here is my first diary entry;


Day 1
I am female, caucasian, 43 years old. Married, not working, mother of three.
When I weigh myself on the Wii, I am always near the "overweight" section, but never in it. I don't smoke, or drink except for very occasionally.
I have had a headache for five weeks.
It is behind my left eye, which feels hot & constricted.
I have better days & worse days, but it has been there every day.
I am not nauseous, nor have been sick at all.
I am a little dizzy quite often.
I have been having difficulty with spelling & getting words right when speaking.
I feel better when eating & immediately after a meal (no effect from snacks).
Sometimes I wake with the pain at varied times of the night.
Sometimes when I get up in the morning it seems to be better, then kicks in 10-15 mins after getting up.
Sometimes it is there before I get up.
As it gets worse, I am finding bright lights & noise bother me.
Physical activity does not make it worse.
I was not depressed or stressed in the weeks before it started (now, however...).
I find (in order of painfulness) reading, using the computer, and watching television uncomfortable now.
But lying in a quiet room intensifies the pain, I am much happier distracted.




Today (2nd May), I have decided to change my diet to a simple one for a week, keeping away from likely trigger foods & document what I do & eat to see if there are any changes in how I feel.


I slept last night from 11pm to 8.15 this morning - I was woken briefly at 6.30 by the headache though.
I took 3 dispersible aspirin (900mg) on waking - head was already quite bad.
I had cereal with skimmed milk (a mix of cornflakes, rice crispies & bran as my usual muesli has nuts in which I am trying to avoid).
I had a cup of tea at about 9.30 & 2 slices of brown bread & marge, went on the laptop.
I had another tea just before 11, didn't drink it all.
My husband drove us to the supermarket at 11, I was bothered by my headache quite a bit while trying to shop.
For lunch at 12.30 I had 2 mini cornish pasties, olives, lettuce, tomatoes & yellow pepper, followed by another tea, which I only drank half of, and a biscuit.
I did some very heavy lifting in the garden with my husband after lunch, felt better for a while, I think from the fresh air, headache back to normal but no worse after the lifting.
Sat down at 2.40 & had 3 dispersible aspirin, another tea & back on the laptop for 20 min, then went & did school run. Another tea & 4 chocolate mini cakes (only just realised as writing this I shouldn't have had them!) when back from school, read my book for a while.
Moved some boxes upstairs before dinner, which was fish pie (with prawns & mashed potato), green beans & tinned fruit cocktail.
After dinner sat down to write some more of this with another tea. Headache at a medium I'd say, aspirin are wearing off.
At 9pm I had some white bread with low fat cream cheese & sweet chilli sauce & noticed that my headache was almost completely gone, despite 2 hrs on the laptop. 9.30 had a few pieces dried fruit, watching tv since 9 as well as on the computer.


So that's -
    9 hours sleep
    5 cups of tea
    some choc covered cake squares
    a lot of heavy lifting
    2 doses of aspirin (900mg per dose)
headache medium all day, until about 9pm when almost completely gone
lovely sunny day