Please shoot me.

This blog was supposed to be something positive recounted for the past day or so and it hasn't been that lately. I think Sarah and Cindy are the only people who read this and I'm sure they understand why things have not been that up beat recently. I should go back to posting at least one thing positive each day. I'll try to start that with todays post.

I did get some laundry done last night, I watched Sundays episode of Drop Dead Diva and tried to go to bed. Well, my head hurt so bad, I ended up just laying there, staring at the television. I finally got up around 10:30, took some pain medicine and mom convinced me to put an ice pack on my head. That helped so much, I was asleep in probably 20 minutes.

I do have a headache this morning but it doesn't seem to be as bad as last night. So far. Last night, after I ate, I was very sick to my stomach and the dizziness got worse.

I'm so sick of this. I'm sure everyone in my life is sick of this as well. I don't even complain about my fibro as much as I complain lately about my headaches.

I did talk to a girl at work yesterday who gave me a few helpful suggestions. I'm going to eliminate my multi-vitamin for a few days. That's the only thing I can think of that is a new thing that just started in the last month. My mom says that's probably not it but we'll eliminate it and see. What could it hurt? I looked up the side effects of my birth control & anti-depressant. My birth control did say that it can cause headaches/migraines. So, I will eliminate that next. But, after I see my doctor. Maybe she can put me on something else.

Sarah sent me a tension headache diary. I've been printing that off each day(she reminded me yesterday) and filling it out so I can take it to the doctor with me next week.

I'm so afraid it's a tumor or some random African disease that has landed in my head. It feels like it will kill me eventually because my head is going to explode, leaving brain matter all over my desk. It hurts to lift my head from the pillow some days, do my hair other days.....I'm dying, I just know it. (I'm so dramatic. I think Bobby gets his drama from MY side of the family. I'm not dying and I know that.)

My mom is starting to get concerned, which scares me the most. Very, very little scares or concerns my mom and she told me last night that she was worried about me. This isn't normal.

I've done some research on tension headaches and honestly, this sounds EXACTLY like what I'm experiencing.

Signs and symptoms of a tension headache include:

Dull, aching head pain
The sensation of tightness or pressure across your forehead or on the sides and back of your head
Tenderness on your scalp, neck and shoulder muscles
Occasionally, loss of appetite

A tension headache can last from 30 minutes to an entire week. You may experience these headaches only occasionally, or nearly all the time. If your headaches occur 15or more days a month for at least three months, they're considered chronic. If you have headaches that occur fewer than 15 times in a month, your headaches are considered episodic. However, people with frequent episodic headaches are at a higher risk of developing chronic headaches.

The headache is usually described as mild to moderately intense. The severity of the pain varies from one person to another, and from one headache to another in the same person.

Tension headaches can sometimes be difficult to distinguish from migraines, but unlike some forms of migraine, tension headache usually isn't associated with visual disturbances (blind spots or flashing lights), nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, weakness or numbness on one side of the body, or slurred speech. And, while physical activity typically aggravates migraine pain, it doesn't make tension headache pain worse. An increased sensitivity to light or sound can occur with a tension headache, but this isn't a common symptom.
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Yay me. For once, I cannot wait to see my doctor.

Let's see, positives for yesterday: I did get some laundry done and I didn't go to the laundry mat, Holly's Scentsy party shipped so I will have it tonight, my brain did not explode all over my desk.......

That's all for now. More coffee.