This morning I woke up in time to get ready to go to a breakfast for my sister and her now-husband (well, sort of... they were already married, but its still fun to say since they just had the big wedding). My mom, dad, and I all went to the breakfast.
My sister leaves to return to Miami, which is about 1100 miles from me. So I seized the opportunity to talk to her before she had to leave.
I came home and then packed some stuff and my friend picked me up and I went back to my apartment. My girlfriend and I have been having disagreements about this. According to her it is good for me to be back at my apartment, but for some reason I do not want to be there; I have been resisting staying at my own apartment and have been wanting to be at my parent's house. My girlfriend is probably right though; I should not be staying in the safety net of staying at my parent's house. I should be on my own, forcing myself to know that I am capable of making it on my own.
My friend stayed and hung out at the house, and we sat in my room; my friend, my roommate, my girlfriend, me... listening to records. It was awesome and made me feel very relaxed. We then watched some tv and went to bed. Just a relaxed evening. At one point I was sitting on the bed, chewing, and all of a sudden there was a horrible, shooting pain down the right side of my face, over my eye. And then it felt like my eye was swollen shut, even though it was not. My eye feeling like it is swollen shut is common lately, although my eye is not. Putting ice on it can help somewhat, even though I am not sure what it does.
It was nice... with the stress and hustle and bustle of the wedding weekend over, to just have a no pressure evening... and the headache barely got in the way of the day at all.
Oh yes... a response to comments... thank you for that comment by the way, Brooke... I love comments...
Pain relievers can very easily cause rebound headaches, some more quickly than others. Many people who come into the headache clinic first get the diagnosis of the original headache, and rebound headache, before the detox from the pain relievers they are on. I did. I had to get off all the pain relievers all I was on, in my case, Darvocet. Here's some basic information from the Mayo Clinic. ()
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