Yep, that's my excuse for my lack of posts on the blog this week. Since I'm going to show what plants we bought for the garden, I thought I should explain something about the migraines (like how can I be shopping with a migraine). Skip to next blog post if this bores you! I got a migraine in the small hours of Tuesday so I took an Imigran tablet. Since the digestive system starts shutting down with the onset of a migraine, they have to be taken at the right time in order to work properly. These days the tablets work OK but not as well as they used to so I'm up and about, looking reasonably human but feeling like a zombie. Six or seven hours later the tablet wears off, I'm back in bed and waiting for the next tablet to take effect. And so it goes for three days, sometimes fine, sometimes very sore, up and down like a yo-yo. Very confusing for the family!
On Thursday morning, I woke feeling fine and Mark and I went off to the garden centre. But the migraine wasn't watching the clock and came back again as I was taking the photos of the plants later, so not brilliant photos and a little late getting on the blog! Since the family get a bit neglected during this time, I haven't been drawing but cooking - working my way through Jamie Oliver's wonderful recipes!
4 comments:
Felicity, as one that suffers from migraines for ... since teenagehood, I have taken every new prescription offered. I typically would be down for days at a time. Recently (a year ago) I was brave and decided to contact a doctor that is an expert on hormones. He introduced Magnesium into my system and I have been relatively migraine free for over 6 months. Perhaps do a Google search of Magnesium and check it out for yourself. It has changed my life, in addition to the natural hormones. Prevention magazine even suggested it in an article recently.
Just thought I would share that little tidbit with you.
Thank you Robin!! I will definitely try it!
I'm sympathizing with you, Felicity - I suffer from them as well, and know that it is suffering, indeed. I hope you recover soon!!
Robin - thanks for the tip - I'm going to go goole it right now!
I too get migraines and can recommend a great book: Heal you Headache by Dr. David Bucholz that helped a lot. By following the plan in the book I haven't had the killer kind of migraine where you just want to die since then (it's been nearly 3 years). But I still get the minor ones that I call walking migraines since you can go to work and do normal stuff but just feel crappy (have one right now) and so have also started the magnesium (400 mg a day) and also B-2 is supposed to help.
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