Yes. The perfect coping strategy.
Only, no. It sucks. The real problem is that I get (milder) headaches often, and those can be fixed with a little medication. However. I can't swallow a pill every two days, now, can I? Second problem is that sometimes, I get headaches that seem to last forever and just won't go away, no matter what pain relievers I take.
Because of the obvious difference in the two "types", I've turned to the internet to figure this stuff out.
More precisely: I turned to this symptom-checker thing, which told me that I probably have migraines. Great. I googled "migraines", and Wikipedia told me this:
Migraine is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by moderate to severe headaches, and nausea.Well, if that isn't great. I don't want any sort of chronic neurological disorder, mainly because the words chronic and disorder have never meant good things. So what do I do? I turn to denial. I can't possibly get migraines because I don't experience nausea. Yes. That's a good argument. And who ever said that my symptom checker was any good in the first place?
So if it's not a migraine, what is it? The next choice would be tension headaches (recently renamed tension-type headaches, for reasons unknown to me), whatever that is. I checked Wikipedia, and found all sorts of unhelpful this like tension-type headache pain is typically mild to moderate, but may be severe, most common type of primary headache (note: there are primary headaches? Does that mean there are secondary ones, too?) and all sorts of other things that basically meant: if your head hurts, or any other body part for that matter, be it spine, back, eyes, really, nobody cares, so if it hurts in a constant-pressure sort of way, this is your "illness". There ya go.
So I think I'll just go with that, since these guys apparantly account for 90% of all headaches ever, so the chances I'm right are pretty high.
*yes, it's bear with me. I googled. Have I ever mentioned how often I google?
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