Here’s Why Migraines Absolutely Suck

Let me count the !*%?#!ing ways. They’re a veritable disease — not “just a headache.”

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This Wednesday, I didn’t accomplish a single one of the productive or enjoyable things on my to-do list: instead, I woke up so dizzy that I had to reach out and grip random things in the kitchen for balance while I made breakfast, not long after which an excruciating pain somewhere north of my shoulders commenced and sloooowly — over the course of hours so as to prolong my enjoyment of the experience — crescendoed to the point that I vomited. Seven times.

Because extreme pain can confuse your system so much that it decides what you need right now — on top of all your agonizing misery — is to start puking.

Delightful.

By the time I started feeling functional again, it was bedtime. My whole day was shot.

And the next day? I still woke up with lingering dizziness.

Welcome to life with the neurological disease that is migraine.

Migraines are so personalized; everyone’s are different, and even any two migraines for the same person might vary. But it’s important to bust the myth that migraines are “just a headache” (and thus a poor excuse for slacking off). So, for the morbidly curious, I’ll…