Nobody was ever that interested in me. Except Frank.
First day of school. Bill and Tom have left for CPCC, loudly arguing. The others have begun lessons, more or less successfully.
Someone at church last night suggested that Sally’s (and Pat’s) headache-and-throwing-up episodes may be migraines, rather than viral. I’ve started keeping a record, and we’ll see what we can learn if we collect detailed information.
I wouldn’t be surprised about the migraines. I began to get them at age eight, and my son began to get them at age nine.
Migraines are only on one side of the head, but they can cause vision problems, nausea (obviously) sensitivity to light and noise, and sometimes odors.
My headaches usually always hit me in the neck before they get to the head, and if I could take something for them at that stage, I might be able to beat it. Most of the time, I couldn’t.
Until I was in my late 40’s, I had blurred vision with them, but never the aura. Now, I have the aura, (it starts as a bright spot and expands to a flashing halo) the pain, nausea and all the rest.
I never knew if I had one headache that lasted 10 days, or 10 headaches that lasted a day each.
Red wine and cheese (not necessarily together) will often trigger migraines. There may be other foods that trigger them, too, especially foods containing nitrites.
I feel bad for the kids if they have them. Chances are, they will be a life-long malady. Or, they may grow out of them.
You may want to include some weather stats in that headache log: humidity on the given day, barometric pressure; and perhaps also general notes on what stress factors were in play at the time: is there a dental visit looming, a test, a performance event...that sort of stuff all plays a role.
I had fairly frequent headaches growing up, and it got to a place where my folks were concerned about migraines, but I can tell you from — now — years of experience, nearly all of them, and especially the worst of them that actually brought me to the point of made me nausea, were tied to muscular tension in the upper back and neck, and that was almost always brought on by stress or prior exertion.
Ranking second are the headaches arising from sinus inflammation. These are the ones that lay you out because it’s 94 degrees and 90% humidity outside, but 72 degrees and 60% humidity inside, and you’ve walked in and out of air-conditioned buildings several times, and your sinuses are getting repeatedly slammed with those drastic shifts in air temperature and humidity.
So, weather, stress — include it in the mix and see where the statistical correlation crops up.