These days I suffer from a lot of emotional anxiety. Well, I say “these days”, but my migraines go back years and years, however I’m now aware that a massive trigger is emotional stress, so I reckon that I’ve always had it, I’m just aware enough now to join the dots.

I think that it’s all autistic symptom – at least I have read that other ASD people also get migraines from trying to process the unprocessable.

There are lots of things that I try to cure my migraines when they happen:

• Food, preferably something sweet.
• Drink, water, or caffeine.
• CBD gummies.
• Sumatriptans (these I use sparingly because the doctor gets funny if I take too many).
• Codydromol.
• Propranolol (a beta blocker – this is directly for anxiety).
• Hypnosis, which I think works because it calms everything down.
• Sleep works – if the pain isn’t so bad that it keeps me awake.
• Sensory deprivation (this works best).

I know that too much caffeine can give me migraines, but meetings are much, much worse – especially those where there are lots of people talking. Frequent context shifting hurts my head.

Poor sleep well give me a migraine. As will too much sleep!

But the biggest cause seems to be emotional stress – tension!

If my husband and I talk, then I feel stress. If we don’t talk, I feel stress.

It’s a no win situation.

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I’ve had a headache for the last few days. Sometimes I don’t even know that I’ve got one until hubby asks “do you have a headache?”.

I try to act like I don’t have one as best as I can; I guess this too is making. I’ll smile and try to respond like I don’t have a care in the world. I would love to turn my brain off, but I have to work.

I also need to run. Especially since I have a race in less than a month’s time.

Foolishly, I tried a little 5k this afternoon after work.

Idiot!

Something that happens with migraines is the power failure – I just lose my energy. That’s what happened and I ended up walking home.

The whistling in my ears is almost deafening now. I get it a lot leading up to and during my migraines. Do other autistic people get that? Or is it just me?

I’m going for a lie down in a dark, silent room, hopefully that’ll enable me to have some kind of relaxing evening…