oh huh was that it
Jun. 18th, 2023 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelSo I've had a weird-ass week healthwise, but I think I figured out what was going on. Broadly, anyway.
* from midnight onward I had playlists going, ones that I usually can fall asleep to; while I zoned out for up to 20 minutes at a time, I kept bouncing back to wakefulness, including at the end of the playlist so I'd start another. I may have had cumulatively an hour or two of skimmed sleep total, but it was never deep.
^ I didn't really clue in to this as a symptom until today; at the time it was just griping about misophonia triggers and being generally grouchy and hermity. In retrospect everything was too loud. (...I wonder how misophonia and autism interlink, hmm)
** When I am sick, the quality of my sleep and dreams changes. Sleep feels heavier and sluggish; dreams are bizarre and intense and frequently involve a conviction that there is a Thing that I have to do properly in order to get better. During my napping Wednesday, there was a chessboard-like grid where I had to guess the correct squares a la Battleship to keep the headache from getting worse -- I'm not sure if this was hallucination or dream, kind of in the weird boundary between the two. Once many years ago I hallucinated/dreamt a glowing golden math equation floating in the air above me, and I was desperately convinced that solving the equation would get rid of the lung congestion and let me breathe (though the equation in question was actually either a very advanced math or garbage)
I was blaming everything on the sleepless night, but ... I've had occasional episodes of bad sleep (more like like Friday night, where I eventually get *some*) and I feel crappy for a day or two but nothing like this. Tuesday was the first time it lasted all night, and while it was possible that it just sent some internal systems haywire, that explanation didn't seem complete.
Today I was mentally shuffling around the symptoms like jigsaw puzzle pieces and finally the "everything is too loud" plus "headache" made me think migraine.
And, well.
Symptoms of migraine headaches include:
Sensitivity to light, noise and odors.
Nausea and vomiting, upset stomach and abdominal pain.
Loss of appetite.
Feeling very warm (sweating) or cold (chills).
Feeling tired.
Problems concentrating.
Irritability and/or depression.
Difficulty speaking and reading.
Difficulty sleeping. Yawning.
Fatigue.
Neck pain, stiffness.
Nasal congestion.
Insomnia.
Lack of comprehension.
[list redacted to remove items not relevant to me]
So ... yeah.
- Tuesday (13th): had a Starbucks drink that may be partially causal
- Tuesday night: essentially sleepless.*
- Wednesday: fatigue, brain fog, on/off headache, some light/sound sensitivity^. Water tasted odd; no interest in coffee, though I had some out of habit. Period started.
- Wednesday night: sleep heavy with fever-quality dreams**, alternating hot/cold, much sweat
- Thursday: similar symptoms but slight improvement until dinnertime. Covid test negative, temperature ~97.5
- Thursday evening: nausea, vomiting 2x, several hours of conflicting hunger/nausea signals
- Thursday night: ditto Wednesday with bonus nausea; very much sweating
- Friday: similar symptoms but slightly improved. More hot/cold fluctuation but temp check ~97.8
- Friday night: similar issues to Tuesday night until around 5am, then a few hours "proper" sleep
- Saturday: felt crappy again, blamed on sleep issues. Headache noted in afternoon and evening
- Saturday night: actual normal sleep quality again
* from midnight onward I had playlists going, ones that I usually can fall asleep to; while I zoned out for up to 20 minutes at a time, I kept bouncing back to wakefulness, including at the end of the playlist so I'd start another. I may have had cumulatively an hour or two of skimmed sleep total, but it was never deep.
^ I didn't really clue in to this as a symptom until today; at the time it was just griping about misophonia triggers and being generally grouchy and hermity. In retrospect everything was too loud. (...I wonder how misophonia and autism interlink, hmm)
** When I am sick, the quality of my sleep and dreams changes. Sleep feels heavier and sluggish; dreams are bizarre and intense and frequently involve a conviction that there is a Thing that I have to do properly in order to get better. During my napping Wednesday, there was a chessboard-like grid where I had to guess the correct squares a la Battleship to keep the headache from getting worse -- I'm not sure if this was hallucination or dream, kind of in the weird boundary between the two. Once many years ago I hallucinated/dreamt a glowing golden math equation floating in the air above me, and I was desperately convinced that solving the equation would get rid of the lung congestion and let me breathe (though the equation in question was actually either a very advanced math or garbage)
I was blaming everything on the sleepless night, but ... I've had occasional episodes of bad sleep (more like like Friday night, where I eventually get *some*) and I feel crappy for a day or two but nothing like this. Tuesday was the first time it lasted all night, and while it was possible that it just sent some internal systems haywire, that explanation didn't seem complete.
Today I was mentally shuffling around the symptoms like jigsaw puzzle pieces and finally the "everything is too loud" plus "headache" made me think migraine.
And, well.
Symptoms of migraine headaches include:
Sensitivity to light, noise and odors.
Nausea and vomiting, upset stomach and abdominal pain.
Loss of appetite.
Feeling very warm (sweating) or cold (chills).
Feeling tired.
Problems concentrating.
Irritability and/or depression.
Difficulty speaking and reading.
Difficulty sleeping. Yawning.
Fatigue.
Neck pain, stiffness.
Nasal congestion.
Insomnia.
Lack of comprehension.
[list redacted to remove items not relevant to me]
So ... yeah.