I am not my migraines
September 20th 2006 15:12
So I've been on holiday for 2 weeks and I've had a low grade headache for most of that. I'm guessing the main triggers are light and possibly food additives. The car alarm that goes off at odd hours across the street isn't helping either.
At home, where I can control alot of factors I've reduced my headaches way down, to maybe one or two a month or so, but an overseas holiday has changed all that and I'm back in the land of medication, heat packs and false hopes.
Which really has brought home a great point.. my home environment is so controlled that I'm starting to turn into a bit of a hermit. I don't want to go out because the lights annoy me, the food has additives and preservatives like you wouldn't believe and I'd rather not spend the week afterwards feeling like I have a hangover without the enjoyment if having drunk the wine. So I stay home, which really suits my bank account but makes me quite the boring little fish. I have this horrible feeling that I'll turn into one of those horribly picky people who has to have everything just soand is no fun to be around.
The only way to get back to my self concept of being an easy-going person is to find ways to mitigate the effects of triggers, rather than to mitigate the triggers themselves, and to do it without having to medicate.
So am I up to the challenge? I hope so!
At home, where I can control alot of factors I've reduced my headaches way down, to maybe one or two a month or so, but an overseas holiday has changed all that and I'm back in the land of medication, heat packs and false hopes.
Which really has brought home a great point.. my home environment is so controlled that I'm starting to turn into a bit of a hermit. I don't want to go out because the lights annoy me, the food has additives and preservatives like you wouldn't believe and I'd rather not spend the week afterwards feeling like I have a hangover without the enjoyment if having drunk the wine. So I stay home, which really suits my bank account but makes me quite the boring little fish. I have this horrible feeling that I'll turn into one of those horribly picky people who has to have everything just soand is no fun to be around.
The only way to get back to my self concept of being an easy-going person is to find ways to mitigate the effects of triggers, rather than to mitigate the triggers themselves, and to do it without having to medicate.
So am I up to the challenge? I hope so!
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