Oh this is no way to live.
Last weekend I developed this twitch in my temple that I couldn't tell if it was a vein throbbing or a muscle or what--sometimes it was regular like a pulse, sometimes not. I could feel it externally when I put my fingers to it which reassured me that I was not, in fact, having a stroke, though that was totally among my worries. Eventually it went from bizarre to actually painful and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
niqaeli hauled me over and started massaging my head. She identified it as--she actually knew the name of the muscle, I missed it, but it's muscle involved in the closing of one's jaw, and the tendon runs through the temple. Then she poked the same muscle on the other side of my head and while it wasn't twitching, it was also tight and unhappy.
I haven't had the weird twitch since she worked on me but I keep getting headaches in my temples that I can tell are the same issue. Tonight three ibuprofen and a cider and a half loosened me up enough that it stopped hurting.
I'm sober now. I know because it hurts.
Off to take more ibuprofen. Tempting as it sounds, I probably shouldn't chase it with more booze. But yeah, I've got to find something that works and leaves me functional, because at the point where my head stopped hurting I was also too toasted to play solitaire.
Last weekend I developed this twitch in my temple that I couldn't tell if it was a vein throbbing or a muscle or what--sometimes it was regular like a pulse, sometimes not. I could feel it externally when I put my fingers to it which reassured me that I was not, in fact, having a stroke, though that was totally among my worries. Eventually it went from bizarre to actually painful and
niqaeli hauled me over and started massaging my head. She identified it as--she actually knew the name of the muscle, I missed it, but it's muscle involved in the closing of one's jaw, and the tendon runs through the temple. Then she poked the same muscle on the other side of my head and while it wasn't twitching, it was also tight and unhappy. I haven't had the weird twitch since she worked on me but I keep getting headaches in my temples that I can tell are the same issue. Tonight three ibuprofen and a cider and a half loosened me up enough that it stopped hurting.
I'm sober now. I know because it hurts.
Off to take more ibuprofen. Tempting as it sounds, I probably shouldn't chase it with more booze. But yeah, I've got to find something that works and leaves me functional, because at the point where my head stopped hurting I was also too toasted to play solitaire.
