Migraines this week

Talking about migraines, I’m resetting my idea of migraines since I got new meds on Tuesday.

I sort of had a migraine that day, not the worst, and didn’t get the medicine until late afternoon, so I said I wouldn’t do anything but Excedrin that day, and wait to see about using it the next day, if necessary.

Well that was Wednesday. I woke up, intending to make a “classic chuck roast” which is newer to me this year, really good, never made it that way or had it in my entire life that way.

Chuck roast, brine it or don’t, then brown each side in a pan. In cast iron dutch oven on stove cook onions and garlic then add tomato paste, then flour, Worcestershire sauce, then beef stock (and red wine if you have/like it, we don’t have it) put the roast in and lid on, then into the oven for an hour and a half, then add potatoes and carrots and back into the oven with lid on for another 2 to 2 1/2 hours until roast is tender and vegetables are as well.

Holy moly it’s a lot of work, not horribly taxing, but think about doing that when you awake and it’s not just morning feeling like I have always not been a morning person, but it’s definitely pre-migraine growing already and oh, boy the shit hits the fan and everything you planned just floats away on the flood.

I had Eletriptan in my tool box though, so hey, I’ll try it.

It made me ache TERRIBLY but then I was able to work on dinner later in the morning. It wasn’t fun the first hour, but more tolerable than Sumatriptan had been.

Later in the day, getting on to evening, I felt it starting up again, so took Excedrin and went to sleep for the night (bad night of course, not that any are that good, rather much worst since migrainey.)

In the morning I woke up and just lived with it and later in the day it reared it’s ugly head and started screaming at me that I was going to start hurting and then turn into a switcher migraine … which I despise. So at that point I struggled to get the stupid pill out of the foil piece of prison like thing.

So that was my 2nd pill, later than a day before, but one day and the next day. 2 doses like that, the future feels bleek.

So here I am on Friday, woke up and oh it’s not ok again. I made breakfast, took Excedrin and wow, I thought about when I made breakfast and I was already into a very miserable experience thinking “how did I do that.”

But I refuse to take Eletriptan and third day in a row.

30 days, give or take with 9 pills. This isn’t funny at all.