If I sent you this message, what would you do?

[QuestionableMouse]

Message was "help migraine pills drink help please"

I sent it to my sister after waking up with the worst migraine I've had for a while. I never ask for help, ever. I sent it at 12:20. She's still out shopping and I've had no help from her or my parents. Just managed to make it downstairs to get a drink.

I'm feeling pretty sorry for myself and quite fragile so I'm not sure if I'm being unreasonable in feeling a bit annoyed and upset.

I wouldn't understand what you meant by that message, so I'd probably call to clarify what you wanted.

Might not see the text for a few hours though, as don't always have my phone on me, and it's almost always on silent.

Hope you feel better soon, OP. Pain is horrible.

My husband would know that meant big trouble and rush home to help. Nobody else really would.

My brain does not work when I have a migraine. I’ve been known to not be able to work out how to open my pill carton (just a normal cardboard one). I look like I’m having a stroke, can’t speak and cannot think. I might just be able to fire off a message. Unfortunately “take your pills” is a rational thought and I sometimes cannot think rationally. At all.

If the OP is like me she needs a couple of people who know. I also have a medi wristband I wear when out running that I would hope I could point to and jibber in an emergency.

I would have answered you. But I wouldn’t have raced home to serve a glass of water to an adult.

How were you planning on letting her in if she had raced over?

Are you the same person who collapsed with a migraine and her DH and his DPs ignored you?

I had one off/on past two days believe me I’d help out another person if I could!

Are you the same person who collapsed with a migraine and her DH and his DPs ignored you?

Oh yes, I remember that thread. The OP was screaming at the top of her voice having collapsed on the landing and everyone ignored her? Is that the one?

I've had a hemiplegic migraine before and just begged my DH to put a pillow under my head in the hall.... He did. He didn't know that's what it was, and he thought I was just extremely tired! I didn't know what it was and to be fair, the headache wasn't terribly bad.

I have migraines where I don't know I have a migraine until I'm moaning at the kids that they're being really loud and they need to turn down their tablets, etc., and they start to look confused and say "Mum.... we're really not being that loud you know...." and suddenly it will click that I've got a migraine. The headache often comes a bit later. But the sound sensitivity is the first sign. Now, they just say "Mum, have you got a migraine?"

I have other migraines where I don't get a headache at all, really, but I get a terribly sensitive sense of smell. It's horrible.

Then, of course, we say 'headache', but really I mean the pain the extends down over the eye, into the nose, through the jaw, into the teeth, down the neck, into the arm.... Down the back of the neck. It's viscous.

I'd have thought you'd taken an overdose! I thought you meant you'd taken pills and alcohol and needed help.

@Unfinishedkitchen no that's not me. I've only ever posted under this name.

I needed someone to bring me my tablets and a drink because I was far too dizzy to manage three flights of stairs (kitchen is in the basement) and I was scared of falling.

I'm very lucky not to be light sensitive so could manage to send a quick text. Maybe it wasn't worded the best but I was struggling to focus on anything. She has a key to my house so could have let herself in.

For those of you doubting my story, I'm sorry but every I posted was true. You might want to go back and look at the times I posted. It's also not a reverse.

I've also just checked my texts and this is actually what I sent.

Help migraine plz bring drinks. Can't do stairs.

So a totally different text then?

So a totally different text then?

Oh ffs

It sounds attention seeking. I’d probably ignore it initially. Then I’d probably re-read it and think you’ve maybe taken an overdose of migraine pills and alcohol and call and ambulance.

It wouldn’t occur to me from that message that you want someone to come round to your house to give you your pills and a drink of water. That’s odd ... you can do that yourself ( as you managed to create this thread )

That would be my response to the first text. If you just sent the second one I’d completely ignore it.

I wonder if the sister is on this thread

So nit that text then. Ffs.

My problem with that is there is no guarantee whatsoever that I will see a text the moment it's sent. If I'm at work I may well not have my phone with me, if I'm out shopping or at home my phone is in my bag and I may not know that a text has come in. So if someone texted me I would assume they don't think it's urgent, and anyway I may not see the text for several hours.

I also get migraine, and sumatriptan only works if I catch it in the first 10 min or so, after that, I can't swallow even saliva without vomiting.

So now I have magic disolving tabs and also a nasal spray of sumatritan. Magic!!!
I keep the nasal spray in my beside drawer and my desk drawer, and keep tablets in my handbag, and medicine cabinet, bathroom cabinet and glove box.

Space out your drugs over the house so you don't have to move to get them.

It wouldn’t occur to me from that message that you want someone to come round to your house to give you your pills and a drink of water. That’s odd ... you can do that yourself ( as you managed to create this thread )hmm

You can be unable to leave your bed but be able to send a short text. And op has just explained she was too dizzy to be up and get down the three flight of stairs to get the pills.

And to answer the question, from the first text you sent, I'd assume you were a drama queen implying you'd taken an overdose of booze and pills.

Well you made it downstairs so maybe there’s some there.

My sister is a drama queen. She over reacts all of the time so if I'd received either of those texts I'd have carried on with my day and expected her to have a headache at most.
This is typical of her. Although I would have sent a text when I'd finished what I was doing to check she was actually still alive.

Maybe your sister thinks you're over texting.

Over reacting*

I might well not see if for hours (where I work has next to no mobile signal). If I did, I'd probably roll me eyes at the dramaqueenishness. But then, my migraines lose me my left visual field, and make the rest blurry, so the idea of being fit to text would seem a bit odd to me,

So, you didn't actually send that totally over dramatic text then after all.

Where was your sister then you texted. Maybe she was, I dunno, wild guess, out living her own life.

And yes, I have a sister. Who had a chronic illness. And yes I would walk over broken glass for her. But your op is deeply annoying