Touching My Face
May. 12th, 2020 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunNow that it's been several weeks since my appointment with the neurologist about my migraines, I'm up to the full dose of the daily preventative medicine we wanted to try. It was a slow step-up process during what is the hardest time of year for me since weather is one of my biggest triggers and summer allergy season in the Midwest is the worst. So as has been obvious from my last posts probably, it's not doing much. He also switch my rescue med over to something different and I've taken it a few times and haven't seen much difference there but I'm willing to keep trying that. I know from experience that sometimes mulit-day migraines just do what the fuck they want regardless of what you do them because the weather is just a pressure system monster outside.
However, the daily med, I think I'm going to have to email him tomorrow about this one. Today I realized that the itchiness I've been experienced the last two days is the tingly/itchiness around the mouth he warned me about as a potential symptom. I've mentioned before I have sensory issues when it comes to feeling itchy specifically so this is a R E A L problem to be sitting around all day feeling like scratching the bottom half of my face off. I need like a frozen face mask to wear all day.
I don't think I mentioned that I decided to go ahead and buy the yearly version of the Downward Dog yoga app I'd been using. They opened it up for free at the start of quarantine and I've fallen in love with it, I'm using it almost daily and it's really customizable so I can get what I need out of it every day or save down days I like to do them again later, since each day is auto-generated. I realized that 30% yearly version was cheaper than paying for 4 months of it, and when I started using the Yoga Nidra option to get to sleep at night too, I realized how much more use I'll be getting out of it that make it worth extra penny. The Yoga Nidra is like a slow stretch meditation that gets you to sleep (which again, can be customized to your liking). When I have to wait a day or two to get my sleeping pills filled by the doctors office, this is a godsend. Especially when I combine it with my headphone face mask. I love that mask.
I feel like I've come around in a quarantine cycle, back where I was a few weeks ago. I'm taking naps after work every day, just worn out like I'm working on pure adrenaline everyday and it runs out sometime after I log off and I have to get a little boost to get me through until bedtime. Dr. Whiskey Voice (as I love to call her) has encouraged post-work naps, considering the work stress I've been under. But tonight I did get to talk to my brother for a little bit, and my dad, so that was nice. And I didn't have to get back on to work after hours which was really nice too (I only worked an hour and a half late but still). But this is kind of where I was a few weeks ago. Tentatively okay, but exhausted. So I'm waiting for another small round of mania as my brain tries to course correct before leveling out again.
I'm so looking forward to having that separate office space finished. I think that needs to be part of my goal for tomorrow over lunch and after work.
However, the daily med, I think I'm going to have to email him tomorrow about this one. Today I realized that the itchiness I've been experienced the last two days is the tingly/itchiness around the mouth he warned me about as a potential symptom. I've mentioned before I have sensory issues when it comes to feeling itchy specifically so this is a R E A L problem to be sitting around all day feeling like scratching the bottom half of my face off. I need like a frozen face mask to wear all day.
I don't think I mentioned that I decided to go ahead and buy the yearly version of the Downward Dog yoga app I'd been using. They opened it up for free at the start of quarantine and I've fallen in love with it, I'm using it almost daily and it's really customizable so I can get what I need out of it every day or save down days I like to do them again later, since each day is auto-generated. I realized that 30% yearly version was cheaper than paying for 4 months of it, and when I started using the Yoga Nidra option to get to sleep at night too, I realized how much more use I'll be getting out of it that make it worth extra penny. The Yoga Nidra is like a slow stretch meditation that gets you to sleep (which again, can be customized to your liking). When I have to wait a day or two to get my sleeping pills filled by the doctors office, this is a godsend. Especially when I combine it with my headphone face mask. I love that mask.
I feel like I've come around in a quarantine cycle, back where I was a few weeks ago. I'm taking naps after work every day, just worn out like I'm working on pure adrenaline everyday and it runs out sometime after I log off and I have to get a little boost to get me through until bedtime. Dr. Whiskey Voice (as I love to call her) has encouraged post-work naps, considering the work stress I've been under. But tonight I did get to talk to my brother for a little bit, and my dad, so that was nice. And I didn't have to get back on to work after hours which was really nice too (I only worked an hour and a half late but still). But this is kind of where I was a few weeks ago. Tentatively okay, but exhausted. So I'm waiting for another small round of mania as my brain tries to course correct before leveling out again.
I'm so looking forward to having that separate office space finished. I think that needs to be part of my goal for tomorrow over lunch and after work.
