Another Cluster

I appear to be in the middle of another big cluster. It started about three and a half weeks ago now and in the last week I had migraines on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Friday I was fine and it looked like I might get away with Saturday too until I got a bad one which started after supper. That was most unusual, these days I normally wake up with one if I'm going to have one.

I took drugs and hide in my study (we had the HiFi on in the sitting room to distract Jake from the fireworks) with the lights off. I felt depressed and close to tears which is very unlike me. I think after three weeks it was finally starting to get to me.

Sunday I again got one but at bedtime so decided to try to sleep it off but was woken at 4am Monday morning with a very bad headache, took triptan, slept, woke up again still feeling shit, took paracetamol and codeine, and was not really right until lunchtime.

Again I felt close to tears a lot of the day and was upset by trivial issue over Remembrance Day arrangements. This is not good. I've read that depression is often a side effect of migraine clusters but even during last year's big cluster I don't remember being this bad.

It's also worth noting the timing of this. The cluster started on 17th October. Last year's big cluster started on 27th October. I can't help but see a pattern here.