What was that all about?

[osodecanela]

I woke up this morning with a horrific headache. Sad truth here: my chin strap slipped in the night and I awoke with my Cpap whistling air up my nose and out my mouth. I, without a doubt got hypoxic and simply did not awaken fully until LJ shook me awake at 8:15. No appetite with the headache and so I simply took my morning meds, and headed into work.

Was not a happy camper this morning with the headache. Oddly enough, when I was standing in the lab, writing out a lab order for my first patient and stopped to rub my temples to try and easy the pain, my medical assistant, my first patient, and the drug detail representative that just happened to be standing there, all stopped and asked me if I was all right. All three of them happen to be migraineurs and all three jumped to the conclusion I was having a migraine. Now I too happen to get migraines as well, but today's headache was NOT one of them. However, having the three of them suddenly go into what I (the MD in the room) should do for my 'migraine' bordered on comical. It was however somewhat endearing.

Mid morning, after having a cuppa joe, in hopes it would get rid of the headache, I began to feel nauseated. I thought perhaps if I had something else in my stomach I might feel better. Looking in the fridge and found a bunch of diet soda (too gassy), some cottage cheese (too dairy), some condiments, some fruit (none of it appealed) and a couple of tomatoes. Had one of those and for a little bit actually did feel less nauseated. Then about an hour later, while giving my medical assistant instructions on what vaccines to give a kid I'd just looked at, it hit.

Dunno if others know that sensation, but just before I get sick to my stomach, the ducts open and the saliva just pours. Well, when that happens I know I have perhaps 30 seconds to get to the bathroom, or its going to be messy. I so hate reliving breakfast, or any meal for that matter. Then it was all over as soon as it happened. No more nausea, and the headache was mostly gone. Since when does tossing your cookies alleviate a headache?

I had a light lunch and now feel just fine. I hope that was the end of it. Suppose we shall see.

Comments

[epinoid.livejournal.com]

I know you indicated it wasn't a migraine, but I almost always get a lot of relief from them after I barf. I have no idea why but it is the only thing that works most of time although making myself barf does not.

Glad you are feeling better!!!

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

I have classic migraine and not common. I get an aura that lets me know its coming (in my case its visual disturbance), and my headache is always unilateral (usually right-sided). On top of all that I generally get pretty photo-phobic (sorta like Dracula left out after dawn). Today's headache was bilateral from the moment I opened my eyes, with no light sensitivity, and no visual trouble.

For me, my triptan usually sets off my nausea. I figure its the price I pay for getting rid of the headache.

And thanks, I do feel lightyears better now than I did mid-morning.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

I don't know either, but I've noticed that if my system really wants to eject the contents of my stomach, trying to suppress that any longer than needful to get someplace where that won't create a huge mess just makes me feel worse.

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

I hear that one. I'm not one to fight it from happening. Once the salivary ducts let loose I KNOW its inevitable. However, vomiting in your own office in front of a patient is generally considered really poor form.

[blktalon.livejournal.com]

I've never understood it myself either, and it doesn't usually help when I have have my migraines. I know someone that it does work on. Prehaps it has more to do with the triggers. If it food related, getting it out of your system may have something to do with it.

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

Don't think it was food related. My headache was so nasty this morning, I couldn't even think about eating. I was nauseated before I put anything into my stomach and I made the wrong choice of what to put there. (Note to self; coffee not a good idea in the face of nausea, even if your are suspicious of a caffiene withdrawal headache)

[envirobear.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of on epinoid's page...I used to get migraines when I was a kid, and the unchanging progression/pattern they followed *always* ended with me making a mad dash to toss my cookies, too. Migraine always vanished after that.

Hope it passed VERY quickly and that you're in top form again!

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

I am lightyears better today, thanks. Actually, I began feeling significantly better after re-living breakfast.

Awakening with a headache, especially one like I had yesterday morning is a sure sign of my sleep apnea. If I've gotten hypoxic during the night, I wake up hurting. AND yesterday morning I awakened with my chin strap having slipped and my mouth open. CPAP doesn't work to keep you breathing, if your mouth is open.

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

To put this in perspective, I suffer a form of this every day now. Having our well poisoned has now come to this.

I first get a headache, then comes the photo sensitivity, then comes the vomit. We're all different, but for me Standard IB is every morning now. If things don't get better, I go to something stronger. Toradol is a wonderful tool, as is Phenergan. But the latter has quite a kick and makes me into a zombie the next day.

If it persists for you, checking into accupuncture won't hurt.

Can we talk on Sunday? I need some advice.

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

I just finished with a delivery and will have to make rounds tomorrow on mother and child. Shall I come by after rounds? What time do you think you'll be awake?

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

I'm usually up by noon. Wanna do lunch? (for me, breakfast)

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Add me to the list of people ... when I used to get migraines, violent barfing was instant relief, so predictably that I actually looked forward to it as a guaranteed end of the pain.

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself added. I'm always amazed at the number of migraineurs there are, particularly men. It's supposed to be much more common in women, but you cannot prove that one by me. While both my mother and her mother before her had them, it hit me, but neither of my sisters, bypassing them in favor of their sons. 2 of my 5 nephews have had trouble with them.

An aside here. Red wine is my #1 trigger. Cannot touch the stuff. Contains tyramine and apparently that chemical sets me off. My very first migraine was after a wine and cheese party when I was a college freshman. I've avoided the stuff since, although a couple of times I've been fixed dishes that had wine in them (like beef bourgignon) and had that set me off. And my mother, God love her, has no trouble with red wine. She was waxing poetic over a Cabernet Sauvignon a few weeks ago, and I reminded her I was the wrong person to recommend that wine to. "More for me," she gloated.