I keep getting these terrible headaches lately. I don’t know where they come from, because there is no common denominator between their occurrences. They happen when I drink, or when I abstain from drinking; when I am stressed or relaxed; tired or awake; when I have had coffee, and when I haven’t; when I am dehydrated, or not. It’s really bothersome.

Usually I don’t tell anyone about it, because they go away on their own, and I already have a bit of a reputation as a hypochondriac, but twice in the last couple months they have been so bad that I thought I was going to die. The last time I went to the emergency room, and I thought it was a reaction to some medicine I was taking. They gave me a Cat Scan, and sent me home, and I felt better.

Last night I had another bad one though. It set in around 9 PM, and I tried to sleep it off, but I woke up within an hour of going to bed, and I was really disoriented. It felt a little like being high on pot, you know, that fractured reality feeling. The best way I can describe it is like my whole world was cardboard cutouts, like the ocean waves they use in theater. Plus there was this tickly feeling like the one you get in your throat when you are eating a cold hot dog. The whole world felt tickly that way. The pain was only on the left side of my head, radiating down into my left ear and neck.

Anyway, it eventually went away, but only after I wandered around in the street for an hour at 2 AM. I didn’t get back to sleep until probably 330 or 4, so naturally I am a little tired today.

I don’t really worry about them because I had that brain scan, but it is still disruptive to my routine, and a little unnerving.