Migraine Junk Again

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No fun. I have had a migraine since yesterday afternoon — this is something that keeps happening in this pregnancy (I had another the other week, maybe even one more, which I didn’t write about,) yet nothing as bad as when I was pregnant with my only-thus-far girl in 1998. Anyhow, this is a bothersome one, with no DH here to aide me. I really wish it would have waited to start THIS afternoon, since he’s due home today. Anyhow, I didn’t feel so good the other night, and the next day I did feel better, but was so tired, and slept a lot off and on (napping) and of course, it was later that the migraine hit. Actual events may be flipped around some, I’m tired and sick of it and just not so good on recall exactly.

OK well it wasn’t like that. I’ll leave the above and write it over below.

Today is Friday: Thursday afternoon is when the migraine began in ernest, the pain started coming in, IOW. That morning I was active, made Ice Cream, ate breakfast, etc. It was the night before that I didn’t feel good. That was Wednesday. I was so tired upon waking that morning, and slept a lot THAT day. I had a late lunch that day, and it didn’t sit well with me, I got massive heartburn that nothing (Tums and Rolaids, at the least) dealt with for more than a few minutes. I felt fat, bloated, and miserable, and really just sank into “non-consciousness” as much as possible from 3pm onward. I was on the couch later, with the TV on, and awoke a few minutes after 11pm, felt much better and went to bed and read a bit, then slept alright.

So I awoke the next day, Thursday, and felt productive and alright, ate and didn’t feel bad, and did some things in the kitchen, fed the animals outside, and practically didn’t sit down all morning. Mid-afternoon I was feeling tired, and realized that I’d been a bit crabby for a bit, to the children. I thought about it and the word “migraine” popped into my head, but I ignored it, then a bit later it was obvious into the pain stage, but mild and didn’t get “that bad” until much later.

I don’t know if the Wednesday night thing was connected to the migraine or not, but I had semi-same feelings with the migraine last night after I tried to eat dinner and couldn’t manage to eat much. FWIW.

Right now I’m up and functioning, but I don’t feel great at all, and WISH I could lie down and sleep, but I struggled to try and sleep all night and did little of it. I took at bath late, then a shower at 2am, then another bath at 5am, just to try to get some relief, relaxation to promote sleep. But no.

Partially that’s because of my size now. I’m really uncomfortable in certain positions, some more than others. Lying down ain’t so fun.

Also the temperatures went way down yesterday. Like this morning it was 50 degrees, and it’s usually, lately, at least 61 or more, often 63 degrees, to start the day. It wasn’t bad at first yesterday, then it got blustery and the wind was nearly bitter. It was bothersome, and since I have an inkling that barometric pressure sudden changes might be a trigger in me, I have today told DH that we have to get something to measure such things at our house. It’s not the ONLY trigger for me, I’m saying, just possibly one.

I feel it in my bones, a cold discomfort, regardless of the in-house temperature, FWIW.

Anyhow, baby doesn’t mind any of this, as far as it seems from the outside, baby is active, starting to really punch and kick quite hard more and more. There are about 3 months left, just under for my due date, and maybe over for actual delivery, if it’s natural and nice like #3 was. I feel so big, but maybe I’m not THAT big, it’s been over 6 years since I’ve been as pregnant as this. I can recall being pregnant at the end of #1 and feeling so big, it’s the “stick out” version of big, my babies all in the front. I have a few snapshots of me getting ready to go to the hospital after my water broke with my first, and I was very large. I don’t have photos like that for the last one, and I do have something sort of almost near the end for my second.

Well, I know I can get larger and will. I know I’ll be more uncomfortable than now. I hope that the migraines won’t get worse, that maybe they’ll get better, less, less, less.

I have Omega 3-6-9 from beeyoutiful.com and I need to get to taking THEM regularly, see if that’ll help with the situation of migraines in me (anti-inflamatory, for one.) I take some every so often, but haven’t regularly, and could kick myself for that. 🙁




2 responses to “Migraine Junk Again”

  1. Tamara (AK) Avatar

    It was nice to hear a pregnancy update although I’m sorry the migraines are still bothering you. As far as the heartburn, my midwife years ago recommended apple cider vinegar water as a remedy. That or dill pickle juice. Works like a charm for me. 🙂 Although, I’m pretty tired of having that kind of “chaser” after *every* meal and am beyond ready to have “normal” stomach functions back again. 😉 We suspect that that part of my body just “shuts down” and I have very low stomach acids during pregnancy so my body just isn’t digesting and it needs a little help along. (I’ve noticed over the years that I don’t digest meat real well even when non-preg. and NT (Nourishing Traditions) helped confirm that – low stomach acid.)

    Anyhow, that’s what works for me. It seems a little backwards to put vinegar on top of heartburn but when you have heartburn because your food isn’t going anywhere…then it makes perfect sense. 😉

    FWIW.

    Will pray about those migraines…I can imagine the misery…

    (((hug)))

  2. Maisy Avatar

    Thanks for the ideas Tamara. “heartburn heartburn” from pregnancy for me is usually caused by moreso acidic foods, things that often do cause more acid in stomaches. With me being an O Blood type, according to the EatRight4YourType guy, I would have a higher acid stomach/body acidity type body, and I do have such, and need to gentle things down –> and I find his info good, but with an overlying NT approach, of course.

    Now as for my heartburn the day before the migraine it seems to maybe be connected to the event called “migraine” in me, since it was overwhelmingly bad, and very much like what happens in many migraine sufferers … the event starts without pain, and eventually the pain starts and the stomache shuts down.

    For me then, it’s slosh slosh acidic and I do know that due to the few times I have “thrown up” during a migraine, and learned outside of pregnancy that with a migraine an antacid eases much of the suffering and has actually gotten me over the hump to getting my migraine gone … and the time I did chew and swallow a Tums or two and actually still throw up it was a GodSend to have eaten the Tums, it was not an acidic event … 🙂

    During pregnancy the smooshed up stomach makes me more heartburn prone, and the need to eat small meals, more often eat small, does help.

    The other thing is, drinking water causes an acidic stomach to produce more acid, and I cut water out mostly, years ago, and recently started to drink it again, and so … band that together with mid-late pregnancy, voila, acidicness in me.

    I know that the Blood Type guy doesn’t put tomatoes as bad for O’s and one might think they are acidic, but they never have been traditionally so for me, and it seems that “vinegar” is acidic to me, though I love to eat green olives, good crunch pickles, etc. but I suffer when I eat them much.

    So as for “Stomache problems” of “food not going anywhere” for me it’s always been mostly connected to “migraines” or a “virus” of some nature. I have generally digested my food fast. I do know that of course it’s different when I have a certain migraine stage occuring … and what aides me lately is a good cup of coffee, since I quit drinking it regularly it does help to have a strong cup … and I have none in the house, dependant on DH to go get me one. He wasn’t here during my headache, until yesterday afternoon, and when he got home I sent him after a coffee for me and I chugged it down and shortly afterwards the migraine resolved.

    It’s one of the things that does work for some migrainers and they have to be “non regular drinkers” of coffee for it to work like that. I used to drink coffee every day, for years, and haven’t now and find it a joy to have a true usefulness of it, but I must say it doesn’t work so magically every time.

    I was going to respond to this differently and have gone down some rabbit trails. So given that, I’ll close this out and try another comment session later. 🙂

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