No, no, welcome to *my* day

[pluckyduck]

[blubbers]

Deadlines. You?

(after July 4th, sanity may return....not counting on the diamond part)

[phoenixx[$]]

oh yeah. clients. blogs. client blogs. events. meetings. new business. PANIC ENSUES.

[theworm[$]]

your lucky. the light at the end of my tunnel won't be visible until next March. Busy Busy

[pluckyduck]

theworm said

your lucky. the light at the end of my tunnel won't be visible until next March. Busy Busy

Lights! I had lights!

Yesterday morning I was crunching a bazllion Excel sheets to try to get them to somebody quickly (I was overdue and holding up the whole team, I love when that happens).

All of a sudden I had a flashing light show in my peripheral vision. Oooh, pretty colors. They were like dancing glow worms. I'd turn to look straight at them and they disappeared.

What fresh hell is this, I asked? After googling, I determined I wasn't going blind or on the verge of a stroke so I kept on. After a few hours they went away , of course then my left eye started twitching like an m'fer.

Pressure, by Billy Joel, on You Tube.

You have to learn to pace yourself
Pressure
You're just like everybody else
Pressure
You've only had to run so far
So good
But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you feel
Are loaded guns in your face
And you'll have to deal with
Pressure

You used to call me paranoid
Pressure
But even you can not avoid
Pressure

You turned the tap dance into your crusade
Now here you are with your faith
And your Peter Pan advice
You have no scars on your face
And you cannot handle pressure
All grown up and no place to go
Psych 1, Psych 2
What do you know?
All your life is Channel 13
Sesame Street

What does it mean?
Pressure
Pressure
Don't ask for help
You're all alone
Pressure
You'll have to answer
To your own
Pressure
I'm sure you'll have some cosmic rationale
But here you are in the ninth
Two men out and three men on
Nowhere to look but inside

Where we all respond to
Pressure
Pressure
All your life is Time Magazine
I read it too
What does it mean?
Pressure
I'm sure you'll have some cosmic rationale
But here you are with your faith
And your Peter Pan advice
You have no scars on your face
And you cannot handle pressure
Pressure, pressure

One, two, three, four
Pressure

I can handle pressure! Sure I can! Bring it, baybee.

[cowers]

[magenta321]

I get the worms too. It's an aura. Did you get a headache?

[Prepoia[$]]

That's the way ALL of my migraine headaches start.

[magenta321]

Some people can get the auras without the headache. I used to when I was a kid and I first started getting them.

I get the twitchy eye thing too, but I think it's unrelated. I think the eye is "just" stress.

[theworm[$]]

sounds like an eye migraine. My eye doctor told me after I had one. They don't have to accompany headaches.

[thinkerlady[$]]

I used to get the "lights"--it got to the point I had to see an opthamologist. He actually showed me the pattern of the lights in a text book. He said they were opthalmologic migrains. In other words--migrains happening in the eye, just like Wormie said. They did go away after a few years, and now I get them every so often, but not like before.

[pluckyduck]

Eye migraine!

Yes, that must have been it.

I finally confessed to someone at work that it was going on, after I had all of sheets turned in. It was scary enough that I was afraid if I told anybody they'd demand I stop what I was doing and go see a doctor.

Anyway, that's when a migraine person told me about it being "normal" in that sense.

I have never had migraines, thank you Lord, and did not get one yesterday...but I do take a fair amount of Motrin to get through the day with my *other* issues, so it's possible that headed off something that might have been trying to occur.

In the distant past I had about a year of getting bad headaches that I don't think rose to migraine level but perhaps close. The kind that required lights off to go away. I found if I nipped them with Motrin when they first came up I was okay.

Just as long as it wasn't a stroke symptom. That's what I was afraid of. (Not that I'll be happy to be migraine susceptible all of a sudden.)

[Prepoia[$]]

Migraines are strange things. I didn't have my first one until I was in my early 30's. I was on coumidan at the time and thought they'd go away when I got off it. They didn't. They did, however, become more manageable after a couple of years. At one point I only got them near my menstrual cycle (hormones induced probably). They do have good stuff to offset it the minute you have beginning symptoms now.

Now, I only get one about 3 or 4 times a year.

[thinkerlady[$]]

If it is any consolation Duckie, it did go away. I haven't had the "lights" in years. I do now and then get a very serious headache, which I think can be classified as a migraine, I don't get sick in the stomach, but it is lights out and I need cold compresses to relax. I was in my late 30's when I dealt with the light thing, I don't recall the last time I experienced it.

[emeleel]

I've never had the eye thing, but I have had several low-level headaches in the past 3-4 years that I'm quite certain would be classified as migraines - the sensitivity to light, nausea, etc. Never had lights or auras, though. Yep, I never had a one until my mid-30's and like Sandy, they're often tied to being close that time of the month. Not restricted to that, but I'm more susceptible to them.

I also find I'm more likely to get them when I haven't been eating right and/or when I've been staying up too late at night.

[pluckyduck]

Yes well, yesterday was indeed the first full day of "that time of the month".

I don't need any new adventures in life. Let this be a one time occurance, eh?

Meanwhile, today has been yet another day in wonderland. But no light shows, so, thankful for that. (Maybe that's the function of the light shows, to brighten your day when they don't show up?)