That must be what it feels like...
To be stoned. Not that I'd know - I've never been stoned, though I had plenty of chances. Just seemed unappealing to me.
I got a migraine in the middle of the night, and by this morning, it was really beginning to kick in (kick me in the head, actually) so I took some more allergy medicine. (Generic Claritin D) I'd been off of it for two days and thought I was through the worst of my hay fever, but I thought maybe the headache might be a sinus headache.
By 9:35 it wasn't getting any better, so I decided to take a dose of my real migraine medicine, MaxAlt. This stuff starts working pretty fast, and if it hasn't taken care of the headache within 2 hours, you can take a second dose.
But you have to be prepared to lose consciousness if you take that second dose - it'll knock you out.
I only had the one dose, but by the time we were released for our morning snack break about 35 minutes later, it had started to affect me. Everything was starting to look unreal, and I got in line for food all by myself, without waiting for a friend to be my "oh she's not alone" prop to talk to.
I was thinking, so this is what it's like to be okay with being by yourself in a large public group. I don't care if anybody is looking at me funny. I don't care about anything right about now, except maybe getting a couple of chocolate chip cookies and a diet soda. (I'd already had a regular Pepsi earlier, hoping to get the caffeine cure for my headache, and if I drank another one, I'd feel wretched, so I went for the less evil diet Sierra Mist.)
Got my snack and pulled up a chair (just like a regular person would) beside the art teacher and asked how his session was going - ours was so boring. Chat chat chat... Go back in for the rest of the program.
The more time went on with the speaker babbling about statistics that weren't making any sense in my head, the more silly things kept going through my mind. I had the urge a couple of times to make goofy remarks out loud. And the bad part was that if I did, I knew that at this time I wouldn't even be embarrassed if people stared at me -- I'd probably start laughing hysterically.
Not long after that they dismissed us for lunch, and I decided to go home for a nap. Things were looking a little stranger than they had before, and when I walked out of the room, I could swear that our health teacher gave me a funny look, like I really was staggering. Maybe I was. That whole walk across the gym to my car sure felt like I was walking on a fluffy floor, and I wasn't really focusing on anything but the door.
It all felt really unreal.
I hadn't gotten too far away from the school when I was stuck at a stop sign, waiting to turn. Taking a look at my glassy eyes in the mirror, I closed one to see how the pupil reacted. It didn't. They were both kinda fixed. LOL At that point I realized I'd better hold on to my concentration tooth and nail, because I probably shouldn't have been driving in that condition. But the drive home was uneventful, and I got my short nap in.
I was still pretty messed up when I went back after that - feeling like I was walking on a slightly fluffy floor. haha It reminded me of being tipsy, but without the ickiness. Still had the headache, but I didn't want to take more meds when I still had to drive back home in a couple of hours.
When I did get back home, I just went to bed for about 5 hours, and the headache was gone when I woke up. Yay.
I got a migraine in the middle of the night, and by this morning, it was really beginning to kick in (kick me in the head, actually) so I took some more allergy medicine. (Generic Claritin D) I'd been off of it for two days and thought I was through the worst of my hay fever, but I thought maybe the headache might be a sinus headache.
By 9:35 it wasn't getting any better, so I decided to take a dose of my real migraine medicine, MaxAlt. This stuff starts working pretty fast, and if it hasn't taken care of the headache within 2 hours, you can take a second dose.
But you have to be prepared to lose consciousness if you take that second dose - it'll knock you out.
I only had the one dose, but by the time we were released for our morning snack break about 35 minutes later, it had started to affect me. Everything was starting to look unreal, and I got in line for food all by myself, without waiting for a friend to be my "oh she's not alone" prop to talk to.
I was thinking, so this is what it's like to be okay with being by yourself in a large public group. I don't care if anybody is looking at me funny. I don't care about anything right about now, except maybe getting a couple of chocolate chip cookies and a diet soda. (I'd already had a regular Pepsi earlier, hoping to get the caffeine cure for my headache, and if I drank another one, I'd feel wretched, so I went for the less evil diet Sierra Mist.)
Got my snack and pulled up a chair (just like a regular person would) beside the art teacher and asked how his session was going - ours was so boring. Chat chat chat... Go back in for the rest of the program.
The more time went on with the speaker babbling about statistics that weren't making any sense in my head, the more silly things kept going through my mind. I had the urge a couple of times to make goofy remarks out loud. And the bad part was that if I did, I knew that at this time I wouldn't even be embarrassed if people stared at me -- I'd probably start laughing hysterically.
Not long after that they dismissed us for lunch, and I decided to go home for a nap. Things were looking a little stranger than they had before, and when I walked out of the room, I could swear that our health teacher gave me a funny look, like I really was staggering. Maybe I was. That whole walk across the gym to my car sure felt like I was walking on a fluffy floor, and I wasn't really focusing on anything but the door.
It all felt really unreal.
I hadn't gotten too far away from the school when I was stuck at a stop sign, waiting to turn. Taking a look at my glassy eyes in the mirror, I closed one to see how the pupil reacted. It didn't. They were both kinda fixed. LOL At that point I realized I'd better hold on to my concentration tooth and nail, because I probably shouldn't have been driving in that condition. But the drive home was uneventful, and I got my short nap in.
I was still pretty messed up when I went back after that - feeling like I was walking on a slightly fluffy floor. haha It reminded me of being tipsy, but without the ickiness. Still had the headache, but I didn't want to take more meds when I still had to drive back home in a couple of hours.
When I did get back home, I just went to bed for about 5 hours, and the headache was gone when I woke up. Yay.
posted by Me at 12:02 AM
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