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Migraine Cure?
Yesterday I woke up with a migraine which kept me in bed or in the bathroom vomiting until about six p.m. when I decided to try drinking some Starbucks coffee which seemed to do the trick once before. I couldn't believe how fast it worked, within an hour I was feeling more myself and on the way back to normal. This morning I set my alarm early so that I could get laundry done before I started work at noon, but when I woke up I was so cuddly and feeling so good in my bed (I have new mossy lavender colored sheets) that I decided to forego the laundry and just get more sleep. When I awoke an hour later, I was surprised to find that I started to get pain over my left eye again. I showered and washed my face thinking it had to be a joke to be getting another migraine because earlier when I woke up I was feeling so good. Sure enough I was getting sick and fast, so I drove over to get another Starbucks and called work and cancelled my early afternoon appointments. Now it's been about an hour and I'm still sipping on the coffee and I feel so much better. I can't believe how fast this works for me. Could Starbucks coffee be the answer to my migraines? I go back to the doctor in another week to have her look at my ear to flush it out and also to discuss if I think Effexor is working for me. The only major problem I do have with it is the sexual side affects although I have to say in the last couple weeks it has gotten a little better. I'll have to ask my doctor if the sexual side effects naturally subside over a period of time. I noticed a significant amount of help in my mood swings, not as many and I have stopped crying every day. So in that sense yeah it's helped, however I still had some pretty bad days this month, and I also cut myself once this month. I think I am willing to try it for another month and see again how I feel. I have a feeling that my doctor is going to ask me if I called the government subsidized mental health department about getting into counseling and if I started exorcizing again both things which she encouraged me to do. The answer is No. I haven't done either. This past Sunday I bought quite a few new books and music. I found a really cool new and used bookstore called Frugal Muse that also carries DVD's and CD's as well. I discovered this fabulous bookstore when one of my clients gave me a 20 dollar gift certificate for there as a tip. I was really shocked to find such a great used bookstore in the suburbs, basically you have to go into the city to find any bookstore that has anything more beyond harlequin romance novels in the burbs. Damn housewives and their romance novels. I didn't get a chance to spend as much time there as I wanted because R was with me when I went and he was really getting bored following me around. I plan to go back alone soon. In less then a half hour in the store I found and bought ....A fantastic hardcover Biography of Anais Nin by Deirdre Bair. another book called Arrows of Longing - correspondence between Anais Nin and Felix Pollak. A book on the care and character of Rats. A really cute book called Cafe Fetish by Jiri Sliva - a really cool book with lots of funny and unique cartoons about coffee that I will eventually cut out and frame for my kitchen and On the bus issue 14 - a literary magazine of poetry and short stories, featuring Charles Bukowski. I also was really happy when I found a Verve CD for 4 bucks! I swear to god, a walk in that bookstore was like a walk in Eden.
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