Irritable yesterday

[urocyon]

No wonder I was so grouchy and sound-sensitive yesterday; I had a migraine coming on. The smoke helped trigger it. It's much better now. Until I just looked it up, I had no idea that mood changes in advance of the pain were a common prodromal thing.

That would explain a lot, especially during periods when I've had frequent migraines/cluster headaches (including the majority dismissed as "sinus" headaches!).

Actually, the little bit of research was reassuring: maybe triptans will work, after all. When I asked the GP about it before, I was told that since I don't get auras, they were unlikely to help. As it turns out, the prodrome is more important there.

Apologies for the rantiness!

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[arkady.livejournal.com]

Auras aren't always purely visible; the aura to me includes the "spacing out" feeling, hypersensitivity to noise, particularly when there are multiple sources at once, and irritability - I suspect the latter being partially a reaction to the hyperacusis.

The spacing out is something that others tend to notice in me rather than recognising myself when it happens; I've seen it happen to others though - I could always tell when my late ex was going to get a migraine, because he would be constantly spacing out and generally "not with it" the evening before. He would always wake with a migraine the following day, without fail.

[urocyon-c.livejournal.com]

Good to know. I have wondered if non-visual, non-auditory, non-olfactory stuff counted, or if it's "just" part of the prodrome. The spacing out sounds very familiar, along with a few other sensations. That would seem to make sense, as I'm not a very visual person anyway.

Yeah, the irritability isn't helped by sound, light, and smell sensitivity. Talk about overload. :-|