Diagnosis denial

I’ve been encountering some unexpected resistance to taking my new migraine medication. It’s most effective when taken as early as possible in the migraine’s progression — so it’s counterproductive to put off taking it. I started developing a migraine on my birthday, but refused to believe it. Surely not, I thought… and waited to take the medicine, which meant it didn’t work as well and my headache came back three days in a row. Better than being in pain for three full days, but not great. This week, I had a dull headache all day on Sunday (confusingly, headache can be a prodrome syndrome), but I dismissed it as hangover from traveling. Monday, I got my typical migraine sinus pain and runny nose — but attributed it to raking the yard. Then I started developing a headache, but still didn’t accept that it was a migraine until my neck started to ache and my head was throbbing, at which point it had been hours. So the medicine took forever to take effect, and then my headache came back…

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