I had such a great plan for this weekend! Matt was out of town, I was house sitting for my parents, my brother and sister in law were away in Vegas - this was going to be a 'get shit-done' kind of weekend! Plans included washing all of my comforters and duvets using mom and dad's oversize washer. Sunday I was going home so it was going to be a grocery shopping day/weekly meal planning day and laundry, oh SO MUCH laundry day. I wanted to have everything fresh and start this new week on the right foot.
Until, Friday after work came. I had been feeling a little off all day and brushed it off because it was a really long week filled with meetings, training, and stressful situations. Since nothing was going on that evening, I was planning to take it easy (spring cleaning could start Saturday) and go to bed at a reasonable time.
EXCEPT, I couldn't sleep. Too much on my mind, my body was sore from god knows what, and I've been stressed out which means my mind wanders. Java was up a few times in the night too, so low and behold, no sleep for Lisa. Saturday morning I could barely get out of bed, and I finally did only because I had promised a Kijiji buyer I'd meet her in the am as she was buying my textbook. As I came home my stomach was all over the place. My head started hurting so badly that I couldn't make it out of bed. Took some headache medication and went to bed. Then again, tossed and turned all week. Finally at 4:30 I got out of bed to take more medication. I've tried having an Epsom salt bath, Advil, drinking water, drinking caffeine, more sleep, though nothing is kicking this headache. Around 6 pm tonight, when I took Java out, I finally felt I could get up without the nauseous feeling anymore.
So, today, no spring cleaning has gotten done. My weekend fell to the mercy of one hell of a wicked headache. I'm frustrated and grumpy about it, but I guess it's my body telling me I need to slow down.
What do you do when your headaches get so bad? What natural/non natural remedies help you? If you get them often, what do you do to mitigate these damn things?
