After a year or so with a neurologist, he got me on a regular regimen of vitamins and nutritional supplements to keep migraines at bay. There were drugs too, daily ones and migraine only ones too. First, I let go of the daily NSAIDs. I think I'm still okay with that decision, probably because I made it more consciously as a desire to wean myself unnecessary meds. But then, I slowly forgot to refill my days of the week pill container with all the vitamins and supplements. And then I tired of gathering them all out to take them when I hadn't refilled my container. And since I still didn't have any migraines, I lulled myself into the false security that I was okay. That maybe I didn't need them anymore, that I had passed the migraine season for now. The first symptom of my foolish neglect was sore hands. I have had sore hands since CW was born. At the time the doc said it wasn't RA and it wasn't osteo arthritis, but saying it wasn't anything didn't make the soreness go away. Usually it's just soreness, but after a while of neglecting my pills, my joints began to swell and increase in pain until there were many "no-wedding-ring days" because I couldn't get it over the middle joint and even if I could put it on in the morning, getting it off at night became an endeavor requiring lotion, cold water and twisting. Not smart. And still I didn't reevaluate my pill consumption.
The end of May, smack dab in the middle of crazy town end of school year + DH out of town for months on end, I had a migraine at the end of M's dance dress rehearsal. It took an entire day longer to shake than it usually did. I chalked it up to the stress of the months and still failed to reevaluate my pill consumption.
July brought monsoon season, not the crazy tropical stuff of weather channel videos, but the desert version which can result in 100 year floods, but more likely results in a couple of days of rain that consist of the bulk of our precipitation for the year and a few weeks of stupid (relatively, it is the desert) humidity, heavy, hazy air and wonky barometric pressure. Wonky barometric pressure is a migraine trigger for me. So, I wasn't too surprised to have a migraine last week in the midst of some rainy days. But I did refill my pill minder and begin to get on a better schedule and added joint pills to the mix. It takes a while for things like nutritional supplements to work. It took almost a year for them to get me to a place of minimal migraines the first time. I should not have been surprised that today was a double migraine day. But I was. I'm silly like that. I have to get all the balls back in the air again and hope it doesn't take another year.
I've, in the midst of crazy, been able to keep a handle on almost daily scripture study and daily family scripture study for a while now. Things are getting better, but it has to be steady. We had a better handle on FHE until I began to get lazy there too. I don't want family "migraines" to erupt because of my laxness. 2 Nephi 31:20
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
Pressing forward is such a daily endeavor. Reading this scripture sometimes makes me very very tired. It never ends, but it's essential and I get it, or at least I can be taught to get it. Pressing forward is taking all my daily meds, daily. It's drinking from living scriptural waters, daily. It's teaching and caring and fighting and loving, daily. It's getting out of the mindset that daily saving measures are giving me energy and life and not sapping it from me. It's not allowing lazy to bite back.
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oh so sorry ang for all the migraine mess!! No fun at all! In keeping in line with doing things that we know work for us, there is a blog called Clover Lane. I like it. Look under "my rules to live by" on the right. She makes a list split in four about home, personal, school and family. She wrote down things that makes all those areas in her life go more smoothly and when she feels all out of focus, she sits down and reads the list again. I like that idea. I keep meaning to sit down and make my lists. Just an idea. Oh and don't forget your meds:)
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