I Have a Headache

I wrote this back in January of 2008.  Thank goodness I'll never have an Aunt Flow issue again.  :-)

"A headache (cephalalgia in medical terminology) is a condition of pain in the head; sometimes neck or upper back pain may also be interpreted as a headache. It ranks amongst the most common local pain complaints.
The vast majority of headaches are benign and self-limiting. Common causes are tension, migraine, eye strain, dehydration, low blood sugar, and sinusitis. Much rarer are headaches due to life-threatening conditions such as meningitis, encephalitis, cerebral aneurysms, extremely high blood pressure, and brain tumors. When the headache occurs in conjunction with a head injury the cause is usually quite evident. A large percentage of headaches among females are caused by ever-fluctuating estrogen during menstrual years. This can occur prior to, during or even midcycle menstruation."
I guess that explains it. I usually get one headache a month about 2-3 hours before my cycle. However, this month I did not receive the usual headache post card from Auntie Flow.
So, I am at the end of my visit from Aunt Flow. Yesterday my boss took me to lunch at Very's Philly Food. I had a Philly Cheese Steak Hoagie. As soon I finished that thing, I got a headache. I STILL have the headache. I am trying to ward it off with a banana.
More from Wikipedia:
"Specific types of headaches include:

• Tension headache
• Migraine
• Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (headache with visual symptoms due to raised intracranial pressure)
• Ictal headache
• Cluster headache
• "Brain freeze" (also known as: ice cream headache)
• Thunderclap headache
• Vascular headache
• Toxic headache
• Coital cephalalgia (also known as: sex headache) <--This one is very interesting. Read it!
• Hemicrania continua
• Rebound headache (also called medication overuse headache, abbreviated MOH)
• Red wine headache
• "Spinal headache" (or: post-dural puncture headaches) after lumbar puncture or related procedure that will lower the intracranial pressure
• Hangover (caused by heavy alcohol consumption)

A headache may also be a symptom of sinusitis.
Like other types of pain, headaches can serve as warning signals of more serious disorders. This is particularly true for headaches caused by inflammation, including those related to meningitis as well as those resulting from diseases of the sinuses, spine, neck, ears, and teeth."
I also found this article about menstrual headaches. I have found that when I exercise, eat right, get the proper amount of sleep, and receive all the good lovin, my PMS symptoms are little to none. I have not been sleeping well this week. I have found myself waking up between 4 am and 4:30 am for the past 5 days. Since Aunt Flow came to town. Man, Aunt Flow is a pain!
During my research of menstrual headaches treatment and prevention, I found an article at www.eheadachehelp.com. Unfortunately that article was not much help since I am allergic to aspirin.
Well, the headache is subsiding. The banana may have helped.
Now I am off to research some Feng Shui.

Aunt Flow Meets The Diva Cup

Back in February I asked the question if anybody ever compared lunapads to gladrags.  I received no answers at all.  I was FORCED to do my own research on reusable menses products.

I bought my first gladrags on Friday, February 12, 2010.  Aunt Flow was visiting and I was really getting sick of her.  Not really her but the fact that I felt so bad I wanted to stay home with her, but because of nature I had to take her to work with me.  That particular Friday was not an easy day for me.  Too much going on at the job and Aunt Flow was in rare form too.

Well, like I was saying, I was feeling really bad, so I did a google search on how long Aunt Flow should be visiting.  I didn't find out exactly how long her visits should last, but I did find some other interesting items I felt compelled to try for myself and share with the world.  I'm like that, if I find something I like, I share with the world.

The first item I found was the Diva Cup.  I ran across the Diva Cup because I read somewhere that tampons were a contributing factor to our unwanted symptoms of Aunt Flow's visits.  So, after reading all about it, I decided to try it for myself.  I bought one.  Everything I read about it was true.  What I liked best about it is it gives you an accurate reading of exactly how much blood you lose while using it.

They say the average amount of blood loss per month is about 1.2 ounces.  Well the first day of me using DivaCup, I lost more than that.  However, I'm not too worried about that right now.  I've used the Diva Cup February, March, and April and I love it.  I'm not going back to that other unhealthy way of living with Aunt Flow.

I also converted to luna pads and glad rags and I'm not going back to that other stuff.

Here are some of the links I found and visited during my research:

• http://www.goddesspads.com
• http://www.lunapads.com
• http://www.gladrags.com
• http://www.divacup.com
• http://jadeandpearl.com
• http://www.wemoon.com.au/
• http://www.wisewomanhood.com/womenshealthmenstrualhealth.htm
• http://www.treehugger.com
• http://www.downsizer.net
• http://sckoon.com/clothmenstrualpads.html
• http://www.mjoy.org/menstrual.html#wrong
• http://hyenacart.com/AmazPadz/
• http://www.ilovemymuff.com
• http://www.moteldarlene.com/tampons.htm
• http://www.lunapads.com/testimonials/divacup.htm

I Have a Headache

I just wrote the most beautiful blog about menstruation headaches and Mulitply ate it like 360!

UGH!!!!