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.
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.
(I tried to use [unsolicited advice] tags on that comment, but the blog code took it seriously.)
Did you quit drinking coffee? Maybe it’s a very long caffeine withdrawal.
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.