#headaches

Bonus: you also look like a falcon wearing a hood

that a migraine isnt a severe headache

It's a complex neurological disorder

Its a cascade of neurological activity in an over sensitised brain, the main symptom of which is usually a severe headache.

For the first 2 days after my surgery I was grappling a terrible migraine. Bear in mind, I don’t get migraines. Ever. Those of you who have these things regularly?? Omg, you have my complete respect and all my love! That was godawful. I couldn’t sit up, couldn’t even think. They were wanting me to stand and move about the room and I couldn’t even open my eyes.

But my doctor was stumped because it was an unusual reaction, especially when I’d never had one before. We finally figured out it was a positional headache, or spinal headache. Basically a small knick when they did my spinal tap (like an epidural), caused my spinal fluid to leak. Every time I sat up the rush of fluid away from my head brought on the migraine. They performed a blood patch to fix it, which sounds way more icky than it actually is. They take a small amount of your own blood (in my case, from my hand) and inject into the epidural space of your spine. The blood creates a clot that seals the tear, and stops the spinal fluid leak.

The outcome was an immediate, 100% improvement. It was like night and day! With that healed, I could finally focus on recovering from the actual surgery.