So at the moment I am awaiting an appointment to see a specialist regarding my eye pain/headache. It got so bad over the weekend just gone that I made another appointment to see a GP at my practice yesterday. I saw a different doctor, who told me I probably, thought not definitely, had an opthalmic migraine, and should take 900mg aspirin 3 times daily. This was what I had already settled on as helping best, after trying almost every pain relief available, and told the doctor so. She asked on a scale of 1-10 how painful it was, and I said on better days a 5-6 and on the bad days 7-8. She said "oh moderate then" I didn't say anything but as I have had kidney stones & given birth three times I think 9 & 10 are surely reserved for screaming out loud intolerable agony. She said that migraine are caused by chemical changes, and not as such anything to worry about, and to avoid cheese, chocolate & coffee. My blood tests on my thyroid levels had come back normal.


Now I wasn't best pleased at being written a prescription (£7 - of course I didn't fill it) for a packet of aspirin that costs 29p at the supermarket, for a medicine that I had told my GP I was already taking (for the last 2 weeks or so) and had come to them in desperation because of this debilitating headache I'd had for 5 weeks + now. I looked up opthalmic migraine when I got home and saw that its defining feature is optical disturbance of some sort - which I had told the doctor (and optician) I don't have. And an optical migraine will have passed within 1/2 to 1 hour of it beginning!


I don't usually drink coffee (or alcohol), or regularly eat cheese or chocolate, but had been visiting my mother a couple of weeks into the headache at Easter, when I had coffee, cheese and chocolate. It made no difference to my headache as far as I can remember. A couple of weeks ago I fancied a little Muscatel with my Sunday lunch, and had a tiny glass maybe 2cm full of it - my headache became terrible & persisted all night. That was the only time I have had alcohol in the duration of my whole headache,and I don't think I'd had any immediately before, either.


The reason I am here today, is that I am going to try and document anything that changes my headache, whether for better or worse, by keeping a diary.