Insomnia continues. Bummer.
Due to my lovely family history on both sides, I am “blessed” with frequent migraines. For the past week, I’ve had a particularly bad one, coming and going as it pleases (usually at the worst times, because let’s face it, a migraine when it’s convenient is unheard of). Tonight, it’s the worst it has been all week, so bad that my heavy duty painkillers aren’t working.
The best medicine during these ones isn’t medicine at all. The best thing I can do for my headache now is just sleep. Too bad I can’t.
While talking with my mother this past weekend, she told me that she has some sort of connection between migraines and sleeping issues. She just can’t figure out exactly what that connection is. I seem to be having the same problem, so I bring up this question:
Headache due to insomnia? Or insomnia due to headache?
Like my mother, I cannot figure out if I can’t sleep because I have or am getting a headache, or if the headache is merely caused by my lack of sleep. I’ve been having sleeping issues all week, even before the headache presented itself, but Mom said that the two seem to be related.
So, if you’ve come across this blog and have some insight, please share it with me! I’m at my wit’s end here.
Being that this blog is a trichster’s journal, I feel the need to stop talking about my headache problems and more about trich now. I haven’t really been pulling the past few days. I haven’t really been thinking about it either, so for all I know, I am pulling, just not realizing it (I’m hoping that I am wrong about that one). I’m just too damn tired to notice. But, due to my sudden inability to sleep, the nights are getting progressively worse. Maybe I can’t sleep because I’m fighting with myself to keep myself from pulling? Hmm…
Even though it’s only twenty after eleven, I’m so tired, but so wide awake. I’m going to slip my gloves on and try to get some shut-eye.
-The Teenage Trichster
P.S. I don’t know how, but people do stumble across this blog. Two trichsters have commented, and although it saddens me to know that there are others that struggle like I do, I felt happy just knowing that I’m not the only one. I mean, I’ve known that for two years now, but it always hits me in the face again whenever I come across another trichster. And really, finding others that share the same struggles is crazy helpful. I only hope that my ramblings might help someone else.
sanitywarp.org <—Another blog of a trichster.
ontrich.com <—And another one!
