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To want some peace whilst I have a migraine?

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vodkaandcaviar · 03/07/2012 13:54

I get migraines and they're horrible but I just take myself off to our bedroom, close the curtains and lie down until they pass. I tend to get them if I'm feeling stressed and I've not been particularly stressed recently so I've not had one in a while. Until today.

DP has been saying he'd go out to do some things today (for himself, printing something apparently) but he's been lingering around the flat all day pestering me. He had a shower and lounged around for ages whilst I was trying to edit my CV (the joys of job hunting!). Then our ASDA order came and there were a bunch of substitutions that weren't suitable so I was dealing with that and passing the bags to DP to take to the kitchen and put away. I could feel the migraine coming on so asked him to put the food away whilst I went into the bedroom.

He's been bashing around and coming into the bedroom every five minutes which really isn't helping. All I asked him to do was put the food away but so far he's been in to tell me I bought too much mayonnaise (twice! second time with the previous almost empty bottle), that most of the food goes out of date on the 6th/7th, that the freezer's full, that some of the bottles/boxes were bashed, that the fridge is full (this is bullshit, the fridge was almost empty this morning and we didn't order that much food) etc. He's making out that it's all my fault because I placed the order but I had him look through the list and add/remove whatever he wanted before we paid for it. Jesus Christ! I'm normally the one who puts the shopping away and I never have to go and complain at him about it. I didn't think it was a particularly complex task.

All the while my migraine is getting worse. Give me strength! (or a kick up the arse, or a migraine cure...)

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wandawings · 03/07/2012 13:58

Get off the Internet!! That will help your head.

Catsmamma · 03/07/2012 14:00

vomit on his shoes

dh once left me with my head down the toilet "well I have to go to work don't I" with three children under seven

Ds1 was so so good that day, bless his heart! I staggered in and begged them all to be quiet and watch a film and that I'd be up in an hour.....they were watching the film for the third time when I finally surfaced!

Dh was very very told off when I was better!

ThisIsAUsername · 03/07/2012 14:02

Get a pair of tights, and tie them really tightly around your head. The pressure really does ease the pain. This is the only thing that works for me. Awful things, I'm not right for days after one.

Tell him to not bother you unless the house is burning down. Hope you feel better soon.

Pumpster · 03/07/2012 14:05

Typing that wouldn't have helped!

VolAuVent · 03/07/2012 14:05

Quit looking at the computer screen for a start, it's not going to help! Tell us more when you're better.

vodkaandcaviar · 03/07/2012 16:40

I know! I shouldn't have had the laptop on - I was being told to email ASDA with a complaint about our order, you see!

Anyway, my head's feeling a bit better now and DP is nowhere to be seen. Not after telling me to get off the bed so he could strip it and wash the sheets (WHAT! He's done this about twice in the past year...why today?!) It was the final straw so I told him where to go. I'm feeling a bit guilty now.

thisisausername thanks for the tip, I'll keep that in mind if this one continues/gets worse.

catsmamma I'll bet! Thankfully we don't have any children to look after. God knows how many times I'd be called upon then.

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ChairOfTheBored · 03/07/2012 17:52

Take two migraleive pink tablets - they give you no choice but to sleep for 13 hours (IME) and kill the pain.

ChairOfTheBored · 03/07/2012 17:53

And get well soon - they're horrid things (migraines, not husbands and partners)

complexnumber · 03/07/2012 18:08

I'm sorry for your pain and distress.

But tbh, whenever I have encountered people with a (real) migraine, there is absolutlely no way they could have coped with typing/reading at a computer screen.

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