Here i am yet again woken at 4am this morning with a head attack. I don't know where this one came from as i had a great day yesterday and didn't have one attack. I even decided on an early night to make sure i got plenty of rest. I wonder if i rolled on to my left side and that caused the attacks to start again. I know its not the main course of the attacks but i have noticed if i sleep on my left side for more than thirty minuets it sets of a head attack so i think it must have something to do with pressure on that side of the head.
The morning attacks aren't like the big ones i get towards the evenings, the pain doesn't get as bad, but they still hurt like hell. I would liken them to when you have a raw nerve in an open tooth and you touch it with metal. That sharp pain you get is what these are like and they shoot from the back of the eye over the top of the left hand side of my head in to the back of the neck. Each attack only seems to last up to 20 minuets and then disappears as fast as they came. The trouble is with the early morning ones is that you get a number of them one after another until the pain seems to reach a peak and then they go.
Having attacks with only a few minuets in between is very exhausting but there is no way you can get any sleep. By the time you are dropping back off another attack starts and wakes you up. When you wake up you don't feel tired at all just a bit groggy from the attack so its a no win situation.
I am not sure how long the body can go with out proper rest but my last record was 2 weeks and then i collapsed. I was even falling asleep on my feet talking to people so its not good. I just hope these attacks die down as i was hoping for a pain free period for a while, looks like i was wishing too much.
