Headaches: Right On Schedule.

I get bad headaches during pregnancy, but only around the fourth month of pregnancy.  I got my first migraine at 12 weeks this time, and they've kept coming for the last two weeks.  If it's anything like last time, I'll have a few weeks left of this, then the headaches will mysteriously disappear and I'll be almost 100% headache free until birth, then I'll have a mild resurgence, and then by 3-4 months post partum they will disappear again for a long time. 

Nothing gets rid of them. 

I start with Advil, later add Tylenol, I add caffeine if it isn't too late in the day.  I sometimes take more Advil, if it's been long enough, but usually I've given up on pills by that point.  I'm stretching my neck, massaging my neck and head, I'm putting cold packs on my head. 

I took a nap this morning and it got rid of my headache, but it returned within 20 mins of waking up.  My current headache started last night at about 7 pm.  It's 3 pm now, and besides the short break from it when I first woke up in the morning and when I woke up from the nap, it's been going steady.  I can kind of function.  I feel like crap, I've spent a lot of the time laying down.  Eventually I have to get up.  And I will admit it's not severe, but it's moderate and relentless, and gives me slight nausea and makes me dizzy.  It would be hard to go out and enjoy myself. 

I've also started to wonder at what point does the amount of Advil and Tylenol and caffeine you consume equivalent to smoking some weed?  I've got to have hit the point where marijuana would have been safer, right?  I really don't know, and I don't think marijuana has actually been tested much in pregnancy, but I do know it is used for chronic pain, and I've got chronic pain. 

If this kid ever asks me why I took pain meds when I was pregnant with them, I'll just have to tell them that the pain was greater and more relentless than my ability to cope with it.  Even Tylenol during pregnancy is linked to an increase in allergies.  I'm not deluding myself into thinking that anything I'm putting into my body is 100% safe, because nothing is 100% safe. 

But I need something or I'm going to be a miserable person and a pretty absent mother for the next month.  I've already been a pretty shitacular mother for the last two months due to relentless nausea.  And I'm due to creep back in to shitacular land by December and stay there for several months.  I'm trying to reduce the shitty time.