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pameladeanETA: The migraine aura I experienced is not called a scintillating scleroma, which is really a rather daunting notion, but rather a scintillating scotoma. I have corrected it below. Just in case any of you are magpies with regard to terminology.
*snarl*
Unsurprisingly, when you rehydrate yourself rather than letting the ER do it, your options are not as efficient and it takes longer. I was having shaking fits and elevated pulse rates periodically through Thursday evening. And this morning I woke up with what I did not recognize as an impending migraine. (My neck hurt and I felt a little wonky.) I don't get migraines very often, if that's even what they are. I have had two classical ones, both caused by aspartame, but that was before we even moved into this house, which is to say, before 1995.
So I had finally conquered Open office (again) so that I could print out the sample chapters and revised synopsis for the Liavek novel and send them off to my unsuspecting agent. It was a very bright sunny day here in Minneapolis, and the blind in my office that keeps the afternoon sun out fell down a few weeks ago and I haven't replaced it, so I wasn't surprised at how bright all the light seemed. But then I noticed that I couldn't quite see things in a particular part of my peripheral vision, for no apparent reason. Then the reason appeared: a little parenthesis of sparkle, that grew to a large arc, all pulsing and multicolored and glinty. I had completely forgotten about migraine auras and was seriously freaked out. Raphael poked around on the internet for me, and after disclaiming the reasonability of diagnosing people by looking up symptoms on the internet, said it sounded like a classic migraine aura, and was, in fact, called a scintillating scotoma.
Then I remembered the aspartame headaches, and not long after that the sparklies disappeared and the headache started. It's not bad as these things go -- my beta blocker tends to suppress the more exuberant manifestations, and I took some Tylenol and lay down until the sun was gone.
I plan to blame the colonoscopy prep for this.
*snarl*
At least I got the book proposal printed out.
I'll try to post something more interesting in the near future.
*snarl*
Unsurprisingly, when you rehydrate yourself rather than letting the ER do it, your options are not as efficient and it takes longer. I was having shaking fits and elevated pulse rates periodically through Thursday evening. And this morning I woke up with what I did not recognize as an impending migraine. (My neck hurt and I felt a little wonky.) I don't get migraines very often, if that's even what they are. I have had two classical ones, both caused by aspartame, but that was before we even moved into this house, which is to say, before 1995.
So I had finally conquered Open office (again) so that I could print out the sample chapters and revised synopsis for the Liavek novel and send them off to my unsuspecting agent. It was a very bright sunny day here in Minneapolis, and the blind in my office that keeps the afternoon sun out fell down a few weeks ago and I haven't replaced it, so I wasn't surprised at how bright all the light seemed. But then I noticed that I couldn't quite see things in a particular part of my peripheral vision, for no apparent reason. Then the reason appeared: a little parenthesis of sparkle, that grew to a large arc, all pulsing and multicolored and glinty. I had completely forgotten about migraine auras and was seriously freaked out. Raphael poked around on the internet for me, and after disclaiming the reasonability of diagnosing people by looking up symptoms on the internet, said it sounded like a classic migraine aura, and was, in fact, called a scintillating scotoma.
Then I remembered the aspartame headaches, and not long after that the sparklies disappeared and the headache started. It's not bad as these things go -- my beta blocker tends to suppress the more exuberant manifestations, and I took some Tylenol and lay down until the sun was gone.
I plan to blame the colonoscopy prep for this.
*snarl*
At least I got the book proposal printed out.
I'll try to post something more interesting in the near future.
