Day 3


Slept from 11pm to 7am, quite disturbed sleep (8hrs).
Had bran & multigrain shapes w skimmed milk for breakfast, quite headachy, medium to bad by 8.40. Had stuff to do on computer, its painful & sound is bothering me a little too.
Took two paracetamol with water & a cuppa at 9.30 (prompted by my husband James - I am prone to not taking medicine & trying to put up with it on my own).
10.30 had some skips type crisps, then a mini cornish pasty & glass water.
11.20 another 1/2 mug of tea, headache still medium verging on bad.
12.15 leftover chilli & rice, glass water.
headache almost gone by 12.30 - halfway through eating a very filling lunch.
1pm headache gone, made a cup of tea
watched tv, at 2.30 head still good
3pm school run, pushing pushchair, neck really hurting before the end of my road.


Here I should explain that I have had a swelling to the left side of my neck for about 17 years, it seems to me that the supporting tendon at the back swells & is painful, and seems to interfere with some sort of drainage through to my ear too. The worst point is where my neck/the meets the back of my skull. I had physio which just made it worse back when it first occurred, and it has been pretty much ignored by various GP's over the years. It came on about a year after I started getting numbness, shaking & severe crushing pain first in my hand & wrist of my left arm (I am left handed) which progressively travelled up the nerve on the outside of hand & arm, was bad in my elbow joint, and finally in my neck too. It was diagnosed as a Repetitive Strain Injury and I had to give up my job in a library (and have not worked since). The pain and weakness have taken about 15 years to almost completely go, with my neck being the only thing that still seriously bothers me.


by 4pm, on return home, feeling slightly sick & dizzy as well as in a lot of pain but its more in my neck than the behind the eye headache. Had a glass of water and two jellybabies.
4.30 sat in a chair with good back & neck support, wore jumper that covers my neck, had cup of tea, went on laptop, watched tv, started to feel better but chills & goose pimples all over. Read from 5 to 5.30, headache returning light to medium.
Had dinner, 3 fish fingers & salad, 2 slices brown toast & peanut butter, glass of water. By 6.30 feeling almost completely better, went & sat down with cup of tea & laptop.
8.15 another tea with biscuits, watched tv.
9pm been on laptop too, getting a bit eye achy, glasses out.
10pm, about to go to bed when persuaded by daughter to stay up, had white toast, yoghurt & coriander dip & olives washed down with water.


5 1/2 cups of tea
very overcast dull day, light rain