I have recently found out that I have to pay for stress, not with gray hairs, wrinkles, or other signs of age, but with pain. Whenever I come down from an excessively stressful situation, it seems, I get to deal with migraines and other assorted headaches.
Last week, my husband became very ill. I freaked out and over the course of the day managed to internalize enough stress that by the end of a 20 hour day, I was having mini MS-episodes complete with electrical tingling, spasticity, and returning brow droop. Calming down helped all of those things go away, but the slightest return of stress started to bring them back.
Once it was clear that he was improving to the point of stabilization, I finally began to calm down. Unfortunately, I was out of town when the migraines started to hit me. I Imitrexed the first one, but I couldn't do the same to the second one due to the fact that it was a travel day, and I couldn't lay flat in the dark room for a sustained period of time, due to check out times and such, so I just dealt with it. Some tension headache when I got home helped.
Then, the next day I kept getting intermittent headaches. They would come and go, and my ability to focus would be impaired. I would be engaged in a conversation only to lose track of the word I was saying. It quite worried my girlfriend, whom I was hanging out with at the time.
Then, today, I kept having flash headaches. They would hit suddenly and go from 0 to 4 in less than five seconds, last for 1-15 minutes, then go away. I managed not to collapse because of any of them only because I kept near the bed the entire day. However, I didn't allow myself to drive or operate other dangerous items, such as the stove.
Here's hoping that I have finished paying off the stress from last week. I disliked being next to useless today. It wasn't my idea of a good time.
Last week, my husband became very ill. I freaked out and over the course of the day managed to internalize enough stress that by the end of a 20 hour day, I was having mini MS-episodes complete with electrical tingling, spasticity, and returning brow droop. Calming down helped all of those things go away, but the slightest return of stress started to bring them back.
Once it was clear that he was improving to the point of stabilization, I finally began to calm down. Unfortunately, I was out of town when the migraines started to hit me. I Imitrexed the first one, but I couldn't do the same to the second one due to the fact that it was a travel day, and I couldn't lay flat in the dark room for a sustained period of time, due to check out times and such, so I just dealt with it. Some tension headache when I got home helped.
Then, the next day I kept getting intermittent headaches. They would come and go, and my ability to focus would be impaired. I would be engaged in a conversation only to lose track of the word I was saying. It quite worried my girlfriend, whom I was hanging out with at the time.
Then, today, I kept having flash headaches. They would hit suddenly and go from 0 to 4 in less than five seconds, last for 1-15 minutes, then go away. I managed not to collapse because of any of them only because I kept near the bed the entire day. However, I didn't allow myself to drive or operate other dangerous items, such as the stove.
Here's hoping that I have finished paying off the stress from last week. I disliked being next to useless today. It wasn't my idea of a good time.
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