My Comfort Blanket

This is an official warning to all who know me ........ 


For the next few months ... approach with extreme caution - there is a manufacturing/licensing issue with Syndol ... so until supplies resume or you are certain I am not under any of my 12 or so migraine trigger points ... assume it is a CODE RED!


On a serious note, as I have mentioned in a previous post, I do suffer with migraines. 


However, in the last few years I have usually been able to prevent the frequency of those full-on, head-thumping, room-pacing, unforgiving, throwing-up migraines, through taking a well-timed Syndol. I know my triggers and I know the signs that inform me I am about to get more than just a normal headache. It is also not just me ........ both my Mum and my previous Boss could also see in my eyes and be able to tell with my speech when I was at the "tipping point". That is my own term for the tipping point at which I know that if I take one or 2 tablets, I can ward off the full, nightmare migraine.


What is important here is that this prevention has only been possible in the last few years since I discovered Syndol.


I have tried many other painkillers, specific migraine ones, alternative therapies, food combinations, even pill combinations (cue my last migraine when I had no Syndol left in the house and shockingly for my body I mixed a co-codamol with a feminax with a nurofen plus ....... nope that didn't work!) that have resulted in little or no relief.


So I had got to the point where, whilst definitely not addicted (only taken when needed and literally.... once the migraine had been stopped or been "got over" ..... then no need for taking any more) I completely admit to loving this little yellow pill and to making sure I always had some with me. 


I had at least 2 in my little pill box in my handbag, always kept a blister pack in my bedside cabinet and usually had some in the bathroom cabinet with the general paraphernalia of "First Aid" stuff.  I even began building up a supply "in case of emergency"


Arrgghh - THAT EMERGENCY IS HERE !


My stockpile has been depleted - the chemists have been out of stock for the last 3 months. 


One of my main triggers (and many other middle aged women too, it seems, from the "help I need Syndol" tweets)  is my period, presumably hormonal ? I get  the warning signs at least 3 times during a normal month and feel that I can manage these signs and therefore the potential migraine, well ...... as LONG as I can reach a Syndol at the right moment - THAT TIPPING POINT!


So this afternoon at work I began to get that tell tale sign.......I had some Syndol but am down to my last blister pack ....... do I try to mix one Syndol with Paramol (a similar migraine over the counter pill but just NOT as effective) .... do I try to hold out and hope for the best (no .... really silly ... I know I will end up with a full on migraine that will then have me out for a minimum of 12 hours and can be up to 24 hours) ..... do I keep popping ibuprofen or nurofen or similar (where I would probably be popping far more than the stated dose and cause all sorts of internal issues for my body)


NOPE ..... I had my 2 Syndol and .......... after just a couple of hours ... I am back to normal. 


So whilst I am trying to self monitor more effectively and looking for any and every alternative .... please take heed of the warning at the start of the blog ....... because without my little yellow comfort blanket I  cannot be responsible for my actions !!!!!