Sunday, May 5, 2013

Gross.

Vomiting is never a good experience, but vomiting while having a migraine is quite possibly the worst feeling I've ever experienced.  Not only do I have a splitting headache, but puking somehow makes it feel exponentially worse.  I never know when I will get a "puking migraine" as I call them.  I can function with most of my migraine headaches because I've learned coping mechanisms over the years, but if it turns into a puking migraine I'm done.

Lucky for me, I don't get nausea with migraines often.  But when I do, I can't stop vomiting until the migraine ceases.  If I swallow migraine medication with water, it comes back up.  I get so dehydrated and crave a tall glass of water, but even the tiniest sip of water comes back to haunt me.  Oh, the humanity!

Sometimes, when I'm having a migraine and feeling sorry for myself, I will seek out comfort food to try and cheer myself up.  Years ago I ate one of my all-time favorite candies, a peppermint patty, during a wicked migraine attack.  I ended up getting nauseous shortly thereafter and the peppermint patty came back up.  Peppermint patties will forever be associated with vomit now and I doubt they will ever sound appetizing again.  Maybe that's a good thing...I don't need the sugar.

I could go on, but honestly that is more than enough on the topic of puking migraines.

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