ow.

Headache: bad.

Headache where you can't tell if it's sinus pressure or tension or migraine: very bad.

Headache where see above but the upshot is it hurts so much you're sick to your stomach: :-( :-( :-(



Right now putting the heating pad on the back of my neck is helping a little bit, so I'm going with tension and assuming that the heat is loosening things up and getting some blood to the brain where I want it. That's probably totally not what's happening, but it makes sense to me and my complete lack of medical training, and - more importantly - makes me feel a little better, so I'll take it.

sigh.

The latest adventure at the orthodontist, a mere six days ago, was that I am rid of the bite guard (hurrah!) because it was molded to my bottom teeth and he wants to move those more now than the plastic will allow. To control where my jaw goes, then, he's put "build-ups" on my back teeth - layers of plastic glue, basically, stuck right onto the tooth. I'm not actually a huge fan, but I'm a huge fan of my teeth going where they're told when this is all over, so.

Yeah. Just now, I flossed the build-up right off the back tooth on the right - which is the side where all the drama has been this whole time, not that I know whether that has anything to do with it. They said I might grind them down a little, but no, this one just came all the way unglued, and now I have a little lump of plastic that used to be holding my back teeth apart, perched on the case of dental floss where I'll see it in the morning and be reminded that for the third month in a row!, I'll have to call the orthodontist a week after I've had my braces tended to and get something fixed, adjusted, etc. I really try not to be the patient who needs her hand held all the time, and just once I'd love to leave there and have them say Okay we'll see you in six weeks and then not go back there for another six weeks, but it is apparently not this day.