In an desperate effort to break this migraine cycle I've been dealing with, I called in this morning. I barely slept last night and it dawned on me that the other factor which is different - and which acts as a trigger for me (besides florescent lighting) is lack of sleep. And I've been getting very little sleep lately. By the afternoon, it catches up with me and come evening, I've got a full-blown migraine again. So today I purposefully slept in. And so far, my head is perfectly fine. By this point of the day the last week, it would already be well underway for an attack. I think I've found my problem. I need to get more sleep during the week. It's hard for me though because I'm simply not tired at 11 - 11:30pm when I should be going to sleep for an eight hour night's rest. Not even close. So I normally end up going to bed like 1 - 1:30am and there's the problem. The alarm goes off at 7am and I've only gotten six hours at most. I know me and I know that's not enough.

Hopefully this will break the chain though and I can keep on being migraine-free the rest of this week. I just have to try to make a really concerted effort to getting to bed early enough that I'm not unwittingly leaving myself open for a migraine. I'm just really relieved that I may have come across the solution. Because I have to say, I was really, really getting worried about how things were going and how I'd never had that many days straight of migraines like that before in the almost eleven years of having them. I pay a lot of attention to what I eat and such to avoid my triggers to limit the number of attacks I get so it really threw me for a loop that suddenly things were way outside the pattern of my migraines. How do you deal with something that you've never had happen before, you know? So it was scaring me. But, I feel a little better today - above and beyond my head feeling normal! - in that now I know something else to watch for and perhaps another thing to avoid. It feels better to be able to approach a problem with possible solutions rather then facing a problem you don't even fully understand.

So I'm mad that I had to call in but I'm very happy to have (hopefully) broken this cycle. And I'm hopeful that by getting enough sleep, I might better be able to deal with the flicker of the lights. Not that I'll ever like it or that it won't always be a strain, but perhaps if I'm not battling sleepiness, it won't lead so instantly to an attack.

Anyway, that's it. Just a bit of a positive note after so many bad days. I'm doing laundry today (greatly overdue, but I've just felt so shitty that I haven't been able to get to it) and also updating my PhoenixFire Designs site with peices of jewelry and such that's ready on-hand to sell. Please feel free to take a look, I'm eager and excited to have things to sell. :)

Alright, enough blathering for now, I've got some more work to do. Ta.

~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream at 4/6/2004 03:04:00 PM ~ ~