Had a migraine  - but was only 25% as bad as the last!

I had a migraine on Saturday.  I woke up with it, as the house was too warm and I was wearing lots of extra layers, due to the big freeze last week.

When I stood up, it felt like 3% of the usual feeling: it was there, it was throbbing, and it would not go away.

I managed to function through it, even had a normal breakfast and went food shopping etc.  This was unusual!

By about 2pm though, it took a turn for the worse.

I noticed I couldn't taste anything.  Loss of taste is a sure sign I'm in for a migraine proper.  

Incidentally, this happened on the second day of taking progesterone and was preceded by a week of intense stress.

I had missed a couple of meals leading up to it and had eaten a lot of bread as a consequence.  I kind of missed how bloated I was? and the last thing I noticed was that my neck was tense, but stangely NOT painful.

I felt that particular blood vessel, that always gives me the migraines, pulsating for 2 days leading up to it.  It was very apparent but I kept hoping it would not turn into anything, but I noticed it all the same.  The vein at the side of my head was still flat, so I was encouraged that it would not escalate - little did I know!

All I could manage to eat the whole of Saturday was 2 green apples.  They helped a lot.  Then later, I had some tea.

I must add that I had eaten cheese for 3 days preceding the headache.  It was the really mature stuff as well.  

I suppose I made a lot of classic voluntary and involuntary mistakes.  

I reintroduced cheese because a funny thing happens to me when I used to eat it, and that was that I would get a momentary sharp pain in the right side of my mouth with the first mouthful.  This sensation has stopped since taking Magnesium.

I suppose because I noticed so many huge benefits in taking magnesium, I inevitably just pushed my luck.

In the end, I became very pale, I was using the neck massager, which helped a lot and the inhaler and an ice pack simultaneously.  Finally I became really cold, then found I had to go to the toilet.  

I drank some Andrews liver salts after that, which interestingly contain 17% magnesium!

It was definitely not as bad, by any means, as last month, and most importantly it didn't get beyond 25% of the pain, comparing pain thresholds, and lasted only a fraction of the time, as my last migraine before that lasted 72 hours, this one lasted only about 4 hours!

I will continue to take magnesium and hopefully in the longer term, I should see even greater benefits?  Well that's what the books say, anyway.  

It was definitely caused by stress and tension.  This week was particularly tough, I had big issues to discuss with DH regarding our business and other pressures had especially become chaotic too.  

Obviously, as I write about it now, I can see a very familiar pattern: stress plus missed meals, plus too much bread, plus constipation, plus cheese - oh, what a horrible scenario!!

One thing I used though, that seemed to work quite well, and possibly because of its effect on the electrical imbalances in my head, was a copper wire pronged head massager.  I can't remember where I bought it but you can get them everywhere.  Copper is best though, because of its electrical conductivity.   It was in the house and I was desperate.  Its only really works for me the first time i apply it.  You get a unique tingling sensation and it felt like a positive relief?  Maybe next time, I should use it earlier?  Although, I cannot help but think, once all the factors are in place to give you a migraine, its probably impossible to reverse it?

Sorry to sound a bit rude here, but at the end of the migraine, I had three successive bowel movements, which I knew meant the headache would finally end.  

After that a really WEIRD thing happened.  I had to start making dinner and it was going to be simple, as I was still so spaced out.  (My hair was standing up like a crazy bird's nest and my face was totally drained of all colour.)  So I turned the oven on and preheated it.  Put the whatever in and after 20 minutes took it out, wearing only 1 oven glove.   

As I said, I was so altered that I completely forget I had only one glove on and grabbed the oven tray with my other BARE hand!  Needless to say, I burnt my hand in three places, but here is weird part - I FELT NO PAIN!  My head continued to throb though.  

Its my personal belief that because of everything that was going on inflammation-wise in my brain, my body just FORGOT to react to my burned hand??   

Comments welcome!