No, really. About these headaches.

Maybe I should just call it “the headache.” Because it never actually goes away. I go to bed with it, I wake up with it. Sometimes it goes away for a little while but it always comes back. For the longest time I didn’t even allow myself Tylenol but I’ve relented some this past week because I cannot function with a constant throbbing ache inside my skull. You say something to me, I might smile. But chances are I am looking at you through a pulsing sheet of blood vessels and it sucks and I’m sick of it.

What sucks even more is that it seems that Tylenol isn’t touching this bastard now.

4 thoughts on “No, really. About these headaches.

  1. My sinuses were nuts through both of my pregnancies – even got my first-ever sinus infection during my second – and it caused me a lot of headaches, literally. One of the best drug-free options I tried was the Sinus-Rinse (like a Neti Pot but much more user-friendly). I still use it when the pollen is flaring up.

  2. Did you quit drinking coffee? Maybe it’s a very long caffeine withdrawal.

  3. Mercifully, they have seemed to back off in the past week or so. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve let myself have more coffee or if the hormones just decided to back off.

    I’ve wanted to try a neti pot-type thing for a long time, but part of me is very, very scared. I imagine it’s somewhat like being waterboarded. I am messed up in the head.

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