July 25-27 Weekend Migraine Journal

Friday July 25 

Sleeping pattern: 11 p.m-12 a.m, 12- 5:30 a.m, 5:30- 6:50 a.m

Weather: 66 Degrees at 10:19 a.m
               high of 77 Degrees

Morning Meal: Oat meal strawberry 4 packs nothing to drink

Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly and a mountain dew

Evening Meal: Banana, cranberry juice, water, fried chicken, fries

Slight Migraine

Stress levels: scale 1-10. 10 being the most stress
          Life's goals: 1
          Friends: 3
          Relationship: 1
          Family: 2
          Work:1
          Self-worth: 1
Sunday July 27 - Day of the Migraine
I started the day with a Migraine.

Fell asleep the night before at 11, woke up at 9:30.

 Weather: 86 high, 80 at 7:12 p.m

Morning Meal: Nothing

Afternoon meal: left over rice and cheddar biscuit, 1 canned root bear (A&W)

Evening: Mountain dew, planning on having some BBQ chicken.

Migraine status: Had a full on Migraine. Pain on a scale of a 6. still a very mild one.

Today's activity:

Today I went to a picnic my migraine took away my desire to eat very much so I sipped on a canned root beer. The pain was going in and out, the pain was always there but the pain went from a four to a six. This was a church picnic, we played soft ball so I had enough energy to participate. we played 7 innings still felt the pain but it was around two or three. After the game it went back up to a six or seven.

I also took some pictures of wildlife!
Photo of the day, I took this today as well! Isom Jacobs...please give photo credit if you want to post in other places it is rough these days being an artist.

Pills taken: strong pain pills from prescriptions

                White willow bark                  Maca                Frenugreek                 Royal Jelly

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July 24th No Migraine

Well here we are on a Thursday and I will give you the stats on my day.

                     -Isom Jacobs

Migraine: No

Temperature: 76 (66 Morning at 9:22 a.m)

Sleeping Pattern: 1 a.m. woke up at 6:30

Meals: 

     Morning -- peanut-butter and jelly 

     Afternoon -- Two oranges, bag of lays, Mountain Dew

     Evening -- Fried Chicken, flavored rice (pre-made) Strawberry banana and blue berry smoothie. 

 Music the night before: Old school almost exclusively 

Daytime Music: Mix or hip-hop, old school and rock 

Life Stress: 

     No - little relationship stress

     No- little friendship stress

     No - little physical stress

     No - little looking into the future stress

     Little- medium stress on the job

Photo of the Day

This is an introduction to my photo of the day from my photography sector. to break up the talks on grinding the grain of my migraine. This shot reminds me of brawn is not always a symbol of power, power can also be in beauty. Art should be expressed, do not get caught in waking up and going home everyday. I try my best to do some of my art and I take it seriously even if others do not. Enjoy life and smile. :) 

Today I woke up with enough energy to get the day started. I woke up around 6:30 a.m but I laid in bed until 7 a.m. so I had enough time to let my mind unwind. My nephew was playing with me in his usually rough housing. He is strong but he is only 4 years old. Work started off well, however the higher-ups came to observe on one of the busy days. My part of the job that would have been routine has become a hard task by a few things I could not control like larger than normal orders on a normally busy day and miss communication with finding the right people. Nothing seemed to trigger the migraine, physical stress do not seem to be my major causes. However mental stress seem to be the trigger and today at work I had my first test. The agitated customer put my mind a bit through a loop. I honestly lost focus pretty bad. I also notice about myself that when I am criticized and stared at while I work not only do I lose focus really bad but it has a lingering affect. After the rush things calmed down and I was praised for working hard by the higher-ups which eased any feelings of job jeopardy.  

After work I stayed later to talk to my best friend and at a small snack. The two oranges the lays and soft drink. Another friend came and we had a good conversation for a few hours before parting ways at my place of work. Me and my friend had a good conversation, usually on conceptual things on life. This is usually a stress free way for me to sharpen my mind and further develop my view on life while getting another angle for things. 

I made it home had dinner and now I am writing everyone happy  that I am migraine free. Though knowing I will have to do this again tomorrow adds more stress for work before the next day even started. something about the concept of work mentally adds stress to my  mind. Knowing that I cannot sleep in adds stress so I try my best to go to sleep early so I would naturally wake up early. I always beat my alarm clock. 

I hope this helps. I may have not had migraine today but there may be a pattern in today that could curse me to have one tomorrow. 

Reviews are coming!

Do not forget the news feed on the side about Migraines!

Also I will be doing a review on this Medication Sumatriptan! I have been taking it for a bit and I have an interesting view on this one. it will be a video and it will be coming soon along with reviews on the types of food that I will try to curve the pain.
Please send your comments my way I would love to know some others who are also fighting my battle!

Migraine log J23

Today's migraine started in the morning on my way to work. the interesting thing was I did eat that day in the morning. I hate pasta with cheese and jerk chicken. This being a different meal from the last few days I will put that on a lower scale for the trigger. I did sleep an extra hour today waking up at 7 and not the usual 5:30-6. The slight change in pattern could be a cause but it seems to slight. This migraine was gone by the time 1 p.m. rolled by. 

My medication: Sumatiptan 100 mg 

Weather: 73 (was much hotter the day before also had a migraine that day)

Sleep: 7 Hours

Meal: Jerk Chicken, pasta with cheese  (meal around the time of the migraine)