Skull crackers

I had a massive migraine the other night, brought on by a combination of caffeine withdrawal hitting me at exactly the wrong point in my menstrual cycle. I don’t think I’ve had one that bad since I was a teenager. I was very close to barfing. Paracetamol didn’t touch it. I had to sit under an alternate hot/cold shower for twenty minutes to make an impact. I also ate a hot bread roll and drank a cup of warm milk. Bread often makes me nauseous when I eat it by itself, but toasty buttered bread is the only thing that can take off a bout of nausea.

Then I annoyed my partner by sitting in front of an infra-red/visible red light in bed for ages when he wanted to go to sleep. It’s amazing how it undoes the tension in my shoulders and back. Something to do with endorphins. The pain was less after the shower and the food, but the red light took it off completely.