Hey everyone, either welcome back or welcome to my channel. And in today’s
video, I want to talk about what goes through my head when I’m actually
getting a migraine. So before I get into any more details, time for the intro!
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I thought since it was such a nice day that it was time that I did
one of these videos outdoors. So I’m just going to be walking around
a little bit and sharing my thoughts on this particular topic for this video. If you
hear background noises and all of that, I can’t control that, but the birds are kind
of nice so it’s kind of nice to have that out here.
This topic today is about what goes through my head when I get a migraine.
The first thing that goes through my head when I get a...I’m getting a migraine is I
hope I have enough time to get everything done that I need to. When this happens with
migraines or IIH, the symptoms can come on quite suddenly and particularly with migraines
because there’s those phases, each migraine actually tends to last a different amount of
time when you start feeling those initial symptoms of the prodrome phase. What I
mean by this is that in those initial moments of oh I feel like I’m getting a migraine, there
may be times when you don’t know exactly how long you have until you maybe get an
aura or you maybe get the pain starting and it’s when those types of things happen
that you actually can’t really function. So, I tend to be able to function at the start of my
migraines, but at those points in time, I may not be able to function and it’s important
that I try to get as much done before that happens as possible.
Now, when it comes to those different phases of the migraine and what’s running
through my head when I start to feel the symptoms is how long is this
gonna last because some migraines can last for several days while others can only
usually last for a few hours. And when you have different tasks that you need to do
every day, when you get to those points where you don’t know how long it’s gonna
last, you kind of have to decide and all of that on how much should I do today
in case this is still a problem tomorrow or should I push through this because I might
be better tomorrow? All of those types of questions run through your mind when you’re
dealing with these different things running through your head and it can be a matter of
a few hours to a few days on what determines your next step. And you don’t know that until
you actually go through the migraine phases. You can’t tell because each migraine is really
different in what you experience. Sometimes the symptoms that you have are the same but
how long those symptoms last are very unpredictable.
I know one of the most common things that actually runs through my mind when I first
initially feel the onset of migraines is I better clear my schedule in case I happen to start
to feel worse over the next few hours or even in the next couple of days. There are times
usually with migraines where you get an idea of okay this might be this amount of time because
I’ve got my period or there’s a weather system that’s coming through. Those are the most
common types that...examples that I can come up with right now, but there are other times
where you’re not experiencing any of those and you just don’t know exactly how long
you have until you won’t be able to function again. So, what I like to do in that particular
case is clear my schedule just in case so that I’m not having to worry about am I being
productive at this point in time just in case I’m not able to function. Now, I don’t usually
honestly get many migraines anymore that are to the point where I’m stuck in my bed with the
lights off and absolutely cannot tolerate any sound. What I mean by clearing my schedule
is I don’t need to worry about particular things like captioning video which takes a lot of brain
power and can be really difficult when you are dealing with the pain and because it’s hard to
concentrate. Other things that can be difficult include things like editing video and all of that
because I’m on screens. Generally, there isn’t a lot of other things that I do that are interfered
with. Sometimes I can’t even actually watch videos or be on my devices during my peak
point of the migraine. It all really does depend though. What each person can do and what
they mean by clearing their schedule is going to be very different from person to person basically.
One of the most common things I’ve actually talked about and mentioned in my videos
before is I deal with this neck pain and honestly when I’m starting to get a migraine, my neck
will start to get really tight. And I’m actually having a little bit right now. And so it’ll be hard
to like move this like this with my head. Now, with the neck pain I can actually remedy that
particular symptom. Usually things like when I take Naproxen, often that’ll help with that
particular symptom. But sometimes, honestly, it’s so hard to deal with. Sometimes I’ll also
take Naproxen as well because it’ll just be enough just to take the edge off and then
it’s good. But sometimes there really isn’t much you can do about the neck pain. When
I get the neck pain it can make me nauseous as well so that’s not a very fun symptom to be dealing with.
One of the most common things that’ll happen because I often do start to feel the symptoms
of migraines when I’m on my devices because when I’m editing or captioning, I’m spending a
lot of time on my devices. And so, one of the first thoughts is I better get this thing done that
I’m trying to do so I can get off my screens now because when I’m not able to get off my
screens, it really does honestly start to hurt if I push through it too much. So that’s one of the
first goals that I have is to get everything done that I need to do and make sure I get off my
screens not to make it any worse.
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