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rmc28
08 September 2004 @ 10:15
Shiny flashing lights!  
I have sometimes bemoaned the lack of interesting visual effects in my migraines. It seems only fair, given I get the pounding headache, the nausea, the inability to focus and the wish to die, that I should get the funky visuals that fellow-sufferers describe so interestingly. But yesterday for the first time, I had a growing blind spot, which eventually grew black-and-white flashing checks. It was utterly fascinating and I watched it for hours.


Of course, if I was being sensible I would have been asleep yesterday by the time the light show turned up. Perhaps that's what's happened all the other times I haven't had interesting visual effects.

This particular migraine is turning into something of an epic: from yesterday lunchtime and still going strong. I'm being stubborn and finishing some work, mainly so it's not me who holds up go-live. I think pride may be the death of me one day; that or my inability to stick to the concept of getting enough sleep.
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Zambah[info]saraphale on 8th September 2004 03:20 (UTC)
Get some sleep! Don't think you have to force yourself to class tonight, as well as go into work - if you feel better and make it, that'll be great, but don't fret if you stay home instead. I'll make sure we cover all the important stuff again next week.
Rachel[info]rmc28 on 8th September 2004 04:17 (UTC)
Class is both relaxing and tiring and therefore better than work.

But I will see how I feel. Currently I'm debugging something - thanks to help from the DBA the process runs much faster so time-to-failure is now about 15 minutes rather than 25 hours ;)
Half Man, Half Supreme-Being: BADGER![info]mutster101 on 8th September 2004 03:28 (UTC)
Silly girl. Get sleep.
Sally[info]atreic on 8th September 2004 04:59 (UTC)
/me sees a black and white thing moving in front of her eyes... oh no, it's a badger icon...
Andrew[info]acronym on 8th September 2004 05:03 (UTC)
The scrolly text is a very nice touch. :)

- A
Half Man, Half Supreme-Being[info]mutster101 on 8th September 2004 05:17 (UTC)
Thank you :-)
Vicky: The Handbag of Grumpy Traditionalism[info]lark_ascending on 8th September 2004 05:21 (UTC)
*disapproving prod* Don't be daft or it'll go on all week. And watch the amount of physical exercise you do, blood sugar levels have an effect on migraines.
Rachel[info]rmc28 on 8th September 2004 09:53 (UTC)
Yeah, you're right.

I have slept most of the afternoon and intend to be a bit more slack at work now I've met my personal deadline. I'm going to have to re-examine sleep schedules: going to bed at 11 is too subject to slippage and within a few weeks it's all over the place again.

I still think ninjutsu is a good plan, as I should be *very* likely to sleep afterward, and I'll have the discipline to go home afterward tonight.

(Isn't it ironic that the time I'm *most* motivated to find out Everything There Is To Know About Migraines is when I can't look at Google for feeling sick?)
Pete[info]pjc50 on 8th September 2004 06:12 (UTC)
Ouch :( Get some sleep!
Rillaith[info]rillaith on 8th September 2004 12:23 (UTC)
Goodness. I physically cannot work if I get one.... just getting home in one piece via tube and train when I was in Chiswick was scary enough. If I try to work it jut gets worse adn worse, adn my focuus / concentration / attention span rapidly diminsh to a couple of seconds every 5 minutes. I don't know how anyone can work through a migraine unless they catch it early enough with pain killers to prevent it really settling in.
Rachel[info]rmc28 on 9th September 2004 03:51 (UTC)
I was on painkillers from a fairly early stage and it started out fairly mild. It got nastier Tuesday evening, and I slept for about 12 hours, after which it had died back a bit but not gone. More drugs got me through yesterday until I got home and could sleep again. I have had migraines where these games would not have been possible; this was relatively mild, if long-lasting.

I do not recommend my actions to other people ;) In fact, I do need to have some serious thinking about my responses to this kind of situation: stubbornness and pride are not sensible bases for decisions.