I woke up this morning feeling awful. Maybe I didn’t drink enough water last night. The house was hot last night so we opened all the windows and turned the fans on full blast and went to sleep that way. Now, in the morning, it’s a little too much wind and it’s loud.
Starting my morning ritual, boiling water for matcha and making a strong cup of the tea. But first, let me drink my ginger tea from last night. I forgot I put a drop of Wellness Formula in it. That’s something new I added this week, the Wellness Formula. Acupuncturist recommended I boost my immune system. Oh, I need to pee.
Ugh, muscles are super tight. My neck is very tight. The hot water steam feels good. Wish I could relax my face and neck muscles a little. Lots of tension up here. Maybe I’m worried I’m going to slip into a migraine so I’m working as fast as I can to stop it. Getting the tea ready. It’s too hot to drink. Maybe I’m still tired. Should I have gotten up yet? Yeah, I needed to drink something.
Ok, let’s just do the acupressure points and try to stop my head from throbbing. Definitely have a big tired and dehydrated headache. Man, hitting these pressure points feels good, but it also hurts and causes tension in other places. I just want to rub my entire head and scalp, then my eyebrows and bridge of nose. That feels good, but it’s not enough relief and not long enough attention and rubbing of those areas. But my neck and shoulders are so tight. Let me do my neck points. That feels good, except now I’m feeling nauseous. I need to hit my nausea point. Some relief, but I can’t do anything else.
Nausea is intense and building. Oh man, I think I should poop. Yes, I definitely am having a bowel movement. That’s good. It’s very early for that. But I also kinda feel like throwing up in the toilet too. Ok, let me take my nausea medication after pooping.
Maybe the nausea meds made it worse? I feel terrible. I need to get my stomach calm so I can take my migraine medication. But I don’t think I can wait until my stomach calms. I need to lie down. Everything is tense and I’m feeling very cold. I just want all my muscles to relax, but everything is tensing up from the nausea and the cold and the head pain and I’m panicking. I can’t stop groaning. Everything feels awful. I just want to cry.
Ok, I need to throw up. I’m coughing hard because my belly feels terrible. Let me just go over the toilet and throw up. This first attempt is not happening. At least I’m spitting over the toilet. There’s just nothing in my stomach to come up. Well, except for the nausea medication. I don’t want that to come up, but I need relief from this nausea that can only come with vomiting.
Let’s try a second time trying to throw up. Lying down for a bit just brought the nausea back stronger. This time should produce something. And, yes, thank god, a lot of water and bile. I know, why is bile in my stomach? This usually happens when I’ve got bad migraine nausea. At least my stomach can relax a little now.
Lying down again. Gotta take the migraine medication. Get that in. Oh, the fans are off. That’s good. It was too much wind and too much sound. I’ve gotta calm my body. I need more rest. Let me put my eye mask on. Day is starting to break and it’s getting very light. I can relax my forehead if I wear my eye mask. Trying to breathe deeply and calm down. Maybe sleep will come.
Wow, I think I was out for an hour and a half. I’ve got some plain ginger tea waiting for me and it’s the perfect temperature. Let me take a shower and eat some rice porridge my sweetheart made for me. So much better.
Let’s review what was different last night and this week that might have created this perfect storm of migraine.
I had acupuncture this week. The acupuncture was amazing. It also probably stirred everything up inside.
I’ve been taking that Wellness Formula. Just an added difference.
I had a very stressful and upsetting encounter at work with a close coworker. I’m having a hard time letting go of it. I can feel it affect me mentally and physically. My muscle tension has increased.
I had multiple meals in restaurants. For those meals, I had no control over how they were cooked and I know I ate things that I shouldn’t be eating like wheat/gluten and seed oils. For the past two months I have been cooking for myself for every meal. No take-out or delivery and no frozen or prepared foods.
Last night I had some beer. I did not have a lot, maybe five sips, but I don’t normally drink alcohol and beer is a wheat/gluten food.
Last night I also was up late watching a movie. I don’t normally look at screens of light after dinner, but I was finishing a blog post first and then watched a two-hour long movie. That’s a lot of screen time.
I only drank some tea before falling asleep. I needed to drink more room-temperature, plain water. I didn’t drink enough hydrating liquids.
I was cold. Although it’s summer time in the middle of dry California, I was not wearing enough clothes at nighttime to feel a comfortable temperature.
I was tired. I crashed right away once in bed, which happened straight after getting home from watching a movie. I was too tired to wind down. I probably should have been in bed earlier in order to wind down before falling asleep.
There’s probably more, but these are the ones that stood out. I could feel my body reacting to these stressors. I’m still trying to understand how stress works and how it happens and how our bodies react to stress.
Although I knocked out the migraine, I am very tired and have a residual headache. I wanted to get these thoughts down before I lost them, but I don’t think sitting in front of this screen is helping me right now. Off to nap and rest my head.