I graduated a couple of months ago. It feels like I have had a headache every single day since then. I have been attributing it to the release of stress from school. But since it seems to be getting worse, I have had to do a little investigating. In fact, it is getting so much worse, that my teeth hurt every day now. My teeth hurt so much that my eyes throb. This is a weird predicament. Here are a few of the things I have been possibly blaming it on:
1) Working at the computer all day. I took out my contacts and went with glasses for a few days. This almost resulted in divorce. I became so crabby and unhappy at living this way that I finally put my contacts back in and thought I would be better off living with a migraine. My head actually felt better when I put back in the contacts.
2) Maybe the popcicles I am eating every night have aspartame. I checked the box, no. Whew! Because I really didn't want to give them up. Yay, win on that one.
3) De-stressing from school, exams, etc. I already explained that one, and surely that should go away by now.
4) Stressing in my new job. Um, no, I actually like my new job. It is a good 9-5 job with very little stress. I enjoy the people I work with.
5) Money. This is a possibility to look at down the road.
6) Bell's Palsy. Ha! Nope, it didn't happen. Good thing I didn't go to the doctor, right? It was just a joke, but kind of a, he he, maybe kind of a joke.
7) Diet. So this is today's thought. I went to the internet this morning because, yet again, I am in excruciating pain. For lunch everyday I eat some random easy thing to fix like a sandwich or cottage cheese with fruit and a baggie of almonds. Guess what!?! Almonds and other nuts can trigger migraines. Starting today, I am going to cut out almonds and see what this week brings. Ugh. I can only hope that this helps. It is something new in my diet, so it fits the "temporal" category of when these headaches started. You can see I have even already eaten almost half the 3 pound bag.
I hope, hope, hope, this is the root of this evil!

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