First Entry - June 2009

I have a headache today. A bad one. I am thinking of dipping my toe back into the medical world to get some relief, so of course I start on the Internet. I found a blog today about a woman up in Seattle who blogs about her headaches. http://www.thedailyheadache.com/ This website inspired me to blog about headaches.

I have been dealing with headaches most of my life. On my informal, family blog I wrote an entry back in 2008 that helps explain my situation with pain. http://mconser.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-headache-my-silent-partner.html

Normally I do not like to talk about my headaches. I have them so often that I prefer not to BORE or ANNOY people with my complaints. I have learned to live with them unfortunately and have simply found that part of my daily life is pain. Many people live with pain in their lives, so do I. So, I prefer not to draw attention to my pain or problems because I do not feel my pain or problems are unique, or make me any more needy than anyone else. My husband jokes(sort of) that I need to tell him when I DON'T have a headache, since that would be out of the norm. Also, it can be a bit annoying when very well intentioned loved ones offer advice that just isn't applicable to my situation. I know they are trying to help, but for well over 20 years I have been suffering, and I have yet to find my cure.

I plan to use this blog as my headache journal. A place to post what I am going through. I am not asking for sympathy, in fact, I would rather not discuss this blog with my familiars, but I think there is value in records and recording and need to do this for myself.

I also want to reach out to the community of headache sufferers. You might be moms, dads, singles, no-kids, teens, or whatever. But we all have one thing in common- life doesn't stop for our headaches.

I also want to post information I find out about headaches. There is such a vast array of information, I will only post specific pieces that I find useful. If I read a book on any subject I feel if I get one piece of information out of it that helps me, it was work the entire book. I want to share that information.