I am pleased to report to my readers that I haven't taken any migraine medicine in almost a week!
I'm happily sitting in my living room with a hot cup of apple cider just past midnight, now on Christmas Day, and I have a slight twinge of a headache, but nothing that will warrant any medication. It is a glimmer of hope; perhaps one day soon I will be back to 100% of my prior activities.
Granted, I understand that I am off of a "normal" schedule. I'm sleeping as much as I want, reading for pleasure and taking the time to really prepare good meals for myself. I'm certainly not sitting for hours in a fluorescent glowing library, straining over textbooks and novels. I get it; this is not a normal week, and therefore any side effects can't be sustainable if they are wholly due to the circumstances.
But man, this sure feels great. I'm warm, I'm full, I'm headache free, and I'm moving my right toes more lately than I have been able to in the recent months. These damn right toes have sure been finicky - occasionally I will lose my balance because of them and have an embarrassing encounter with the wall or ground, and I would love to stop those rendezvous! For the most part, I have adjusted to walking... but every now and then... wham! :-) (For the record, I never out and out fall flat on my face.... it's more like an awkward Jenga game when you know that you'll fall over and can brace yourself adequately (but never gracefully).
Is it the new diet? I'm still eating complex carbs, but even the no coffee/tea/soda rule has made me feel infinitely better. I feel healthier, I feel calmer, happier, and less moody. I'm sleeping a million times better than I used to, and I'm dreaming more as well. (Isn't that supposed to mean that I'm having more restful sleep when I remember my dreams more?)
Let's just hope that these feel good days continue when I hit the books and the grueling schedule again in a few weeks.
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for me, weirder dreams have meant that i am pregnant.
ReplyDeletemaybe i should stop reading your blog because i can be mean :).
i'm excited for you that you've been feeling so much better. you may never know exactly how much the different components of the lifestyle change affect your mood and well being, but altogether they do seem to be making a difference!
ReplyDeleteHah! Well, I'm most definitely not pregnant, so I think the vivid dreams must be coming from somewhere else. :-)
ReplyDeleteThe trick will be to isolate each component somehow and find a way to measure them individually... in a control group. It won't be a perfect science, but I'm brainstorming how I can try things.