So in the past three days, I have had TWO migraines. Friday morning I awoke with twinges, took some Excedrin and the damned thing continued to persist. So, because I had somewhere Friday I *had* to go, I took one of the "melt in your mouth" migraine tablets my doctor gave me. And.... it worked! The migraine faded within the hour and, unlike the last time I took migraine medicine, I didn't even get nauseated! And I was able to focus and concentrate the rest of the day, go to my meeting and then out to dinner afterward.

Yesterday I had headache twinges but the Exedrin I took kicked it pretty well. I still felt kind of tired and blah but at least my head didn't hurt.

This morning, however, I awoke with the migraine already well on its way to critical mass. I started my treatment of it with a cup of coffee, thinking maybe it'd been brought on by caffeine deprivation. But no, that didn't do anything other than wake me up a bit. (Nice side effect, however.) I moved on to the Excedrin which did nothing and, about 75 minutes ago, I took a dose of the "orally disintigrating" Maxalt. And, thankfully, it has finally kicked in and the pain is gone!

Of course, I still feel kind of crappy - my arms are rather sore and feel very heavy, but that is tolerable. The pain part of these migraines? Intolerable.

So, to recap: Maxalt good. Pain bad. And I'm off to take a nap now before I pick back up on my studying. Let's hope I can go more than a day between these aggravating things this time!