Back in the good old days, when Aunt Flo would visit, I’d get cramps & occasional nausea. Couple times it was debilitating, but most times it was just an annoyance that was nipped in the bud by a couple Midol and a hot pad.
Not so now. Oh no. Now I get menstrual migraines. Oh for the simple days of cramps.
To be fair, I shouldn’t kvetch too much. I know some migraine sufferers who would rather have their ears removed with a cheese grater than suffer a migraine headache.
My menstrual migraines are not that bad, but they are vexing and tenacious. The headache sometimes starts the same day Aunt Flo arrives. Sometimes it’s a week after she’s left. Sometimes it’s three days before she arrives. It always lasts for 48 solid hours. It feels like my left eyeball is a size too big for my eye socket and I’m wearing a pair of vicegrips on the bridge of my nose. If I can guess when it’s going to come, I can control it by taking naproxen sodium 2 days before it arrives. Yeah. That’s a piece of cake. Otherwise, once it arrives, nothing touches it. I’ll take a Tylenol/Advil cocktail every couple hours to take the edge off for 10 minutes, and then it’s back. Or I’ll take an Excedrin and then I’ll be useless from the caffeine overdose.
So maybe it’s another pipe dream, but maybe after Thirty Days Raw, I can flush all these OTCs down the WC...?
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