Recently, while in a state a stupidness I thought, “I don’t want to take my medication. Medication is bad for you. Vitamins are the way to go.” This thought occurred to me after reading an article about how the consumption of B-2 can aid with tension headaches and migraines. So I stopped taking my medicine (that has been working faithfully–has been a loyal friend to me for four years, got me through university). I had gone four yeas without headaches and the need to sleep off the pain and decided to stop taking this magic pill. So I started taking this B-2. For the first few days I was fine. No headaches. Then suddenly about 2 days ago the beast awoke. My eyes have been watering, the computer screen feels like it has knives reaching out to poke my eyes out. The sound of anything is shrill. I have been taking 3 hour naps (and I don’t really nap). I can’t run. I have become completely incapacitated. So after a crappy two days I gave in my adventures in vitamins and natural healing are over. I’ll take the synthetic stuff. In fact last night I got out of my bed and took it.
I try to figure out what the hell prompted this movement towards abandoning my medication. I have always been a big believer in, “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and yet here I was breaking it and then trying to fix it. Sometimes, I wish I could get inside my head and talk to whatever prompts these irrational decisions. I would like to have a conversation with this thing. I imagine a sort of short young girl (maybe 16ish–16 year olds don’t make the best decisions) with long brown french braids. She is wearing glasses and her clothes are questionable. Let’s just say the fashion police, should they have access to this venue of my brain would be swarming her and telling her to put her hands on her head. She also has “gullible” embroidered on her shirt. If not “gullible” then “naturalist.” I see her and pull at her braids. I stop myself as my eyes are watering from the goddamn migraine and say, “what the f*$% woman?”
Tags: B-2, Headaches, Migraine symptoms, Migraines, the beast
