not a good weekend

What a bloody awful weekend this has been.

(But on the other hand, as "they" say about sex, even when it's bad it's good, considering the alternative.)

I could probably write some pithy doggerel about this, since it's basically been a weekend full of rain and migraine, both of which started on Thursday, and I'm totally pissed off and sick of it. The rotten weather I can dismiss by reminding myself that anything's better than Toronto's snowstorms, and that by next month most of the cloudy skies will be nothing but memories. But the migraines persist, month after month.

They appear to be hormonally-related, as I only get them just prior to or at the onset of my periods. Have done for years, but as I age, they seem to be getting worse: instead of one day, they can now last for three or four. It's maddening. I tried months of acupuncture which was supposed to make a difference and didn't. Maybe I need a serious liver detox or something. If anyone out there has had success with this, bearing in mind that it's clearly not related any particular diet issues, I'd love to hear about it.

So even though the sun was out for a good part of yesterday I couldn't really enjoy it as I was just miserably trying to sleep off the headache. I couldn't even face the gym at all this weekend, so this week it'll have to be an evening excursion, rain or no rain, exhausted or not. My weight is way up since I started working and the time has come to bite the bullet.

Oh, and those movies? I can't believe I'd heard Spiderman2 was better than the original; it was SO boring I had to fast forward through much of the movie. And idiotically melodramatic. Not to mention that it was incredibly depressing, with Peter Parker and his endlessly loser life. Wimbledon was a lot more fun to watch, and the Manchurian Candidate was scary-cool. As the director said in his commentary, it may be scary, but the reality in the White House is even scarier.

--> UPDATE (23/1 6pm) ... I've just had a brainstorm; don't know why I didn't think of this before, considering it's been obvious to me for a while now that the headaches are triggered by a drop in estrogen just prior to and now during my period. I'm going to speak to my doctor about a low-dose estrogen patch to try and keep my hormone level steady just during the week of my period. I believe she's an endocrine specialist, so she should know something about this. I'd never intended to go the direction of HRT (hormone replacement therapy), but I think this might be an intelligent compromise, considering how many different kinds of poisonous headache pills I've been ingesting over the years. I've made an appointment to see her on Tuesday, so we'll see how that goes. This morning I woke up with no headache, but proceeded to get it again as the day wore on, after a screamingly bitchy start to the morning. I was the classic pre-menstrual witch before we all got out of the house, and was fuming all the way to work. I am SO sick of this hormone trip!