel human again, a little at a time.
Today I am double-timing it, trying to catch up from being damn near out of it the last two days. I am moving tentatively, afraid that sudden or jarring movements will trigger the headache to come back. I don’t want it back!
Needless to say, there weren’t many workouts the last day or so. I couldn’t even consider it. I will try a gentle walk today, nothing too wild and crazy. No breakdancing here today, folks. Sorry! Maybe next week 🙂
Sweat & Sparkle 
Like allergies, sometimes you never know what caused, what I assume, must have been a migraine. I’d call it a terrible migraine, but really, all migraines are terrible.
My sister gets them, and we don’t know why, (although they are studying colic in babies leading to migraine suffers in adult-hood. My sister had colic, she gets migraines. I did not have colic, I do not get migraines. But I do get migraine associated vertigo, and I lose hours of my life while I have to lay perfectly still to stop the room from spinning. But no pain, thank goodness. I have only had one killer headache in my life, and there is a chance it was a migraine. My mom gets the vertigo spells, and she said once that she would probably prefer a migraine to days of dizziness resulting in not being able to move. I told her she had never had true migraine pain if she thought she would prefer it to vertigo. I’ve had that pain only once and it was just terrible, vertigo is awful, but at least you can just close your eyes to make it go away, (at least until you open your eyes again).
Glad to hear you’re back on your feet. 🙂
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Oh no. Glad to hear you are on the mend.
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