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The NYT has been running a blog about migraines over the last couple of weeks, and it has helped so much to read it. I had a migraine that started Tuesday and it took 4 hours and many phone calls to get pain medication from my dr. No matter how many over the counter pain meds I take, it isn’t enough — and I am talking about like 10 Advil at once. The pain meds he prescribed helped, the migraine stopped but a day later, a new kind of headache took its place. I have had a headache since Thursday. It is now the following Wednesday. The neurologist has given me a little pain medication and doubled my prevention meds — which make my hands shake, and my words slur a little at this higher dosage. In another dr’s office (yes, I have several) last night I broke down and explained that the pain is a green goo, struggling against the inside of my skull to come out. If I could, I would crack open my head and let the pressure out, and scratch my brain, which itches and burns against the bone inside. In fact, I want to take off the top of my head and the bones of my face, just let the pressure out. This isn’t a migraine — no aura, no single-sided pain. I don’t know what kind of headache to call this. I really don’t care. I want to split open my skull. I want to be unconscious — the headache can even wake me up and it definitely makes it hard to sleep.

This will pass. This will pass. This will pass. The meds will work, the headache will stop. Serenity now.

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