I started getting a migraine on the evening of Friday, 1/31. This is not surprising, given that getting my diagnosis was probably the biggest revelation of my life, and also had huge stress impacts. The whole thing felt like a giant uphill battle, and this has been a battle I’ve been fighting my whole life.

I spent most of Saturday in bed, nursing the migraine. I was afraid that it wasn’t a migraine, but rather a headache caused by the Adderall. So I didn’t take a capsule that day. Then I thought I should probably try to get used to the medication, in case it was a side effect that would diminish as I got used to it.

Sunday was a little better, but it was not all the way gone. We went to the Vangs for the second half of the Superbowl and also to drop Demi off for a week of dogsitting. I let Dragnhild know that I did get a diagnosis.

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The next day I still had the headache. I did make it in to work since I had a couple of meetings I didn’t want to miss… and of course I hate calling in sick. But I did lay the groundwork for calling in sick the next day, in case it didn’t get better.

And the next morning I still had it, so I called in sick. I also had an appointment to look at my sore knee that afternoon, so i figured I would chill out during the day, then get the knee looked at.

Side note – the knee turned out to be mild arthritis. Can’t be fixed, but can be managed with PT, strength training, and substituting a low-impact aerobic activity for some of my jogging. So not great news, and I don’t have a PT appointment until early March, but I’ll sort it out then.

I was kind of worried, because what if this means I’ll have a headache forever?

The Sunday-through-Tuesday behemoth was a pretty classic migraine. One side of head, occipital bone, neck and shoulder pain, nausea.

One of the common side effects of Adderall is headaches. From what I could see on the intarwebs, it looks like there are two kinds of Adderall headaches: A whole-head super painful one, which I haven’t gotten. And a base-of-the-skull headache that comes on when the Adderall starts to wear off. And I do seem to be getting the base-of-the-skull ones a little.

I kept wondering if I should just stop it during the migraine, but I persisted.

The migraine did start to let up some on Wednesday and I was able to go to work.