who only by moving can balance

Right. So. This migraine.

It started on Wednesday. Frovatriptan #1 did... very little. Frovatriptan #2 and, later still on Thursday, #3, also did... not much. Today I did not take triptans, and paracetamol continued to do precisely nothing, so I was mostly wretched and photosensitive and miserable and not much use for anything...

... and then once he'd done with work and at the yelling behest of some friends, I hunted up the NICE guidance and A called 111 for me.

(Shenanigans ensued, with 111 repeatedly insisting on calling not the number they had been given on this occasion but instead the number they had on record for me, which went to a phone that was! on silent! because I was on day 3 of a migraine! but we sorted it out eventually.)

Because I wasn't in "intolerable" (by my standards) pain, and because I wasn't at risk of dehydration, I was politely requested not to present myself at hospital. However, the GP said (as reported by A), Unusual Circumstances Call For Unusual Measures, so while sure I shouldn't be treating codeine as first-line medication, I could go ahead and take it at a Sensible Dosage As Agreed With My Usual Care Providers.

Oh, and if you can, best practice would also be to have some caffeine, I Was Informed.

As you may or may not recall, I am usually pretty stringent about avoiding caffeine, because it turns out I am the kind of hypersensitive that very reliably results in panic attacks that last for hours.

However. One (30mg) codeine tablet and one mug of very weak (¼ tsp loose leaf) Earl Grey (with lemon) later, I requested the main lights be switched on, and also took my sunglasses off for purposes other than "immediately putting on an eye mask" or "making myself miserable to prove I still have a migraine", and started being engaged and enthusiastic and cheerful again.

In conclusion, frovatriptan appears to do me fuck-all good, though I'll finish out the pack next migraine just to be sure; zolmitriptan is... weirdly actually better, probably, having reviewed all of my data from the last six and a half months in slightly more detail; I am going to take the codeine rather sooner next time; and I nearly cried over getting to drink an entire actual cup of proper tea and feeling better for it, so that is getting added to my arsenal as well.

In summary: hopefully I now get another fortnight and change before the next round of this shit, so with a little bit of luck and a following wind I might even find it in me to talk about something that isn't Embodiment: The Terriblest Hobby. At least for a bit.