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

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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.

not exact same but my dsis can be over dramatic till she had appendicitis and had to take herself to hospital coz unfortunately noone believed her

she was ok but we all felt bad even thoug she'd text loads of times before sying she was in pain and it was nothing

Ignoring The fact that you didn't actually send that text, if I got the text you originally posted I'd agree with @eggncress and worry that you'd take an overdose and probably waste an ambulance if you didn't answer the phone!

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

MN: Think you were a massive drama queen.

OP: I didn't send that message.

SheGot honestly this thread is all twists and turns...

So do you live together?

Until I got my first migraine (at almost 40!) I always looked at those who 'suffered' them as drama llamas. So, you have a massive headache? Then I got my first one and thought I was dying. Seriously. Went to hospital and all. So I now have every sympathy in the world.
That text seemed to be written for dramatic effect. Both texts. The one you sent and the other one that you really sent.
I keep my meds right next to the bed. I don't get them too often but am completely wiped out when I do. I am still able to call in to work or message my dp for help.
I'm not convinced that this is your first rodeo OP. Do your sister or parents get these kind of messages/calls for 'help' often?

Message was "help migraine pills drink help please"

I've also just checked my texts and this is actually what I sent. Help migraine plz bring drinks. Can't do stairs.

Well I think that answers why there was no follow-up phone call

I give it another hour and we'll also find out that the sister lives in Paraguay or something.

"Those who do not feel pain, seldom think that it is felt" - Dr. Samuel Johnson.

8 pages to discover you actually sent a different text?

What was the fucking point of this then?!

@Ellisandra

No-one forced you to read this or to reply. I made a mistake about what I'd text when I posted on here. It wasn't intentional and was probably down to the very strong painkillers I'd taken before posting.

I also do usually keep pills in my bedside table but I'd run out. The only others in the house were in my bag which was in the kitchen.

I can't remember the last time I asked anyone for help with anything. If anything, I tend to downplay or hide illness or injury because I hate being seen as weak. This thread has gone a long way to reinforce that belief.

And just in case anyone thinks I was asking my sister to climb Everest or something, she was shopping in a supermarket with my parents which is a five minute drive away. And she's wasn't at work today because it was her day off.

I'd probably end up with a migraine myself trying to decipher the text as it makes no sense.

I'd probably assume it was written and sent in error by someone/sister fooling around on their phone just typing random words for no apparent reason, therefore I wouldn't do anything. I might mention at a later date about some weird gibberish text I received.

KarrisWhiteOak
If you can create this thread you don’t have a migraine.

I agree.
Also, if you don't care about how your family would feel if they read this thread, then I'm guessing you're not all that close and caring towards each other. Worst case, you can always call the ambulance.

OP, someone will be along in a minute to say 'OP, you're getting a hard time here...' but while it's obvious that you're piqued by the replies you've got, it really has been a massive dripfeed.

Your whole thread was about a text you hadn't actually sent, and this: she was shopping in a supermarket with my parents which is a five minute drive away. And she's wasn't at work today because it was her day off is obviously relevant too.

Many posters have specifically mentioned the wording and tone of your 'original' text. The second version is completely different. And your sister was a few minutes away, not at work etc.

No one knew any of this. To paraphrase The Dude: New shit has come to light.

You could've just taken the stairs slowly while sitting down.

You weren't in any danger. This was not an emergency. For me this would not involve stopping what I was doing to rush to your aid.
If I happened to be driving past on my way home I might pop in if I had time to see if you were OK. But what you were expecting was unreasonable.

Bloody hell OP get a grip.

You managed to go downstairs to get the pills.

You are posting on MN. Repeatedly.

Nah, not a migraine. A very bad headache, perhaps.

How can you work a bar shift through a migraine??

I get one every month when my period is due and the whole day I am immobilised. I am in bed or drawing to the toilet to vomit. I have a scarf wrapped round my eyes and the curtains drawn and all lights off. I have to take extra strong pain killers and struggle to even keep water down.

My DP has to do both school runs and it lasts all day.

I have a suspicion bar tender lady doesn't have bad migraines. Just a headache.

It's quite a skill to be able to not only diagnose a condition but to assess its severity and impact on the sufferer, all without seeing the person affected. Imagine the money the NHS could save if all doctors were as clever as some of the posters on this thread.

I also get occular migranes.

In the middle of a migraine I couldn't text anyone. I can't look at my phone.

So now the sister was 5 mins away in a supermarket at 12.20 when Op sent her message yet posting at 15.25 She's still out shopping .

Either the details are changing because Op doesn't like the responses or dsis is an extreme Brexit prepper who's been detained by tesco for trying to buy more than her share of bottled water and baked beans!

I'd probably ring you and check you were ok. Maybe come home and help out.

OP I understand and I would have come.

I sent my DH a very similar garbled text a few weeks ago and he was home in 30 minutes having been to the pharmacy to beg for my prescription migraine pills to be released early to him.

By the time he got home I was incoherent, curled in a ball at the foot of our bed and trying to physically rip the side of my head off with my hands.

Until you have experienced the utter agony of a real migraine and the effect it can have on you physically and mentally in an extremely short time I suggest you shut the fuck up.

The OP was obviously desperately in need of help and feeling helpless and probably pretty scared.

I have been there, I know how it feels and to feel that you are utterly alone and no one is coming to help is terrifying. It isn’t overly dramatic or attention seeking. A migraine doesn’t just go away with a paracetamol and a lie down in a darkened room.
My migraine attacks can knock me out for 5 days at a time if I haven’t taken medication as soon as I feel an attack coming. I can’t even roll over in bed let alone walk downstairs.

Have some fucking compassion!

If I'm shopping then my phone is often on silent at the bottom of my bag, or there have been times where it has rang and I've not heard it, especially in a busy shop environment.

Maybe she didn't even see your text in the first place?