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thethingything · 8 months ago

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we have an especially bad migraine where I noticed us getting aura (mostly being pissed off and upset in a specific way) for several hours before it started and we've taken pain meds but I'm not sure they've actually helped. they have definitely given us side effects though and I feel very spaced out and nauseous and generally shit.

we've also had way worse ADHD symptoms for the last few days to the point of being pretty much unable to focus on anything besides like 2 things we've hyperfixated on. we've had so much trouble starting tasks and keep struggling to hold a train of thought or focus long enough to even figure out what we need to do each day despite having all our Habitica dailies to tell us.

our brain is all over the place and I'm not really sure what to do with it or what would help but it's just occurred to me that sometimes our ADHD gets really bad in the buildup to some of our worst migraines and now I'm just hoping that both the migraine and other shit ease off soon because I'd like to be able to function

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #vent post #posts made on pain meds #I've spent like 6 hours drawing today because we fixated on one piece of art that I originally started as a joke #but I probably had other tasks to do and I don't know what any of them were and I tried very hard to at least make a list or something #but just could not hold a coherent train of thought and got really overwhelmed every time I tried to think of stuff I needed to do #so I gave up after a while because I realised my options were to keep trying and failing and just get upset and start dissociating #and end up doing absolutely nothing while feeling really bad #or just go ahead and draw for as long as I can handle because our brain's fixated on it and at least I'd be doing something #and it's also nice to actually be able to work on art for any length of time after having such bad art block so far this year #oh I did also shower shortly after we woke up which was our main big task of the day I think so that's something to be proud of #our tourette's has been bad and that made it surprisingly difficult and it was kind of stressful and exhausting but we did it #it's also just occurred to me that our tourette's and ADHD and a few other issues have all flared up together #followed by a particularly bad migraine which is a pattern we keep noticing and first noticed back in December #and all these issues are known to involve dopamine but I can't figure out what exactly is going on #when it happens we also start getting sensory overload way more easily

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