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Headache/nausea on weekends
Kasyn
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I'm not saying I don't like our chances.She called me the master.Registered User regular
I'm aware of the limitation re: medical-ish advice here, hopefully just trying to get some insight from similarly afflicted folks. Thanks!
So, almost like clockwork I get slammed with headaches and nausea throughout the weekend. Sometimes it starts as early as Friday night, most often on Saturdays by the time I get up. If it is severe to the point of limiting my ability to hold food down, basically the only thing I can do is take some sleep-aid and try to get through the worst of it.
By the time Monday morning rolls around, it pretty much goes away.
Background! I almost never drink, partly because it greatly exacerbates this. My sleep schedule is a bit odd, I tend to get about six hours a night during the week and twelve during the weekend nights. I'm open to the thought that this is sleep related or dietary, but really can't say for sure.
I appreciate any help on this, I'll likely schedule an appointment soon but would like to see what this yields.
So, almost like clockwork I get slammed with headaches and nausea throughout the weekend. Sometimes it starts as early as Friday night, most often on Saturdays by the time I get up. If it is severe to the point of limiting my ability to hold food down, basically the only thing I can do is take some sleep-aid and try to get through the worst of it.
By the time Monday morning rolls around, it pretty much goes away.
Background! I almost never drink, partly because it greatly exacerbates this. My sleep schedule is a bit odd, I tend to get about six hours a night during the week and twelve during the weekend nights. I'm open to the thought that this is sleep related or dietary, but really can't say for sure.
I appreciate any help on this, I'll likely schedule an appointment soon but would like to see what this yields.
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Or it could be your brain is messing with you, since it sounds like you're fine Monday-Friday.
Either way I'd recommend seeing a doctor, maybe get some bloodwork to rule out environmental causes.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Another theory I had would be some kind of anxiety caused by it being a weekend? Perhaps the lack of fixed schedule doing something odd in your brain?
Lastly, sometimes I get headaches if I spend too much time playing videogames or watching TV without breaks, which could happen more easily on weekends. But I would imagine you'd notice this and make the connection.
My first thought is, alas, that it's psychological, because it shows up before you've even really started the weekend. Have you tried/ can you try going to work on the weekend? Do you worry about work when you aren't there? Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve a weekend break and I worry about what I didn't finish during the work week, and that can make me sort of transiently dizzy.
Doubt it's ergonomics or computer habits, I'm at a desk basically 100% of the time during the week.
Psychologically, I've certainly considered that. I think I've heard it called 'leisure sickness'. I don't exactly work crazy hours most of the time, and for the most part I'm able to leave my work at work. If that's what's going on then it's buried pretty well, but I certainly can't rule out something psychosomatic.
Dietary could be possible. I drink a lot of water both at work and during the weekend, but my caffeine consumption cuts out to zero once the week ends.
As far as where the headaches start, either in the very front or the very back of my head, though it's basically all over once it gets bad enough. Probably a bit of light and sound sensitivity, but mostly in the sense that any severe headache makes you want to crawl into a hole and die.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
You could try keeping to your normal amount of caffeine next Saturday/Sunday to see if that helps at all.
But, it maybe took three days for me to really get over it, a week seems like a long time for caffeine withdrawal, so it wouldn't explain the feeling over the holiday.
I can give this a go, though I'm pretty weak-willed when it comes to sleep on days where I don't have to get up.
Thanks for the input so far, everyone!
Not particularly, though I have a very sporadic history of ocular migraines. They haven't come with these weekend headaches on more than maybe one occasion, though.
That's too much. Cut it back to 9. That should be all you need. Keep your fluid intake up, and make sure your bed is giving you proper skeletal support.
See a doctor, in all honesty. If this is a routine thing, then you don't want to be risking a stroke or something.
Also after work on friday exercise for 30 minutes and do 30 minutes of stretching and take 1 aspirin.
Also keep your sleep schedule the same and exercise when you wake up. Drink some water.
See if that helps out.