I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm a morning person. I usually spend time on the computer, until I get bored with it or if it's a weekday - until the last possible minute that I have to get in the shower and get ready to go.

I was thinking that I could use this diary as a headache diary. I have a headache now. I have a history of headaches, mostly tension-type. I know a lot about headaches. Ocassionally I'll get a migraine, but not often. Women have more tendency to have headaches - then men, but then we probably use our heads more anyhow. Or maybe it's the men that cause the headaches.

I'm just kidding. MPH doesn't really do anything that would give me a headache - except maybe he's too good all the time. He's a little bit on the martyr side. He does everything around the house. I've told him not to - but he does it anyhow.

When I first started getting headaches, I was working for a different agency, luckily it was across the parking lot from the hospital. One day the headache was so bad - I put my head on my desk and cried. Finally I went to the emergency room - they triaged me and must have believed me - because they took me straight to an exam room and let me lay down and turned the lights off. A little while later they gave me a couple of shots - which didn't do anything (I don't know what they were). They sent me home with muscle relaxants - cyclobenzaprine aka Flexiril. One 10mg tablet - and I slept for 3 days. Snapped the headache it did.

I think the reason I slept for so long is because I'd never had one before - those apparently don't have that kind of effect on me anymore.

The tension headaches usually go along my brow line up across the top of my head ear to ear. It was explained to me that the muscles or something on my scalp attach at the browline and go over my head and attach at the base of my neck. Come to think of it - it does ache there now too - it doesn't usually.

Migraines usually start with a fuzzy spot in my vision. You know how on tv they blur out a persons face so that they're identity is not revealed - that's how that spot in my vision starts. Luckily migraines don't happen very often or very long. I can usually sleep it off. Last year on my birthday I had a severe one where I though I was actually going to be sick.

I guess maybe I am one of those people that likes to talk and talk about my 'condition'. Hey at least it's online here - I don't usually make anybody really listen to me about it.

MPH is getting up I think - it's early for him.