Is this you during your migraine?
Dear Mommies,
Ever had a headache that felt as if there was someone with a sledge hammer pounding on the inside of your skull? Or a migraine that felt like you were hit by a truck? Ever had severe headache pain?
Headaches—the
serious kind--can drop us to our knees. Make us nasty, irritable, and just plain
non-functional. We can become awful to everyone around us. Often we're rendered useless, crawling into bed and hoping the world will go away.
Head pain is different than other
kinds of pain. It's not like carpal tunnel or joint pain. Headaches are right where our brain is positioned and where most of our senses are
located. Take those out and we’re pretty much debilitated.
The way we
handle head pain is also a predictor of how we treat life’s problems. Do we whimper and whine? Hide? Go right for the extra strength pain killer? Or just
muscle through? No one way is the only way. In fact, depending on the “headache” we may do all three.
There are three things that we should do with each of life's problems:
1.
Vent. Talk through
it. Make sure you don’t end up in a kvetching session or a blame game.
Honestly communicate your issue to someone who isn’t involved. And seek advice.
2.
Don't become part
of the problem, or make the problem worse. It seems counter intuitive to
bang your head against the wall when you have the mother of all
headaches, but that’s what we often do. Rushing into action can make a problem worse. Give it some time and thought before you rush in to fix it. There's nothing wrong with sleeping on it.
3.
Do. Sounds simple,
but once a solution is in place, work through it. Even on your worse days you're still the mommy and there are kids and laundry and dinner. Sometimes just doing a simple task can take your mind off your headache. And help you realize, no matter how bad, no pain lasts forever.
Relax Mommies, you’ve got this!
