migraine

i don't get headaches too often and when i do i have a series of things that i try doing to fix it because there's usually 4 reasons i get a headache: dehydration (so i drink lots of water over the next hour or so), caffiene withdrawl (not so much anymore but when i did drink caffinated coffee everyday i'd sometimes get withdrawl and having some coffee or chocolate would fix it), hair clips or elastics pulling on hair (take them out) or tense neck and shoulder muscles (usually a heat pack and a bit of a massage or some exercise fixes that). my last resort if none of that works is ibuprofin and that always fixes it when i take it.
the other day i got a bit of a headache at work so i tried my first 4 steps. on the ride home it turned into a POUNDING headache as my heartrate went up. i layed on the couch for a while but everything made it worse (light, sound, any slight raise in heartrate like standing up and walking...). i decided it was time for ibuprofin, knowing that in the past when its got this bad ibuprofin will fix in within an hour. this time it didn't help at all. it was horrible. so i went to bed at 8:30 and just layed in the dark room with very soft music playing.
i think the whole thing is just part of a cold that i've got (the reason i'm not a work today). i hope it is and i'm not gonna be someone who gets migraines where they have to lay in bed all day (with regular headaches i don't let them stop me from doing stuff, i just suffer through them and find something to make it stop. the migraine doesn't stop until its ready though).