How to introduce a migraine
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So you feel a migraine attack coming on. How do you explain it to someone who doesn’t understand? Are you tired of saying,"Uh oh, I’m getting a migraine"?
Let’s get a little more creative, shall we? Here are some suggestions to vary your approach, and break out of the rut…
Standards
- ~I’m about to feel a lot sicker than I look!
- ~Oooo … can I take a 24 hour vacation from my body?
- ~I’m having a migraine attack. It makes me want to tear my hair out. And I think I’m getting a headache too!
- ~How am I? I’m doing great emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. Physically, I’m a wreck.
- ~I think I’ll swing by my bedroom for a few hours of uninterrupted agony…
- ~I have one of the world’s most painful and disorienting diseases, and I’m having an attack.
- ~I wish it were only a bad headache.
- ~It’s not so bad. Some problems with my vision, a little throwing up, unbelievable pain, [add your symptoms here]. That’s all…
- ~Is there any place near here where I can get a head amputation?
- ~Wanna hang around? You can watch me throw up and writhe on the floor in agony!
- ~I like to live a balanced life. I think I’ll light the left side of my head on fire so it feels like the right side.
- ~Uh oh … hey, do you want to trade bodies for a few hours?
If you want to sound intellectual
- ~I think my cortical depression is spreading!
- ~My genetic predisposition is about to let my brain stem get away with MURDER!
A poetic touch
- ~When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains (Miguel de Cervantes in Don Quixote)
- ~What a head have I! It beats as if it would fall in twenty pieces! (William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet)
- ~My heart is severely pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me. So I said,"Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest". (King David from Psalm 55:4-6)
- ~Headache roams over the desert, blowing like the wind. Flashing like lightening, it is loosed above and below! (Mesopotamian poem, 4000BC)
- ~If I am wicked, woe to me; even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; see my misery! (Job from Job 10:15)
For the history buff
- ~If only I had some elder seed juice, cow’s brain, and goat’s dung dissolved in vinegar! (a medieval migraine remedy)
- ~Know what Mary Queen of Scots, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Jefferson, John Calvin, Charles Darwin and I have in common?
Current events
- ~The World Health Organization says I have one of the world’s top 20 disabilities. Guess which one!
- ~Hurrah! Today I’m going to join about 20 million other people having a migraine attack!
Do you have any great one or two sentence ways to explain your migraine attack? It’s your turn – leave a comment! (Be kind – keep it clean!)