A very strange thing has happened in our household. My oldest and I have had the same headache, for the same time period, with the same symptoms. B told me Thursday or Friday she had a headache. I gave her 2 advil, and she never mentioned it again. Friday mine started. Ugh it was awful. I couldn’t shake it for anything. I threw everything at it. Advil, decongestants (the pain was all behind my eyes). Nothing worked until Saturday when I took Excedrin Migraine. But it still came back. So Monday, I went to the doc. She ordered bloodwork, and Thursday I have a head CT.

After dinner last night, B looks miserable. I ask her what was wrong and she says headache. This time I ask if her stomach is upset. She says kind of. Well, the clinic is closed at this point. So my choices are the ER/Fast Track, or wait til today and get in at the clinic. I opted for the ER. Since at this point we both have this thing, I’m worried about something contagious. They take her in, do bloodwork, CT, give her IV fluids, and eventually a cocktail of toradol, compazine and benadryl before releasing her with a migraine diagnosis 4 hours later.

So far today she feels fine, fingers crossed for her that it stays gone. I have some pressure still, like mine’s gonna return. Ugh. I was told by her nurse that the ER was the better choice because they can do everything at the visit. Unlike the clinic which schedules the CT. Of course that cocktail of drugs would have rendered me unable to drive home, so the ER wouldn’t be a good choice for me.

It’s just so strange that it hit us both at the same time. I have no explanation. The youngest is unaffected. It was just us. Barometric pressure changes? Misalignment of the planets? Who knows. Lets just hope it goes away and stays away.