'supporting each other through really tough times'

fuddle

What is an aura in terms of a migrane Byatt?

Going to try gingerbread men tomorrow as a practice for making ginger bread to make a gingerbread house on Christmas Eve. It's a tradition that has grown with the girls. We always buy the kits but this year I'm going to try it myself. I'm really nervous about it so want a couple of practises before hand.

savingqueen

Quick hello and hugs all round especially jem and kidcat.

Echo what others have said kidcat. Speak to pharmacist or GP (and definitely GP if you can't get rid of it, it gets worse or keeps recurring.) If it gets too bad, taking yourself off in a completely dark and quiet room might be the only thing to do (as well as appropriate meds)

Stress can be a big trigger as can various food/drink etc as I'm sure you know. Might be all the stress you are under. Poor lamb, wish you better very soon.

DH never suffered from headaches and then out of the blue a few years ago got a really severe migraine (had to call out emergency docs a couple of times and eventually dialled 999 as thought he was having a stroke.) He has a couple of different prescription tablets to take if he gets another bad one. I wont say what they are as they are really heavy duty - knock him out completely.

right off for a bath
sq:)

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

What is an aura in terms of a migrane Byatt?

Going to try gingerbread men tomorrow as a practice for making ginger bread to make a gingerbread house on Christmas Eve. It's a tradition that has grown with the girls. We always buy the kits but this year I'm going to try it myself. I'm really nervous about it so want a couple of practises before hand.

I have the so-called classical migraine which involves 4 hours in a darkened room wishing someone would shoot me and a couple of days afterwards with a fragile head. I also start to feel queasy and smells seem overwhelming.

My aura looks like wiggling lines of light across my vision, kind of like seeing something reflected through moving water. If I can get a couple of painkillers down my neck at this point, it doesn't go into a full migraine.

I've only ever been physically ill once, when a migraine co-incided with a long trip on our old diesel double-decker and I ended up being sick in a motorway service station car park. Icky but it cured the migraine.:o

Can't begin to imagine what it's like to have a migraine for a month; four hours is hellacious enough. Although I once did have a tension headache for 8 days which required prescribed muscle relaxants to shift it.

Apparently, women get fewer migraines in middle life and they often vanish after the menopause, which suggests a hormonal factor. Mine are stress-caused, I know from experience, although some people have food triggers, even the blessed chocolate, food of the gods, can cause them.

Fuddle, your gingerbread house sounds gorgeous, such a lovely traditon.

Right, getting a cuppa, having a wee bit of a browse then going offline to chill with my library books.

ETA; I was just thinking how rock and roll that last bit sounded for a Saturday night when going into the kitchen and overhearing my neighbours outside the window yakking about going to get a bottle of vodka to get pre-loaded for their night on the town.

And all I felt was absolute glee at being middle aged and allowed to bunk off at home with a murder mystery and slouchy clothes.............

kidcat

My migraine is definitely stress related - usually they are an after shock of stress but occassionally they can arrive during the stress itself.
I think this one is a combination of stress of week and the fact that my neck and shoulders are aching from the head bang on wednesday.

I can identify the triggers and can sometimes fend them off like you GQ if I get to the pain meds in time, yesterday I just kept pushing as I was trying to get everything done.

Am really peeved as well and I know its a stupid thing but one of the things I did when I should have stopped was to go and buy the parts for the car for a job that OH says was booked in for today. I got my dad to bring OH back from the garage as I couldnt drive, so I disrupted their day and car has not been done- mechanic wasnt expecting it today as OH never confirmed it, nor did he take it at the time agreed apparently!

meanmarie

Hugs to all of you who are having a bad time at the moment....migraine sounds awful for anybody. Hope that the weather in UK has toned down a bit too.

Possession....how did the feis go? I hate the modern way of children wearing horrendous wigs and dresses and make up....by the way Silver Saver (?) the plural of feis is feiseanna....strange language Irish!

Have had a phone call from cousin whose sister has cancer...hospital are apparently saying a few days, so may go see her to-morrow, dreading it but know that I will feel guilty if I don't.

Very cold here all day and has started to rain in the last hour.

Stay safe and warm everybody.

Marie

Possession

The feis was not my cup of tea I'll admit, although DD loved it and is at this very moment looking up Irish dancing dresses on ebay. She can dream! There wasn't too much wig and make up action. but DD was in the under 7s so I suspect there would have been more in the older groups.

kidcat

((hugs)) meanmarie

Possession - does the dance group not have dresses other girls have grown out of? No idea how it works but other dance groups often do this as it saves a fortune. Alternatively a friendly dressmaker?

meme30

Jem:-Sorry you didn't get better news today and that you still have more medical stuff to go through. If it's a shunt to drain fluid from around your brain it will go under the skin just behind your ear. They will only remove a small part of your hair. The shunt will have a small tube coming away from it under your skin down your neck and down towards your abdomen. The fluid will drain into your abdomen and be reabsorbed into your blood stream. Once the fluid pressure has been reduced they will have a clearer picture of what's going on.
I know it sounds frightening but in the level of head surgery it's a small operation and is done a lot.
Please lets us know how you are doing, we will all give as much help as we can. Lots of hugs and good wishes to you and yours tonight.

missrlr

hello all just completed a 300 mile round trip to see batty Grandma and Pops, DH was struggling to stay awake and I had to make him pull over to take over, blinking men trying to be super heroes! Women can drive (just as well) too. Now home with Doglet being super cuddly, wanting his bone to be held so he can chew it whilst being half on my knee - so demanding puppy mutt!!!
Struggling as long week loads of late nights and another stressful week coming up - had a load of stress symptoms flare up again, makes life more difficult. Plus DH not heard anything about his HR case and he seems to have gone into "meh" mode so am gritting teeth and trying not to explode with frustration as this is something he can and should do but he just seems to have lost any will to fight.
I have to sort out the shopping list for MrT tomorrow and we have to get the C word food sorted as well.
DN birthday soon - yippee loads of fun for us all.

Hope everyone feels better soon and stresses go away, otherwise I am thinking we need to emigrate!

Possession

kidcat wrote: »

((hugs)) meanmarie

Possession - does the dance group not have dresses other girls have grown out of? No idea how it works but other dance groups often do this as it saves a fortune. Alternatively a friendly dressmaker?

Kidcat if I'm being honest I don't want her to get into it at all, but the dresses go for up to £500 even secondhand! It's ridiculous, but no doubt there's an awful lot of work goes into them.