brain hurts

Brain hurts

My head starting hurting me last night. I got the pressure in my head around 630. I didn’t know if it was going to turn into a migraine or a headache. It turned into a migraine. I took some Excedrin and my night meds and went to bed. I didn’t sleep well. I kept on having bad dreams. It caused me to be up during the night. My head was pounding on and off throughout the night. The Excedrin really didn’t do much and the migraine wasn’t severe enough to take my migraine pill. I just muddled through with it. Luckily, it was a cloudy day so I didn’t have to deal with the sun.

I went to Starbucks and had something to eat and then went to class. I was early so I reviewed my notes. My handwriting is terrible. Somethings I couldn’t make out what I wrote. Then I was trying to figure out the cranial nerves. There are twelve of them. I never could remember them, even when I was trying to learn them back when I was in medical assistant school. I am going to try and learn them this go round. There are some mnemonics that I can use to help.

Class was interesting. We looked at sheep brains. And I found out I got to know the parts of the limbic system and basal ganglia. There is a lot of information and I am so overwhelmed by it all. I also need to create a brain and detail it and describe how it is similar or not to the human brain. The good news is that I goofed up the due date so I have a few more days to do it. I probably will get it done this weekend.

My brain hurts so much right now. I keep trying to figure out which lobe hurts and I can’t quite discern which one it is. It’s definitely the frontal lobe and some of the parietal. My neuro sent me a message today about rebound headache and stuff. She also said that I don’t have anything structural going on to cause this and that reassured me. She said the steroids wouldn’t affect it if it were. So that is good. I just wish I knew what the fuck was going on and could stop my head from hurting so damn much. I don’t think this hormonal as it just doesn’t coincide with the timing of the T. I’ve had the migraines and headaches while on T and in between T. My blood pressure has been good so no problem there. I know the bad dreams and weird dreams are a cause of the headaches and migraines. There is nothing I can do about it until I get a therapist. I had bad dreams last night and it sucked. I don’t even remember what I dreamed about.

Tomorrow if I am up early I hope to go to social security to change my gender marker. I also see my DMH worker in the afternoon. I hope I time it right and I am not too early for the appointment or too late. I plan on bringing the library book with me so I will have something to read to pass the time. I am hoping this fucking headache/migraine is gone by tomorrow. I still need to do the discussion article for the week. It’s an interesting one about a neuron.