Sudokuaholics Anonymous 3

The migraine is gone. I know there's a headache in there in the background so I'll have to be careful, but so far so good! Thanks. I'll have to go read the Easy comments. I didn't go back on there after the last time I posted there.

That is good Stella, glad the Migraine is gone, take it easy today and relax.

time for me to go .... hope all have a great day / evening .

Good night

see you all on the flip side

Good night Rolanda, sweet dreams!

I see that Gath has added a new feature to the posts. On the Forum page it shows the person that was the last to post! An intiguing new feature which will help when checking to see if anyone has stopped by since you left.

I read all of the suggestions on Easy regarding migraines. Jeb's was very funny, although I couldn't sacrifice my thumb at this time, I need it to carry all of the bleepen boxes and suitcases this weekend. lol

Stella, sending you hugs and cold compresses through the cyber waves.
Can't stay I'm afraid, just catching up. Big day tomorrow. Promised to make two of my famous pavlovas for a friend! Plus, its our fortnightly shopping day!!!

Hi Gail! Have a good night sleep! When you get back, I'd love to know what a pavlova is! Good luck with your shopping. Have fun!?!

I have had a wonderful day. I said yesterday we were showing some overseas visitors around Sydney but did not say it was Linda/Pioneer and her husband.
We picked them up in the city at 1.30pm, visited the Olympic site and then drove south to Wollongong. Had some dinner at Wollongong and drove back to the city, dropping them off just before 10pm.
Linda's husband and family had been apprehensive about her meeting up with some one she had "met" on the net. Anyway we all had a most enjoyable day and they are both enjoying their trip to Australia. I have posted a couple of photos on my page. (I also gave her a couple of the pink camelias from my garden)

My first SA meeting and no one around to share joy with.

HI JUNE!

Home I am not to late to share you r Joy!! it is such fun to meet up with cyber friends! have done that numerous times, to many to count really, and all have gone splendidly! Family was only nervous the first time I did and i think moreso because it was a MAN I was meeting heheheh

STELLA, the pinch between fingeer and thumb works for me, too. if you feel around and find a really sore spot there, way down in the fleshy part close to the bones, and them massage that sore spot away, headache will improve. This one has been researched, and comes from ancient
chinese accupressure. the Chineese would not still be doing this if it did not help! I had forgotten that one.

Good morning MizT! Sorry I missed you June. Sounds like you had a great SA meeting with Linda!
MizT, I tried the pinch finger method because I had learned accupressure many years ago, but it did not work this time. I think there were two headaches involved, the sinus and the migraine, and it just wouldn't work. It was the coca cola and chocolate with heat and cold that finally worked. When you're desperate, you'll try anything. It's the quick infusion of caffeine and sugar that does the trick.

I am glad the coke and chocolate worked! I cannot imagine using COLD for my headaches, have always been partial to warm.

did you read earlier about the hair dryer trick I used? found that one by accident, when a headache developed right after I washed and rolled my hair, and had to get it dry, headache or not, back in the days of the boufant hairdo and a head full of rollers. I think when I mentiooned that last night, you were too ill to notice .

I did start the "think your hands warm " e mail, but am finding it hard to write. I know how to do it, but to explaine, espically in the written word, is more difficult than in person.

I don't have one of those hair drying machines so I used a heating pad on the back and top of my head. The cold cloth was to help relieve the sinus pressure. I can still feel the pain in my head, but it is not a migraine! Thank goodness! The other thing I couldn't do yesterday was lie down. No matter what kind of pillow, it felt like I was resting on the corner of a 2 x 4. I think I know what you mean about warming hands but I don't think I have the mindset to be able to do it.

Stella, it does take concentration and time to learn it, and the ability to relax a certain area of the head, face area between the mandible joint ( jaw) and your ear and your temple.

do you clench your teeth when in pain? Are your hands and/or feet cold when you have a migraine or even most of the time?

this blood flow is under the autonomic nervous system, it is done automatically without us having to think about it, but we can TELL it. It is sort of like a manual over ride switch you gotta throw!

First and most important, you must believe you can do it! Then find a comfy spot, sitting or lying, (I did it first in bed before going to sleep), and spend 10 minutes or so on the exercise every day, till you learn it.

Close your eyes, relax your jaw, and get your shoulders down from up around your ears, where tension has taken them! then you must say or think to yourself, I want my hands to get warm, and relax more and more. someone just touching your hand can tell you if there is a difference in skin temp, since we do not have a skin temp monitor like they had in the research study I read about hehehe. Having some touch your hand (not hold it, that might warm your hand externally, not from within, and it is not the same) and tell you if there is a warming, this lets you know you are doing it correctly. that is the biofeedback part.

At first success in changing temp, you will find your temp in hands will go up a bit and back down and up and back down as you loose the concentration. I can now feel a tingle, almost a flush feeling in my hands and tell myself I am successful.

At first it took ,=me 15 or 20 min of real concentration to begin to feel it, but with practice, I got so that I could do the entire exercise, get hands warm in seconds and get relief in 5 min. Once you learn it, seems to stay with you. I had not had a migraine in 20 years, till a couple months ago, and although it took me about 10 minutes to practice again, I can still do it.

A Really bad and full blown headache, one I could not have time to do this exercise till it was bad, I would first get my hands nice and warm, then add in my feet. Doing feet is harder, advanced thinking your hands warm heheh.

I put this online cause I had a couple people ask me to copy to them, figured if 2 asked, might be more who were interested but did not ask.

Thanks MizT! When I get a chance, I'll see if I can do it!

MizT, thanks for posting that here. I've just been catching up on the posts and was going to ask you to send it to me too. Now you don't have to. I suffer from migraines also. When the headaches are really bad, lying down feels worse.The best cure I have found is to sleep almost sitting up but sometimes sleep just isn't feasible. I shall attempt to remember your method next time I get one. I'm pretty good at relaxation techniques and this sounds similar so I shouldn't have to much trouble with it.

Hi Stella

Am I all alone now?

Stella, I know exactly how you feel about Axe. gumball's friends have come to visit for the weekend wearing it and I have made them shower and change clothes. That stuff has been outlawed in my house.

I'm talking to myself again, aren't I? No matter, let's go for CP.

Hi Rena! Was just organizing and putting things in the gargage so that I know what I have and what I need to get. I keep getting txt messages from Brendan saying he forgot to pack something. But I must say, that his pile is a quarter the size of D#1's. I don't know how we are going to fit her stuff in the van on Sunday and she just mentioned that she is on the 8th floor!

Stella I think you need a semi for all those things. Try not to get too stressed out from all this. Do you get a bit of a break after this weekend?
I am off to the beach with daughter and niece. It's a hard job but somebody has to do it. I'll be back here later. Bye.

Today is my Mum's birthday, she turns 88

Mum Hope you have a wonderful day!

Stella, perhaps a quick visit to an equipment/tool rental store to get a handtruck is in order.

to Rolanda's mother!

Thank you Stella and Ruby for Mum's birthday wishes.

I emailed birthday photos (my) yesterday afternoon, to all.
I know Stella, MizT, Mary and Gail received them. Hope everyone else did as well : Ruby, Becky, Julie, Cyndi, Mama..

♪♪♪ All by myself .... ♪♪♪
very quiet in SA room, suppose I will do some tidying up.
Refresh the flowers , stack the chairs, sweep the floor, clean the coffee cups...

hmm that looks better.... guess I sit here for a bit and read my book. and make myself a cup of tea

Are you still here Rola?

Rolanda, are you still here? Thanks for the pictures. They were great, looks like a wonderful setup for a sensational party!

Hi Cyndi. How are you tonight?

Sure is clean and neat in here with fresh flowers and all

I'm pretty okay Becky. How about you?

Rola, just got around to reading all my e-mail today. Your pictures were great. I really like your patio area and everyone looked like they had a good time. Congratulations.

Doing pretty good. Thought I would stop in for a little bit. Baked a peach cake today. Wrong move with this heat.