Speedy's Cafe - General Chat about anything you like!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Excedrin Migraine contains Acetaminophen (as well as aspirin and caffeine), which may explain why it works for you.

 

[T.o.b.y]

Migraine support group! Yay!

 

I can usually tell an impending migraine from a regular old headache by the tingling. The left side of my face goes numb and feels funny. Then my brain goes all fuzzy. My problem is that only in about one out of ten cases does it progress to the full horror of pain and extreme nausea and vomiting, so I am often reluctant to take drugs at the beginning, because they are really wasted on a light attack.  I've been in the tingly-fuzzy phase for about 24 hours now and am still waiting for the big drama. It's almost exciting: Will it or won't it? Brains are odd.

 

At least I know what the matter is. No fear, no worry. I almost feel like saying oh, hello migraine, here you are again. Haven't seen you in a while. Could you make up your mind though whether you want to come in for a chat or no and close the door?

[Carol the Dabbler]

... only in about one out of ten cases does it progress to the full horror of pain and extreme nausea and vomiting, so I am often reluctant to take drugs at the beginning, because they are really wasted on a light attack....

Do you include Acetaminophen / Paracetamol in the "drug" category? Of course it is a drug, but at least it's non-prescription and seems to be relatively safe.  Alex and I don't do drugs in general, but he makes an exception for one dose of Acetaminophen if he feels a migraine coming on.  Even though many of his attacks have not progressed beyond the colored-lights-and-fuzzy-head stage, he doesn't care to risk a full-blown head-splitting migraine.

 

[T.o.b.y]

 

... only in about one out of ten cases does it progress to the full horror of pain and extreme nausea and vomiting, so I am often reluctant to take drugs at the beginning, because they are really wasted on a light attack....

Do you include Acetaminophen / Paracetamol in the "drug" category? Of course it is a drug, but at least it's non-prescription and seems to be relatively safe.  Alex and I don't do drugs in general, but he makes an exception for one dose of Acetaminophen if he feels a migraine coming on.  Even though many of his attacks have not progressed beyond the colored-lights-and-fuzzy-head stage, he doesn't care to risk a full-blown head-splitting migraine.

 

 

I'm glad he's found something that helps him! Unfortunately, paracetamol doesn't work for me. All it does is make me feel sick. Triptanes don't help me either. My body is stubborn... Since the vomiting bothers me personally more than the pain, I mostly just use an antiemetic, which is unfortunately a prescription drug and not quite without risks. Then once I've stopped throwing up, I can use simple Ibuprofen for the headache, but of course you don't want to be taking Ibu too often either.

 

So what I do at the beginning is simply drink a lot of coffee and have a snack. Quite often, that tides me over until I can go home and sleep it off. I was wondering why the coffee part didn't seem to work this time, until one of my colleagues told me this morning that I'd been drinking from the decaf pot all night!

 

[sfmpco]

This just in from Radio Times - our Charles Agustus Magnussen is set to play another baddie in "House of Cards."

 

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-01-12/sherlock-and-the-killing-star-lars-mikkelsen-joins-house-of-cards-series-three

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I saw a clip las night and the first thing I thought of was how much he reminded me of CAM in the creepy factor.

[T.o.b.y]

2015 being the year I am officially no longer young:
 

 

10 signs that you are getting on

- you spend half an hour looking for your glasses before you realize you're wearing them

- you hear teenagers talking in the street and don't understand a word they are saying

- you abandon your plans for buying a TV because you already spent the money on a painting

- you begin to feel motherly towards the heroes and heroines of your favorite books

- you have a nagging sense of failure at not being anyone's mother in real life

- you start worrying about your parents more than they worry about you

- you begin wearing the jewelery your mother-in-law gives you

- you choose the length of your skirts with more concern for hiding your varicose veins than any qualms about modesty

- you begin to wonder whether "mature" is really a compliment

- you find you don't care so much what your body looks like as long as it still works

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

2015 being the year I am officially no longer young:

There's an official age?    Don't think I'd care to know what it is!

 

I can particularly identify with these five points:

 

- you spend half an hour looking for your glasses before you realize you're wearing them

- you hear teenagers talking in the street and don't understand a word they are saying

- you start worrying about your parents more than they worry about you

- you begin to wonder whether "mature" is really a compliment

- you find you don't care so much what your body looks like as long as it still works

[sfmpco]

And next we're all linking arms and going off to see "Menopause: The Musical" (yes, there really is one)

[SherlockedCAMPer]

And next we're all linking arms and going off to see "Menopause: The Musical" (yes, there really is one)

 

I have heard of that one.  Don't plan on seeing it, but yes.  Or maybe we're off to see the Wizard of Oz so that we can get something help with the aging.

[T.o.b.y]

 

2015 being the year I am officially no longer young:

There's an official age?    Don't think I'd care to know what it is!

 

Well, let me put it this way: If you're not married by your 30th birthday in my country, your friends get you drunk and then, if you're a man, you have to sweep the town hall stairs until a woman kisses you, and if you're a woman, you have to go around polishing door knobs. Both in silly costumes. I abhor silly costumes and I don't drink alcohol. Thank goodness that I am already married and have very few friends...

 

I've got a personal one for my "indicators of getting on in life" list: Your standard shoe color switches from black to red. When I was younger, I was for some silly reason too self-conscious to wear red shoes in public. Don't ask me why. Anyway, the old black ones finally started letting water in, so I had to let them go, and they are replaced by a lovely crimson pair with a teeny bit of saucy heel, just like I've always secretly wanted, and I don't give a damn who stares at them. :P

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

If you're not married by your 30th birthday in my country, your friends get you drunk and then, if you're a man, you have to sweep the town hall stairs until a woman kisses you, and if you're a woman, you have to go around polishing door knobs. Both in silly costumes.

Really?    (Over here, people just feel sorry for you and offer to fix you up with their unmarried cousins.)  I mean, seriously???  :o

 

I've got a personal one for my "indicators of getting on in life" list: Your standard shoe color switches from black to red. When I was younger, I was for some silly reason too self-conscious to wear red shoes in public. Don't ask me why. Anyway, the old black ones finally started letting water in, so I had to let them go, and they are replaced by a lovely crimson pair with a teeny bit of saucy heel, just like I've always secretly wanted, and I don't give a damn who stares at them. :P

Good for you!  I am still pining over a pair of powder-blue slightly high-heeled sandals that I thought of buying a few decades ago.  They also came in tan, which I bought on the principle that tan shoes are more practical because "they go with everything."  Ten years later, I discovered that I am a "summer" -- so now the powder-blue shoes would go very nicely with my entire wardrobe, and I hardly ever wear the tan ones, which kinda clash (they are very comfortable, though).

 

[sfmpco]

Good news on the migraines... turns out they may have been largely prompted by a sinus infection, and now I am on antibiotics.  Even after 6 hours I feel better than I've felt in a month.

[sfmpco]

Happy birthday, Fox!

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

It's her birthday today? Huh! Well, happy birthday, Fox!
 

[Arcadia]

Hope you're out celebrating, Fox!

[T.o.b.y]

Oh my gosh! Is it today? Happy Birthday! Very Happy Birthday, and lots of presents, and lots of inspiration for lots more (fan and otherwise) fiction, please!

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Y'know, it's all your guys' fault for making the little advert links on here migrane- and pain-related remedies! :P

[T.o.b.y]

What advert links? I'm not seeing any. Not that I want to. Guess my adblock software is doing it's job. Hurray.

[Arcadia]

??? Me not see any links either, except for Sherlockology.

[sfmpco]

I don't see any adverts either.  Sure you don't have adware on your computer?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Y'know, I haven't seen any general ads lately, either, just Sherlockology.  But back when I was seeing ads on the forum, they did seem to key off of the words we'd been using -- sometimes in unintentionally humorous ways.

 

[Shadow Dweller]

Run the ad-blocker and clear off your browser's cache.

[sfmpco]

Want to read/download the screenplays of this year's Oscar nominated films:

 

http://www.screencraft.org/blog/download-free-awards-season-scripts/?utm_content=buffer10a50&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.VGPdFg_NWCA.twitter

[Boton]

The longest migraine I ever had was for a month.  This one was off and on (mostly on) for three weeks.  The worst is when it's with you at night and you're trying to sleep.  You know you need something for the pain but you don't even want to get out of bed to go get it.  So now i have the migraine meds on the bedside stand with some bottled water.  

 

Waking up with one is also pretty horrendous.  i can get them also from too much sleep loss.  

 

Count me in on the migraine support group!  I had gotten to the point that I had one continuously for over two years -- it would spike to a pain of about 7 or 8 on a scale of 10, and I would call that a "migraine," and the rest of the time it hovered at about a 5 and I called that a "headache" just so I could feel like something different was going on occasionally.

 

After more than 2 years of futzing around, the doc has declared victory -- the number of my headaches has been cut in half.  I mean, that's good and all, but the doc is the one that declared victory on this one.  I'm still walking around with what he has officially termed a migraine for 3-4 days a week. 

 

Today I just completely lost it, in public.  In a doctor's office, of all places (hubby was in for a routine diagnostic).  No one so much as asked me what was wrong as I sat in the corner of the waiting room and sobbed.  I'm so over the headaches/migraines, I can't even tell you.