My Migraine Battle: On The Forefront

Nightmares

I don't know why I haven't been writing. I had writer's block or something. But, I'm writing now, so, ok.

I've started having these nightmares. Just what I need another recurring dream, right? Ok, well, in one of them a bull is gouging his horns into my eye and trying to pull it out with the curly part. The other one is of someone taking my head and banging it on the concrete and just continuing to crack my head on the concrete. I swear there should be a new classification in the psychology reference books titled, Post Traumatic Migraine Disorder.

The correlation between the dreams and my life are pretty obvious. When I dream about the bull, I wake up with an occular migraine. The other one wakes me up with a horrible migraine.

The migraines have been waking me up between 3-6 am every morning. It sucks. For one thing, I am NOT a morning person. And for the other, obviously, who wants to be woken up with the thought that their head is being cracked on the sidewalk over and over again?

I told my husband that I thought I had PTMD and he responded, "How is it *post*?" He's right. It's not behind me. I'm living this hell right now, so I guess you'd just drop the *post*.

I'm a tad peeved though, because it's only been a couple of years since I got rid of the recurring nightmare that I was dying in a concentration camp. Now, that's being replaced with these new dreams. Ugh! What's the point of going to sleep if you can't sleep? Or if you're woken up a couple hours later with blinding pain? Grrr.

Well, 'night all, pleasant dreams.

posted by Jessica @ 11:09 PM