Just a small one

For probably a good 20 years now I've been getting bad headaches. No, they are not always migraines. Migraines are a different kind of headache....yes I do have them, just not all the time like these other ones. With migraines, I get an acute sensitivity to light and sound, extreme pressure to the point it makes my eyes water, I get nauseous and really the only way I can get rid of it is to load myself up with drugs and go to bed. No other way. But these other headaches can sometimes last 3 or 4 days on end. Yeah, it's bad. Sometimes I can get relief with headache pills (basically the wally world version of excedrin migraine), but I'd say most of the time it just keeps coming back over the course of a week or so.

I haven't had one in well over a month and came down with one today. :( I am miserable. I did take some pills and the edge has worn off, but it hasn't gone away. I am a little nauseous, but that could also be cause I haven't eaten since 1230, and it's now 710pm. Hm, better eat somethin. By the way, it's always a good idea to have something on your stomach if you take something for a headache because those pills (which have acetaminophen and caffeine in them) tend to make you queasy if you don't. Anyway, I just wanna go to bed and there's still some things I have to do. Gotta make my lunch for tomorrow, gotta take a shower which might help cause the steam tends to help with the pressure.

And before you ask, yes I've been to the doctor about this many many times. When I was 14 I was diagnosed with something called polystotic fibrous dysplasia, which is basically the overgrowth of bone. In my case, the left side of my skull grows thicker than it should. I had my first surgery for it the summer before high school. Yeah, lots of fun. I had my second surgery for it ten years later, where they cut me open across my head from ear to ear to remove a cyst from my left temple. And now it's growing back and very possible that I will have to have surgery again within the next couple of years. But the headaches won't ever go away. Hm. Go figure.

So anyway....sorry about the whining. Just had to get it out of my system. Hopefully tomorrow I'll wake up without a headache and be good as new. :)