Random things

[telophase]

--Am attempting to stay awake at work. Had migraine this morning (at doctor's office! hah!), took Relpax, it finally went away after lunch, but between the Relpax and kitten-induced insomnia, can barely stay awake.

--At doctor's office I complained about migraines every. single. month. so she's having me try Yaz now, which has a much lower dose of estrogen, the crashing of which is thought to trigger migraines, and has fewer of the placebo pills, so more days on the hormones. Hopefully it works!

--Introduced the cats officially last night because I got tired of Sora's increased sneakiness at being able to escape the bedroom every chance he gets. They had a few confrontations which appear to all be domination contests - Nefer stops attacking after she whacks him down so his belly's exposed. He's still not really accepting that his lot in life is to be second banana yet, so he tends to puff up, arch his back, and hiss at her in a really cute show of rage and SEE WHAT A BIG CAT I AM?!

--I realized last night, after cooing "You're such a sterotypical boy!" at Sora that it's not that he's a such a boy, it's that he's so shounen. All he wants to do is FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT the feather-thing, when he's beaten up (or falls off the bed) he bounds right back up with I'M NOT HURT AT ALL WATCH ME LEVEL UP!, and when he gets tired, he snuggles up on my boobs for about 3 seconds, then leaps up to fight again.

--Had a dream last night that I was driving along a highway and came upon an accident. I got out of my car, found the driver of one of the cars lying on the ground, asked if he was hurt, then told him I was going to sit there and hold his head steady until the paramedics got there in case he'd injured his neck. And then Sora pounced on me and woke me up. Guess I've been reading too many EMT blogs. :)

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

and when he gets tired, he snuggles up on my boobs for about 3 seconds, then leaps up to fight again.

Please tell me I'm not the only person who read this part and thought "he should have been named Kyo."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You thought it too! Admit it!

[chomiji]

:-D

For some unknown reason, I spend a lot of time thinking of names for pets I don't have yet. Not too surprisingly, they're mostly manga characters lately.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I was so excited when I got a fish for my office and COULD NAME IT ALL MYSELF.

[the-z.livejournal.com]

I expect to see 4komas of The Adventures of Sora!

Also, I used to get crippling migraines during my period while I was in Junior High/High School. Then again, my periods were hard, punishing things that would often have me bedridden. I remember one day laying miserably in a darkened room feeling sick to my stomach whenever someone would make a noise.

Thank goodness those passed! But at least now I have an inkling what was going on. Doctor's just shrugged and told me to take Midol back then.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Except for the migraines, my periods have mostly been short and easy, so much so that as a teenager when I saw commercials for Midol and other things talking about extreme PMS, I assumed it was something made up by drug companies to sell stuff.

I did learn much better later - I started, about twice a year, getting horrible, horrible cramps. Now I don't get any cramps at all, but the migraines more than make up for that.

[assume-a-virtue.livejournal.com]

This! But what did your doctors say it was? Mine said drug yourself to the eyeballs and deal. D:

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a migraine since quitting birth control. They also started right around when I started birth control. COULD BE A LINK! XD I really need to go in and chat with my doctor about getting on something else.

Sora totally sounds like a shounen character! The description reminds me of Yuusuke from YuuYuu Hakkusho.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It took me getting on BC to realize that at least some of my migraines were hormonal in nature - I was irregular enough before that I hadn't seen a strong correlation. I was hoping to go on Seasonique or something that reduced my periods to 4 a year, since I'd rather have 4 migraines than 12, but if this works, then it works.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I actually took Yaz in three month cycles for a while. I theoretically had 4 periods a year but it rarely actually happened which was even better in my eyes. Sadly, going on Yaz corresponded with my spike in migraines and was replaced by an even lower estrogen pill but I had to go off BC all together when my blood pressure increased.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Huh, interesting. Hopefully I have the opposite result than you!

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Hopefully! Triggers vary so much that you could well be in the clear. I did get some migraine relief going from the Yaz to Loestrin24FE, but since I've been off altogether I'm back to migraines being a rarity which is good.

[the_rck]

My experience with birth control and migraines was that, if I was taking oral contraceptives, I had to get eight solid hours of sleep a night. Getting less one night might or might not trigger a migraine, but two bad nights in a row meant a migraine that wouldn't go away until I caught up on sleep and that would keep me from being able to sleep. That's why I now have an IUD.

(My doctors and I missed the connection between my migraines and oral contraceptives for years because, within three months, I moved into my first solo apartment, started working full time, started grad school, started my first serious relationship and started contraceptives. There was too much noise to narrow things down until I resumed them after my daughter was born. Going from just menstrual migraines to one or two a week was kind of obvious.)

I do get migraines with every period, too. Those, I get whether I'm using contraceptives or not. If I know my period's coming, I can head them off by starting anaprox the day before it starts or the day it starts and taking it for 2-3 days without breaks. For a while (about five years, starting in college), I'd get either bad cramps or the migraine, but now, nearly twenty years later, I tend to get both.