Migraine?

I woke up, tried doing my morning routine but gave up after morning pages. I didn’t feel all that well, despite going to bed early. I hadn’t slept well after my junk food orgy the night before and felt nauseous and had a massive tension headache. Or was it an earache? Ot just the sun being too bright?

Anyways, I felt awful. My husband suggested that I take an ibuprofen and I scoffed because that doesn’t help again this kind of pain. I don’t know if you remember but I have been talking about what feels like „headaches without headaches“ for years. I feel like I have a headache but there isn’t really much pain at all, I feel tense, all the light is way too bright, it feels as if I have tunnel vision. I’m also nauseous but then I am most days so I didn’t register that as a symptom.

Since I felt so bad I decided to pull out the pills I got against tension headaches and migraines. I googles the medication because I wanted to know the dose, found a headache quiz and got a result of „sounds like migraines without an aura. Duh.

I took the maximum dose allowed and tried putting sunglasses on inside the house and, lo and behold, I felt a little better. Not good but better. Duh.

So my working hypothesis is that those are migraines after all. I’m starting a headache journal and am allowing myself to take said painkillers. (And yes, I know, not for too long or too often. I am one of those people who actually do read all the instructions.)

Lunch was mine to take care of for once and it was delicious:

Even yummier than usual:

The boy showed up right in time when I was about to get ready for teaching. I briefly contemplated wearing sunglasses while teaching because my studio is extremely sunny (and warm) but decided against it. My new ukulele student had their first regular lesson and I had been making a rather confused and fuzzy impression anyway.

Teaching was nice, four students and four different instruments, then I stayed at my computer for a bit, watching YouTube.

I ate dinner, decided to take some more painkillers despite the caffeine they contain and then the boy came downstairs and asked it it was okay if I helped him study. So I pretended to give him an exam on thermodynamics, statistical physics and something quantum. Or whatever. I’m doing my best but I sometimes can’t even read the formulas aloud. Also, the boy’s handwriting and abbreviations. Is that an m or a weird Greek letter that I don’t recognize? Why do you pronounce d and delta the same, and is it even delta when it’s not that triangle? (It is. The triangle is the capital letter.)

We spent 1 1/2 hours on this and while I don’t really mind it meant I didn’t have time to watch TV yet again. Well, I guess we’ll have repeat performances every day until the exam on Monday.

I went to bed with a cup of tea and a book and turned the lights out half an hour late. And then I slept like a log, so that’s something.

I’m still not a hundred percent today but am feeling a little better. I’m hoping a walk/run and some rest will make me feel better.